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Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up

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Anthropic has acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop – a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability – in a push to strengthen its enterprise strategy. The terms of the deal were not shared, but it appears to follow the acqui-hire playbook we’re increasingly seeing in the tech industry amid […]

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Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

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Sam Altman is in the process of co-founding a new brain-to-computer interface startup called Merge Labs, and raising funds for it with the capital possibly coming largely from OpenAI’s ventures team, unnamed sources told the Financial Times.  The startup is expected to be valued at $850 million. A source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch

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Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO

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Self-driving truck maker Waabi has hired autonomous vehicle industry veteran and Uber Freight CEO, Lior Ron, to step in as chief operating officer, as the startup looks to scale its commercial operations ahead of its planned launch of driverless trucks on public highways later this year. Rebecca Tinucci, who previously spent six years building Tesla’s

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Seoul-based Datumo raises $15.5M to take on Scale AI, backed by Salesforce

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Most organizations say they aren’t fully prepared to use generative AI in a safe and responsible way, according to a recent McKinsey report. One concern is explainability – understanding how and why AI makes certain decisions. While 40% of respondents view it as a significant risk, only 17% are actively addressing it, per the report.

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Elon Musk confirms shutdown of Tesla Dojo, ‘an evolutionary dead end’ 

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Elon Musk confirmed over the weekend reports that Tesla has disbanded the team working on its Dojo AI training supercomputer, just weeks after announcing he expected to have Tesla’s second cluster operating “at scale” in 2026.  “Once it became clear that all paths converged to AI6, I had to shut down Dojo and make some

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Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’

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During a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the GPT-5 team were peppered with questions about the new model and requests to bring back its previous model, GPT-4o. They also asked Altman about the most embarrassing – and perhaps funniest – snafu in the presentation, the “chart crime.”

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Former Googlers’ AI startup OpenArt now creates ‘brain rot’ videos in just one click

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AI-generated “brain rot” videos are popping up all over the internet and getting a lot of attention. Currently gaining traction among younger users, these clips feature wild characters, like a shark wearing sneakers and a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head. One startup driving this trend is OpenArt, founded by two former Google employees

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