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Tinder unveils updates designed to reinvigorate its product, bolster safety, and harness AI, including an Events tab and a virtual speed dating test in LA (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch : Tinder unveils updates designed to reinvigorate its…
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Emil Michael says Anthropic's Claude models would "pollute" the DOD's supply chain because they have "a different policy preference" that is baked in (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
Ashley Capoot / CNBC : Emil Michael says Anthropic's Claude models would “pollu…
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Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023 (Colin Demarest/Axios)
Colin Demarest / Axios : Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capa…
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WordPress debuts my.WordPress.net, which lets users run WordPress entirely in the browser to set up a private workspace not accessible from the public internet (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : WordPress debuts my.WordPress.net, which lets users run …
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Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Musk says they are a joint xAI-Tesla project (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
Grace Kay / Business Insider : Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has st…
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Sources: US Social Security's inspector general is investigating claims an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer (Washington Post)
Washington Post : Sources: US Social Security's inspector general is investigat…
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Sources: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata (Sara Fischer/Axios)
Sara Fischer / Axios : Sources: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright i…
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Slide, which develops data backup and disaster recovery tech for managed service providers, raised a $70M Series B led by GC, bringing its total funding to $95M (CJ Fairfield/CRN)
CJ Fairfield / CRN : Slide, which develops data backup and disaster recovery tech f…
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NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics (Jake Angelo/Fortune)
Jake Angelo / Fortune : NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a po…
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OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built and is "trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500", to fold into OpenAI Frontier (OpenAI)
OpenAI : OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI syst…
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A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)
Harvard Business Review : A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burn…
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Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines…
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How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
Emily Mason / Bloomberg : How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building sta…
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The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of ill-informed decisions remains high (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unpre…
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As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate…
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