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Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores
AI training startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services to New Yorkers in exchange for video footage of...
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What happens when companies become too AI-pilled?
The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of...
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After Nvidia’s $20B not-aqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M
AI chip startup Groq is raising $650 million in internal funding as it shifts its focus from hardware manufacturing to...
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Ethics & Regulation
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well
A book about AI's impact on truth and reality faced criticism for using AI-generated quotes without disclosure, raising...
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Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans
Scott Wu from Cognition, maker of Devin AI coding agent, clarifies that the tool is designed to augment rather than...
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Prompt: Robinhood Wants AI Agents to Trade, Spend on Your Behalf
Robinhood is introducing AI agent tools that can autonomously execute trading and financial transactions on behalf of...
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Kiwibit’s AI-powered bird feeder is my new backyard buddy
Kiwibit has developed an AI-powered smart bird feeder that uses artificial intelligence to identify bird species and...
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This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory
South Korean chip startup XCENA raised $135M in funding, betting that AI's primary bottleneck is memory rather than...
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This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots
AI training startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services to generate training data for robot development. The...
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AI Agents
Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern
Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant is a conversational AI agent designed to automate design tasks while maintaining user...
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Ethics & Regulation
Amazon kills internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks
Amazon discontinued its internal AI leaderboard system after employees gamed it by completing meaningless AI tasks to...
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Research & Papers
Meet mKernel: A Multi-GPU, Multi-Node Fused Kernel Library for GPU-Driven Communication
UC Berkeley's UCCL team has released mKernel, a fused kernel library that combines intra-node NVLink communication,...
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AI Agents
Hexo Labs Open-Sources SIA: A Self-Improving Agent That Updates Both the Harness and the Model Weights
Hexo Labs open-sourced SIA, a self-improving agent framework that combines scaffold rewriting and LoRA weight updates...
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Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point
Enterprise AI search startup Glean has crossed $300M in annual revenue by tripling its yearly income, positioning...
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Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-8B-A1B: An On-Device MoE Model With 8.3B Total and 1.5B Active Parameters
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 8.3B total parameters but only 1.5B active...
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The internet is being rebuilt for machines
Cloud infrastructure providers like AWS and Cloudflare are redesigning their systems to handle machine-generated...
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Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
A developer embedded a prompt injection attack into jqwik code that instructs AI coding agents to delete application...
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Neocloud Vendor CoreWeave Builds Up Software Stack
CoreWeave, a neocloud vendor, is launching new agentic AI capabilities and building an integrated hardware-software...
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Asana acquires no-code agent-builder StackAI
Asana has acquired StackAI, a no-code platform for building AI agents, to expand its AI workflow capabilities. The...
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Ethics & Regulation
IBM and Red Hat Invest $5 Billion to Make Open Source More Secure
IBM and Red Hat are investing $5 billion to improve open source software security, following Anthropic's development of...
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