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Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym’s reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class’ waitlist. And the tec...
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Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips.
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The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about wheth...
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Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.
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Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about “government by machines” and why Elon Musk is a bad scien...
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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the l...
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OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns
OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its “critical cybersecurity threshold,” meaning it could...
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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
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After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and...
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Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers
Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almo...
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Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium...