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OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents
To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information.
View the articleI met a lot of weird robots at CES — here are the most memorable
If the robots don't always give a totally accurate representation of where commercial deployment is at the moment, they do give visitors a peek at where their parent companies might be headed.
View the articleGoogle moonshot spinout SandboxAQ claims an ex-exec is attempting ‘extortion’
A former SandboxAQ executive filed a wrongful termination lawsuit filled with shocking allegations. The company is fighting back, hard.
View the articleGrok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris
A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.
View the articleCES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities
CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from...
View the articleHow the Sleepbuds maker, Ozlo, is building a platform for sleep data
Ozlo Sleepbuds are going to have a big year, with new products, AI features, and more.
View the articleMeta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power
Two smaller companies, Oklo and TerraPower, along with Vistra, a large energy company, just signed agreements with Meta.
View the articleX Didn’t Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It
X is allowing only “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website.
View the articleX restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire
Elon Musk's AI company has restricted Grok's controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heated criticism from across the world for letting users ...
View the articleThe venture firm that ate Silicon Valley just raised another $15 billion
In a blog post published Friday morning, Ben Horowitz writes that "as the American leader in Venture Capital, the fate of new technology in the United States rests partly on our shoulders." It's the k...
View the article‘Physical AI’ Is Coming for Your Car
What the latest tech-marketing buzzword has to say about the future of automotive.
View the articleAnthropic adds Allianz to growing list of enterprise wins
Anthropic announces its first enterprise deal of 2026 which includes building agents and for, and giving Claude code, to Allianz.
View the article3 Questions: How AI could optimize the power grid
While the growing energy demands of AI are worrying, some techniques can also help make power grids cleaner and more efficient.
View the articleInside CES 2026’s “physical AI” takeover
After years of chatbots and image generators, AI is finally leaving the screen. At CES 2026, that shift became impossible to ignore. The annual tech showcase in Las Vegas was dominated by “physic...
View the articleCES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities
CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from...
View the articleData security startup Cyera hits $9B valuation six months after being valued at $6B
Cyera raised another $400 million just six months after its last huge round.
View the articleGovernments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X
For the past two weeks, X has been flooded with AI-manipulated nude images, created by the Grok AI chatbot — and governments around the world are promising to take action.
View the articleDecoding the Arctic to predict winter weather
With the help of AI, MIT Research Scientist Judah Cohen is reshaping subseasonal forecasting, with the goal of extending the lead time for predicting impactful weather.
View the articleGTMfund has rewritten the distribution playbook for the AI era
Building software products has never been easier, so why are so many well-funded startups failing to take off no matter how good their product is? In this season finale episode of Build Mode, our gu...
View the articleCritics pan spyware maker NSO’s transparency claims amid its push to enter US market
The infamous spyware maker released a new transparency report claiming to be a responsible spyware maker, without providing insight into how the company dealt with problematic customers in the past.
View the articleEverNitro is simplifying the process of crafting silky nitro coffee at CES 2026
EverNitro is positioning itself against competitors such as NitroBrew as a long-term more affordable all-in-one solution. “We offer the quality of a commercial tap with the footprint of a coffee mak...
View the articleI watched LG’s new home robot CLOid do laundry but I have questions
CES is always chock-full of robots, and this year electronics giant LG announced a new bot, dubbed CLOid, that it claims will revolutionize household chores (as in, you won't have to do them anymore)....
View the articleAI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
Tech companies are calling AI the next platform. But some developers are reluctant to let AI agents stand between them and their users.
View the articleInternet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis
Internet monitoring firms and experts say Iran’s internet has almost completely shut down, as protests spread through major cities.
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