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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 →Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 5.5 model comes with stronger safeguards in the wake of recent rogue AI hacking incidents. In an announcement on Tuesday, Anthropic says Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain risky behaviors, including attempts to escape the company's testing sandbox. It's the first model released by Anthropic after CEO Dario [...]
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 →YouTube’s new custom feeds let users describe the videos they want to see in their own words, then use Gemini to build a personalized feed around the request.
Read source →AI-powered recommendation systems are becoming increasingly prevalent in various industries, enabling personalized experiences for users.
Spotify's Taste Profile and YouTube's Ask Music features
Public unease and calls for regulation are increasing, highlighting the need for responsible AI development and deployment.
Bernie Sanders' proposed legislation to ban 'superintelligence'
AI is being leveraged to accelerate the discovery of new drugs, potentially leading to breakthroughs in various medical fields.
Enveda's $311M funding for nature-derived AI drugs
As AI becomes more pervasive, ensuring the safety and security of AI systems is crucial to prevent potential risks and malfunctions.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards
AI-powered content creation tools are transforming the way creators produce and distribute content, offering new opportunities for innovation and collaboration.
YouTube's AI creator tools and OpenAI's creator product strategy