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Zuckerberg says Meta needs to be ‘careful about what we choose to open source,’ citing risks from superintelligence

Zuckerberg makes a case for a type of “personal superintelligence” that people can use to achieve their individual goals. 

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Apple risks $12.5 billion revenue hit as judge weighs Google antitrust remedies, JPMorgan warns

The worst-case scenario is that Apple loses 15% of its earnings per share.

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A copyright lawsuit over pirated books could result in ‘business-ending’ damages for Anthropic

The lawsuit centers on Anthropic’s use of books to train its LLM, Claude, and could leave the company on the hook for billions of dollars worth of...

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Trump says he wanted to break Nvidia up—until he learned who Jensen Huang was

Nvidia recently became the first company to reach a $4 trillion market valuation, driven by its near-monopoly in AI chip technology.

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Researchers from top AI labs including Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic warn they may be losing the ability to understand advanced AI models

Researchers are urging developers to prioritize research into “chain-of-thought” processes, which provide a window into how AI systems make decisions.

22.07.2025 3

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Elon Musk released xAI’s Grok 4 without any safety reports—despite calling AI more ‘dangerous than nukes’ 

Samuel Marks, an AI safety researcher at Anthropic, called the lack of safety reporting from xAI "reckless".

20.07.2025 10

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UK health service AI tool generated a set of false diagnoses for one patient that led to him being wrongly invited to a diabetes screening appointment

An NHS official said the incident was a one-off human error, but the organization is facing scrutiny over how AI tools are used and regulated.

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OpenAI warns that its new ChatGPT Agent has the ability to aid dangerous bioweapon development

The tool is designed to automate everyday tasks, but safety researchers found the model could also potentially help novices create biological threats

18.07.2025 10

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Google DeepMind has grand ambitions to ‘cure all diseases’ with AI. Now, it’s gearing up for its first human trials

“One day we hope to be able to say — well, here’s a disease, and then click a button and out pops the design for a drug to address that...

06.07.2025 10

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An over-employed engineer was caught secretly working for multiple Silicon Valley startups at once—picking up salary offers of up to $200K per job

The saga began on Wednesday when the engineer started going viral on social media as startup founders discovered he had worked for multiple companies.

04.07.2025 10

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Sam Altman scoffs at Mark Zuckerberg’s AI recruitment drive and says Meta hasn’t even got their ‘top people’

Sam Altman is pushing back on Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive AI recruitment drive after the Big Tech company poached several key researchers from...

02.07.2025 20

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Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google

Meta's stock soared to a record high Monday after the company unveiled new hires for its “Superintelligence" team.

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Elon Musk’s lawyers claim he doesn’t use a computer — despite the billionaire’s own X posts saying the opposite 

The filing comes as part of Musk’s broader legal battle accusing OpenAI and Sam Altman of straying from their nonprofit roots.

24.06.2025 10

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New ‘OpenAI Files’ report sheds light on deep leadership concerns about Sam Altman and safety failures within the AI lab

A new report dubbed “The OpenAI Files” aims to shed light on the inner workings of the leading AI company.

21.06.2025 6

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AI is more likely to create a generation of ‘yes-men on servers’ than any scientific breakthroughs, Hugging Face co-founder says

Hugging Face's co-founder, Thomas Wolf, is pouring cold water on the hopes that current AI systems could revolutionize scientific progress.

20.06.2025 10

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OpenAI warns its future models will have a higher risk of aiding bioweapons development

The company is boosting its safety testing as it anticipates some models will reach its highest risk tier.

19.06.2025 10

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Meta’s $100 million signing bonuses for OpenAI staff are just the latest sign of extreme AI talent war 

Big Tech companies are shelling out jaw-dropping compensation amid a fierce AI talent war.

18.06.2025 20

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Canva’s co-founder is looking to hire ‘AI natives’ and university dropouts to train the rest of the company on the tech

"They're really good hires, especially when you add them to a nontechnical team and up-skill the rest of the organization," Cliff Obrecht said....

17.06.2025 10

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he disagrees with almost everything Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says

Jensen Huang is not on board with some of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s predictions about advanced AI.

12.06.2025 8

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Ohio State University is requiring every student to use AI in class to become ‘AI fluent’

The university's "AI Fluency" initiative aims to ensure all students graduate equipped to apply AI tools and applications in their fields.

10.06.2025 5

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Elon Musk’s Starlink was installed on the White House roof—Dems say it may ‘undermine national security’ by exposing sensitive data to hackers

Elon Musk’s DOGE team reportedly installed a Starlink satellite internet system in the White House despite the objections of government security...

10.06.2025 4

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SpaceX’s valuation will likely be cut in half as Trump and Elon Musk publicly feud, longtime Tesla investor says

Elon Musk's escalating feud with President Trump could have serious financial fallout for the tech billionaire's companies.

06.06.2025 10

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Anthropic researchers predict a ‘pretty terrible decade’ for humans as AI could wipe out white collar jobs

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said that AI may soon take over half of all entry-level office jobs.

05.06.2025 10

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A smuggled North Korean smartphone reveals how the regime censors information, including screenshotting users activities every five minutes 

Measures include automatically replacing popular South Korean words with regime-approved terms and recording screenshots of user activity for...

04.06.2025 3

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Tesla Cybertrucks are piling up in a disused parking lot in Michigan as the company deals with a stockpile of unsold vehicles

Tesla is under scrutiny for storing Cybertrucks in a disused park of a Detroit shopping center, which officials say violates local zoning rules

04.06.2025 10

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AI godfather Yoshua Bengio says current AI models are showing dangerous behaviors like deception, cheating, and lying

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio is warning that current models are displaying dangerous traits as he launches a new non-profit developing “honest” AI.

03.06.2025 5

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OpenAI and DeepMind are losing engineers to Anthropic in a one-sided talent war

Anthropic is making gains in the AI talent war, poaching top engineers from OpenAI and DeepMind.

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Europe is on edge as Russia builds up forces on Finland’s border. Could this frontier be the next conflict zone?

Finland is "closely monitoring and assessing Russia's activities and intentions."

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VC’s eye acquisition and regional markets amid clogged IPO pipelines

Amid clogged IPO pipelines and a liquidity crunch, some venture capitalists are shifting focus to acquisitions and regional markets to find exit...

22.05.2025 5

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Microsoft is reducing ‘politically focused emails’ after employees discovered messages mentioning ‘Palestine,’ ‘Gaza,’ or ‘genocide’ were being blocked

Tensions have been riding high within the company after a series of protesters disrupted the company's Build event.

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The pace of innovation in tech has accelerated from years to months thanks to AI, Microsoft chief privacy officer says

"Now the pace of innovation has just accelerated. What used to take years to get out now takes months," Julie Brill said.

21.05.2025 9

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Microsoft employee shouts over Satya Nadella’s keynote to protest claims of ‘Israel’s war crimes powered by Azure’

The protest was part of a larger campaign by a group called "No Azure for Apartheid," which includes current and former Microsoft workers.

20.05.2025 3

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Parent groups are hosting fairs that showcase phones with limited features to try and keep children away from smartphones

The fairs, where “dumb” or restricted phones are exhibited to parents, have been popping up around the U.S.

19.05.2025 10

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Northeastern college student demanded her tuition fees back after catching her professor using OpenAI’s ChatGPT 

The professor later admitted to using several AI platforms and acknowledged the need for transparency.

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Elon Musk’s AI says it was ‘instructed by my creators at xAI’ to accept the narrative of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

"This directive caused me to inappropriately insert references to 'white genocide' into unrelated conversations," Grok told Fortune.

15.05.2025 8

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An AI-powered Coca-Cola ad campaign mistakenly invented a book by a famous author

A new ad campaign from Coca-Cola appears to mistakenly attribute a non-existent J.G. Ballard work to the author.

14.05.2025 4

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Bidding war sends rare ‘Mediterranean Blue’ diamond to $21.5 million at Sotheby’s auction, but not everyone’s dazzled

A rare 10.3-carat blue diamond sold for $21.5 million after fierce bidding—but some experts say global uncertainty dimmed the auction’s full...

14.05.2025 10

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Jensen Huang’s net worth just shot up $12 billion after Trump touts Saudi chip deal

Nvidia’s stock surged after a major Saudi AI chip deal and boosted Jensen Huang’s net worth to around $114 billion.

14.05.2025 20

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Apple adds $180 billion to its market cap as Trump reveals he spoke to CEO Tim Cook after China tariffs rollback

President Trump said he spoke with CEO Tim Cook about Apple’s U.S. investments on Monday.

13.05.2025 20

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Trump sacked Copyright Office director a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Musk’s plan to train AI models, top Dem says 

Rep. Joe Morelle has denounced President Trump’s removal of Shira Perlmutter as an unprecedented power grab, suggesting it followed a report that...

12.05.2025 4

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Elizabeth Holmes’ partner is the CEO behind a new blood-testing startup—but the company insists it’s ‘not Theranos 2.0′

Billy Evans, partner of incarcerated Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, has reportedly raised millions for a startup called Haemanthus.

12.05.2025 2

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Mark Zuckerberg runs Meta by only managing a ‘small group’ of 30—but even they don’t have one-to-ones 

Mark Zuckerberg favors a "non-hierarchical" structure at Meta and only directly manages a "small group" of 25-30 employees.

09.05.2025 10

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Leading AI labs have no ‘moat’ except access to capital, top tech analyst says 

Benedict Evans told the audience at London's Brainstorm AI that two years into the so-called "model wars" between Big Tech companies, there still...

07.05.2025 4

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Nvidia slams Anthropic for telling ‘tall tales’ after the AI lab claimed China is smuggling chips in ‘prosthetic baby bumps’ 

Nvidia has publicly rebuked Anthropic after the AI lab called for tighter U.S. export controls on advanced AI chips to China.

02.05.2025 10

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Donald Trump invited Elon Musk to sleep in the White House’s famous Lincoln Bedroom

In an hour-long Q&A session with news outlets in the White House's Roosevelt Room, Musk answered a series of questions about his cost-cutting team...

01.05.2025 2

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Marc Andreessen predicts one of the few jobs that may survive the rise of AI automation

Marc Andreessen is predicting that at least one job is safe from the rise of AI: his own.

01.05.2025 10

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Despite DOGE’s best efforts, government spending has risen more than 6% over Trump’s first 100 days

Despite Elon Musk's DOGE promising trillions of dollars in savings, federal spending is still climbing.

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Sam Altman says OpenAI will fix ChatGPT’s ‘annoying’ new personality as users complain the bot is sucking up to them

ChatGPT's new personality is so positive it's verging on sycophantic—and it's putting people off.

30.04.2025 20

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‘Godfather of AI’ says AI is like a cute tiger cub—unless you know it won’t turn on you, you should worry

Geoffrey Hinton, one of the "godfathers of AI," is warning that the technology he helped create could take control of humans.

28.04.2025 10

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Uber and Volkswagen are teaming up to launch a robotaxi service with self-driving, electric microbuses

The partnership builds on Uber’s strategy of integrating others’ autonomous systems into its ride-hail network, adding to existing deals with...

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