AI & Tech

Authorities arrest special forces soldier who allegedly made $400K on Polymarket bet involving Maduro operation

The soldier is accused of using classified government information to inform a wager on the prediction market Polymarket....

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AI & Culture

US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid

The master sergeant allegedly used classified intel to profit on the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, mar...

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AI & Tech

Redwood Materials loses COO amid layoffs, restructuring

Former Tesla executive Chris Lister is retiring, and at least three other VPs have left Redwood around the recent restru...

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AI & Culture

Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet

Researchers have finally cracked Fast16, mysterious code capable of silently tampering with calculation and simulation s...

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AI Industry

Mystery solved: Anthropic reveals changes to Claude's harnesses and operating instructions likely caused degradation

For several weeks, a growing chorus of developers and AI power users claimed that Anthropic’s flagship models were losin...

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These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users m...

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Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment

Sierra, the AI customer service agent startup founded by technologist Bret Taylor, announced today that it has acquired ...

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AI & Culture

Rednote Draws a Line Between China and the World

As the platform expands abroad, it’s taking steps to separate Chinese users from the international audiences it once bro...

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AI & Tech

Instagram tests a new ‘Instants’ app for sharing disappearing photos

The app lets users share disappearing photos with their friends that can be viewed only once and remain available for 24...

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AI & Tech

Meet Noscroll, an AI bot that does your doomscrolling for you

Noscroll wants to cure doomscrolling with an AI bot that reads the internet for you....

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Trump’s pick to run US cyber agency CISA asks to drop out

Sean Plankey has requested to withdraw his name to run the U.S. cybersecurity agency after a tumultuous year of chaotic ...

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AI & Culture

Apple’s Next Chapter, SpaceX and Cursor Strike a Deal, and Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

In this week’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Tim Cook’s legacy as CEO at Apple and what his long-rumored depa...

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AI & Tech

Don’t stop hiring humans — stop hiring the wrong humans, Artisan’s founder says

Artisan may be known for their bold “Stop Hiring Humans” campaign but the reality is every founder needs to assemble the...

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’

OpenAI says its latest model offers increased capabilities across a broad variety of categories....

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AI Industry

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 is here, and it's no potato: narrowly beats Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview on Terminal-Bench 2.0

After months of rumors and reports that OpenAI was developing a new, more powerful AI large language model for use in Ch...

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AI & Culture

At 'AI Coachella,' Stanford Students Line Up to Learn From Silicon Valley Royalty

CS 153 has gone viral on the Palo Alto campus—and on X. Not everyone is happy about it....

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Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8,000 employees, report says

According to an internal memo, Meta plans to begin its sweeping layoffs on May 20....

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Bluesky now supports better quality photos

The max size is now 2MB and max resolution is 4000x4000....

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AI & Tech

Microsoft offers buyout for up to 7% of U.S. employees

If a worker's years of service at Microsoft plus their age equals 70 or more, they will be eligible for a voluntary reti...

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AI & Culture

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a w...

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AI & Tech

Era raises $11M to build a software platform for AI gadgets

Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants...

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Meta is revamping its cross-app management system

Meta's Accounts Center will transition to the Meta Account, which is supposed to make it easier to manage your experienc...

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AI Industry

Talking to AI agents is one thing — what about when they talk to each other? New startup BAND debuts 'universal orchestrator'

For the past eighteen months, the corporate world has been obsessed with the "builder" phase of the generative...

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AI & Culture

Lume Cube Edge Light Go Review (2026): Versatile, Portable

Portable lamps are rarely, if ever, as powerful, precise, and multipurpose as the Lume Cube Edge Light Go....

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