Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI
The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for humans to use AI systems....
The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for humans to use AI systems....
The wearable incentivizes healthy behavior with points that can be redeemed for health products....
Public backlash over the data center boom is leading to a variety of draconian policies—including bans on new construction....
An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission....
Gemini on Android will be able to automate tasks involving rideshare requests, or grocery or food delivery, says Google....
COO Brad Lightcap noted that ads can add to the product experience of users if they are done right. He urged to give OpenAI a few months to see how the company fares in rolling out the product....
Peter Steinberger talks about the creation of his viral AI agent OpenClaw and how being more "playful" makes for a better way to learn AI coding....
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Leading prediction market Kalshi has revealed details of two recent insider trading cases it flagged to authorities, giving a rare look at how the platform enforces its policies....
General purpose tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are not designed for this use, making mental health professionals wary....
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The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against countries' attempts to regulate how American tech companies handle foreigners' data....
Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after a member of YC's Winter 2025 cohort....
Users will be able to choose from Alexa styles like Brief, Chill or Sweet, Amazon says....
Atlassian is unveiling "agents in Jira" which gives users the ability to assign and manage work given to AI agents the same as humans....
Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions....
The HR tech startup, which currently operates in Brazil, has raised a $17.25 million Series A....
ChatGPT and rivals are testing whether India's massive AI user boom can translate into paying customers as free offers wind down....
The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023....
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released a new version of its HyperNova 60B model on Hugging Face that, it says, bests Mistral's model....
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to practice their pitches....
The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to loosen AI guardrails or face potential penalties, escalating a high-stakes dispute that raises questions about government leverage, vendor dependence, and investor confidence in defense tech....
AI has brought the startup world the rise of startups that instantly hit multimillion ARR. Stripe revealed some data that shows how common this has become....
Google is adding a new feature to Opal to create automated workflows...
Earlier this month, OpenAI launched a new platform called OpenAI Frontier for enterprises to build and manage agents, but OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said that businesses haven’t yet seen AI adoption at scale. “One of the interesting things and some of the inspiration for the...
Wyclef Jean used Google's AI music tools on his new song "Back in Abu Dhabi."...
In the four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, Ukrainian startups have done more than survive: they are still building and growing....
Meta is buying billions of dollars in AMD AI chips in a multiyear deal tied to a 160 million-share warrant, deepening its push to diversify beyond Nvidia and expand data center capacity....
The model supports questions spanning the full reproductive health spectrum, from early menstrual cycles through menopause. ...
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