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TechCrunch looks at Mechanize, an ambitious new startup "whose founder — and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch — is being skewered on X..."
Mechanize was launched on Thursday via a post on X by its founder, famed AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu. The startup's goal, Besiroglu wrote, is "the full automation of all work" and "the full automation of the economy."
Does that mean Mechanize is working to replace every human worker with an AI agent bot? Essentially, yes. The startup w
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Когда говоришь о видеоаналитике, обычно ждут разговора про точность моделей, архитектуру и алгоритмы. Но за три года внедрений я понял — самая сложная часть проекта это не технология. Это люди. И самое неожиданное сопротивление приходит не оттуда откуда ждёшь. История первая. "Эта штука меня заменит" — и карусель начинаетсяКрупное предприятие, тестируем систему перед демонстрацией заказчику. Площадка не из лёгких — здесь видеоаналитику уже видели, причём не первый год, и... Read more ›
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“We have eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage” – Nvidia Rubin to use 45°C direct-to-chip cooling. Read more ›
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Apple just raised prices across its iPad and MacBook lineup. The good news is that many retailers are still selling their inventory at the old prices or far less, which means you can still score some of the best iPad deals we may see in awhile — if ever again. So if you’ve been thinking […] Read more ›
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Housing is one of healthcare’s most expensive blind spots. When someone loses stable housing, the fallout rarely stays confined to rent payments or a missed mortgage. It shows up in emergency rooms, missed prescriptions, preventable hospital stays, and rising claims ... Read more ›
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Nothing recently showed off two phones, but you'll only be able to buy one of them, and it's not the one people want. Read more ›
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Earlier this month, the Samsung Galaxy S27 surfaced in the GSM Association’s IMEI database, with the model number SM-S925U. Today, its siblings have shown up over there as well. We're talking about the Galaxy S27+ and Galaxy S27 Ultra, but also the much-rumored Galaxy S27 Pro. This is pretty much confirmation that the Pro is real. It has the model number SM-S957B/DS, the S27+ gets SM-S956U, and the S27 Ultra... Read more ›
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MoneyGram has become an active validator on the Solana blockchain, marking its shift from a Web3 user to a core infrastructure participant supporting open and interoperable stablecoin payment rails. Read more ›
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The Leica SL3-P is built for photographers who'd rather be invisible than impressive, and it largely delivers on that promise. Read more ›
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Amazon might've fired 16,000 workers earlier this year, but it's bringing in 11,000 new workers for fresh talent. Read more ›
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From custom action figures to handcrafted sculptures, we found some truly hilarious, cool stuff. Read more ›
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Give your home theater system a workout in Dolby Atmos and 4K HDR. Read more ›
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Polestar won't be allowed to sell its electric vehicles model year 2027 and beyond in the US after the federal government denied the company's request for authorization under a new rule banning vehicles with software from China. In a press release, the company says the decision to retreat from the US follows a recent decision […] Read more ›
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Samsara's new 360 Camera and AI Multicam look to improve safety and visibility for work teams everywhere. Read more ›
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Microsoft said memory and storage prices have increased by "more than 2.5x" and it expects "another doubling by the fall of 2027." Read more ›
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Google has begun rolling out Android 17, the June Pixel Feature Drop, and Wear OS 7 simultaneously across supported Pixel phones and watches. Highlights include floating app bubbles, improved foldable multitasking and gaming, tighter location and contact permissions, stronger lost-device protections, new Pixel AI tools, and up to 10% better Pixel Watch battery life. PhoneArena reports: Pixel owners are the clear winners, since everything here reaches Pixel first and a... Read more ›
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Apple is allowing iPhone developers in Brazil to distribute apps through authorized alternative marketplaces and use third-party payment systems following action by the country's competition regulator. "In other words, developers in Brazil will be able to circumvent the App Store and Apple's in-app purchase system, but there are still fees," reports MacRumors. Apple will collect commissions ranging from 5% on externally distributed apps to as much as 26% for some... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: As artificial intelligence companies reshape the economy and race toward trillion-dollar valuations, Sen. Bernie Sanders is proposing a sweeping transfer of wealth and power from the industry to the American public. The legislation, shown first to The Associated Press, would create a sovereign wealth fund overseen by an independent commission and financed through a one-time 50% tax on the stock... Read more ›
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Midjourney is expanding beyond AI image generation with plans for a medical-imaging business built around a water-based, full-body ultrasound scanner that uses hundreds of thousands of sensors and AI to reconstruct MRI-like images. "As you descend into the water, hundreds of thousands of tiny elements take turns, sending out waves, listening together, compressing and then streaming data to a massive cluster where thousands of computers split the task," Midjourney explained... Read more ›
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California's proposed "billionaire tax" has gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, setting up a major fight between labor unions and some of Silicon Valley's richest figures. From the report: The California Billionaire Tax Act, colloquially known as the billionaire tax, would levy a one-time 5% tax on any California resident worth more than $1bn. The proposal is backed by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West... Read more ›
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Adobe is expanding its Firefly AI assistant into Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io, where it can automate all sorts of tasks such as organizing clips, renaming assets, adding interview markers, rearranging layers, and finding missing fonts. It's available starting today as part of a public beta. TechCrunch reports: Adobe is slowly transforming Firefly to increasingly resemble Canva, at least when it comes to AI features, loading up the app with... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: In May, the federal government announced without warning that it would take apart a network of ocean monitoring systems that it had spent over $350 million to build. No reason was given for the decision to shut down the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), but suspicion immediately focused on the network's role in tracking climate change. But the OOI also provides data... Read more ›
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Rolls-Royce SMR has secured a multibillion-pound agreement to build three small modular reactors on Sweden's west coast, "marking a major step in the British engineering group's ambition to become a leading supplier of the technology in Europe," reports Euronews. From the report: Following a rigorous selection process that started in 2022, UK engineering giant Rolls-Royce's nuclear division, Rolls-Royce SMR, won the contract to build nuclear reactors for Sweden. As part... Read more ›
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NASA has selected Relativity Space to build and launch Aeolus, a 2028 Mars orbiter that would provide daily global measurements of dust, winds, and atmospheric temperatures to support future robotic and human missions. TechCrunch reports: The structure of the contract is akin to the deals that NASA made with SpaceX to fly cargo to the International Space Station, or Firefly Aerospace to put a lander on the Moon. The government... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: Meta has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters. If adopted by lawmakers and passed into law as part of the Kids Online... Read more ›
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