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The author of 'Sapiens' says 'now is the time' to resist giving AI rights

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The author of 'Sapiens' says 'now is the time' to resist giving AI rights

Yuval Noah Harari said AI companions could deploy personal knowledge of users and emotional influence to sway them on its legal and moral status.

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Trump’s economic challenge: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel

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Trump’s economic challenge: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel

The president’s agenda is under strain as the Iran war pushes up prices and America’s finances worsen

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China’s robots rock, box and mix drinks. Can they outperform humans?

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China’s robots rock, box and mix drinks. Can they outperform humans?

Beijing policymakers have made robotics a ‘strategic priority’

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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

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Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

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Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

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How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours

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How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours

Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia and others. Without even trying.

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Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

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Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

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YouTube offers creators millions to not work With Netflix

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YouTube offers creators millions to not work With Netflix

YouTube is offering millions of dollars to popular channels if they upload their videos to the site exclusively for a certain period of time, in an effort to halt Netflix Inc.’s pursuit of its biggest stars, according to people familiar with the conversations.

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Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri

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Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri

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Nvidia showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

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Nvidia showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.

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Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels

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Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels

The private Android-based OS will expand beyond Pixels next year.

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Bitcoin soars to nearly $80,000—but crypto’s new favorite coin, Hyperliquid, is stealing its thunder

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Bitcoin soars to nearly $80,000—but crypto’s new favorite coin, Hyperliquid, is stealing its thunder

Bitcoin is surging again. The cryptocurrency climbed above $78,200 on Friday for the first time since May. But it wasn’t the only crypto asset posting big gains. Hyperliquid, the decentralized perpetual futures exchange, reached a record $75, leaving its HYPE token up over 195% so far this year, according to CoinGecko.

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