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If you’re anything like me, you may have found your jaw dropping at our scoop this morning that Skild, a young startup building an AI-powered brain for robots, is raising nearly $300 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue Management and other investors at a whopping $1.5 billion valuation despite the fact that it has yet to generate any revenue.Perhaps even more surprising is the fact that Skild isn’t alone. There’s been a recent smattering of high-profile (and expensive) funding rounds for nascen
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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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Enterprises building voice-enabled workflows have had limited options for production-grade transcription: closed APIs with data residency risks, or open models that trade accuracy for deployability. Cohere's new open-weight ASR model, Transcribe, is built to compete on all four key differentiators — contextual accuracy, latency, control and cost.Cohere says that Transcribe outperforms current leaders on accuracy — and unlike closed APIs, it can run on an organization's own infrastructure.Cohere, which can... Read more ›
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"Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary said that he's training an AI twin. In about a month, his wife won't be able to "discern the difference," he said. Read more ›
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Microsoft Copilot is reportedly injecting promotional "tips" into GitHub pull requests, with Neowin claiming more than 1.5 million PRs have been affected by messages advertising integrations like Raycast, Slack, Teams, and various IDEs. From the report: According to Melbourne-based software developer Zach Manson, a team member used the AI to fix a simple typo in a pull request. Copilot did the job, but it also took the liberty of editing... Read more ›
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Громкой новостью прошлой недели стал взлом библиотеки LiteLLM, используемой в качестве посредника для коммуникации с большим количеством языковых моделей (сообщение от разработчиков, новость на Хабре). Через другое вредоносное приложение на Python была взломана учетная запись мейнтейнера проекта, после чего сразу две версии LiteLLM (1.82.7 и 1.82.8) с вредоносными модулями были загружены в репозиторий PyPI. Отчет с анализом вредоносного кода опубликовали эксперты «Лаборатории Касперского». В версии 1.82.7 в Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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You may not realize the expensive SSD you've bought is a fake — so make sure you check your purchases carefully. Read more ›
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more ›
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Crime 101, Amazon's crime thriller starring Marvel superstar Chris Hemsworth, is coming to Prime Video later this week. Read more ›
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70% of Americans said they believe AI will lead to a decrease in job opportunities generally, while 30% worry about their own jobs. Read more ›
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Wondering why your soundbar has extra HDMI inputs? From upgrading your gaming audio to expanding device connectivity, here is how to use them. Read more ›
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Психология кода: почему нам страшно и как ИИ это лечит.Знакома ли вам ситуация? Вы открываете файл контроллера на 2000 строк. Там перемешаны SQL-запросы, HTML-разметка, бизнес-логика и комментарии на ломаном английском. В голове начинает играть тревожная музыка, а внутренний голос шепчет: “Закрой это немедленно, пока оно не сломалось”.В психологии это называется “когнитивная перегрузка”. Мозг просто отказывается парсить такое количество переменных одновременно. Раньше программистам приходилось часами медити Read more ›
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![[Перевод] Если использование ChatGPT для написания текстов — это обман, то как быть с гострайтерами?](https://times42.com/media/9/4/4/12203944_640x200.jpg "[Перевод] Если использование ChatGPT для написания текстов — это обман, то как быть с гострайтерами?")
В феврале 2023 года, чуть более чем через год после запуска ChatGPT, Университет Вандербильта разослал своим студентам электронное письмо в связи с трагической стрельбой на территории кампуса Мичиганского государственного университета.«Недавняя стрельба в Мичигане — трагическое напоминание о том, как важно заботиться друг о друге», — говорилось в начале письма. Мелким шрифтом внизу сообщения шло примечание: «перефразировано из ChatGPT от OpenAI».Студенты сразу же выразили протест.«Есть какая-то извращённая. Read more ›
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Uber has acquired Blacklane, a Berlin-based startup that offers chauffeur services and bookings through its app, with plans to expand further into the luxury travel industry. Blacklane, founded in 2011, acts as a liaison between independent local chauffeur services and travelers looking for a more premium ride. According to Uber, the deal is subject to regulatory approvals but is expected to close by the end of 2026. "This partnership marks... Read more ›
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U.S. senators are introducing bipartisan legislation to ban prediction markets from offering sports-related contracts, the first bill seeking to regulate fast-growing platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket US. Democratic Senator Adam Schiff of California and Republican Senator John Curtis of Utah ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has hired the founders and team behind artificial intelligence agent startup Dreamer. Dreamer co-founders Hugo Barra, David Singleton, and Nicholas Jitkoff will join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs group, Singleton announced in a post on X. As part of the move, Dreamer will license ... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday he would leave the board of fusion startup Helion Energy, a company he has backed since 2015. OpenAI is in talks to buy electricity from Helion Energy, according to Axios. “As Helion and OpenAI start to explore working together at significant scale, it is ... Read more ›
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Leonid Radvinsky, who bought a majority stake in OnlyFans in 2018, died of cancer Monday. The 43-year old billionaire owned Fenix International, the London-based parent company of OnlyFans, a subscription site best known for hosting sexually explicit creators and content. Before his death, he ... Read more ›
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When invading a hostile territory or testing a new AI service, it’s best to move quietly and steal a march on your opponents. Google appears to have learned that lesson. It’s now possible, if you’ve got its latest Pixel or Samsung phones, to ask the Gemini app to order an Uber or a meal on DoorDash. I tried it today and it worked flawlessly, if slowly. (I ordered paper towels... Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services is developing AI to automate functions in its sales, business development and other groups where it recently laid off hundreds of employees or even more. For instance, AWS has been developing an AI agent that helps its sales employees provide customers with fast answers to technical questions, according to two people who have used it. The agent handles some of the work of thousands of AWS technical... Read more ›
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Something curious is happening with AI coding agents. Developers have started telling me they’re asking these coding agents to take on different personas so they behave like more of a team than an individual programmer.For instance, a developer creating a software product feature will first tell their AI coding product—whether it be Gemini or Codex—to act as a “product manager” that creates a document outlining what the feature is meant... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has tapped chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth to oversee its transition into an AI-first organization, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Bosworth will lead the company’s AI for Work initiative, part of a broader push to improve Meta’s efficiency through the ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms and OpenAI said Tuesday they will purchase an AI server chip produced by Arm, which previously only helped other companies design such chips. SoftBank-owned Arm said later this year it will produce a central processing unit that can handle AI tasks more efficiently than graphics ... Read more ›
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Shares of multiple business software providers, including Salesforce, Atlassian and HubSpot, all saw significant declines after The Information reported that Amazon Web Services is developing AI that automates sales, business development and other internal functions. This is the latest sign ... Read more ›
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