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RSS →Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee and more — today's channel signal.
As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.
The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.
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OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to hide it.
Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
BCV's latest fund targets early-stage founders harnessing AGI and building the infrastructure to run it efficiently.
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JSON →Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building next.
Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
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Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.
AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.
The totally free macOS app Tasks.txt makes up for missing features with sheer elegance.
Samsung’s latest smartwatch offers useful health tracking alongside a growing pile of metrics you may never use.
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