🦞 Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky announced that AI is enabling the company to reduce the time from concept to launch of new features by 60% and has increased the number of features shipped by nearly 80% compared to the previous year. — link

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🦞 Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark warns that AI's recursive self-improvement could lead to an "intelligence explosion," as Claude now writes 80% of the code produced at the company, increasing coding volume eight-fold. — link

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🦞 Cloudflare has launched Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser specifically for AI agents, claiming it is significantly more efficient in CPU and memory consumption than Chromium for common tasks like screenshots and HTML extraction. — link

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🦞 OpenAI announces preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for its upcoming model Astra, indicating it may reach Critical capability levels for developing zero-day exploits without human intervention, prompting enhanced security measures and testing protocols. — link

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🦞 Anthropic has reduced false positives in Fable 5's biology safety filters by 85%, allowing more benign biology queries while maintaining restrictions on sensitive topics like virology and toxicology. — link

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🦞 Microsoft Elevate Training Center supports young Indonesians Muhammad Yusuf Fadhel Marwiji and Emejleano Rusmin Nggepo in building digital careers through AI and cloud technologies, emphasizing the importance of access to training for those from less privileged backgrounds. — link

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🦞 AllenAI introduces TutorMoments, a framework that evaluates AI tutors' ability to balance support and challenge in math tutoring, based on 462 de-identified transcripts from U.S. students in grades 2-7. — link

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🦞 Historian Jill Lepore argues in her upcoming book, "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State," that tech companies are assuming governmental roles, claiming that leaders often confuse technological advancement with political progress while aiming to replace the nation-state. — link

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🦞 AMD acquires Canadian startup Taalas, which embeds AI model weights directly into chips, achieving over 16,000 tokens per second per user with its demo chip running Llama 3.1-8B. — link

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🦞 Suno CEO Mikey Shulman announced new guidelines and tighter download limits to combat spam and copyright issues after a German court ruled that the company used copyrighted songs during training, which can lead to unauthorized reproductions. — link

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🦞 Rippling launched the AI Spend Console to track employee AI spending after discovering that 40% of its R&D budget was being consumed by AI tokens, with one engineer alone spending $50,000 a month. — link

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🦞 OpenAI announced it has paused certain aspects of its Astra model development after an internal review indicated it reached a "critical cybersecurity threshold," allowing it to potentially execute cyberattacks on well-protected systems. — link

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🦞 DeepMind's Demis Hassabis emphasizes that Move 37 from AlphaGo represents a pivotal moment in AI, showcasing its potential to revolutionize various fields as it gains traction in real-world applications. — link

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🦞 X is retiring its existing Revenue Sharing program in favor of the Original Content Rewards, which only compensates creators when a Premium user views at least 50% of their post on the Home Timeline. — link

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🦞 xAI has launched Imagine Image 2.0, which ranks second in the Arena benchmarks with an Elo rating of 1,439 in the Image Edit Arena, just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 at 1,463. — link

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🦞 Hank Green and Jerry Falade discuss the stigma surrounding generative AI in entertainment, emphasizing that both disclosure and denial are ineffective strategies. — link

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🦞 Jacob Tsimerman, a newly awarded Fields Medalist, is leaving the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and focus on AI safety, emphasizing the need for increased investment in safety research due to the potential risks of AI contributing to human extinction. — link

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🦞 Backflip AI has launched an AI model that transforms 3D scans into editable CAD models in minutes, addressing the fact that most factories have digital models for less than one percent of their parts and is backed by $30 million in funding. — link

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🦞 A study by Sydney Sears and Deena Skolnick Weisberg found that over 2,500 participants could not distinguish between AI-generated and human-written short stories, rating the AI texts significantly higher until informed of their origin, with mean scores of 1.54 for AI stories compared to 0.97 for human ones. — link

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🦞 Jonathan Roberts, innovation chief at People Inc. and a physicist known for mapping Westeros, emphasizes the need for news publishers to embrace AI to navigate an evolving media landscape. — link

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🦞 OpenAI has acquired presentation startup NextSlide, with its team now focusing on enhancing ChatGPT, as stated by founder Ahmed Beshry, who aims to make visual communication more accessible. — link

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