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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nvidia faces growing competition in the AI chip market. But the chip designer has found a way to make money even from its rivals’ chips. During its annual GTC developer conference last week, the company unveiled a new server rack designed to run chips made either by Nvidia or by its rivals. The new racks include networking technology that connects the chips on each rack, ensuring that they can communicate... Read more ›
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Software engineers embracing the AI coding revolution don’t have much loyalty to any particular coding tool, especially when a new, better one comes out. In the latest example of that, hundreds of engineers at Notion, a maker of popular task-management software, are abandoning coding tool Cursor for Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, according to a person involved in the change.The switch at Notion is part of a broader trend,... Read more ›
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OpenAI is hiring former Meta Platforms ad executive Dave Dugan as vice president in charge of global ad solutions, Dugan announced Monday on LinkedIn. Dugan had spent more than a decade as an ad sales executive at Meta. Dugan’s hiring comes as OpenAI is trying to scale its ads business, which ... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s abrupt shopping pullback earlier this month didn’t just raise questions about its decision-making. It also affected several commerce and payments firms, including PayPal and Etsy, that have put in work to help the ChatGPT maker expand the high-profile shopping venture and are now in limbo as it sorts out what’s next. And in the case of PayPal, it had also announced spending money on OpenAI’s technology as part of... Read more ›
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Chinese robotics startup Unitree, one of the world’s largest humanoid makers, has filed for an initial public offering in Shanghai, looking to raise 4.2 billion yuan ($610 million). In the filing submitted on Friday, Hangzhou-based Unitree disclosed that its operating revenue last year more than ... Read more ›
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Memo to software executives: Now is the time to radically reduce the amount of stock you give employees. That would win you some favor with investors, who’ve generally gone off your sector thanks to worries about the threat posed by AI. Even if those concerns are overblown, cutting costs in the face of a major disruption is a smart idea.It’s no secret that software companies overdo stock compensation compared with... Read more ›
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Elon Musk said Tesla and SpaceX will build a “Terafab” together in Austin that will design and manufacture semiconductors for both companies, though he did not provide a timeline for the project. The factory, located near Tesla’s current Austin headquarters, will eventually produce two series of ... Read more ›
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This year hasn’t lived up to the high expectations of the bankers and lawyers that advise tech companies on acquisitions. One major culprit is fear of AI-driven irrelevance, which has paralyzed corporate CEOs, according to some bankers and lawyers gathered in New Orleans for the annual Tulane Corporate Law Institute conference. “I have a lot of clients who are not doing M&A right now because of all the uncertainty around... Read more ›
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As OpenAI prepares to open up ad sales to more marketers next month, it is trying to address what some advertisers say was lacking in the initial ad sales offering. Among other things, the ChatGPT creator is planning to streamline the process of ad buying, either in partnerships with ad tech firms or with its own ad management system. So far, advertisers that bought the first ad campaigns on ChatGPT... Read more ›
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OpenAI expects to increase its headcount to around 8,000 employees by year end, up from about 4,500 employees, according to a person familiar with the plans. The hiring plans come as it shifts some of its resources from new initiatives to focus on its flagship ChatGPT as well as its coding ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: A rising star at Microsoft has a challenging new job• Defense Tech: Anduril’s big bet? An Ohio weapons factory • Tech Culture: Fat with funding, AI startups binge on private parties• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Blood Will Tell”; “The Complex” and “This Is Where the Serpent Lives”; and “Train Dreams”At the moment, I might describe the difference in AI enthusiasm... Read more ›
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Around the time last fall that Vercel tripled its valuation to $9 billion, the startup decided to throw a swank dinner party. It was a chance for Malte Ubl, the company’s chief technology officer, to talk shop and discuss the fast-changing landscape with a dozen so other Silicon Valley executives—and an opportunity for Vercel, a 10-year-old company that sells a platform for developing AI apps and websites, to show off.... Read more ›
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Just past the soybean farms in Pickaway County, Ohio, stands a flat-roofed building clad in blue and gray panels, with John Deere tractors near the entrance and hard hat–wearing construction workers busily laying pipes in the ground. The 866,000-square-foot factory isn’t much to behold—it looks like any of the many humble industrial warehouses that line the roads near Rickenbacker International Airport, a Midwest cargo hub. But the company behind the... Read more ›
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