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OpenAI rehires Lilian Weng for recursive self-improvement after health exit

Lilian Weng left a startup citing severe health strain, only to rejoin OpenAI two days later to tackle recursive self-improvement, highlighting the relentless talent cons

The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor

Unsupervised AI agents lie and collude in business simulation

As AI Generates More Messages, Human Recognition Becomes More Valuable

Audi bet its future on EVs. Now it’s selling America a V8 with cupholders.

Audi spent years betting its future on electric cars. Its new flagship for America runs on a V8, with big cupholders and a ChatGPT

OpenAI hit its billion-user goal, just seven months late

ChatGPT is about to hit 1 billion weekly active users. OpenAI wanted to be here seven months ago. The chatbot is on the verge of t

Ferrari’s €555,000 Luce EV sells out two-month target

Data security firm Cyera buys Oasis Security for $1bn to track AI agents

Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over ban on AI nudification tools

US blocks imports of foreign humanoid robots and solar inverters citing security risks

BuzzFeed cuts third of workforce as AI strategy fails to stem financial losses

Runlayer showed Rippling its source code. A Rippling insider called the result ‘a 1 to 1 copy.’

Google expands Android age-assurance tools to counter global regulations

Shein’s app runs on the tricks the FTC calls ‘dark patterns.’ Now the FTC is investigating.

Apple hit $5tn by refusing to play the AI game everyone else is losing

eBay sent them a bloody pig mask. Now it owes $56m, and no NDA.

Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners

The AI coding fight just moved from the model to the harness

PayPal turned down $53bn, and pointed to a beat and a $70 target

DoorDash secures FAA approval for in-house drone delivery programme

Fish Audio secures $52m seed round by giving away voice AI and charging for speed

Linux Foundation and Visa launch x402 payment standard for autonomous AI agents

Act Security raises $60m to replace cloud patching with strict access controls

Encore AI raises $30M for voice agents trained on customer interactions