Senior engineers, including co-founders, exit xAI amid controversy
Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - At least nine engineers, including two cofounders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.
- Corporate restructuring and merger drive critical organizational changes. (2)
- Experts warn of broader instability amid exit uproar. (2)
- Key leaders exit amid instability at xAI. (6)
- Musk's audacious lunar projects spotlight space-age aspirations. (3)
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Overmind Raises £2M Funding To Advance Agentic AI Development
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Overmind, a startup building a supervision layer for AI agents, has raised £2 million in a seed funding round. The round was led by cybersecurity-focused investor Osney Capital, with participation from 14Peaks, Portfolio Ventures, Antler, and…
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Uber Eats’ new Cart Assistant feature is an AI hack for your grocery shopping
Matt Tate / engadget - If there’s any area of your life that you might be willing to introduce more AI into, it’s likely something as mundane as grocery shopping. That’s what Uber is betting on with its new AI-powered feature in the Uber Eats app.Cart Assistant lets you "build …
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London-Based Mozart AI Raises $6M To Expand Music Creation Tools
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Mozart AI has secured $6 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Balderton Capital. The round also included participation from Mercuri, EWOR, Kevin Hartz, Charles Ferguson, and Emery Wells, alongside existing investors and stra…
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OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination
Georgia Wells / wsj - Ryan Beiermeister, who served as the vice president leading OpenAI’s product policy team, had raised concerns about the upcoming launch of erotic content.
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Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Raises Record $60M for New Startup Entire
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke launches Entire with a record $60M seed round to build developer tools for managing AI coding agents. Includes exclusive interview.
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Facebook Adding AI Profile Picture Animations and Story Editing Tools
Juli Clover / macrumors - Meta today announced several new AI features for popular social network Facebook. The capabilities will be available for profile pictures, photos, posts, stories, and more.Meta AI's image editing tools can be used to animate a profile picture, adding moti…
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New study finds AI doesn’t reduce work — it intensifies it
Jon Keegan / sherwood - Researchers observing how workers used AI found that productivity increased, but so did their responsibilities. The use of generative AI made workers feel they were doing more, but the work crept into breaks...
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ChatGPT Rolls Out Ads, Just Hours After Anthropic's Mocking Super Bowl Commercials
Jose Antonio Lanz / decrypt - OpenAI started testing ads in ChatGPT on Monday, hours after Anthropic's Super Bowl commercials mocked the idea. The $8 billion loss explains why.
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EU tells Meta it has to open WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots
Francesca Micheletti / politico - The Commission sent the U.S. tech giant a chargesheet with preliminary concerns that it breached antitrust rules.
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AI gold rush sees tech firms embracing 72-hour weeks
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OpenAI’s supposedly ‘leaked’ Super Bowl ad with ear buds and a shiny orb was a hoax
Richard Lawler / theverge - As if OpenAI didn't have enough drama around the Super Bowl and advertising, as the game wound down, word spread of a "leaked" ad that actually wasn't leaked at all; it was just a fake. Screenshots of a now-deleted Reddit thread told the tale of a frustra…
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A New Era for Security? Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Found 500 High-Severity Vulnerabilities
EditorDavid / slashdot - Axios reports:Anthropic's latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The advancement signals an inflect…
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OpenAI and Anthropic become AI consultants as enterprise customers struggle with agent reliability
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - AI agents sound great in demos, but getting them to work reliably in the real world is a different story. OpenAI and Anthropic are working directly with enterprise customers to customize their models, because out-of-the-box AI often falls flat.The article…
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Nvidia rises 7% as Jensen Huang says $660 billion capex buildout is sustainable
cnbc - Huang's comments come after key Nvidia customers Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft reported their latest earnings over the past two weeks.
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Crypto.com Founder Buys AI.com in ‘Largest Domain Purchase in History’
Bruce Gil / gizmodo - Is this what a frothy bubble looks like?
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Waymo Unleashes Genie 3 to Supercharge Robotaxi Training With Hyper-Real AI Worlds
Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR Waymo uses Genie 3 to accelerate robotaxi testing in virtual worlds Genie 3 helps Waymo scale safer, faster autonomous driving systems Waymo expands robotaxi rollout using advanced Genie 3 simulation tech Virtual training with Genie 3 boosts Waymo fl…
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Apple might soon allow Gemini and ChatGPT on CarPlay for voice control
digitaltrends - According to Bloomberg, Apple is planning to allow third-party AI chatbots for CarPlay, opening the doors for ChatGPT and Gemini in the near future. The post Apple might soon allow Gemini and ChatGPT on CarPlay for voice control appeared first on Digital …
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IREN Stock: Earnings Disaster Wipes Out $1.5 Billion in Market Value
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR IREN stock fell 11.5% to $39.79 Thursday after reporting Q2 EPS loss of ($0.52) against ($0.07) estimate and $184.7M revenue versus $229.6M forecast. Company swung from $384.6M profit in Q1 to ($155.4M) loss in Q2, representing a massive $540M quarte…
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Meta Challenges Sora With Standalone Vibes App
PYMNTS / pymnts - Meta is considering making its artificial intelligence-powered short-form video feed Vibes a standalone app, TechCrunch reported Thursday (Feb. 5). The company is testing an app and positioning it as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s Sora app, according to …
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