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Anthropic's heavyweight hiring spree continues.

Tom Blomfield, former CEO and cofounder of British fintech Monzo, announced a leave of absence from startup accelerator Y Combinator to join the company’s AI compute team. He’s the latest big-name hire in recent months, following Google’s Nobel winner John Jumper and former Tesla Boss Andrej Karpathy.

Memory chip companies expected to report big leaps in sales as earnings arrive

Another quarter showing huge sales of memory chips could reassure investors nervous about the durability of the AI boom.

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what’s still unsettled.

This free Mac app reveals the truth about your mystery USB-C cables

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1X's product head says its new humanoid hand has solved one of the toughest problems in robotics

1X says NEO's new hands can pour tea, plug in chargers, and use sign language.

Waze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features

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I tried China's buzzy free AI. The wait was painful, but the answers impressed me.

Business Insider tried out the hottest new Chinese AI model by asking it to write an email, serve as a shopping aid, plan a trip, and create a poster.

Microsoft's CEO took a veiled swipe at AI model makers like Anthropic

Satya Nadella criticized AI labs for complaining about distillation attacks.

Companies turn to Chinese AI models to cut costs

DoorDash, Siemens and Airbnb are among those seeking to curb ballooning bills and reduce reliance on US technology

Employers pushed staff to use AI more. That has backfired

Incentives to use new tools are changing as costs start to hit home

How I Polish Software That Agents Built

Each person on the team has tailored their stack to their individual tastes

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are fighting in public again

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk do not like each other. That dislike was on full display on social media over the weekend.