Nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop, study finds
Apple’s design studio has lost nearly every Jony Ive-era designer. Incoming CEO John Ternus says he’ll fix it.
Microsoft’s June update fixed 208 security flaws and introduced a cascade of new bugs across all Windows versions
New York City has defeated Waymo, and the taxi lobby is the reason
Amazon says human-in-the-loop AI oversight is failing because humans stop paying attention
Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor
Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies at 69 in plane crash near La Baule
Hackers are mass-exploiting a Gravity SMTP flaw to steal API keys from 100,000 WordPress sites
Harvard Business Review warns AI ‘workslop’ is rotting companies from the inside
Microsoft finds USB worm that steals cryptocurrency through clipboard hijacking and Tor
AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor nearly matches Apple Watch in accuracy test
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NeuralTrust raised $20M to police the AI agents companies can’t even count
Arcade raised $60M to fix the real wall blocking enterprise AI agents: what they’re allowed to do
Aether AI raised $20M to teach robots cause and effect instead of pattern-matching
A startup betting on a different material for AI’s optics problem just raised $80mn from the people who build the hardware
Warren raises €10M to fix Belgium’s broken workplace pensions
GitHub for the factory floor: Copia raises $26M to protect the code that runs industry
The Big Four bill by the hour. Andera just raised $37M to let AI do the audit.
He spent 15 months hunting for compliance software that didn’t exist. So he built Flagright, which just raised $12.5M.
‘It’s literally the gulag’: inside the revolt at Meta’s AI unit, where elite engineers were drafted to label data
