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Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago

Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.

Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips

After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.

AI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their work

Delayed Steam Next Fest demo is a sign of a growing problem for indie devs.

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.

Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs

Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.

Elon Musk says he’ll give a SpaceX share to every American child

As Interior Department officials were set to testify in court Monday morning, President Donald Trump attacked the judge overseeing the legal battle over East Potomac Park — a popular national park in D.C. that the administration is seeking to turn into a high-end golf course.

Anthropic's safety bill would let the US block an AI model if there's imminent risk of 50-plus deaths

The draft proposal would limit the circumstances in which the government could block the release of an advanced model and preempt some state AI laws.

Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits

Character.AI faces claims its bots encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.

A Chinese rocket deorbited over Minnesota and left this in a farmer's cornfield

All the evidence points to the debris being part of a Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket.

JB Pritzker on the good and bad of AI

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An AI agent sent a stranger to a man’s house without telling him—and exposed the privacy risks of AI assistants

So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace — and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver’s seat.

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