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‘AI-pilled’ firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI
AI-focused companies are spending approximately $7,500 per employee monthly on artificial intelligence technology,...
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Research & Papers
How memory tools can make AI models worse
Recent research reveals that memory systems integrated into AI models can actually reduce performance and promote...
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Ethics & Regulation
Andrew Yang on Noble Mobile, UBI, and why he’s done waiting for policy to catch up
Andrew Yang discusses how his 2020 presidential campaign warnings about automation and AI's impact on labor markets...
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Zest launches a restaurant discovery app powered by where people actually eat
Zest, a restaurant discovery app backed by 776 and Kindred Ventures, uses transaction data and AI to provide...
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Why enterprise AI will be a major focus at VivaTech 2026
European companies are focusing on applying AI to complex embedded systems rather than consumer-facing products like...
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Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in
Niteshift, an AI coding agent startup founded by Datadog veterans, has raised $7 million in seed funding from prominent...
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Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI
Warner Music Group acquired Sureel AI, an AI attribution startup, to better track when artists' work is used in...
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Ethics & Regulation
Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US
The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the wrongful arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction...
Wired AI
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Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business
Jedify raised $24M in a funding round led by Norwest to help companies equip AI agents with business context. The round...
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Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats
Decart launched Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous...
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Ethics & Regulation
Germany's National Security Council greenights an AI Safety Institute modeled after the UK's AISI
Germany's National Security Council has approved the creation of DE-AISI, an AI safety institute modeled after the UK's...
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Coding Co-pilot
Top AI Coding Agents and Development Platforms in 2026: Atoms, Devin, Windsurf, Cursor, Warp, and More Compared
This article compares top AI coding agents and development platforms in 2026, including Atoms, Devin, Windsurf, Cursor,...
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Building a Code Dataset Pipeline from NVIDIA Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v3 Metadata with Streaming, Pandas, and tiktoken
A tutorial on building a code dataset pipeline using NVIDIA's Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v3 metadata index for code...
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Startups & Funding
Startup’s nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable
MIT researchers founded Ferveret, a startup developing a nuclear-inspired cooling system designed to reduce energy and...
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GM thinks EVs can help offset AI’s energy suck with vehicle-to-grid tech
General Motors announced vehicle-to-grid technology and sodium-ion battery systems to help address electricity demand...
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Ethics & Regulation
The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news
A Media Lab study demonstrates that relying on AI for news verification can diminish our ability to detect fake news,...
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Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models?
The article discusses how tech companies are exploring the use of cheaper AI models that can maintain quality...
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SpaceX wants to put data centers in orbit, and Musk says it's no big deal
SpaceX plans to launch orbital data centers to support AI workloads, with Elon Musk downplaying the engineering...
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It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.
The article discusses how SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI are preparing for major public debuts, potentially creating a...
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