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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled a new "Responses API" designed to help software developers create AI agents that can perform tasks independently using the company's AI models. The Responses API will eventually replace the current Assistants API, which OpenAI plans to retire in the first half of 2026. With the new offering, users can develop custom AI agents that scan company files with a file search utility that rapidly checks company databases (with OpenAI
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Ambani's Jio Platforms announced that it would bring Starlink into India, opening doors to the world's largest consumer market. Read more ›
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Tesla shareholders are frustrated with Elon Musk as he focuses more on DOGE and Tesla's stock price crashes. Read more ›
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At the White House on Tuesday, Donald Trump and Elon Musk flitted about among a fleet of Teslas. "Everything's computer," Trump marveled. Read more ›
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From video game developers to a nuclear power plant, companies across China are adopting DeepSeek’s AI models to boost stock prices and flaunt their national pride. Read more ›
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At a White House event where he promised to buy a Tesla, President Donald Trump says he’ll label violence at Tesla locations as domestic terrorism. Over the past few weeks, protests against Tesla CEO and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk have escalated at Tesla locations. There have been reports of situations like […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump checked out Teslas at a White House event Tuesday with Elon Musk. He carried a note with jotted down Tesla prices. Read more ›
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Resale values have collapsed in recent years, with the average price of a used Tesla now $10,000 less than that of a non-Tesla electric car. Read more ›
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While Trump has recommended legislators revoke the CHIPS and Science Act, it's unlikely to happen and the government is obliged to distribute $39 billion grants by September 2026. But if it did happen, analysts say it could dramatically shrink the US chip production market share. Read more ›
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Inefficient collaboration processes and poor AI deployment is costing Britain in lost productivity. Read more ›
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The ranks include Elon Musk's home office manager, his son, and former Tesla and Google engineers. Read more ›
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The Pixel 9a is one of the most leaked devices in recent memory, and the latest addition to the already abundant mix is an official case listing from Spigen. Google Pixel 9a in Spigen Ultra Hybrid Back Cover case The Ultra Hybrid Back Cover case, which is already available for the rest of the Pixel 9 series is now listed for the 9a on Spigen India. The listing features plenty... Read more ›
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Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works. Read more ›
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With his magnificent underwater images, Gerardo del Villar wants to rehabilitate the reputation of the ocean's great predators, inspire conservation, and encourage responsible ecotourism. Read more ›
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A pro-corporate libertarian movement is attempting to take over the U.S., with Trump's help. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump responded to a question about Tesla dealership attacks, saying they should be considered domestic terrorism. Read more ›
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The Puck Building is becoming the red-hot center of Manhattan's tech scene. That's led to crowding at the coffee shop across the street. Read more ›
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took a dig at Mark Zuckerberg with her own Latin shirt saying "A world without Caesars." Read more ›
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Astronomers have discovered four "sub-Earth" planets around Barnard's Star, one of the closest star systems to Earth. Scientists have been looking for planets around this star for many decades. Read more ›
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London-based Mimo, a platform for global payments and financial management for SMBs and accountants, has raised $8.5M (nearly €7.8M) in new funding. The round was led by Project A. Existing investors Northzone and Seedcamp also participated. Mimo also formed an embedded funding partnership with Froda, an SMB financing provider, to offer UK SMEs over $125M ... Read more Read more ›
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Berlin-based e-bike and moped subscription company Dance, today announced the successful closing of a €12 million funding round in equity and debt to expand its fleet and transform the urban transportation. New equity investors include Berlin-based sustainable lifestyle investor Elemental, Uli Schöberl and Piotr Brzezinski. The asset-backed debt facility is provided by Paris-based Smart Lender ... Read more ›
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"The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented 'backdoor' that could be leveraged for attacks," writes BleepingComputer. "The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence." This was discovered by Spanish researchers Miguel Tarascó Acuña and Antonio Vázquez Blanco of Tarlogic Security,. Read more ›
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smooth wombat writes: In what can only be described as a no-brainer, Volkswagen has announced it will have once again have physical buttons in all its vehicles. As Andreas Mindt, design chief at the company said, removing buttons was "a mistake". "From the ID 2all onwards, we will have physical buttons for the five most important functions -- the volume, the heating on each side of the car, the fans... Read more ›
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In a policy paper, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks said that the U.S. should not pursue a Manhattan Project-style push to develop AI systems with "superhuman" intelligence, also known as AGI. From a report: The paper, titled "Superintelligence Strategy," asserts that an aggressive bid by the U.S. to exclusively control superintelligent AI systems could prompt fierce retaliation... Read more ›
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As Christie's auction house planned the first-ever auction dedicated to AI-generated art works, over 5,600 people signed an online letter urging them to cancel it. "Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license," the letter complained. "These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment... Read more ›
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Philosophy/ethics professor Troy Jollimore looks at the implications of a world where many students are submitting AI-generated essays. ("Sometimes they will provide quotations, giving page numbers that, as often as not, do not seem to correspond to anything in the actual world...") Ideally if the students write the essays themselves, "some of them start to feel it. They begin to grasp that thinking well, and in an informed manner, really... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: AI excels at following instructions -- but it's not pushing the boundaries of knowledge, says Thomas Wolf. The chief science officer and cofounder of Hugging Face, an open-source AI company backed by Amazon and Nvidia, analyzed the limits of large language models. He wrote that the field produces "overly compliant helpers" rather than revolutionaries. Right now, AI isn't creating new knowledge, Wolf wrote. Instead,... Read more ›
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Utah has become the first U.S. state to pass legislation requiring app store operators to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors downloading apps. The App Store Accountability Act adds to a wave of children's online safety bills advancing through state legislatures nationwide. Similar legislation has faced legal challenges, with many being blocked in courts. A comparable federal bill failed last year amid free expression concerns. The approach... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A 37-year-old Tennessee man was arrested Thursday, accused of stealing Blu-rays and DVDs from a manufacturing and distribution company used by major movie studios and sharing them online before the movies' scheduled release dates. According to a US Department of Justice press release, Steven Hale worked at the DVD company and allegedly stole "numerous 'pre-release' DVDs and Blu-rays" between February 2021... Read more ›
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The Washington Post reports: Meta was willing to go to extreme lengths to censor content and shut down political dissent in a failed attempt to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party and bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a new whistleblower complaint from a former global policy director at the company. The complaint by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked on a team handling China... Read more ›
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"The early web was fun," Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian posted Wednesday on X.com. "It was weird. It was community-driven. It's time to rebuild that. "Which is why Kevin Rose and I just bought back Digg." The amount of that purchase is "undisclosed," reports CNBC: The deal is backed by venture capital firms True Ventures, where Rose is a partner, and Ohanian's Seven Seven Six.... The company said in a release... Read more ›
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