Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
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A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip
OpenAI calls the new coding tool the “first milestone” in its relationship with the chipmaker.
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a rollicking parable about this moment in tech
We are all guilty of pulling out our phones and doomscrolling through stressful headlines or mindnumbing videos when we should be doing anything else. We know it’s bad, but we still do it because it’s hard to resist when much of our time is spent living and working on our devices. And even though we […]
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The surprising case for AI judges
Today, we’re going to talk about the role AI might play in deciding legal disputes. Not just drafting memos and doing research — actually deciding who’s right and who’s wrong, and who should pay. My guest today is Bridget McCormack, the former chief justice for the Michigan Supreme Court and now president and CEO of […]
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ByteDance’s next-gen AI model can generate clips based on text, images, audio, and video
Big Tech’s race to leapfrog the latest AI models continues with the launch of ByteDance’s next-gen video generator. In a blog post, ByteDance – the China-based company behind TikTok – says Seedance 2.0 supports prompts that combine text, images, video, and audio. The company claims it “delivers a substantial leap in generation quality,” offering improvements […]
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This $7,999 robot will fold (some of) your laundry
If you have a spare $7,999 (plus a $250 deposit), hate folding laundry, and happen to live in the Bay Area, one-and-a-half-year-old startup Weave has the robot for you: Isaac 0. It takes Isaac 0 around 30-90 minutes to fold a load of laundry, Weave says. That’s all it does – it’s stationary and needs […]
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xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation to the X platform, making it widely available.
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Two more xAI co-founders are among those leaving after the SpaceX merger
Since the xAI-SpaceX merger announced last week, which combined the two companies (as well as social media platform X) for a reported $1.25 trillion valuation – the biggest merger of all time – a handful of xAI employees and two of its co-founders have abruptly exited the company, penning long departure announcements online. Some also […]
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AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say
General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources.
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Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs
Anthropic is the latest AI company promising to limit the impact its data centers have on nearby residents’ electricity bills. The company said it would pay higher monthly electricity charges in order to cover 100 percent of the upgrades needed to connect its data centers to power grids. “This includes the shares of these costs […]
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