OpenAI researcher quits over slippery slope of ChatGPT ads

James Farrell / siliconangle - OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig says she left her position on Monday, resigning over the recent introduction of advertisements inside ChatGPT and what she believes is a move in the wrong direction for the company. In a guest essay in The New York Times title…

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OpenAI Researcher Quits Over Ads, Backlash to Discord, and Social Media Addiction Trial | Tech Today video

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OpenAI Gutted Its Safety Teams. The Ads Arrived on Schedule.

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OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path

23 days / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

OpenAI researcher quit over ads because she doesn't trust her former employer to keep its own promises

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A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions

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Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill

Tobias Mann / theregister - Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story Model-maker and SaaS-y AI outfit Anthropic has committed to covering any increases in energy prices paid by consumers caused by its power-hungry datacenters.…

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Anthropic To Cover Costs of Electricity Price Increases From Its Data Centers

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Anthropic promises to pay for electricity price increases due to it's AI data centers — firm to pay 100% of its grid infrastructure costs, produce new power sources as sector predicted to hit 50 GW in coming years

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New Anthropic policy ensures ratepayers do not fund AI infrastructure

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Anthropic vows to protect consumers from rising electricity costs

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What a nice thing to say! It also means absolutely nothing. Anthropic doesn’t own or even lease data centers and thus does not pay power bills on anything other than its office space [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill

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Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs

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China’s Zhipu AI launches new major model GLM-5 in challenge to its rivals

scmp - Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company Zhipu AI has launched its latest flagship model, the GLM-5, with a leap in coding capabilities amid a heated race among Chinese tech firms to roll out major new models ahead of the Spring Festival holiday.Zhipu…

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GLM-5 Costs 86% Less Than Claude Opus. The Safety Gap Might Cost More.

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Zhipu AI Releases GLM-5: 744B Model Rivals Claude Opus

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Shares jump in Chinese AI start-up Zhipu after GLM-5 launch

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[AINews] Z.ai GLM-5: New SOTA Open Weights LLM

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Zhipu leads rally in Chinese AI stocks, surging 30%, as a wave of new releases hits market

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Moore Threads Achieves Day-0 Compatibility for Zhipu GLM-5 Large Model, Advancing China’s Domestic GPU Ecosystem

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China’s Zhipu AI launches new major model GLM-5 in challenge to its rivals

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GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

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GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

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Apple’s hyped AI overhual for Siri could be beset by delayed features

digitaltrends - Apple was eyeing a major feature overhaul for Siri with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update in March, but it seems performance issues have pushed those plans further into the future. The post Apple’s hyped AI overhual for Siri could be beset by delayed features …

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The long-awaited Siri upgrade is being delayed yet again

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Long Delayed Siri Functions Are Reportedly Being Delayed Once Again Because They’re Slow and Inaccurate

23 days / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Apple Taps Brakes on Siri AI Overhaul

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Stay Patient, Apple Fans: Siri AI Delayed Again to Late 2026 at the Earliest

23 days / cnet / Tyler Lacoma

Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again

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Apple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again

23 days / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Apple Delays Major Siri AI Upgrade as Testing Reveals Performance Snags [Report]

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Apple keeps hitting bumps with its overhauled Siri

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Apple’s hyped AI overhual for Siri could be beset by delayed features

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Siri testing isn't going well, new features probably wont ship in iOS 26.4

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New Siri Runs Into Problems, Features Could Be Pushed to iOS 26.5 and iOS 27

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Apple’s AI Siri Overhaul Hits More Roadblocks: New Details on the Delay

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Apple has been promising a new-and-improved, cutting-edge, AI-powered Siri since it first unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024.

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Crypto platform BlockFills halts withdrawals

Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy / sherwood - Crypto lending and trading platform BlockFills has halted customer withdrawals amid the current market downturn, according to The Wall Street Journal, a development that recalls the broader meltdown of...

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Crypto Liquidity Provider BlockFills Halts Client Withdrawals

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Crypto platform BlockFills halts withdrawals

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Susquehanna-Backed Crypto Lender BlockFills Suspends Withdrawals as Bitcoin Sinks

23 days / decrypt / Logan Hitchcock

CME-backed crypto lender BlockFills halts withdrawals, says it’s working to restore liquidity

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Amazon Pharmacy to expand same-day delivery to nearly 4,500 US cities

Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The expansion will cover customers in newly served states such as Idaho and Massachusetts.

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Amazon Pharmacy to Offer Same-Day Delivery to 2,000 More Communities in 2026

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Amazon Pharmacy’s latest move could change how you get prescriptions filled

23 days / fastcompany / Sarah Bregel

Amazon's same-day prescription deliveries are coming to even more cities

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Amazon Accelerates Medical Ambitions With Faster Prescription Deliveries and AI Insights

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Amazon Pharmacy to expand same-day delivery to nearly 4,500 US cities

23 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Amazon is expanding same-day prescription delivery to thousands of U.S. cities

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Foxconn’s Scrapped LCD Factory Deal Could Hit Apple

Nehal Malik / iphoneincanada - Apple’s supply chain may be facing a new wrinkle in Japan. According to Nikkei Asia, Foxconn has withdrawn from its planned acquisition of Sharp’s second LCD factory in Kameyama, citing weak LCD prices. As a result, Sharp will halt production at the facil…

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Foxconn’s Scrapped LCD Factory Deal Could Hit Apple

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Foxconn Pulls Out of Sharp LCD Plant Deal, Potentially Disrupting Apple Panel Supply [Report]

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Apple Supplier's Plans Fall Through, Macs and iPads May Be Impacted

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Senior engineers, including co-founders, exit xAI amid controversy

Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - At least nine engineers, including two cofounders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.

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Corporate restructuring and merger drive critical organizational changes.

Musk Announces xAI Reorganization, Staff Departures

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Musk announces xAI re-org following co-founder departures, SpaceX merger

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Experts warn of broader instability amid exit uproar.

What happened at xAI

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AI’s Builders Are Sending Warning Signals—Some Are Walking Away

23 days / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

Key leaders exit amid instability at xAI.

Two more xAI co-founders are among those leaving after the SpaceX merger

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Senior engineers, including co-founders, exit xAI amid controversy

23 days / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

xAI sees key staff exits, Musk promises moon factories

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Elon Musk xAI Loses Two Co-Founders After SpaceX Acquisition Announcement

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Musk Pitches Moon Factory for AI Satellites as Half of xAI's Co-Founders Exit

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With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk turns talk to the moon

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Musk's audacious lunar projects spotlight space-age aspirations.

‘We’ll Find the Remnants of Ancient Alien Civilizations’: Read Musk’s Gibberish Rant from His xAI All-Hands Meeting

23 days / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Musk overhauls xAI’s leadership as he sets lofty space data centre ambitions

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xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands

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Lots of chatter this week about what’s behind all the departures at xAI Turns out the reason mostly boils down to what all-too-often actually drives the AI industry’s drama: money sources.news/p/what-happe...

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‘We’ll Find the Remnants of Ancient Alien Civilizations’: Read Musk’s Gibberish Rant from His xAI All-Hands Meeting https://gizmodo.com/well-find-the-remnants-of-ancient-alien-civilizations-read-musks-gibberish-rant-from-his-xai-all-hands-meeting-20007208

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At least nine engineers, including two cofounders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.

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Overmind Raises £2M Funding To Advance Agentic AI Development

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Overmind, a startup building a supervision layer for AI agents, has raised £2 million in a seed funding round. The round was led by cybersecurity-focused investor Osney Capital, with participation from 14Peaks, Portfolio Ventures, Antler, and…

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Former MI5 officer lands €2.3 million for AI agent security startup Overmind

23 days / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

Overmind Raises £2M Funding To Advance Agentic AI Development

23 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Overmind launches with £2M in seed funding to support development of agentic AI

23 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Ex-MI5 engineer’s Overmind snaps £2M for agentic AI security

23 days / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

Seamflow Raises $4.5M To Build AI Tools For Testing, Inspection, And Certification Industry

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Seamflow, an AI-driven software company for the global testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) industry, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Northzone and Initialized Capital, with participation from Entrepre…

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Seamflow Raises $4.5M in Seed Funding

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Seamflow Raises $4.5M To Build AI Tools For Testing, Inspection, And Certification Industry

23 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

London’s Seamflow lands $4.5M to fix EU’s 20-month med device crunch

23 days / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

With Europe seeking greater defense and space autonomy, Deep Space Energy secures €930k to advance lunar energy tech

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Riga-based SpaceTech startup Deep Space Energy has raised a total €930k to further develop a radioisotopic generator toward commercialisation, in a bid to strengthen the European sovereign space and defense industry and power Moon surface exploration. The…

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With Europe seeking greater defense and space autonomy, Deep Space Energy secures €930k to advance lunar energy tech

23 days / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

Deep Space Energy raises €930K for 5x more efficient RTGs

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Deep Space Energy Raises €930K in Pre-Seed Funding

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T-Mobile Will Live Translate Regular Phone Calls Without an App

msmash / slashdot - T-Mobile is opening registration today for a beta test of Live Translation, an AI-powered feature that will translate live phone calls into more than 50 languages when it launches this spring. The feature operates at the network level, so it doesn't requi…

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T-Mobile Launches Beta for Free Real-Time Call Translation on Any Phone

23 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation

23 days / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

T-Mobile can now translate your phone calls in real time with AI

23 days / theshortcut / Max Buondonno

T-Mobile Will Start Testing Live Translation on Calls, No App Required

23 days / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

T-Mobile Will Live Translate Regular Phone Calls Without an App

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T-Mobile will live translate regular phone calls without an app

23 days / theverge / Jess Weatherbed

T-Mobile's Live Translation AI Agent Will Be Baked Into Your Phone Calls

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Apptronik raises $520M to produce humanoid Apollo robot commercial deployments

Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Apptronik Inc., the maker of artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, today announced it has raised $520 million more in early-stage funding, bringing the total capital raised by the company to nearly $1 billion. The Series A-X extension round fol…

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Apptronik Raises $520 Million to Roll Out Humanoid Robot

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Humanoid robot maker Apptronik raises $520 million

23 days / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Apptronik raises $520M to produce humanoid Apollo robot commercial deployments

23 days / siliconangle / Kyt Dotson

Apptronik raises $520 million to beat Chinese humanoids, Tesla Optimus to market

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Humanoid robot startup Apptronik has now raised $935M at a $5B+ valuation

23 days / techcrunch / Julie Bort

Andercore is expanding its AI-based industrial trade platform following a $40M Series B raise

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Berlin-based Andercore, an AI-enabled industrial supplytrade platform, has raised $40 million in a Series B round comprising equityand debt to support its expansion in Europe. The round includes parti...

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Andercore raises $40M to AI-power Europe’s industrial supply chains

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Andercore Raises $40M Series B Round To Expand AI-Powered Industrial Trade Platform

23 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Berlin’s Andercore secures €33.5 million to scale industrial trade platform across Europe

23 days / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

Andercore is expanding its AI-based industrial trade platform following a $40M Series B raise

23 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Andercore Raises $40M in Series B Funding

23 days / finsmes / FinSMEs

Atomico and Project A back industrial supply startup Andercore in $40m Series B

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London-Based Mozart AI Raises $6M To Expand Music Creation Tools

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Mozart AI has secured $6 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Balderton Capital. The round also included participation from Mercuri, EWOR, Kevin Hartz, Charles Ferguson, and Emery Wells, alongside existing investors and stra…