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Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents

The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.

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Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.

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Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders

Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.

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DeepMind Says Its AI Can Predict Hurricanes Earlier Than Everyone Else

Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict both a storm’s track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data. Researchers don't yet fully understand how it does this.

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Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company

Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naïve claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business.

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ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users

OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.

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OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case

Newly filed court exhibits show OpenAI’s legal strategy in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit: argue that Apple’s own security and offboarding practices — including allowing an Apple manager to access a former engineer’s iCloud account after he left the company —undermine its claims that the allegedly stolen information was properly protected.

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Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking

This generation of 20-somethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they'll try literally anything else -- even an AI matchmaker.

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Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs

Suno's watermarking feature comes as the company is fighting legal battles on several fronts.

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Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform

The Series B is the company's second fundraise since it last raised capital in 2020. In that time, it has increased its ARR by 10x to $60 million.

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The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model

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. Google’s AI empire is being reshaped. Here’s what’s changed. After a wave of painful losses in the tech talent wars, delays to its next flagship model, and murmurings of poor morale,…

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Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings

The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of helping users complete real-world tasks.

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Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI

Mirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research into self-improving AI systems designed to accelerate scientific discovery and AI development.

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Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce

The startup's platform predicts what product a shopper wants next, learn their general taste, and fine-tune continuously based on what they do in real time.

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AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI

Why humans need to moderate humans.

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OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree

At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.

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OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts

Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsers—and managed to get OpenAI’s Atlas to make an unauthorized Amazon purchase.

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