Amazon (AMZN) Stock: New AI Assistant Takes On OpenAI in Healthcare Race
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Amazon launched Health AI for One Medical members, using large language models to answer health questions based on medical records, lab results, and medications The AI tool can manage medications and book appointments with One Medical providers throu…
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OpenAI vows not to increase consumers' energy prices
Rachyl Jones / semafor - OpenAI joined Microsoft in attempting to ease consumer concerns regarding data centers’ impact on electricity bills.
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A Siri Chatbot is Coming in iOS 27
Juli Clover / macrumors - Apple plans to turn Siri into a chatbot that will rival Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and OpenAI's ChatGPT, reports Bloomberg. Apple did not initially plan to introduce a chatbot, but their popularity forced Apple executives to reconsider.Codenamed…
- Live update: Apple unveils wearable AI pin concept (5)
- On-site: Siri becomes a ChatGPT-style chatbot (23)
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Live update: Apple unveils wearable AI pin concept
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Volvo EX60 is an electric SUV with Gemini AI and 400 miles of range
mashable - Volvo has launched its EX60 electric SUV with 400 miles of range, super-fast charging, and Gemini AI.
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Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
msmash / slashdot - San Diego Comic-Con changed an AI art friendly policy following an artist-led backlash last week. From a report: It was a small victory for working artists in an industry where jobs are slipping away as movie and video game studios adopt generative AI too…
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Apple's Internal AI Tools Show How the Company Is Testing Its Next-Gen Models [Report]
iclarified - Apple has deployed a pair of internal artificial intelligence tools designed to boost workforce productivity and refine its language models. While the public rollout of Apple Intelligence has faced delays, the company is reportedly experimenting with more…
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Adobe Acrobat Can Now Turn PDFs Into Podcasts and Presentations
Laurent Giret / thurrott - Adobe Acrobat can now turn PDFs into professional-looking presentations and podcasts. The new AI features require a $24.99/month Acrobat Studio subscription.The post Adobe Acrobat Can Now Turn PDFs Into Podcasts and Presentations appeared first on Thurrot…
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Meta Ships Superintelligence. Calls It 'Very Good.'
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Meta ships first superintelligence models, calls them "very good." OpenAI profiles users for adult mode. Anthropic CEO likens chip exports to nukes.
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Ukrainian-founded language learning edtech Preply hits $1.2B valuation with $150M Series D
Cate Lawrence / tech - Ukrainian-founded language learning marketplace Preply has raised $150 million Series D funding led by WestCap with support from Índico Capital Partners. This latest round brings Preply’s total fundin...
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Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly ones’ The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after maintainers struggled to assess a flood of AI-generated contrib…
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OpenAI is rolling out age prediction for ChatGPT consumer plans
cnbc - The model relies on a combination of account-level signals and behavioral signals, OpenAI said.
- On-site: Broader impact and critique on age prediction rollout. (2)
- On-site: Rollout details and tech behind ChatGPT age detection. (9)
- On-site: Teens safeguarded using age-based content restrictions. (9)
On-site: Broader impact and critique on age prediction rollout.
On-site: Rollout details and tech behind ChatGPT age detection.
On-site: Teens safeguarded using age-based content restrictions.
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“Like Selling Nuclear Weapons to North Korea”: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Blasts U.S. Decision to Approve NVIDIA’s H200 AI Chip Exports to China
Muhammad Zuhair / wccftech - Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei has spoken once again about selling NVIDIA's AI chips to China, claiming that the U.S. is providing Beijing with the weapon to get ahead in the AI race. Anthropic's Amodei Argues that China Has Remained Behind in the AI Race D…
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ServiceNow (NOW) Stock: Three-Year OpenAI Partnership Announced for AI Integration
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR ServiceNow signed a three-year deal with OpenAI to embed AI models directly into its business software platform for IT support, customer service, and operations. The agreement includes a revenue commitment from ServiceNow to OpenAI based on customer …
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Multiple vulnerabilities found in Anthropic’s Git MCP server
Erik van Klinken / techzine - Anthropic created the Model Context Protocol. Security was not necessarily a key focus in order to accelerate adoption. However, it now appears that Anthropic’s own Git MCP server has been vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities. This is despite the fact t…
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AI coding startup Emergent raises $70M from Khosla, SoftBank after hitting $50M ARR
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Traditional app development demands deep coding skills or hefty budgets. Emergent, the fast-growing AI platform that turns ideas…
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OpenAI Reports Over $20 Billion Estimated Revenue for 2025 Amidst Wider AI Adoption
Prabhanu Kumar Das / medianama - OpenAI's projected revenue has gone up from $2 billion in 2023 to over $20 billion in 2025, with compute capacity tripling each year as AI adoption entered the embedded stage from the experimentation stage. The post OpenAI Reports Over $20 Billion Estimat…
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Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive To Secure Access To Millions of Pirated Books
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-action lawsuit that cites internal NVIDIA documents, sever…
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OpenAI Will Soon Test Ads On ChatGPT
barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) / seroundtable - OpenAI announced on Friday it will begin testing ads in the ChatGPT responses in the coming weeks. The ads will show on the free product and low-cost subscription tier, ChatGPT Go. The ads will show under the main response and not influence the answers Ch…
Editor: Let's be real here: this was as inevitable as it was risky. The big risk is what it does to consumer's perception of trustworthiness - how will OpenAI structure their ads product so that users don't feel like their ChatGPT responses are compromised or suspect? How do you accept a product recommendation when you're not sure whether the AI is incentivized to recommend a particular product?
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U.S. govt says Musk's gas turbine generators for xAI aren’t exempt from permits — EPA ruling closes local loophole that allowed Musk to get power from temporary on-site power generators
tomshardware - The U.S. EPA now requires permits to operate gas turbine generators, even temporary ones, closing loopholes in some local ordinances that waived this requirement for deployments that lasted for less than 364 days.
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Billion-dollar legal disputes and funding drama
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GPT-5.2 Pro for solving another open Erdős problem. Going to be a wild year for mathematical and scientific advancement!
@gdb / x - GPT-5.2 Pro for solving another open Erdős problem. Going to be a wild year for mathematical and scientific advancement!Neel Somani (@neelsomani)I've solved a second Erdos problem (#281) using only GPT 5.2 Pro - no prior solutions found.Terence Tao calls …
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