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The myth of the high-tech heist
Making a movie is a lot like pulling off a heist. That’s what Steven Soderbergh—director of the Ocean’s franchise, among other heist-y classics—said a few years ago.
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Inside the New York City Date Night for AI Lovers
type of person who cares about Valentine’s Day, not having someone to spend it with can be a bummer.While dating apps have been yielding diminishing returns for singles for years now, more people are finding companionship with AI partners.But where do you take your AI lover for a night on the town?A
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Agentic AI drives finance ROI in accounts payable automation
Finance leaders are driving ROI using agentic AI for accounts payable automation, turning manual tasks into autonomous workflows.While general AI projects saw return on investment rise to 67 percent last year, autonomous agents delivered an average ROI of 80 percent by handling complex processes wit
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The Download: an exclusive chat with Jim O’Neill, and the surprising truth about heists
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. US deputy health secretary: Vaccine guidelines are still subject to change Over the past year, Jim O’Neill has become one of the most powerful people in public he
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I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent
I’m not above doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the cash register for random merch booths, and even hawked my own plasma at $35 per vial. So, when I saw RentAHuman, a new site where AI agents hire humans to perform physical work
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Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times.
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Cohere’s $240M year sets stage for IPO
As the top AI labs like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI chase enterprise adoption, Canadian AI startup Cohere has been quietly cleaning up. The startup told investors in a memo that it surpassed its $200 million annual recurring revenue target in 2025, hitting $240 million with quarter-over-quarter gr
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OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
On Thursday, OpenAI released its first production AI model to run on non-Nvidia hardware, deploying the new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark coding model on chips from Cerebras.
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IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI
While the artificial intelligence industry touts that AI will replace entry-level jobs, not every company is scaling back hiring these positions. In IBM’s case, it’s going all in. Hardware giant IBM plans to triple entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, according to reporting from Bloomberg.
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Amid disappointing earnings, Pinterest claims it sees more searches than ChatGPT
After a particularly poor performance on its fourth-quarter earnings, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready attempted to favorably compare the digital pinboarding site to the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. Trying to highlight its potential as a unique search destination, Ready asserted that the site sees larger sea
Technical Standards are the Bridge to Enabling AI Adoption
As AI transitions from consumer chatbots to enterprise services, reliability challenges emerge. The industry must adopt risk management standards to build trust for widespread adoption.
What’s New in Croissant 1.1: Extensible, Agent-Ready ML Dataset Standard
MLCommons has officially released Croissant 1.1, the latest evolution of the community-built machine learning dataset metadata format, introducing machine-operable provenance tracking, vocabulary interoperability for linking domain ontologies, structured usage policies for automated license enforcement, and enhanced modeling for complex multidimensional datasets, making datasets fully interpretable and reusable by autonomous systems.
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A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip
On Thursday, OpenAI announced the release of a light-weight version of its agentic coding tool Codex, the latest model of which OpenAI launched earlier this month. GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is described by the company as a “smaller version” of that model, one that is designed for faster inference.
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Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not written a single line of code since December.” That statement, from Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström
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OpenAI’s President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It’s for Humanity
cofounder Greg Brockman doesn’t consider himself political, which is surprising, because he was one of President Trump’s biggest individual donors of 2025.Greg and his wife, Anna Brockman, gave $25 million to MAGA Inc—a super PAC that supports President Trump—in September of last year.
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Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says
On Thursday, Google announced that “commercially motivated” actors have attempted to clone knowledge from its Gemini AI chatbot by simply prompting it.
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A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web
moment in October, Alejandro Quintero thought he had made it big in China. The Bogotá-based data analyst owns and manages a website that publishes articles about paranormal activities, like ghosts and aliens.
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Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new value of $380B
Anthropic has just concluded a $30 billion Series G fundraising round, the company announced on Thursday.
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Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot
Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia, during the pandemic. “We had thousands of suppliers, and we were distributing products into dozens of countries around the world,” Spencer (pictured left) told TechCrunch.
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Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha.
“Join xAI if the idea of mass drivers on the Moon appeals to you,” CEO Elon Musk proclaimed yesterday following a restructuring that saw a stream of former executives exit the AI lab. This is an interesting recruitment strategy after the company’s merger with Musk’s rocket maker, SpaceX, and the com