LinkedIn is rolling out new verification tools that let members vouch for colleagues’ work experience and give companies more control over accounts that falsely claim to employ them.

Spotify is rolling out Taste Profile to Premium users in the U.S., letting listeners see how the streamer understands their tastes and use natural language to reshape their recommendations.

The investigation involves at least some crashes where it appears drivers were using "forked" versions of Comma's software.

Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.

According to Discord, 90% of users will not have to verify their age.

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The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.

Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.

Apple may be developing a new fitness tracker as part of its new generation of hardware devices.

Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.

The theft of agents' personal information could present a major counterintelligence threat, where agents and their families are extorted into cooperating with a foreign government.

This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade school, Y Combinator, and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

Waymo is opening its robotaxi service to teenagers aged 13 to 17 in Nashville, its second city the offer rides to minors.

Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."

Researchers say another looming threat hangs over some of America's most important critical infrastructure.

Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.

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Noble Carbon has developed a smart circuit breaker that allows households to electrify without the pain of a main panel upgrade.

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