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Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again

They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more.

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Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8: Agentic Coding Benchmarks, API Pricing, and Cost-Performance Tradeoffs Compared
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Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8: Agentic Coding Benchmarks, API Pricing, and Cost-Performance Tradeoffs Compared

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 demonstrates improved performance on agentic coding benchmarks compared to Sonnet 4.6,...

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Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”
AI Agents

Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”

Uber's Chief Product Officer discusses the company's expansion into financial services, autonomous vehicles through its...

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Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
Startups & Funding

Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B

Video-generation startup PixVerse has raised $439M in funding, bringing its valuation to over $2B. The company plans to...

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Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation
Startups & Funding

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

Nous Research, maker of the Hermes AI agent, is raising at least $75 million in new funding led by Robot Ventures and...

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Skyfall AI Releases MORPHEUS: A Persistent Enterprise Simulation Benchmark That Makes Continual Reinforcement Learning Necessary Under Structured Non-Stationarity
Research & Papers

Skyfall AI Releases MORPHEUS: A Persistent Enterprise Simulation Benchmark That Makes Continual Reinforcement Learning Necessary Under Structured Non-Stationarity

Skyfall AI has released MORPHEUS, a persistent enterprise simulation benchmark platform designed for continual...

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Siri AI Is Becoming Apple’s Everything Tool
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Siri AI Is Becoming Apple’s Everything Tool

Apple has significantly revamped Siri to become a central component of the iPhone user experience, positioning it as...

Wired AI
Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI
Ethics & RegulationMicrosoft

Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI

Satya Nadella from Microsoft has issued a warning to companies about potential risks associated with using proprietary...

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Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone
Personal AssistantsApple

Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone

Apple's iOS 27 introduces improvements to Siri AI along with performance enhancements across the operating system. The...

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How Enterprises Should Respond to Economists’ AI Risk Letter
Ethics & Regulation

How Enterprises Should Respond to Economists’ AI Risk Letter

Economists have written a letter raising concerns about AI risks, which may prompt policy changes. Enterprises should...

AI Business
AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data
AI Agents

AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data

SceneSmith is an AI system that uses collaborative AI agents to generate realistic 3D virtual environments such as...

MIT News AI
Building a VideoAgent-Style Multi-Agent System: Intent Parsing, Graph Planning, and Tool Routing for Video Editing Tasks
AI Agents

Building a VideoAgent-Style Multi-Agent System: Intent Parsing, Graph Planning, and Tool Routing for Video Editing Tasks

This tutorial reconstructs the VideoAgent workflow as a multi-agent pipeline with intent parsing, graph planning, and...

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Chinese Tech Vendors Converge on Humanoid Robotics and Embodied AI
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Chinese Tech Vendors Converge on Humanoid Robotics and Embodied AI

Chinese technology vendors are increasingly focusing on humanoid robotics and embodied AI as the sector experiences...

AI Business
OpenAI's new prompting guide tells users to stop overthinking and start with the result
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OpenAI's new prompting guide tells users to stop overthinking and start with the result

OpenAI released a prompting guide for everyday users that simplifies the process by recommending users describe their...

The Decoder
Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
Startups & FundingOpenAI

Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe

Sam Altman faces criticism over promoting space-based data centers to public market investors, with skeptics arguing...

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Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own
Startups & Funding

Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own

Richard Sutton, the 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched Oak Lab, a...

The Decoder
The 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI

The 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI

Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging the AI startup stole confidential documents, spied on hardware...

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Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?
Ethics & Regulation

Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?

The article explores a philosophical question about the implications of user-aligned AI systems, specifically whether...

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Nobel laureates and AI leaders warn the window to prepare for AI's economic impact is closing fast
Ethics & Regulation

Nobel laureates and AI leaders warn the window to prepare for AI's economic impact is closing fast

Over 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates and representatives from major AI companies, are...

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Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US
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Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US

Anthropic is localizing Claude's pricing for India by offering Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans. This...

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