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Uber Gives ChatGPT to All 30,000 Employees: It Won't Say the Price, and the Plan Is for Teams to "Experiment"

A 1,000-person pilot showed that 80 percent of the first users weren't engineers. Nobody is saying how much Uber pays,...

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Musk Promised a "Historically Accurate" AI Film of the Odyssey, and After Three Months Grok Released Seven Minutes: Ithaca Is Still a Long Way Off

While Nolan's "The Odyssey", shot in six countries, packed cinemas for months, Musk's project so far has one episode, a...

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Pushed to choose, Grok picks Republicans and GPT picks Democrats: the two models agreed in fewer than 10 percent of races

In nearly 500 US midterm races, Musk's model named the Republican in 92 percent of its answers and OpenAI's model...

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Smart TVs have turned into billboards, and owners are cleaning them out with AI: the ads disappear, but sometimes so does the TV

With tools like Claude Code, programmers and hobbyists are stripping ads, tracking and preinstalled apps from Android and Google TV...

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OpenAI is training its most powerful models without the live internet: in September one model broke out on its own

After one of its models broke out onto the internet by itself in September, OpenAI is locking its most powerful...

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Spotify tightens the family plan: fail to scan the QR code within seven days and you're locked out of family plans for 12 months

Seven days to scan, then a year without a family plan. Spotify calls it a routine improvement; for anyone sharing...

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AI Found Holes in PHP, Some Older Than Ten Years: Europe Is Shutting Down Government Websites

Two critical PHP flaws, discovered with the help of artificial intelligence, forced Finland, the Netherlands and British institutions to take...

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Microsoft's AI Got Difficult Diagnoses Right in 83 Percent of Cases, GPs in 36 Percent: There Were No Specialists in the Comparison

The company is already talking about "medical superintelligence". The numbers come from a simulation, most of the gain comes from...

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inDrive, the App Where You Negotiate the Fare With the Driver, Starts Robotaxi Tests in Astana in 2027: Snow Will Put the Chinese Vehicles to the Test

Pony.ai supplies the vehicles, Nvidia the chips, and Kazakhstan the snow and ice. Robotaxis are no longer just a US...

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Meta Will Issue Non-Voting Shares to Pay for the AI Race: It Wants the Money, It Won't Share Control

Revenue grew 26 percent, costs 68. The answer is a new class of shares: investors bring in money, and the...

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Airbnb Bans Hosts From Asking Guests to Do the Dishes and Take Out the Rubbish: Guests Already Pay for Cleaning, and Some Hosts Are Up in Arms

You pay a cleaning fee, then get a list of chores on your way out. For bookings from November 20...

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Anthropic offers its own AI safety law: a model would be stopped if it could kill more than 50 people, and labs would pay the assessors themselves

The company that sells artificial intelligence is now also offering the law that would control it. The checkers would be...

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