Pope Leo XIV says he chose his name to honor Pope Leo XIII's work during the first industrial revolution, as AI poses challenges in a new industrial revolution
Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis …
Sources: the Trump administration fires US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about using copyrighted content to train AI
The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday.
Sources: the Trump admin plans to end Energy Star, a voluntary program started in 1992 to promote energy savings, initially aimed at PCs, monitors, and printers
Despite having industry support and saving consumers half a trillion dollars over the decades, the program could be eliminated imminently.
Klarna, which said in 2024 that AI was doing the work of 700 customer service agents, starts hiring remote workers after the AI approach led to “lower quality”
To that end, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, 43, is plotting a rare recruitment drive so the buy-now-pay-later company's customers …
CMU researchers unveil LegoGPT, an AI model that designs physically stable Lego structures from text prompts and currently supports eight standard brick types
On Thursday, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University unveiled LegoGPT, an AI model that creates physically stable Lego structures from text prompts.
Sources: OpenAI is negotiating with Microsoft to enable a future IPO; Microsoft offers to cut its equity stake for continued access to OpenAI tech beyond 2030
High-stakes talks to revise terms of multibillion-dollar partnership are key to plans to adopt for-profit model
Q&A with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on the parts of the economy AGI will affect last, why he's relatively bearish on AI-fueled economic growth, and more
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Lloyd's of London insurers have launched a product to cover companies for losses if sued over AI chatbot errors, with policies developed by YC-backed Armilla
Policies will pay out for costs such as legal fees and court damages if AI tools underperform — Simply sign up to the Artificial … Bluesky: @electricland , @legalshmendrik , @elizabethjoh , @wolvend...
As the consumer metaverse falters, the World Economic Forum projects the industrial metaverse will reach $100B by 2030, led by platforms like Nvidia Omniverse
Forget Mark Zuckerberg's vision of VR meetings; the industrial metaverse bridges digital and physical worlds in a way that's actually useful. Bluesky: @richardsonma and @wired.com . Mastodon: @mikarv@...
Court filing: internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times
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The FTC pushes the enforcement of its “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up, from May 14 to July 14
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US SEC filing: Vanguard marks down Ola's valuation to $1.25B, a drop of 80%+ from a 2021 peak of $7.3B, as the ride-hailing company loses market share in India
Vanguard had valued the Bhavish Aggarwal-led company at less than $2 billion ($1.88 billion) for the first time.
Thoma Bravo invests $100M+ in HubSync, a Tennessee-based tax and accounting automation and client experience platform for accounting firms and tax professionals
HubSync, a Franklin, TN-based provider of a tax and accounting platform, received an over $100M Growth investment from Thoma Bravo.
London-based StackOne, which develops tech to integrate SaaS products and AI agents with enterprise systems more efficiently, raised a $20M Series A led by GV
London-based StackOne has raised $20M (nearly €17.67M) in a Series A funding round. This brings the company's total raised capital to $24M.
Source: Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which is building its own LLMs and launched an AI orchestration system in March, is raising a $300M Series D
- AI21 Labs is raising a $300 million Series D funding round to build its own LLMs. — It aims to reduce hallucinations in generative AI, which would enhance reliability for companies.
Q&A with Sonos interim CEO Tom Conrad on the disastrous app redesign, the Ace headphones, subscriptions, the canceled video player, Google, and more
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TSOLife, whose software is in use in 1,300 senior living facilities in 47 US states, raised a $43M Series B led by PeakSpan, bringing its total funding to $52M
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Amsterdam-based AppSignal, which develops an app monitoring tool that it says is used by 2,000+ organizations, raised a $22M Series A led by Elsewhere Partners
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A look at Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, staffed largely by ex-intelligence and military personnel, which has become a key pillar of US cyber defense
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The UK stopped asking Uber to pay VAT on the full cost of rides, instead collecting VAT only on its commission, after a setback in a similar dispute with Bolt
Financial Times : X: @stephenfoley and @science1090 X: Stephen Foley / @stephenfoley : Uber wins multimillion-pound reprieve on disputed UK tax payments. Story with @rafeuddin_ & @EmmaAgyemang on HMR...
ServiceNow agrees to acquire cloud-native data catalog and data governance startup Data.World, which had raised over $130M and was valued at $350M in 2022
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A profile of OpenAI's CEO of Applications Fidji Simo, who is tasked with broadening ChatGPT amid a straining Microsoft relationship and a battle with Elon Musk
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Ramp: 32.4% of US businesses using Ramp cards had OpenAI subscriptions in April, up from 28% in March; Google AI subscriptions fell to 0.1% in April
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