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Meta's Muse is already pulling one CEO's purchases away from Amazon

Leif Abraham, Public's co-CEO, told Business Insider he wants vintage wines and fancy Levi's jeans. Meta's Muse AI agent buys them for him.

Amazon hires Microsoft's former Copilot CTO

Amazon hires former Microsoft Copilot CTO Pedram Rezaei as a distinguished engineer, expanding its push into AI agents and workplace tools.

OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT's text in the EU

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.

When Trying to Make AI Better Makes It Worse

A million words of failed drafts taught me that improving my AI setup sometimes means giving it fewer rules to follow

Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost

Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI system by training Reflection’s AI models on their own proprietary data.

All the drama around AI’s takeover of mathematics

This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of — including resolving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems. But in classic Silicon Valley style, AI labs are moving fast and breaking things, barreling through the discipline with all the grace of a runaway bulldozer. Results that might normally have been celebrated have instead sparked backlash. AI labs say they are learning from earlier mistakes. Whether those promises bear fruit remains to be seen.

TikTok is adding even more shopping features.

Users will soon be able to shop from other retailers without leaving TikTok, as well as use an AI chatbot to find and purchase products.

Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27

A new tool is allowing Mac users the ability again to easily turn off Apple Intelligence with one click and free up to 12GB of storage.

AI & Tech Brief: Math researchers strike back

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Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage

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Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account

Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action.

AI industry insiders voice alarms to NYC council as local governments take up safety concerns

NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence insiders warned New York City’s leaders about the dangers of the emerging technology on Monday, calling for greater oversight as local governments move to respond to mounting concerns that the systems could endanger humanity .