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Allbirds Is Pivoting to AI Compute. Sure, Why Not

Allbirds sent out a press release celebrating its new “canvas cruiser” collection and a partnership with Pantone, the color company.

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Allbirds abandons clothes, pivots to "AI compute infrastructure"

If you know the name Allbirds, it’s probably for the company’s longstanding stated commitment to “sustainable shoes and apparel.” Going forward, though, the corporate entity wants to be known for its “long-term vision to become a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) and AI-native cloud solutio

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SAP brings agentic AI to human capital management

According to SAP, integrating agentic AI into core human capital management (HCM) modules helps target operational bloat and reduce costs.SAP’s SuccessFactors 1H 2026 release aims to anticipate administrative bottlenecks before they stall daily operations by embedding a network of AI agents across r

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How vibe-coding app Anything is rebuilding after getting booted from the App Store twice

Apple is taking a tough stance on vibe-coding apps as the company is blocking updates or removing those apps from the App Store. Affected apps include Replit, Vibecode, and Anything. While Replit and Vibecode’s updates were paused, Anything’s app was removed twice.

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Google brings its Gemini Personal Intelligence feature to India

Google announced on Tuesday that it’s bringing Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature to users in India.

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Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed

out against a proposed Illinois law backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability if their systems are used to cause large-scale harm, like mass casualties or more than $1 billion in property damage.The fight over the bill, SB 3444, is drawing new battle lines between Anthropic and OpenA

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In just a couple weeks, StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together

The first StrictlyVC of the year will be coming to San Francisco before you know it! There are still a few tickets available to join us and our stacked speaker lineup April 30, at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center.

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How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’

got another generative AI feature: Skills. Skills are repeatable AI prompts you can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut.

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Google adds AI Skills to Chrome to help you save favorite workflows

Google is adding more AI capabilities to its Chrome web browser, the company announced on Tuesday. It’s introducing a new feature called Skills, which will allow users to save and reuse their favorite AI prompts that can run across different web pages without having to type them in again. The featur

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Google introduces "Skills" in Chrome to make Gemini prompts instantly reusable

Chrome is the most popular browser in the world, and the competition is not even close. So the browser is a key part of Google’s efforts to get everyone using its AI tools.

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Max Hodak’s Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain

Science Corporation, the startup from former Neuralink president and co-founder Max Hodak, has enlisted a top neurobiologist to lead the first U.S. human trials for its biohybrid brain-computer interface. Dr.

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Redefining the future of software engineering

SponsoredIn partnership withSoftServe Software engineering has experienced two seismic shifts this century. First was the rise of the open source movement, which gradually made code accessible to developers and engineers everywhere.

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Anthropic co-founder confirms the company briefed the Trump administration on Mythos

Jack Clark, one of Anthropic’s co-founders who also serves as Head of Public Benefit for Anthropic PBC, confirmed that the AI company had briefed the Trump administration about its new Mythos model.

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UK gov's Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype

Last week, Anthropic announced it was restricting the initial release of its Mythos Preview model to “a limited group of critical industry partners,” giving them time to prepare for a model that it said is “strikingly capable at computer security tasks.” Now, the UK government’s AI Security Institut

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Americans ask AI for health care. Hospitals think the answer is more chatbots.

With many Americans turning to large language models for health advice, health systems around the country are eyeing and even rolling out their own branded chatbots in an attempt to harness this already popular tool and steer more people to their services.

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Ukraine’s military robot surge aims to offset drone risks to humans

Ukrainian ground robots and drones have demonstrated how to overcome a Russian military position by themselves while forcing the surrender of Russian soldiers, claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts

OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation is facing skepticism from some of its own investors as the company scrambles to reorient itself around enterprise customers and fend off Anthropic, according to the Financial Times. Anthropic’s annualized revenue jumped from $9 billion at the end of 2025 to $30 billio

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Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX

SponsoredIn partnership withUsercentrics The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship.

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No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all

For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting-edge, irresistibly exciting ideas that the National Science Foundation should fund.

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The US-China AI gap closed. The responsible AI gap didn’t

The assumption that the US holds a durable lead in AI model performance is not well-supported by the data, and that is just one of the uncomfortable findings in Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index Report, published this week.The report, produced by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centred Artificial I