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Hochul Launches AI Workforce Push with Focus on Women

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is turning her attention to AI's impact on workers.

Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxi permits. Sin City gave it 10, capped the speed at 45mph, and banned airport trips

The Strip is one of Nevada’s most concentrated gambling corridors. Sin City casinos there brought in roughly $8.8 billion in gaming revenue in 2025—about $24 million a day—and raked in roughly 56% of the state’s $15.8 billion in total gaming revenue that year. It also saw 38.5 million visitors in 2025, directly supporting more than 250,000 jobs in the area.

Princeton's 'AI Snake Oil' author says the real fear isn't thinking machines—it's that AI exposes who already knows how to think

Arvind Narayanan has spent years puncturing Silicon Valley’s grandest claims about artificial intelligence. The Princeton computer-science professor co-wrote AI Snake Oil, a book that challenges the notion that algorithms can reliably predict who will be a good employee, which patients will get sick, or who might commit crimes. He has also pushed back on the idea that generative AI is about to eliminate vast swaths of white-collar work, calling work something like a “sandwich” whose bun is growing even as the meat shrinks.

Using synthetic data for AI training is 'a big mistake,' says AI pioneer Rich Sutton

He said that the AI industry is headed in the wrong direction because of its reliance on synthetic training data.

Companies with huge datasets can save up to 80% in AI costs by using open-weight models: Him & Hers CEO

He said big patient datasets are Hims & Hers' "real asset," as they can be used to train open-weight models.

Bashing AI data centers makes its way into brand marketing with new Jason Kelce ad

Brands are capitalizing on the AI data center hate. Just look at the new ad starring Jason Kelce for Garage Beer and Liquid Death.

Claude can do more with Gmail and Google Drive, and access to Claude Cowork is expanding.

A pair of announcements from Anthropic today include the word that access to Claude Cowork on mobile and web interfaces has rolled out to all paid accounts, so you can keep an eye on what it’s doing for you in more places.

Cursor Capitalizes on GitHub Frustration, Launches Rival Hosting Platform

Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.

Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends

Rillet, a two-year-old startup building what it calls the first truly AI-native accounting platform, has raised a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, the company told Fortune exclusively—joining the ranks of AI-era unicorns racing to unseat decades-old enterprise software giants.

Handshake AI wants to pay you up to $30K for work documents that you own

Handshake AI is paying $6 per page for written work documents of "high quality" — if you own them. A data privacy lawyer told BI he had concerns.

David Sacks accuses Anthropic's Dario Amodei of trying to create a "DMV for AI." But plenty of industries thrive despite safety regulation.

I’m just back from three weeks of vacation. Thanks to my colleagues Bea Nolan and Emily Forlini for holding down the fort here while I was away.For much of that time, I was engaged in outdoor activities—camping, hiking, kayaking, fishing, running, and swimming—or indoor ones that are not digitally-mediated, such as dining out with family or listening to live entertainment. Sure, my family and I did sometimes use Google Search to look stuff up, and the AI-summarized answers it provided were often impressively detailed and accurate. It was definitely a lot more convenient than having to hunt for information across multiple web pages. But that’s about where my interaction with AI started and stopped. Overall, my three week break was a refreshing reminder of all the ways in which AI has not transformed society and, hopefully, never will.The big AI news over the weekend was the debate over Dario Amodei’s lengthy post on X defending the company’s approach to both regulation and talking about AI’s many risks. Amodei, who rarely appears on the Elon Musk-controlled social media platform, made the post in response to comments investor Gavin Baker made on the “All In” podcast, which is cohosted by former Trump AI czar David Sacks, himself no fan of Anthropic.

Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’

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