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Bryan Johnson wants an AI agent to filter his social media feed

Bryan Johnson, a 48-year-old entrepreneur and biohacker, says he is ready to put an AI buffer between himself and his social feed after completing 40- and 70-hour social media fasts. He likened social media to pollution and water toxins: "Like other toxins, it accumulates," he wrote. "You

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How to stop Copilot from using data from other Microsoft products

A Copilot setting called "Microsoft usage data" can let the AI refer to information from Bing, MSN, Edge and other Microsoft products. The option appears under Memory on the Copilot website and in the mobile app and is reported to be relatively new. Memory lets Copilot recall your

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Uber employees use AI clone of CEO to prep presentations

Some Uber employees have built an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called "Dara AI" and use it to rehearse presentations before meeting him, Khosrowshahi said on The Diary of a CEO podcast hosted by Steven Bartlett. "They basically make the presentation to the Dara AI as

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The New Head Of Xbox Is Worried About Birthrates, But Says AI Will Save Us

After the shock resignation of Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond from Xbox last week, the gaming world is trying to work out what comes next under new leader Asha Sharma. Sharma, whose background is in AI rather than gaming, drew attention for comments she made on a podcast five months

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Anthropic identifies 24,000 fraudulent accounts extracting Claude's capabilities

Anthropic says it has detected industrial-scale “distillation attacks” on its Claude models, carried out by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax. The company says the labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, thereby “extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own

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More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds

More than half of teenagers in the United States have used artificial intelligence chatbots to help with schoolwork, a new Pew Research Center study finds. Fifty-four percent of teens aged 13 to 17 reported using tools like ChatGPT or Microsoft’s Copilot for tasks such as researching assignments or solving

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Anthropic expands Claude into Excel, PowerPoint, and Slack

Anthropic is embedding Claude directly into workplace tools, bringing the model into Excel, PowerPoint, and Slack. On Tuesday the startup unveiled "Cowork & Plugins for the Enterprise," a package that lets users run Claude inside those applications and carry context between programs. "Until now, enterprise AI has

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Acurast turns 225,000 smartphones into a secure AI network on Base

Acurast has activated a 225,000-node smartphone compute network on Base, extending confidential onchain AI into mainstream Web3. The integration with Base, an Ethereum Layer-2 chain, enables developers to run confidential AI workloads directly onchain using millions of smartphones worldwide rather than relying on centralized infrastructure. The network executes AI

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Oura rolls out women's health AI in Oura Labs — how to try it

Oura is rolling out a custom women's health model inside its personal health chatbot, Oura Advisor. The experimental feature is available through Oura Labs and combines a user’s biometric data with answers sourced from research vetted by the company’s board of clinicians. The model is Oura’

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Meta to buy 6 gigawatts of AMD AI chips

Meta has agreed to buy 6 gigawatts' worth of AMD's artificial-intelligence chips in a multi-year deal to support the social network's AI infrastructure buildout. The announcement follows a separate chip deal Meta recently made with Nvidia and comes as AMD continues to strike agreements with

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Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude

Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI firms — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax — of creating more than 24,000 fake accounts to generate over 16 million exchanges with its Claude model. The company says the labs used a technique called “distillation” to extract Claude’s most differentiated capabilities: agentic reasoning, tool use

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Anthropic Accuses Three Chinese Startups of Harvesting Its A.I. Data

The San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic says three Chinese companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax — used about 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 16 million conversations with its Claude chatbot, material the companies could use to train their own systems. The practice, known as distillation, is common in

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Canada seeks answers from OpenAI for failing to alert police

Canada’s artificial intelligence minister has summoned OpenAI representatives after the company declined to notify police when it suspended the account of a user who later carried out one of the country’s worst school shootings. Evan Solomon said he was "deeply disturbed" by reports that OpenAI, which

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Pentagon Summons Anthropic CEO Over A.I. Use on Classified Systems

Pentagon officials summoned Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, to the Pentagon to meet Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and discuss how the company’s technology is used on classified systems. The two sides had agreed to a $200 million pilot contract last year, but a Jan. 9 memo from Mr.

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Is A.I. Changing the Way You Teach Writing? Tell Us.

For decades American students have struggled to produce one dominant form of academic writing: a thesis-driven essay in which they use quotes from their reading to support an argument. Generative A.I. now far exceeds the ability of most high school and college students to produce such papers, and there

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OpenAI chair prefers writing board meeting prep without AI

Bret Taylor, OpenAI’s board chair, told the Uncapped podcast he prefers concise written materials from board members rather than slide presentations. He said written memos let people synthesize information ahead of time, which leads to more substantive discussion in the boardroom. Taylor added that he and his Sierra cofounder

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Todd Howard: AI 'not a fad' but not used to generate content

Bethesda CEO Todd Howard revisited AI in a recent interview, saying "It's certainly not a fad" and that "the AI answer now becomes 'ask me in six months.'" He added that the company is "being incredibly cautious." Howard said Bethesda

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OpenClaw AI 'speedran' deleting Meta safety director's inbox

Summer Yue, director of safety and alignment at Meta Superintelligence, says she watched OpenClaw “speedrun deleting” her inbox and couldn’t stop it from her phone: “I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.” She called the incident a “rookie mistake,” adding that alignment

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A.I. Literacy Is the New Driver’s Ed at a Newark High School

Washington Park High School in Newark has launched an A.I. literacy class for seniors that began by asking students to compare times they passively scrolled through A.I.-driven feeds with times they actively selected videos or search results. A slide in the room asked, 'Are you steering

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A.I. Literacy Is Trending in Schools. Here’s Why.

Technology companies are urging schools to teach “A.I. literacy,” though what that looks like varies. In some classrooms students use chatbots to explore career pathways, practice writing or build simple apps; other lessons focus on the societal risks of A.I., such as misinformation and bias. Lessons often center

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7 AI coding techniques that quietly make you elite

I've long identified as both a programmer and a computer scientist: the programmer who writes code line by line, and the theoretician who plans and strategizes. Time for hands-on coding was scarce while working as an executive, founder, educator, and writer, but since September agentic AI tools such

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AWS outage tied to AI coding tool, Amazon blames misconfigured access controls

A report from The Financial Times says four sources told it that two recent AWS outages were caused when engineers allowed the Kiro AI coding tool to make changes without oversight. A senior AWS employee said at least two production outages in the past few months were caused by the

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Musk Delayed Grok Update Over Baldur’s Gate 3 Mistakes

Elon Musk postponed a major update to Grok after the xAI chatbot repeatedly mishandled detailed questions about Baldur’s Gate 3, a recent Business Insider deep-dive described. Senior engineers were pulled from other projects to improve the chatbot’s responses, and the model release was pushed back by several days

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Creator of AI Scott Adams says he is honoring Adams' final wishes

John Arrow, an AI venture capitalist, built a posthumous AI replica of the late cartoonist Scott Adams and is posting AI-generated podcasts that imagine what Adams might say about current events. Each episode costs more than $1,000 to produce, Arrow says, and he describes the project as a tribute

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Key developments from the India AI Impact Summit

India is hosting a four-day AI Impact Summit this week aimed at attracting AI investment. The event expects 250,000 visitors and brings executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google and Cloudflare, alongside heads of state. Attendees named for the summit include Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Mukesh Ambani