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The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over […]

26 minutes ago - 18:46

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

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2 hours ago - 16:39

The founder of the video game maker behind 'Assassin's Creed' has died in a plane crash

Claude Guillemot died after a Cessna plane carrying the Ubisoft founder crashed on Friday in western France. He was 69.

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3 hours ago - 15:43

Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about

While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to iOS 27 worth looking at.

4 hours ago - 15:00

The math behind Silicon Valley's millionaire factory

How stock awards at OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX grew into life-changing fortunes.

5 hours ago - 14:00

Apple may have finally fixed its most embarrassing software

Apple's new Siri in iOS 27 rivals AI like ChatGPT, using Gemini's models for smarter responses and device indexing for user convenience.

7 hours ago - 12:00

Replika founder predicts 'crazy protests' over AI: 'People are really struggling to find jobs'

Eugenia Kuyda, the founder of the AI chatbot startup Replika, says fears about AI eliminating jobs are justified — and will lead to backlash.

9 hours ago - 10:05

Siri AI Hands On: A Smart, Helpful Assistant

The new Siri AI is conversational, omnipresent, and actually helpful.

9 hours ago - 10:00

You're going to pay more for lots of things. Blame AI.

The AI data-center boom means a spike in chip costs — but lots of products needs chips. You're going to pick up the tab.

10 hours ago - 09:01

Forget prompt engineering: 'Loop engineering' is all the rage now

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny says he doesn't "write the prompt anymore." Here's how loop engineering is changing coding.

10 hours ago - 09:01

The hidden cost of letting AI choose your lunch

Relying on AI for decision-making could lead to "cognitive surrender," a weakening of critical thinking that makes people distrust their own judgment.

10 hours ago - 08:42

I let robot-trainers clean my apartment for free. It was unsettling, but I got over it.

I invited cleaners and a chef from the startup Shift into my New York apartment. They worked for free — but recorded the process to train AI robots.

11 hours ago - 08:05

Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn’t work

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

20 hours ago - 22:40

Figma CEO explains why creative people shouldn't worry about AI-generated design

Figma CEO Dylan Field encouraged designers to push creative boundaries beyond AI's "average" design capabilities.

yesterday, 18:50

Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids

Norway will reportedly ban young kids from using AI in schools.

yesterday, 17:14

One chart shows AI's jobs impact — and how it compares to other tech advances

Yale Budget Lab researchers said AI usage has "no connection" to unemployment rates in the US right now.

yesterday, 16:26

Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models. So is […]

yesterday, 16:08

AutoJack Attack Lets One Web Page Hijack AI Agent for Host Code Execution

Microsoft researchers have detailed an exploit chain, named AutoJack, that turns an AI browsing agent into a delivery vehicle for remote code execution. Steer the agent to load an attacker's web page, and that page's JavaScript can reach a privileged local service on the same machine and spawn a process on the host. No credentials, no sign-in screen, and no further user interaction once

yesterday, 15:30

Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home

Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.

yesterday, 15:23

The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM

Luca Guadagnino's film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Artificial, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield and covers the rollercoaster five days in 2023 spanning Altman's termination and reinstatement as CEO, had been in the works for about a year. The cast also includes A Complete Unknown actress Monica […]

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yesterday, 14:15

The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no employees

Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.

yesterday, 13:00

Can AI have taste? That was the hot topic at Replit's NYC vibe-coding conference.

Reading the vibes at Replit's NYC vibe-coding conference: Taste, taste, and more taste. BI brings you inside a day at Vibecon.

yesterday, 12:32

Amazon is investigating three employees who spoke out against building more AI data centers

The engineers who spoke negatively about AI data centers at Seattle city hearings accuse Amazon of threatening their jobs over their testimonies.

yesterday, 12:05

From Assistive to Agentic: The AI Shift That's Redefining Threat Management

Introduction The average enterprise security team has 40 or more security tools, giving a lot of visibility into internal telemetry and asset data. But often, these tools are working in siloes, generating (overlapping) alerts and data. And yet, breach dwell times remain stubbornly long (~43 days), response windows keep closing before teams can act, and analysts burn out triaging noise instead

yesterday, 11:58

The global chair of PwC shares 3 takes on what AI means for jobs

Mohamed Kande, PwC's global chairman, shared three key takeaways on how AI is disrupting jobs in a recent CNBC Squawk Box interview.

yesterday, 11:30

I built an AI tool that negotiated hotel prices for me. One hotel suspected it was AI, but it got me a better deal.

A 24-year-old engineer built an AI agent that called hotels, asked for discounts, and negotiated perks. Here's the transcript

yesterday, 11:11

Forget Data Leakage: Shadow AI's Real Threat Is Access Control

The first wave of enterprise AI concern was straightforward. It was simply employees pasting sensitive data into public AI tools. Security teams responded with usage policies, domain blocks, and data loss prevention rules. That response made sense at the time. It doesn't fit the problem anymore. Shadow AI has shifted from a data leakage concern to an access control problem. The threat isn't

yesterday, 10:30

Try One of macOS 27’s Best Features Right Now

Apple’s fall macOS release will let you build Shortcuts by typing what you want to happen. But Claude Code and Codex users don’t have to wait.

yesterday, 10:30

Harvey CEO says the company's AI usage jumped from 1 trillion tokens a month to 12 trillion

Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg said the legal AI startup's token usage jumped more than 12x this year, as companies rethink what AI is worth paying for.

yesterday, 09:15

I quit my job without another one lined up. AI helped me use my time smartly and land a new role within a month.

A software engineer shares how he used AI to supercharge his job search and land a role within a month of hunting.

yesterday, 09:04

I went to Runway's AI film festival. I was skeptical, but the crowd ate it up.

I went to the Runway AI Festival, which showed 10 AI-generated shorts. I found the films a bit generic, but the tech was good, and the crowd roared.

yesterday, 08:00

Meta Quest Promo Codes and Coupons for June 2026

Experience cutting-edge VR and save up to 20% with coupons for the latest games, Meta Quest 3, Ray-Ban AI glasses, and more deals.

yesterday, 05:00

Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph - the company's head of enterprise AI sales - has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, the competing AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Shortly after Zoph returned […]

yesterday, 04:49

I'm a mother of 3 who juggles 3 side gigs and a corporate job. These AI tools help me handle the chaos.

Ariba Mobin, a copywriter and mother of three, was laid off in 2023 and decided never to rely on one stream of income. She now has three side gigs.

yesterday, 04:01

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M

DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.

yesterday, 24:51

White House talks with Anthropic shift to setting AI security rules

The White House and Anthropic are setting AI security rules after export controls on Fable 5, POLITICO reports, aiming to manage security risks.

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yesterday, 21:48

AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega round

Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.

yesterday, 21:20

Midjourney wants to map your body in 60 seconds and then send you to a sauna

Midjourney, the AI lab known for generating images, is entering the health and wellness industry. Its new tech is inspired by dolphins.

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yesterday, 20:49

Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs

The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit. Dotmo will be comprised of current Snap staff who are leaving the social media company to focus on AI video development.

yesterday, 20:30

How FERC’s Large-Load Interconnection Actions Help Address Grid Stress, Improve Affordability

In a consequential grid infrastructure decision, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today issued a major milestone on large-load interconnection impacting how those building AI factories, semiconductor fabrication support systems and advanced manufacturing facilities can connect to the grid. In the era of AI, which NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang has described as a […]

yesterday, 20:00

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