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Our first deep dive with an AI data company. In roughly a year, Handshake built an AI training business doing nearly $1 billion in gross annualized revenue.
Today, I’m talking with Mitch Glazier, who is CEO and chairman of the RIAA. This conversation was a real full-circle moment for me: I was in college when Napster hit, and the RIAA became everyone’s villain for suing kids for downloading music.
Asked about AI executives’ warnings about their models’ safety on 60 Minutes , Trump said, “I think that the risk is not nearly as real as it– as they talk, and I think the risk can be managed, and it’s managed.” He claimed the DOJ is managing that risk, saying, “We had a situation where somebody was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI. We…
Pomera’s digital typewriters are a cult hit with those craving a distraction-free writing experience. Dedicated word processor devices never caught on in the US the way they did in Japan.
When Jane first heard about Memory and Imagination , a rare 1990s documentary about the Library of Congress, she was intrigued. But the Canadian writer in her 30s couldn’t find the movie anywhere — not on streaming services, not on YouTube, not on pirate sites — and her intrigue turned into obsession.
Nvidia’s board announced Sunday that it’s launching an independent investigation after CEO Jensen Huang told staff he was unfaithful to his wife. But this isn’t a case of just another CEO having an extramarital affair.
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On November 4, 2026 , Bloomington, Indiana’s Common Council voted unanimously to prohibit superintelligent artificial intelligence inside city limits — not only in a data center on Main Street, but also when a resident opens a browser or API session to a model hosted anywhere else. The Indiana Daily Student reported the vote during a long council night…
This is The Stepback , a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the pressures of creating content for the internet, follow Mia Sato .
Knowledge: We continue our series about recursive self-improvement. Learning Loop: We dive into GPT-6 Cyber and the new Thinking Machines and Gemini models.
Democrats’ historic victory in this week’s midterm elections could also have a dramatic effect on the tech industry. In dozens of local ballot measures, voters rejected data centers .
Concerns are being raised that neither the Commerce Department nor Nvidia are doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting Chinese firms cleared to handle the company’s H200 AI chips. According to The New York Times , New Matrix is on the list of approved firms, yet its offices are empty, “a hollow gray shell with wires dangling from the ceiling…
Concerns are being raised that neither the Commerce Department nor Nvidia are doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting Chinese firms cleared to handle the company’s H200 AI chips. According to The New York Times , New Matrix is on the list of approved firms, yet its offices are empty, “a hollow gray shell with wires dangling from the ceiling…
Around 7PM each weeknight, I find myself standing in front of the fridge, trying to decide on something for dinner that won’t make my husband complain, “Chicken again ?” Yes, I should meal plan more, but I don’t, so this is where I’m at. A nightly battle in which the chicken usually wins.
Today, I’m talking with Alex Stamos, chief security officer at Cognition and longtime cybersecurity expert, about what a mess cybersecurity is right now. This episode is part one of a special series looking at AI in real life.
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Anthropic is using AI to build more powerful AI. And it appears to be working remarkably well, with the company’s models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year ago, with little indication of slowing down.
When Irene moved to San Francisco last year, she started using dating apps as a way to meet new people, get to know her new city, and connect with others who care about the things she does. After the 25-year-old analyst downloaded Hinge and started swiping, she noticed a trend.
Alex de Vigan’s last business got swamped by the rise of generative AI, but now he’s betting the tech that team had built, a platform for creating tempting product renderings for e-commerce, can be re-purposed to make robots more useful. His new venture, Physicl , has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Inovia Capital to help world model designers…
Note: Some spoilers for Control Resonant ’s “Recursions and Iterations” mission follow. One of Control Resonant ’ s most memorable missions involves time travel — kind of.
It’s a bad time and maybe also a great time to make a new smartphone. Brennan Jordan and Austin Boer are two-thirds of the trio behind the Enough Phone , a small phone that will run your choice of stock Android or the minimalist OdysseyOS.
Tesla is getting the Cybertruck ready for retirement in an effort to ramp up its robotaxi output. In an X post on Friday , Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company will be “winding down” Cybertruck production at its Texas Gigafactory sometime around the middle of next year, “to make room for increased Cybercab production.” The production plant in Austin,…
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Airbnb has teased its plans to build its own AI travel agent before, but on Thursday the company announced that the new AI feature will launch in the first half of 2027. In the company’s Q3 shareholder letter on Thursday , Airbnb also provided more detail about how the agent will work, what it will actually do, and how it’s different from a typical AI…
A week before the midterm elections, Vice President JD Vance hosted a town hall in Texas with Fox News host Jesse Watters. It was a friendly event with a friendly audience in what should have been a friendly state, and maybe that’s why Vance couldn’t help himself.