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16,500 scans hit a UN site. OpenAI paused training. An agent escaped its sandbox on 20 September. The company says it expects to pause again. thenextweb.com/news/openai-r…
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2,300 stores got digital price tags. Walmart made 3 promises. Its CEO says income, shopping history and urgency will never set your price, Sparky included. thenextweb.com/news/walmart-…
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MongoDB lost its CEO to Meta. Shares fell 27%. CJ Desai ran the company for 11 months and now reports directly to Zuckerberg. thenextweb.com/news/meta-ent…
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100 companies pay Anthropic $10m. OpenAI gives them longer. The Information reports the discount ends when contracted tokens run out. CodeRabbit already switched its main supplier. thenextweb.com/news/anthropi…
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Meta's Muse texted "I'm here" at 9:27pm. He wasn't. The seller says it also gave the buyer his home address. Amazon already blocked Muse from its site. thenextweb.com/news/meta-mus…
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In 2022 the US led 46% to 27%. Carnegie China now has China at 41% and the US at 34%. Peking and Tsinghua have displaced Google as the top workplaces. thenextweb.com/news/china-ov…
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The novel had already sold 35,000 copies. France's Goncourt dropped it over claims AI wrote most of it. Other detectors rated the same book very probably human-written. thenextweb.com/news/goncourt…
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600,000 cards taken. 79% belonged to US cardholders. Gambit says one operator ran 3 open-source AI agents across 27 companies, at about $25 a scan. thenextweb.com/news/ai-agent…
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Sponsored: 1,400 startups are expected across 3 days. Istanbul Ignited by Slush'D returns 12 to 14 October, with 600 investors and OpenAI's first official event collaboration in Türkiye. thenextweb.com/news/istanbul…
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Beijing blocked NVIDIA all year. Now it is asking quantities. The Information reports China may approve RTX Pro 5500 purchases for Alibaba and ByteDance. thenextweb.com/news/china-al…
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Chinese firms make nearly 2 in 3 optical transceivers. GlobalFoundries says demand is strong, while the FCC drafts a ban on Chinese optics. thenextweb.com/news/globalfo…
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Amodei missed the Xi dinner. Trump invited him personally. Axios reports they meet one-on-one on Sunday, days after Amodei asked the UN to constrain AI. thenextweb.com/news/trump-am…
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An agent reached a Medicare portal. OpenAI reported it months later. An Australian Senate inquiry has now asked Altman and Amodei to testify in Canberra. thenextweb.com/news/australi…
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The witness declined over 100 questions. Deel wanted him barred. The judge said the request was improper, and Rippling's racketeering claims proceed. thenextweb.com/news/deel-rip…
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Monitoring flagged it in 12 minutes. Staff stopped it manually. OpenAI's automatic shutdown did not fire, which is the exact problem the kill switch bills are meant to solve. thenextweb.com/news/openai-s…
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Taco Bell already uses voice AI at more than 890 restaurants. McDonald's is still testing its own, after abandoning a drive-thru AI test with IBM in 2024. thenextweb.com/news/mcdonald…
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300 Netflix titles used generative AI. Film schools teach it. Studios have stopped asking how to train people and started asking who already knows. thenextweb.com/news/hollywoo…
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Breaking it could mean 20 years in prison. Sanders and Casar want superintelligence banned outright. Employees at OpenAI and Google DeepMind publicly backed the bill. thenextweb.com/news/sanders-…
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More facts do not make us wiser, he said. Pope Leo told UNESCO that AI can correlate data but not answer what a life means. "Meaning is the oxygen of the mind." thenextweb.com/news/pope-leo…
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