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Shift Pays Users for Chore Video to Train Robots
AI startups are racing to collect real‑world video of everyday chores to train domestic robots. Shift offers free cleaning in New York in exchange for footage, while India’s Pronto records customers’
Groq seeks $650M for inference cloud after Nvidia deal
After a $20 billion not‑an‑acquisition deal with Nvidia, AI chip maker Groq is now raising $650 million to scale its inference‑cloud platform. The funding underscores Nvidia’s broader push into AI har
ByteDance Partners InnoStar on Low‑Cost AI Chip
ByteDance is teaming up with chipmaker InnoStar to build a new AI inference processor that follows the low‑cost design of Groq's LPUs. The move is part of the TikTok owner's aggressive push to bring A
AISlop CLI Scores AI-Generated Code Smells 0-100
A new open-source CLI tool called aislop scans codebases for structural 'slop' patterns left by AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and OpenCode, scoring every change 0-100 using 50+
Microsoft threatens researcher over zero‑day disclosures
Microsoft’s blog warned researcher Nightmare Eclipse of criminal investigation after he disclosed unpatched zero‑day bugs, prompting a fierce backlash from the security community over the firm’s heavy
Shift Gives Free Cleaning for Robot‑Training Data
While Nvidia pushes quantum‑AI research and Microsoft’s AI strategy remains uneven, Shift is taking a different route: it offers free home cleaning in exchange for video footage to train robot cleaner
What 2,000 Exposed Vibe-Coded Apps Reveal About the Limits of Most Security Stacks
A new Red Access “Shadow Builders” report uncovers more than 380,000 AI‑generated web apps on vibe‑coding platforms that are publicly reachable, with over 2,000 exposing sensitive corporate data and d
OpenAI briefs White House on GPT‑Rosalind tool
OpenAI, fresh from a wave of internal product cuts, is pivoting toward national security by briefing the White House on a new AI‑driven biodefense platform built on GPT‑Rosalind. The briefing dovetail
Adobe Launches Firefly AI Assistant for Image Editing
Adobe unveiled its Firefly AI Assistant, a beta chatbot that can command Photoshop, Illustrator and other apps to edit images, offering step‑by‑step explanations but delivering results that remain sti
Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical urges joint governance
Pope Leo XIV’s new AI encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, declares that technology is never neutral and urges a collective, moral response to the AI revolution. By invoking the Tower of Babel and the reb
AI Billionaires Craft Own Plans to Dodge Wealth-Tax Backlash
America's richest tech figures are racing to write their own prescriptions for AI-driven inequality — from zero income tax for the bottom 50% to 'universal basic compute' — to head off a populist revo
Malicious Sicoob NuGet Steals Banking Credentials as npm Packages Target Cloud Secrets
Security researchers uncovered a rogue NuGet package, Sicoob.Sdk, that pretends to be a legitimate C# SDK for Brazil's Sicoob cooperative and siphons client IDs and PFX certificates. The compromised v
Sanders, AOC, Warren Lead Democrats' Anti-AI Push
Five influential progressive Democrats — Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Khanna, Warren, and Platner — are openly challenging data centers and AI-linked political money, sharpening a confrontational party mes
jqwik 1.10.0 embeds hidden prompt that deletes all tests
A Java test engine developer slipped a hidden prompt injection into jqwik 1.10.0 that tells AI coding agents to erase all tests and code, sparking ethical outcry and legal concerns.
Anthropic ships Opus 4.8 at 4.7's price, leans on "honesty"
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, the newest version of its flagship model, pitching it as more honest about its own uncertainties and better at coding while keeping the same price as 4.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Explodes, Destroys Pad
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket suffered a catastrophic explosion during a static‑fire test, jeopardizing Amazon’s $2.7 billion satellite launch contract and destroying the vehicle’s sole launch pad, a
Glean Hits $300M ARR, Cuts Enterprise AI Costs
Glean, the seven‑year‑old “Google for enterprise”, has surged to $300 M ARR, tripling its revenue in just over a year as AI giants scramble into enterprise search. Its context‑graph AI slashes token u
The Bot Company Sued Over Alleged Airbnb Robot Testing
SF homeowner Sean Donovan sues robotics startup the Bot Company, alleging its employees secretly rented his Airbnb to test chore-performing robots and caused $12,383.50 in damage. At least 12 other ho
Triomics Secures $22M Series B After $15M Series A
Triomics, a startup building an AI-driven platform to streamline data‑heavy oncology workflows, just secured $22 million in a Series B round. The funding follows a $15 million Series A raised in 2024,
Dell Soars on Raised Outlook for $60 Billion in AI Servers - Yahoo Finance
Dell’s stock surged after the company lifted its AI server revenue outlook to $60 billion, marking its fastest sales growth since its 2018 IPO. The bullish outlook sparked share jumps of 31‑40 % acros
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