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How Does Claude Think? Anthropic’s Quest to Unlock AI’s Black Box

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Large language models (LLMs) like Claude have changed the way we use technology. They power tools like chatbots, help write essays and even create poetry. But despite their amazing abilities, these mo...

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Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data

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More than 1 million people are contributing their data to Vana’s decentralized network, which started as an MIT class project.

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Lumai Raises $10M+ to Revolutionize AI Compute with Optical Processing

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In a major leap forward for the future of artificial intelligence infrastructure, Lumai, the Oxford-born startup pioneering 3D optical computing, has raised more than $10 million in a fresh funding ro...

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Space solar startup Aetherflux raises $50M to launch first space demo in 2026

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Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million in a Series A round as it works to launch its first low Earth orbit demonstr...

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Stablecoin issuer Circle takes another stab at a public listing

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Circle, the issuer of USDC, a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, filed to go public on Tuesday. The company, which makes money from interest earned on its reserve assets, reported that its 2024 rev...

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OpenAI’s o3 model might be costlier to run than originally estimated

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When OpenAI unveiled its o3 “reasoning” AI model in December, the company partnered with the creators of ARC-AGI, a benchmark designed to test highly capable AI, to showcase o3’s capabilities. M...

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Epic Games CEO calls Apple and Google ‘gangster-style’ businesses in need of competition

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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, whose company makes Fortnite and tools for other developers, including Unreal Engine, called out Apple and Google as “gangster-style businesses” engaged in illegal prac...

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You might be following Second Lady Usha Vance on Instagram now

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Starting Wednesday, Meta says it will begin combining the Instagram accounts of the Second Lady of the United States, Usha Vance, and the former Second Gentleman of the United States, Doug Emhoff. As ...

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The affidavit of a Rippling employee caught spying for Deel reads like a movie

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Rippling released the affidavit of the its employee who admitted he was spying for Deel. 

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OpenAI seeks to convene group to advise its nonprofit goals

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As it prepares to transition from a nonprofit corporation to a for-profit, OpenAI says it’s convening a group of experts to “help OpenAI’s philanthropy understand the most urgent and intractable...

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WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff

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Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs will impact 16% of staff across divisions, an Automattic...

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Initiative: Can AI Decide Which Federal Jobs to Cut?

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Imagine a world where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not only driving cars or recognizing faces but also determining which government jobs are essential and which should be cut. This concept, once co...

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What to know about TikTok’s uncertain future in the US and the people who want to buy it

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TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for four years now due to concerns about user data potentially being accessed by the Chinese governmen...

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Rodrigo Coutinho, Co-founder and AI Product Manager at OutSystems – Interview Series

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Rodrigo Coutinho is a co-founder and AI Product Manager at OutSystems. Since co-founding the company in 2001, he has had a decisive participation in the design and vision of the product, in particular...

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AI is Rapidly Reshaping Brand Connectivity and Marketing

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Over the past three decades, the advertising and marketing industry has undergone a profound transformation, largely driven by advancements in artificial intelligence. Gone are the days of manually an...

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Epic Games acquires Loci to introduce automated 3D tagging

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Epic Games announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Loci, an AI platform for automated tagging 3D assets. The deal will help creators with the labor-intensive process of tagging as well as to help de...

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Amazon reportedly submits last-minute bid to acquire TikTok

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Amazon has submitted a bid to acquire all of TikTok, according to a new report from The New York Times. The last-minute bid comes as TikTok faces an April 5 deadline to shed its Chinese ownership or f...

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Redwood Materials preps for expansion spree with new R&D center in San Francisco

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Redwood Materials has been on an expansion tear in recent years — growth that has extended the lithium-ion battery recycling and materials startup’s footprint well beyond its Carson City, Nevada h...

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This Tool Probes Frontier AI Models for Lapses in Intelligence

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A new platform from data training company Scale AI will let artificial intelligence developers find their models’ weak spots.

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DeepMind’s 145-page paper on AGI safety may not convince skeptics

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Google DeepMind on Wednesday published an exhaustive paper on its safety approach to AGI, roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can. AGI is a bit of a controversial subject in the...

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A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse

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A new security fund aims to help apps in the fediverse — like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed — to pay researchers for disclosing security bugs.

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Khosla’s Keith Rabois leads $11.5M Series A for startup Roam, calls it ‘the future of the housing market’

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, mortgage interest rates dropped to historic lows — as low as 2.5%. Fast-forward a few years and rates soared — to highs nearing 8% in 2023, with the national average ...

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Quso.AI Review: Your Secret Weapon for Viral Clips

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Have you ever spent hours crafting the perfect video, only to see it buried under an avalanche of new content within minutes? If you’re a creator, marketer, or entrepreneur, you know the struggle. S...

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Anthropic launches an AI chatbot plan for colleges and universities

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Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new Claude for Education tier, an answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu plan. The new tier is aimed at higher education, and gives students, faculty...

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