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How AI agents could destroy the economy
On Sunday, an analyst group called Citrini Research published a remarkable piece illustrating how agentic AI could bring…
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‘Toy Story 5’ takes aim at creepy AI toys: ‘I’m always listening’
When the first Toy Story movie came out in 1995, Google didn’t exist yet and Apple was on…
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Tesla loses bid to overturn $243M Autopilot verdict
A judge has denied Tesla’s request to overturn a $243 million jury verdict that held the automaker partially…
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Anthropic-funded group backs candidate attacked by rival AI super PAC
Late last year, New York Assembly member Alex Bores became the target of a campaign by a pro-AI…
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Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI
Microsoft has confirmed that a bug allowed its Copilot AI to summarize customers’ confidential emails for weeks without…
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Data breach at fintech giant Figure affects close to a million customers
The data breach that hit blockchain-based lending giant Figure affected nearly a million customers, according to a security…
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Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP
Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he would be joining the firm as a general partner. This…
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Cohere’s $240M year sets stage for IPO
As the top AI labs like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI chase enterprise adoption, Canadian AI startup Cohere has…
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OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model
Starting Friday, OpenAI will cease providing access to five legacy ChatGPT models, including the popular but controversial GPT-4o…
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Trump administration undermines EPA enforcement of Clean Air Act
After months of telegraphing the move, the Trump administration today officially repealed the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” which…