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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
A look at six engineers with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel ties, between 19 and 24 years old, playing key DOGE roles, as Musk seizes control of US infrastructure — Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk's companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI unveils Deep Research, an AI agent for creating in-depth reports, available to subscribers of the $200 ChatGPT Pro tier and limited to 100 queries/month — OpenAI is announcing a new AI “agent” designed to help people conduct in-depth, complex research using ChatGPT, the company's AI-powered chatbot platform.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, r/singularity, r/consulting, and r/ChatGPT
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
OpenAI's Operator is currently more an intriguing demo than a product most people need to spend $200/month on, but it points to a future of powerful AI agents — In the past week, OpenAI's Operator has done the following things for me: — Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon.| Bloomberg: |
Donald Trump's EO for levies on China says the “de minimis” exemption for items under $800 no longer applies, affecting Alibaba, JD.com, Shein, Temu, and others — - President could block tariff exemption for packages under $800 — Change could affect online retailers such as Shein and Temu
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| Heidi Mitchell / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Future You, an AI-based research tool that lets users interact with a virtual older self and is currently being used by 60K people from 190 countries — A new artificial-intelligence tool allowed me to talk to my 80-year-old self. It's going to be quite a life. — It turns out I'm going to write a book!| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google's X spins out Heritable Agriculture, which aims to use AI to improve crop yield, as the incubator aggressively spins off companies under CEO Astro Teller — Google's X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
SoftBank commits $3B annually for itself and subsidiaries to use OpenAI's tech, and launches SB OpenAI Japan to market OpenAI's enterprise tech in Japan — SoftBank has committed to spending $3 billion per year for itself and its subsidiaries to use OpenAI's tech, according to a joint announcement on Monday.
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India expands Aadhaar, now linked to the biometrics of over 1.4B people, to let businesses across several sectors use it to authenticate customers — India has eased restrictions on its Aadhaar authentication service, a digital identity verification framework linked to the biometrics … | Bloomberg: |
Some parents say they are eschewing 529 college savings plans and other traditional investments to invest in cryptocurrency to build wealth for their children — Despite the risks and volatility, some families are investing in cryptocurrency to build wealth for their children.
More: crypto.news. Bluesky: @sevenbelow, @tsonic45, @regbazile, @tingolino, @dailyharbinger, @wilkos, and @jessefelder. Mastodon: @cryptadamist@universeodon.com
| Matthew Keys / The Desk: |
The US NTSB says it will stop emailing updates about two recent plane crashes to news outlets and reporters, opting to exclusively post updates on its X account — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters …
More: The Verge and Media Play News
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Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, r/moderatepolitics, r/ATC, r/WeirdGOP, and r/news
| Sima Kotecha / BBC: |
The UK announces four new laws that make it illegal to possess, create, or distribute AI tools designed to produce CSAM, becoming the first country to do so — Four new laws will tackle the threat of child sexual abuse images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), the government has announced.
More: Reuters, Metro.co.uk, Forbes, Neowin, The Independent, Daily Express, The Guardian, and The Mirror
| Katie McQue / The Guardian: |
A US man pleads guilty to a cyberstalking campaign against a professor, including by creating chatbots on CrushOn.ai and JanitorAI using her personal info — James Florence, 36, agreed to plead guilty after using victim's information to guide chatbots in impersonation
Bluesky: @anabrandusescu. X: @blakersdozen. LinkedIn: Maree Crabbe. Forums: r/technology and r/whenwomenrefuse
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