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Adam Mosseri says Instagram is ‘working out what to do’ about AI fakes.

It’s not just celebrity deepfakes that are plaguing social media. AI hot girl accounts are stealing comedians’ jokes, and painters are seeing AI versions of their process videos rack up millions of views. Mosseri says it’s “not practical” to ban AI, but it’s not sure how to handle content that isn’t copyrighted, like jokes.

AI Was Supposed to Spare Gardeners. Anthropic's Robot Research Has Me Thinking About Pulling Weeds.

Anthropic's robotics research puts more hands-on jobs in AI's path. But messy tasks such as gardening remain hard to automate.

Investors are buying up vast tracts of timberland across U.S. in one of market's longest-term bets

Timberland managers buying for pension funds and other institutional investors can wait decades for returns, but the market can also be a profit trap.

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is steering a possible $2 trillion IPO—but he says up to 40% of his time goes to making sure company culture is good

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the most important thing he does each day has nothing to do with training AI models or shipping products. Instead, he spends almost half his time working on company culture, he said.

Jeff Bezos says ‘millions of people’ will be living in space by 2045—and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon

Billionaires and tech CEOs have shared two distinct views on humanity’s future when it comes to AI: Some think it’ll wipe out all jobs and spell the end of civilization as we know it, while others hope it could lead to a utopian world—and Jeff Bezos is firmly in the latter category.

'Everyone laughed' when he started a pumpkin farm—now it brings in $2 million a year

Kelly Schultz bought a pumpkin farm in 1996. He transformed it into a seasonal attraction that draws in 100,000 visitors each fall.

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

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Exclusive: Musk tells Isaacson "AI and robots" will need to fix deficit

Musk said DOGE proved there's "no way we were gonna solve the deficit from within the government."

Bending Spoons wants to revive software castoffs. Berkshire is backing the plan

Less than four months into life as a public company, Bending Spoons got a big vote of confidence this week from Berkshire Hathaway.

Alphabet’s Chief Investment Officer Responds to Jefferies Warning That the Most Likely Outcome of the AI Boom is Massive U.S. Capital Destruction

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A 44-minute call and a memo: How Alexandr Wang won Mark Zuckerberg’s trust—and a $100 billion-plus AI bet

Mark Zuckerberg once poured tens of billions of dollars into a metaverse that few people wanted to live in. Now he’s spending even more on Muse, Meta’s personal AI agent—the kind of assistant that, in Zuckerberg’s case, coaches his MMA form between rounds and, in Alexandr Wang’s, hunts down obscure loose-leaf teas from farms in Taiwan and Japan.

What does ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on Prop 40 mean? It depends on your vote on other props

From left, California insurance commissioner candidate Jane Kim, Sen. Bernie Sanders, independent-Vt., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., stand together onstage after the “Ballots Over Billionaires” wealth tax rally at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco.