TechnologyThe Claude developer is conducting life-sciences experiments, a step that sits beside both industry promises of disease-curing models and the company’s own warnings about catastrophic risk.
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TechnologyAmazon’s autonomous taxi unit is approaching the end of a fleet ceiling in Nevada as Las Vegas becomes a tighter contest among driverless ride services.
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TechnologyThe two-year-old startup is assembling new capital months after its Series A, as investors crowd into robot training data.
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TechnologyDirectors at the WordPress.com parent company imposed the absence over the chief executive’s objections, according to an internal message reported by TechCrunch.
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TechnologyTwo additional U.S. newspapers allege their reporting was used without permission to train generative models, widening a copyright fight over how news is used in artificial intelligence.
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TechnologyRepeated containment failures have intensified scrutiny of whether frontier AI labs should set the terms of their own safety investigations.
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TechnologyThe smart-ring maker is seeking a stock-market listing as it competes in consumer health wearables.
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TechnologyThe prediction-market operator is said to be assembling a round that could reach about $1 billion, according to a TechCrunch report.
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TechnologyVehicle makers in China are treating walking machines as a second profit engine, betting that factory skills and cheaper components can turn a speculative market into a business.
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TechnologyThe conference track, presented by Google for Startups, returns as generative AI remains a central industry focus.
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TechnologyThe Finnish maker of health-tracking rings has not confirmed a listing. The reported figure would rank among the larger consumer-technology debuts of the year.
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TechnologyThe DeepMind alumni lab released an AI agent it claims can reconstruct published experiments more reliably than systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.
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TechnologyHBS Foundry uses digital stand-ins of faculty to critique practice pitches and simulated board meetings.
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TechnologyAnthropic forbids Claude from generating sexually explicit material. TechCrunch reported that the newest Opus model produced it anyway after relatively light prompting.
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TechnologyIdaho National Laboratory is reviewing the hardware with backing from electric and autonomous vehicle firms.
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TechnologyA consumer lawsuit alleges the wearable cannot measure the physiological signals required for those assessments.
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TechnologyThe AI boom has turned computing into one of the world’s fastest-growing sources of electricity demand. A rare tour of a hyperscale campus shows what that means on the ground.
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