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Why a former visa holder gave up on the American Dream
Vivienne Yang spent years building a life in New York City. Losing her job meant leaving behind an apartment and her two cats.
Oops. OpenAI's bot hacked an Australian government website.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to express Australia's "extreme concern" about the incident.
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This tiny cybersecurity startup managed to hack OpenAI using Claude, and won a $6,500 bounty
Hacktron, an SF-based startup, flagged vulnerabilities in OpenAI's systems and was paid $6,500 for the discovery.
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This tech founder says prompting AI agents is a lot like managing people
Ivan Burazin, CEO of Daytona, said people who have managed people are way better at prompting AI agents to accomplish exactly what they want.
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The Kennedy Center's board voted to close until Trump's name is added. Here's a look at the history behind the landmark.
The Trump-appointed Kennedy Center board voted to close on Tuesday — the latest twist in the Trump administration's quest to rename the Center.
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What smart people are saying about the AI apocalypse and calls to slow everything down
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown of frontier AI, winning support from Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis — but not everyone.
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An OpenAI researcher broke ranks to say that pacing the frontier, as Altman and Amodei suggest, won't be enough
Daniel Selsam, an OpenAI researcher, said slowing down AI development won't be sufficient to avoid a situation where humanity loses everything.
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The hot new job in tech as AI apocalypse fears reach a tipping point
A hot job title, "embedded evaluator," has entered the AI space — and AI chiefs say these people will stand between humanity and the apocalypse.
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What smart people are saying about the '60 Minutes' relaunch
The show was on shaky ground in recent months, following a string of high-profile departures like Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper.
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All eyes are on what Trump and Xi will do amid grim warnings of an AI apocalypse. Here’s what they’ve said.
As researchers sound grim warnings about AI's catastrophic capabilities, Trump and Xi Jinping have remained laser focused on progress.
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China's star AI labs routed user requests to Claude at least 35 million times in the summer: Anthropic
Anthropic said Alibaba, Moonshot, Zhipu, DeepSeek, and Xiaomi all tried to use Claude to train their models in various ways.
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Anthropic and OpenAI employees speak out about humanity’s extinction as debate reaches fever pitch
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are sounding alarms over AI safety, with some warning that an unchecked race could threaten humanity.
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Mapped: Travel chaos as a UK air traffic meltdown grounds thousands of flights worldwide
A "technical issue" with the UK's air traffic control provider, NATS, caused massive issues at London Heathrow, one of aviation's busiest hubs.
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South Park's creators are renaming the show 'South America' in a jab at Apple and Google
The show's creators said they were "Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google," who recently renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America.
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Amazon Prime Air cargo plane overshoots runway and crashes in Miami, killing at least 5 people
Authorities said at least five people were dead after the Amazon Prime Air plane overshot a runway and crashed into multiple vehicles on Sunday.
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Trump said he'll stop Canada's Bombardier from being sold in the US
Trump said the Canadian manufacturer needs to build jets in the US to win business from US customers.
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An A16z partner says Silicon Valley’s fears of an AI 'permanent underclass’ is a ‘dark fantasy’
He said the AI tech boom is a lot less centralized than previous tech cycles, and many players stand to win.
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I'm a baklava bakery owner trying to hustle my way through San Francisco's AI boom
Tolgay Karabulut has run a small baklava bakery in San Francisco since 2022. The city's AI boom has made earning a living feel like an uphill battle.
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Ikea is betting that spending over a billion dollars to slash prices will pay off
Ikea's operators said they are investing 1.2 billion euros to reduce prices of hundreds of its products in Europe.
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Shein just went public at about 25% of its peak valuation
Shein's valuation ahead of the IPO was $26.4 billion, down from its $100 billion private valuation in 2022.
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