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Mbodi AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup building an embodied AI platform that enables industrial robots to learn and operate like humans through natural language, is hiring a founding machine learning engineer focused on…
Elon Musk's xAI used Anthropic's Claude to train its own coding models for months, continuing even after Anthropic cut off access by using private accounts and the Blackbox AI service. The company's pretraining team has …
Contractors for Uber AI Solutions reported earning up to $150 per hour but described unpredictable scheduling, including surprise calendar invites after months without work, according to Business Insider. The role offers…
Developer Gavriel Cohen found his own code reused inside the viral agent framework OpenClaw, prompting him to create the sandboxed alternative NanoClaw. OpenClaw, released in November 2025, grew to over 50 modules but fa…
A developer is building Feather Engine, an open-source agentic game engine powered by Three.js that lets developers control and build game systems through AI prompts instead of manual coding. The project is still in earl…
Companies are increasingly labeling existing products as "AI-powered" to capitalize on the technology's hype, placing artificial intelligence into toothbrushes, cat translator apps, and home appliances with no genuine ne…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is stepping down from Microsoft's board of directors after nearly a decade to focus on Manus, his AI-powered drug discovery startup. The company, which has raised over $50 million, aims t…
SpaceX and OpenAI are pursuing public listings at valuations approaching $1 trillion despite projecting massive losses, with OpenAI alone expecting $14 billion in losses for 2026 and profitability not anticipated until 2…
Rob Arnott, founder of Research Affiliates, warned that upcoming IPOs from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI could create a prolonged drag on equity markets by diverting tens of billions of dollars from existing stocks over …
ElevenLabs hosted a New York City pop-up where every experience was run by a voice agent, including an AI shopkeeper that negotiated prices with visitors. Business Insider reported that the shopkeeper refused a $15 offer…
President Donald Trump said he will meet with AI companies next week to discuss a "partnership" plan that would give American citizens an equity stake in the industry, endorsing a concept first pitched by OpenAI CEO Sam …
Giza Tech has returned all funds from its ARMA and Pulse autonomous agents to users' externally owned accounts as it sunsets the legacy products. The AI-powered DeFi protocol is consolidating its agents into a single Giz…
Five workers from diverse backgrounds — including a former attorney, a structural engineer, and a data professional — successfully pivoted into artificial intelligence roles at companies like Microsoft, HubSpot, and Stac…
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, in a deal worth roughly $30 billion. The agreement, disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday, comes one …
Uber is expanding its gig-work model into white-collar AI training jobs, offering contractors hourly rates between $50 and $150 — significantly higher than similar roles at other companies. However, workers report chaoti…
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati argued in a Bloomberg interview that advanced AI systems require continuous human-machine collaboration rather than periodic oversight, previewing a new interface from her startup Thinking M…
ElevenLabs opened a pop-up in New York's SoHo neighborhood where a robot barista poured cold brew and an AI shopkeeper haggled with customers over merchandise. The event showcased the company's voice AI technology, inclu…
Anthropic's Batch API can cut Claude AI costs by 50% for asynchronous workloads, according to a developer at CitizenApp. The team reduced their monthly Claude bill from approximately $8,000 to $4,000 by offloading 65% of…
A developer at CitizenApp implemented React 19's `useOptimistic` hook to eliminate 8-12 second loading spinners in AI features, replacing brittle manual state management with declarative optimistic updates. The hook auto…
A new cryptocurrency project called Pearl is marketing itself as a "useful" proof-of-work AI mining network, but evidence suggests it is actually running standard PoW computations disguised as AI inference. Miners on the…