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Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks
Anthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local computer desktop.
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Meet the former Apple designer building a new AI interface at Hark
A secretive AI lab founded by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock shared new details about what it believes is a novel marriage of model-building and hardware design that will change how humans interact with intelligent software. The company said in a statement it would design multimodal end-to-end mod
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This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain
L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits cushioned in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona. It has been held there at a temperature of around −146 degrees °C for over a decade, largely undisturbed. That is, apart from the time, a little over a year ago, when scientists slowly lifted the brain to take photos
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Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy
an old adage that has new resonance in the digital age. Today, you can buy smart devices that monitor your heartbeat, blood pressure, exercise habits, water intake, sleep, mood, menstrual cycle, sexual activity, and meditation patterns, not to mention your poop.
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Chris Hayes Has Some Advice for Keeping Up With the News
a living from attention: What deserves some, what doesn’t, and how to make sure the public gives their own limited span of it to the right things.That sounds simple enough.
ROCm Support for Miles: Large-Scale RL Post-Training on AMD Instinct™ GPUs
ROCm Support for Miles: Large-Scale RL Post-Training on AMD Instinct™ GPUsAMD & Miles TeamMarch 17, 2026Reinforcement learning (RL) has rapidly become a core stage of modern foundation-model development.
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Bernie Sanders’ AI ‘gotcha’ video flops, but the memes are great
In a new viral video, Senator Bernie Sanders attempted to expose how the AI industry is a threat to Americans’ privacy, but ended up demonstrating how AI chatbots’ tendency to agree with and flatter their users can lead the chatbots themselves to become a mirror of users’ own beliefs rather than a t
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Nvidia CEO tries to explain why DLSS 5 isn’t just “AI slop”
Last week, Nvidia’s public reveal of DLSS 5—and its “generative AI” enhanced glow-ups of gaming scenes—drew widespread condemnation from the gaming community.
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Air Street becomes one of the largest solo VCs in Europe with $232M fund
London’s Air Street Capital has raised a $232 million Fund III with eyes set on backing early-stage AI companies across Europe and North America, the firm announced Monday. Check sizes will range from $500,000 to $15 million, with select growth investments reaching up to $25 million.
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The AI Race Is Pressuring Utilities to Squeeze More From Europe’s Power Grids
racing to bring new data centers online as AI labs across the globe continue to demand more compute. The primary limiting factor is energy—and specifically the ability to move it.Though Europe is on track to generate enough energy, utilities experts say, grid operators broadly lack the infrastructur
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The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI
In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers gathered in stocking feet at Mox, a scrappy, shoes-free coworking space in San Francisco.
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Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
AI warfare speaks to the biggest moral and practical question there is: Who—or what—gets to decide to take a human life? And who bears that cost? In 2018, more than 3,000 Google workers protested the company’s involvement in “the business of war” after finding out the company was part of Project Mav
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The Download: animal welfare gets AGI-pilled, and the White House unveils its AI policy
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. The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers arrived in stocking feet at Mox, a scra
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Palantir AI to support UK finance operations
UK authorities believe improving efficiency across national finance operations requires applying AI platforms from vendors like Palantir.
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AI is beginning to change the business of law
In spring 2024, two days after undergoing complex cardiac surgery in the Midlands, a man in his mid-70s unexpectedly deteriorated and died. The hospital referred the death to the coroner’s service, as is protocol when a cause is unknown, and clinical negligence barrister Anthony Searle was instructe
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Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks to sell power to OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as board chair of the Helion — the fusion startup he backs — amid reported talks between the two companies.
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Elizabeth Warren calls Pentagon’s decision to bar Anthropic ‘retaliation’
Anthropic is attracting an increasing number of supporters in its fight against the U.S. Department of Defense, which last month designated the AI lab as a supply-chain risk after it refused to make concessions on how its AI could be used by the military. In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegset
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Littlebird raises $11M for its AI-assisted ‘recall’ tool that reads your computer screen
There has been a lot of talk around building context for AI systems. In consumer software, we have seen startups being built around search, documents, and meetings. All of them want to capture context from your digital life, provide connections to other tools, and let you query all that data.
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Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way
Stanford adjunct professor and successfully exited founder Zain Asgar just raised an $80 million Series A for a startup that solve the AI inference bottleneck problem in an astute way.
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The hardest question to answer about AI-fueled delusions
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I was originally going to write this week’s newsletter about AI and Iran, particularly the news we broke last Tuesday that the Pentagon is making plans for AI com