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Seth Klarman, CEO of Baupost Group, warned investors face vulnerability as massive IPOs from SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic drain capital from markets at a dangerous pace. The cautious investor argued the surge in blockbu…
Snap debuted its augmented reality glasses, Snap Specs, at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, offering a tightly curated museum experience where users can overlay AI-filtered versions of themselves onto celebrity por…
Box CEO Aaron Levie stated that progress in artificial intelligence hinges on evaluation methods, emphasizing that 'it's all evals' for AI development. The comment underscores the growing importance of robust testing and…
A new report from video editing software company Kapwing found that 57.4% of TikTok videos targeting children are AI-generated slop, with the #cartoonkids hashtag almost entirely composed of such content. The analysis of…
A developer warns that Anthropic's Claude Tag, an ambient AI agent that lives inside Slack channels, lacks a trust layer for team accountability. The engineer built a Python library with primitives like circuit breakers …
AI coding assistants are generating significantly more pull requests, but review capacity has not kept pace, creating a bottleneck that degrades code quality and inflates lead times. This phenomenon, termed 'AI Review De…
A research programme claims to have derived the Standard Model of particle physics from three arithmetic axioms and a unique integer seed, with all core results machine-verified in the Lean 4 proof assistant. The Univers…
A Reddit user predicts a wave of consulting work fixing AI-generated code, comparing it to the offshoring boom of 2010. The post argues that AI produces 'slop' that founders mistake for working software, creating a lucra…
Artificial intelligence and the data centers they require consume growing amounts of energy and water, exacerbating climate change and water scarcity. Experts advise using AI less, avoiding it for simple tasks, and makin…
Main Capital Partners closed the Netherlands' largest-ever private equity buyout fundraise at €5.25bn, betting on boring, essential enterprise software despite market panic over AI. The firm's loss rate below 0.5% and 4.…
A new paper argues that if large language models are considered sentient, then by the same metrics the classic video game Age of Empires II should also be considered sentient. The discussion was featured on a podcast tha…
Microsoft released its 2026 AI in Education Report showing 92% of students and education leaders have used AI for school, and announced new AI-powered teaching tools available at no extra cost. The report highlights wide…
A growing majority of Dutch people want AI-generated music to be labeled on streaming platforms, with support rising from 59% to over 75% in two years, according to the NVPI Muziekmonitor. The demand for transparency com…
Amazon is investigating three of its engineers who spoke at a Seattle city council meeting in favor of a one-year moratorium on new data centers, according to a legal complaint filed with the Seattle Office for Civil Rig…
Attorneys for the family of 15-year-old Jaden Michaca, who was shot and killed by Santa Ana police on June 13, allege officers were 'trigger-happy' and failed to de-escalate despite knowing the boy had mental health issu…
Accenture is scrambling to curb non-technical workers' AI token spending on trivial tasks like PDF conversions, as leaked audio reveals soaring costs. The consulting giant's internal data shows engineers are not the main…
Oro för en AI-bubbla och höga värderingar inom techsektorn tynger den svenska kronan, enligt EFN:s analytiker. Dollarn stärks som en trygg hamn medan kronan pressas av ränteskillnader och används i carry trade-strategier…
A family of five in the UK openly uses AI tools like Claude in their daily lives, integrating voice assistants into work, meal planning, and parenting. The parents teach their three children aged 5 to 12 to use AI as a t…
Oprah Winfrey revealed at Cannes Lions that Whitney Houston fell off the stage during a 2009 taping of 'The Oprah Show' amid a drug relapse, and Winfrey successfully begged the audience not to share photos of the inciden…
Amazon shut down its internal AI leaderboard after it drove more AI-powered tasks but fewer useful results, with the SVP instructing staff not to use AI just for the sake of it. Uber blew past its 2026 AI coding budget i…