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Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue
unleashed by a mad inventor in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. HAL 9000 sabotaging a manned mission to Jupiter in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Microsoft unveils method to detect sleeper agent backdoors
Researchers from Microsoft have unveiled a scanning method to identify poisoned models without knowing the trigger or intended outcome.Organisations integrating open-weight large language models (LLMs) face a specific supply chain vulnerability where distinct memory leaks and internal attention patt
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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
Mobile Fortify, now used by United States immigration agents in towns and cities across the US, is not designed to reliably identify people in the streets and was deployed without the scrutiny that has historically governed the rollout of technologies that impact people’s privacy, according to recor
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How AI is helping solve the labor issue in treating rare diseases
Modern biotech has the tools to edit genes and design drugs, yet thousands of rare diseases remain untreated. According to executives from Insilico Medicine and GenEditBio, the missing ingredient for years has been finding enough smart people to continue the work.
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How far will Elon Musk take the ‘everything’ business as SpaceX and xAI merge?
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI, creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure.
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New York lawmakers propose a three-year pause on new data centers
New York state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would impose a moratorium of at least three years on permits tied to the construction and operation of new data centers.
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Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf o
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Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible.
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Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of lega
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The Download: attempting to track AI, and the next generation of nuclear power
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. This is the most misunderstood graph in AI Every time OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic drops a new frontier large language model, the AI community holds its breath.
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Consolidating systems for AI with iPaaS
SponsoredIn partnership withSAP For decades, enterprises reacted to shifting business pressures with stopgap technology solutions. To rein in rising infrastructure costs, they adopted cloud services that could scale on demand.
WD
Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley
of last year, there have been at least three major AI “acqui-hires” in Silicon Valley. Meta invested more than $14 billion in Scale AI and brought on its CEO, Alexandr Wang; Google spent a cool $2.4 billion to license Windsurf’s technology and fold its cofounders and research teams into DeepMind; an
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SuperCool review: Evaluating the reality of autonomous creation
In the current landscape of generative artificial intelligence, we have reached a saturation point with assistants. Most users are familiar with the routine.
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How separating logic and search boosts AI agent scalability
将逻辑与推理分离，能显著提升AI代理的可扩展性，通过解耦核心工作流与执行策略，实现更可靠的生产级部署。从生成式AI原型向生产级代理转型的最大挑战在于可靠性：LLM本质上随机性强，一次成功的提示可能下次失效。为此，开发团队常对核心业务逻辑进行封装，但这不足以应对复杂场景。本文探讨这一工程策略的核心优势，并补充行业背景，揭示其在AI agent架构演进中的重要性。（128字）
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The Download: helping cancer survivors to give birth, and cleaning up Bangladesh’s garment industry
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. An experimental surgery is helping cancer survivors give birth An experimental surgical procedure that’s helping people have babies after they’ve had treatment f
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The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude?
in a paradox: Among the top AI companies, it’s the most obsessed with safety and leads the pack in researching how models can go wrong.
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New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
lawmakers on Friday announced that they are introducing a bill that would impose a three-year moratorium on data center development.
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Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Exposed Real Humans’ Data
WIRED this week found that ICE and CBP’s face recognition app Mobile Fortify, which is being used to identify people across the United States, isn’t actually designed to verify who people are and was only approved for Department of Homeland Security use by relaxing some of the agency’s own privacy r
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The Technologies Changing How You’ll Watch the 2026 Winter Olympic Games
Summer Olympics in Paris, 5G and 4K were the leading technologies available to many viewers. There was some AI, but it was mostly used for athletes’ benefit.
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Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all
Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark measuring AI agents’ capabilities on professional tasks like law and corporate analysis.