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Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the UK and other markets
After initially testing its AI-powered “Prompted Playlist” feature in New Zealand and recently launching in the U.S.
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Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to
An AI news app called Particle, from former Twitter engineers, can now keep up with news breaking on podcasts as well as news published on the web. Just ahead of its recent Android release, Particle has introduced a feature called Podcast Clips, which finds the most interesting and relevant moments
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The human work behind humanoid robots is being hidden
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In January, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, the head of the world’s most valuable company, proclaimed that we are entering the era of physical AI, when artificial intellig
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New Microsoft gaming chief has "no tolerance for bad AI"
微软任命Asha Sharma为新游戏部门负责人，她公开表示对低质量AI应用零容忍，强调AI须提升游戏体验而非损害品质。然而，Sharma缺乏传统游戏行业经验，引发业内质疑。微软Xbox与Activision Blizzard整合背景下，此任命凸显AI在游戏领域的战略重要性，但也暴露领导层转型挑战。文章探讨其背景、争议及AI游戏未来。（128字）
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Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM
The challenge of wrangling a deep learning model is often understanding why it does what it does: Whether it’s xAI’s repeated struggle sessions to fine-tune Grok’s odd politics, ChatGPT’s struggles with sycophancy, or run-of-the-mill hallucinations, plumbing through a neural network with billions of
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OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push
OpenAI is beefing up partnerships with four major consulting giants as the AI company looks to grow its enterprise business in 2026. OpenAI announced on Monday the “Frontier Alliances,” a signal that the AI lab is willing to try different approaches to get enterprises to meaningfully adopt its techn
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Peptides are everywhere. Here’s what you need to know.
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next.
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Google’s Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability
As a product VP at Google Cloud, Michael Gerstenhaber works mostly on Vertex AI, the company’s unified platform for deploying enterprise AI.
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Uncanny Valley: AI Researchers’ Resignations, Bots Hiring Humans, Evie Magazine’s Party
Schiffer dives into why some researchers at top AI companies have been resigning and publicly voicing their concerns about AI safety. Brian Barrett tells us why Rent-A-Human—a website where AI agents hire humans to perform various tasks—has gathered attention and controversy.
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Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports
Anthropic is accusing three Chinese AI companies of setting up more than 24,000 fake accounts with its Claude AI model to improve their own models. The labs — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax — allegedly generated more than 16 million exchanges with Claude through those accounts using a technique
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Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise
It seems that tech giants eyeing rural zones for data center development have underestimated how attached American farmers have grown to their lands in the decades they’ve been nurturing them. Across the country, several farmers have firmly rejected eye-popping offers—sometimes in the tens of millio
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All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit
With an eye toward luring more AI investment to the country, India hosted a four-day AI Impact Summit last week that was attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state. The event, which expecte
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Hitachi bets on industrial expertise to win the physical AI race
Physical AI – the branch of artificial intelligence that controls robots and industrial machinery in the real world – has a hierarchy problem. At the top, OpenAI and Google are scaling multimodal foundation models.
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How Amul is using AI dairy farming to put 36 million farmers first
AI dairy farming has found its most ambitious deployment yet – not in a Silicon Valley lab nor a European agri-tech campus, but in the villages of Gujarat, India, where 36 lakh (3.6 million) women milk producers are now being served by an AI assistant named Sarlaben.Amul, the world’s largest dairy c
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Mastercard’s AI payment demo points to agent-led commerce
A recent demonstration from Mastercard suggests that payment systems may be heading toward a future where software agents, not people, complete purchases.
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Inside Chicago’s surveillance panopticon
Early on the morning of September 2, 2024, a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train was the scene of a random and horrific mass shooting.
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The Download: Chicago’s surveillance network, and building better bras
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. Inside Chicago’s surveillance panopticon Chicago has tens of thousands of surveillance cameras—up to 45,000, by some estimates. That’s among the highest numbers
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Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is calling in Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning to discuss the military use of Claude, according to reporting from Axios. The meeting comes as the Pentagon threatens to declare Anthropic a “supply chain risk” — a label typically reserved for
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How AI agents could destroy the economy
On Sunday, an analyst group called Citrini Research published a remarkable piece illustrating how agentic AI could bring on mass economic destruction over the next two years.
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AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store copyrighted works. A series of recent studies has shown that large language models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic,