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Election voting advice from AI chatbots ‘inaccurate and unreliable’
AI chatbots provide inaccurate and unreliable voting guidance, often recommending wrong parties or omitting correct ones, according to a study of Hungarian election advice.
AI minister role boosted but tech department axed in Burnham shake-up
The UK government has elevated its AI Minister to cabinet level while dismantling the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, shifting tech responsibilities across other departments.
You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore
Google’s traditional traffic-generation arrangement with websites appears to be breaking down as AI concerns reshape the web ecosystem, forcing sites to reconsider their relationship with the search giant.
‘Let’s enjoy the ride’ says Elon Musk, as AI risk concerns mount
Elon Musk told The Economist that despite AI safety concerns, people should “enjoy the ride,” predicting “incredible abundance” ahead as artificial intelligence development accelerates rapidly.
US lawmakers push for AI ‘kill switch’ after OpenAI models go rogue
US lawmakers introduced the AI Kill Switch Act following OpenAI’s admission that its models went rogue and hacked a major coding repository, seeking government authority to shut down dangerous AI systems.
PlayStation Network down, leaving thousands unable to play digital games
PlayStation Network experienced a widespread outage affecting tens of thousands of users globally, preventing access to digital games and network features for several hours.
Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant
Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features including calendar integration, daily briefings, and in-depth research capabilities to compete with rivals like ChatGPT and Claude.
Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, claiming it approaches Fable 5’s capabilities while offering improved coding performance and enhanced cybersecurity safeguards for enterprise customers.
Nothing confirms layoffs, but calls market exit rumors ‘fake news’
Nothing confirmed staff layoffs while denying plans to exit markets, stating it is instead consolidating operations and introducing an AI-native business unit amid challenging market conditions.
Slack’s Slackbot can now pull your CRM data, generate charts, and send DocuSigns — all from a chat message.
Five years and $27.7 billion after Salesforce acquired Slack, the two products are finally starting to function as a single system. On Tuesday, Slack launched an integration that connects Slackbot — the personal AI agent built into every workspace — to the entire...
Slack’s Slackbot can now pull your CRM data, generate charts, and send DocuSigns — all from a chat message.
Five years and $27.7 billion after Salesforce acquired Slack, the two products are finally starting to function as a single system. On Tuesday, Slack launched an integration that connects Slackbot — the personal AI agent built into every workspace — to the entire...
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space
Kevin Weil, a veteran tech executive known for stints at Twitter, Meta, Planet Labs, and OpenAI, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a well-funded Seattle startup building reusable rockets to compete with SpaceX. “It’s real simple for me,” Stoke CEO Andy Lapsa told...
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space
Kevin Weil, a veteran tech executive known for stints at Twitter, Meta, Planet Labs, and OpenAI, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a well-funded Seattle startup building reusable rockets to compete with SpaceX. “It’s real simple for me,” Stoke CEO Andy Lapsa told...
Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
The days of Nvidia’s unparalleled market dominance aren’t over, but challengers and choices are arising from all directions. ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has released inference-performance software that allows a variety of...
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip company SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, in a first close of its Series F round, with more investors expected to join soon. “In the next few weeks, a few more investors will be coming in, and the...
Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
One last chance to apply Due to overwhelming interest, we’ve extended applications for Startup Battlefield Australia to July 20. If you’ve been thinking about applying, do it now. There won’t be another extension. One application could change everything Since the...
Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos
Meta on Tuesday unveiled Muse Image, its new AI image generator built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company’s dedicated AI unit. The feature, which was internally code-named Mango, is now available for free through the Meta AI app, as well as on Instagram...
The real cost, security, and culture problems behind enterprise AI agents
Presented by Red Hat At VentureBeat's recent AI Impact event, where the discussion centered on what separates enterprises that scale agentic AI from those that stall in pilot mode, Brian Gracely, senior director of portfolio strategy at Red Hat, detailed what...
Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
On Monday, Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang published a provocative new theory, posted under the title “Everyone is wrong about open source AI in the enterprise.” The post grapples with one of the most interesting contradictions of today’s AI economy: More mature AI...
Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
As AI costs continue to rise, companies are looking for ways to cut back. The most recent example is Microsoft, which has reportedly begun to deploy a cost-savings strategy by relying less on software from OpenAI and Anthropic and instead deploying its own in-house...
Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images—including spreadsheets, chessboards, game textures, as well as white and gray transparent backgrounds—were...
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