Anthropic enables Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 to end conversations in “cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions”; users can still start new chats
We recently gave Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end conversations in our consumer chat interfaces.
Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, whose books helped shape the philosophical conversation about human intelligence and AI, passed away on July 18 at age 88
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.
GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that the current approach of scaling LLMs is starting to reach the limits of available resources
OpenAI's underwhelming new GPT-5 model suggests progress is slowing — and competition in the space is changing
Sources: Apple slow-walks immersive content it shot around the launch of Vision Pro; Meta may launch “Hypernova” smart glasses with display for ~$800 next month
Apple has slow-walked the release of immersive video, creating a conundrum for the Vision Pro.
How an editor uncovered the “largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia's history” that promoted obscure composer David Woodard with entries in 335 languages
Quick—what are the top entries in the category “Wikipedia articles written in the greatest number of languages”?
India's blueprint to displace China as the world's electronics workshop relies heavily on Chinese companies' technical expertise and manufacturing know-how
India's electronics manufacturing self-reliance strategy requires reliance on its biggest rival — India's blueprint for displacing China …
A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b, shows how open-weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across hosting providers
Artificial Analysis published a new benchmark the other day, this time focusing on how an individual model - OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b - performs across different hosted providers.
Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two years' probation and a $34K+ fine for stealing trade secrets and sharing them with his new employer Microsoft
An engineer who stole trade secrets from Intel and shared them with his new bosses at Microsoft was sentenced Tuesday to two years …
A look at AI-powered stuffed animals like Grem, Grok, and Gabbo, which are being promoted as an alternative to screen time for children as young as 3
Curio is a company that describes itself as “a magical workshop where toys come to life.” When I recently visited its cheery headquarters …
Big Tech's reverse acquihires for AI talent are hollowing out startups and eroding the culture that has made Silicon Valley an unparalleled source of innovation
Tech companies' scramble for AI talent uses unorthodox methods that imperil Silicon Valley's startup culture
A look at the “Palantir Mafia”, a group of Palantir alumni who have started or are leading 350+ tech companies, including at least a dozen valued at $1B+
The network connects founders and venture capitalists with ‘Palantir Pals’ and a Russian River camping trip Bluesky: @thefarce.org . LinkedIn: Gada Elkenani Bluesky: @thefarce.org : Science says our b...
A look at the problems at Uber Freight, which has posted operating losses every year since it was founded in 2017, except for 2022, and just appointed a new CEO
The unprofitable unit doesn't fit the company's model and has little to no synergies with its main ride-hailing and delivery businesses.
PitchBook: 15.9% of VC-backed deals in 2025 so far have been down rounds, a 10-year high, with AI and ML startups accounting for 29.3% of the down rounds
Chime executives, along with family, celebrating the company's IPO at the Nasdaq. — The soaring valuations of the early 2020s are, finally, coming back to earth. Bluesky: @hsliwinski . X: @koolhead1...
A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks
championed by colleagues like @trevordarrell, @pabbeel, @istoica05, and others—is leading the nation, unleashing the creativity of top students and research labs through industry-sponsored open-source...
Barbour ABI: the UK's data center count, currently 477, is set to jump by ~100 over the next five years, with more than half in London and neighboring counties
if it can find the power TelecomTV : What's up with... Intel, Colt, UK datacentres Bluesky: Tom Scott / @tom—scott.bsky.social : Perhaps someone should ask AI whether it's a good idea to build huge nu...
NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M Series A led by Footwork
Companies like Scale AI and Surge have proven there's a market for human-labeled data, like professionals' answers to complex math or law questions …
Global smart glasses shipments grew 110% YoY in H1; Meta's share of the market rose to 73%; AI smart glasses accounted for 78% of shipments, up from 46% YoY
www.theverge.com/news/613292/ ... @davidinsf : 73% of a small number is an even smaller number.
Filing: Shein reports 2024 UK sales up 32.3% YoY to £2.05B, making the UK its third largest market after the US and Germany, as it works toward a Hong Kong IPO
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Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer step down as board chair and vice chair, convert their Class B stock to Class A, completing the succession plan
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XOPS, which uses AI and knowledge graphs to automate enterprise IT tasks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding led by Activant Capital and FPV Ventures
XOPS is out of stealth in the The Wall Street Journal! — I'm thrilled to share that today marks a bold milestone for XOPS … Arun Chandrasekaran : The most common inquiry we (still) get from our clie...
TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed
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A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Otter.ai of “deceptively and surreptitiously” recording private conversations to train its AI without user consent
www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g... Ashley Braun / @ashleybraun : Heads up for users of Otter AI, especially if you connect it to any other apps, like Zoom or Teams: Lawsuit claims AI service Otter secretly r...
Hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's “hyperrealistic” VR research prototype with beyond-retinal resolution, high brightness and contrast, and a narrow field of view
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Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.