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It's time once again for Meta's annual September product launch event, and The Verge is on the ground in Menlo Park to cover the show live. Meta says that today's keynote by Mark Zuckerberg will be about how "Meta is building a future for everyone" - something he wrote at length about in a recent [...]
Read source →Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me a tree branch fell in the backyard and now I have to figure out what to [...]
Read source →California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. As data centers invade a growing number of communities across the US, they've triggered protests over how the infrastructure underpinning AI [...]
Read source →Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's the first result from Anthropic's newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude's usefulness for science as the company prepares to go public. The company says Claude found the enzyme system after [...]
Read source →Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) have introduced new legislation that would ban anyone from developing artificial superintelligence - a technology the bill describes as capable of the "destruction or disempowerment of humanity," including by overthrowing the government. Under the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, AI leaders would face up to 20 years [...]
Read source →Part of the job of a content creator is to figure out how to get their work in front of the most people. Cracking - or fighting - the algorithm has historically been a frustration for creators, but YouTube is increasingly simply telling creators what they should do. At the annual creator-focused Made on YouTube [...]
Read source →OpenAI has hired three former Patreon execs to anchor its product strategy for creators. After starting the creator subscription platform 13 years ago, cofounder and technology chief Sam Yam announced on X that he's joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product. He's also bringing Patreon's former product head Drew Rowny and engineering head Shannon Ma with [...]
Read source →After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward. On Monday, the company announced a new independent panel of mathematicians tasked with advising it and other AI companies on their interactions with mathematical research and the wider [...]
Read source →Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 "agentic operating system" runs in the cloud but operates locally across Windows, Mac, and Linux devices. According to Rabbit, you can [...]
Read source →Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an "academy" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The "Horowitz Andreessen Academy" will launch with 10 partners, including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe, along with $42 million in funding led by a16z. [...]
Read source →But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.
Read source →The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.
Read source →Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones to complete agentic tasks.
Read source →The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation.
Read source →Built directly into the YouTube Music app, Ask Music lets users describe what they want to hear in everyday language rather than searching for individual songs or artists.
Read source →AI-powered recommendation systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated, allowing users to personalize their experiences and discover new content.
Spotify's Taste Profile, YouTube's custom feeds, and Ask Music features
Data centers are a critical component of the AI infrastructure, and transparency and regulation are essential for ensuring their impact on the environment and local communities.
California's new data center regulations, data center transparency, and community engagement
AI is being increasingly applied to biology and medicine, with potential breakthroughs in disease treatment and prevention.
Anthropic's biology lab, Enveda's AI-derived drugs, and Claude's enzyme discovery
As AI becomes more pervasive, regulation and safety concerns are growing, with potential risks to humanity and the need for responsible AI development.
Bernie Sanders' Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, OpenAI's mathematician panel, and AI safety research
AI is transforming the content creation and consumption landscape, with potential benefits for creators and users alike.
YouTube's AI creator tools, Rabbit's OS3 agentic operating system, and OpenAI's creator product strategy