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Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED found.
View the articleChamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role
VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.
View the articleGemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users
Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.
View the articleWatch out, Amazon: The Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival
Kobo users can now automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph, making it easier to track books, reading stats, and challenges without relying on Amazon’s Goodreads.
View the articleInaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates work of new graduate program’s initial students
Associate Professor Anna Huang delivers the keynote address, “In Search of Human-AI Resonance,” to a capacity crowd.
View the articleWaymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix
Uber said it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city, but did not name the partner.
View the articleAnthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price
As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.
View the articleSouth Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘RAMageddon’
The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.
View the article3 Questions: Beyond data-driven aesthetics
In a new Keller Gallery exhibition, Alexandros Haridis SM ’17, PhD ’22 traces centuries of ideas about aesthetic judgment and explores how design can make complex computational systems visible.
View the articleArena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business
The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.
View the articleCursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go
Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.
View the articleTrump administration threatens 92 GW of new electricity supply with red tape
The Trump administration's moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.
View the articleTIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization
TIDAL's new policy will prevent AI-generated music from making money on its service.
View the articleIn major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights
The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.
View the articleWhatsApp now lets you reserve usernames
WhatsApp username can be between 3 to 35 characters.
View the articleRocket Lab continues buying spree by acquiring satellite company Iridium
The all-stock deal values Iridium at $8 billion and gives Rocket Lab even more firepower to compete against Amazon and SpaceX.
View the articleRobot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise
The startup, Proception, is taking a unique approach to collecting training data to tackle one of the hardest problems in robotics: hands.
View the articlePocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices
Pocket sells a $129 credit card-shaped puck, which sticks to the back of your phone, and promises unlimited recordings, transcriptions, and to-do items.
View the articleOmen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet
Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.
View the articleFlipper Device’s new Busy Bar is a customizable display for productivity
Flipper Device's new Busy Bar will retail for $249.
View the articleThis Humanoid Robot Is a Terrifyingly Competent Office Intern
Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has a clever way of training robots to do useful work.
View the articleCalifornia law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1
Streaming ads might be getting a lot quieter.
View the articleFord rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”
View the articleWriter Ian Bogost says ‘The Small Stuff’ can help us reclaim our lives from dematerialization
Has Silicon Valley been building the wrong things?
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