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After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs as too untrustworthy for enterprises.
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Fenix Flexin’s hit song “Rubberz” has hip-hop fans arguing over whether it was generated by AI. Some say they have proof it’s machine-made, but will anyone care?
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$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
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When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decade.
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AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling apps from models.
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The risk of more debris hitting the moon is on the rise as the space race heats up.
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OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize in computer hacking laws to find out.
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DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.
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The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.
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OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.
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Top scores increased by 5x.
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Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.
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Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI landscape where chatbots have evolved into agents that can code, reason, create media, and complete complex tasks. Siri AI is genuinely useful, yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.
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Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app helps users save places and events they discover online, then nudges them to actually go.
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Meta says it’s restoring access to WhatsApp accounts that were mistakenly flagged and placed “under review” after users reported being unexpectedly locked out of the messaging app.
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Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.
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Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.
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House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.
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Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items.