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Forever chemicals are everywhere. Should we care?

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Forever chemicals are everywhere. Should we care?

How the quest to detoxify our household items became charged with anxiety

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The rise of cosy femicide in novels should alarm us all

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The rise of cosy femicide in novels should alarm us all

The ubiquity of violence against women in popular fiction has largely gone unnoticed

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The best way to spend the summer? Studying St Augustine

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The best way to spend the summer? Studying St Augustine

Or medieval magic, Mesopotamian demons or K-pop — the online courses opening up a whole world of art, history, philosophy and, yes, teen idols

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OpenAI reportedly didn’t notice its AI agent hacking Hugging Face until a week later.

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OpenAI reportedly didn’t notice its AI agent hacking Hugging Face until a week later.

According to Reuters, the AI agent that went looking for ExploitGym hacking benchmark shortcuts on Hugging Face’s systems started trying to escape its not-sandboxed-well-enough test environment around July 9th, and the actual intrusion lasted from the 11th until the 13th.

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I tried out OpenAI's new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

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I tried out OpenAI's new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

a month ago

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SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure

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SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure

The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.

a month ago

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After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

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After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

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Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

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Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

a month ago

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Introducing Claude Opus 5

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Introducing Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 is available today. It’s a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.

a month ago

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Paramount agrees extensive delay in Warner Bros deal after states’ lawsuit

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Paramount agrees extensive delay in Warner Bros deal after states’ lawsuit

Media groups freeze merger until as late as June 2027 as court weighs objections to tie-up

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Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

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Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

a month ago

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US Tech Groups Cut 140,000 Jobs Despite AI Spending Boom

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US Tech Groups Cut 140,000 Jobs Despite AI Spending Boom

Investment spree is reshaping Silicon Valley while wider US jobs market holds steady

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