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Tesla brings its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston
Tesla has expanded its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, becoming the third and fourth Texas cities to offer the...
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Startups & Funding
AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO
AI chip startup Cerebras is filing for IPO following major partnerships with Amazon Web Services and OpenAI. The...
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says APIs are the new UI for AI agents
Salesforce is opening its platform to AI agents through 'Headless 360,' where APIs become the primary interface...
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The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why
New data from Appfigures reveals a surge in app launches in 2026, with AI tools potentially driving a mobile software...
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Research & Papers
Just ten minutes of using AI as an answer machine can measurably erode problem-solving skills, new study finds
A new study from US and UK researchers finds that just 10-15 minutes of using an AI assistant to get answers measurably...
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Coding Co-pilot
Schematik Is ‘Cursor for Hardware.’ Anthropic Wants In
Schematik is a program designed to help developers write code for physical devices and hardware. Anthropic has shown...
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Startups & Funding
Self-improving AI startup Recursive Superintelligence pulls in $500 million just four months after founding
Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind and OpenAI researchers, has...
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Coding Co-pilot
Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
Cursor is raising over $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation, with a16z and Thrive leading the funding round. The...
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Coding Co-pilot
‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think
The article discusses how developers using AI coding assistants are generating more code that is more expensive to...
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Alibaba's open model Qwen3.6 leads Google's Gemma 4 across agentic coding benchmarks
Alibaba's open-source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model, which uses mixture-of-experts to activate only 3 of its 35 billion...
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ChatGPT bleeds market share as Claude posts explosive monthly growth
Claude has doubled its market share in a single month, surpassing DeepSeek and Grok, while ChatGPT maintains market...
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Personal Assistants
This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry
The Poetry Camera is a creative gadget that uses AI to generate poems instead of taking traditional photos, printing...
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Ethics & Regulation
The Real AI Shift Isn’t New Models. It’s Control.
The article argues that as AI adoption accelerates, the focus is shifting from developing new AI models to managing and...
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Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus
Dairy Queen is deploying an AI chatbot from Presto in its drive-thrus across the US and Canada to improve service speed...
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Ethics & Regulation
AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body
The article discusses concerns about AI-assisted writing tools being adopted in newsrooms under the banner of...
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Startups & Funding
The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap
Allbirds, a shoe company, rebranded itself as an AI company and saw its stock price surge sevenfold, exemplifying what...
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Startups & Funding
Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?
The article examines the widening gap between AI insiders and the general public, highlighting major spending and...
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SaySo is a new short-form video app that aims to restore users’ trust in news
SaySo is a new short-form video app that addresses user concerns about misinformation and AI-generated content by...
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Loop raises $95M to build supply chain AI that predicts disruptions
Loop, a San Francisco startup building AI for supply chain disruption prediction, closed a $95M Series C funding round...
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