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Dave Eggers tells 200 OpenAI staff ChatGPT is silencing a generation
Sam Altman invited the novelist to speak. Eggers used the stage to call ChatGPT's impact on teachers 'catastrophic' and student writing a 'tragedy.'
CMS pilots AI-driven prior authorization in six states as doctors warn of more denials
The WISeR program brings machine learning to original Medicare through 2031, while 61% of physicians fear AI will worsen coverage denials.
Google switches Gemini quotas to compute-based limits across all tiers
Free, AI Plus, AI Pro, and AI Ultra now meter by prompt complexity, not request count — and Google won't publish the free tier's baseline.
Index Ventures co-founder Neil Rimer warns AI wealth will be redistributed
The Index Ventures co-founder says AI's windfall will get shared voluntarily or forcibly, as Giving Pledge signups collapse to four families in 2024.
Google-backed FireSat satellites launch as wildfire smoke chokes North America
Three microsatellites can spot fires as small as 5 by 5 meters, with a 50+ satellite constellation targeting 20-minute revisits by the early 2030s.
Databricks hits $188B valuation as Coatue leads new round
The data platform's fourth up-round in 18 months lifts its mark 40% above February's $134B, cementing its AI-provider reinvention.
Vertu's $6,880 Alphafold pitches an AI agent for executives, delivers mixed results
Hermes Agent acts more autonomously than Gemini but misses reminder times, books wrong trip dates, and forgets uploaded files days later.
TikTok tests an opt-in AI likeness detection tool for creators
The scanner uses a Jumio identity check and a selfie to flag unauthorized deepfakes, launching first with a slice of US creators.
AI memory demand jolts India's smartphone market as shipments fall 10%
Handset makers squeezed as Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron divert capacity to HBM for AI accelerators; entry-level India segment collapses 45%.
Agility Robotics opens Fremont training facility next door to Tesla's Optimus factory
The humanoid maker has $300M in contract orders, dozens of Digits deployed, and a reverse-merger IPO planned for later this year.
Apple's trade secrets suit lands as OpenAI eyes an IPO this year
Apple's complaint names OpenAI's chief hardware officer and cites 400+ former Apple staff now at the company, weeks before a rumored public listing.
Patreon starts blocking AI scrapers with Cloudflare, dropping robots.txt approach
The membership platform is shifting from polite requests to active enforcement, cutting weekly scrape attempts from thousands to zero.
Apple passes Nvidia to reclaim world's most valuable company title
Apple hit a $4.88 trillion market value on Friday as Nvidia slipped 3%, ending the chipmaker's run at the top of the market.
Upper90 lends General Compute $400M against inference chips, not GPUs
The firm that pioneered GPU-backed lending in 2021 is now betting on SambaNova's SN50 silicon as the next collateral class.
Foundation, backed by Eric Trump, plans armed humanoid robots
CEO Sankaet Pathak says weapons systems arrive in months, with Phantom MK1 already tested by Ukrainian forces.
San Francisco orders Apple and Google to pull 13 AI 'nudify' apps
City Attorney David Chiu says the two stores likely made millions from face-swap apps used to create nonconsensual nude images.
Databricks lands funding at a $188 billion valuation
The data and AI platform's new mark cements its place among the highest-valued private companies in the AI stack.
Anthropic pushes states past transparency toward tougher AI audits
The $1T-valued lab says 2025's self-reporting laws are already outdated and is backing third-party audits in Illinois and Massachusetts.
Hyundai union strikes over Atlas humanoid robots, an auto-industry first
39,000 South Korean workers walked out as Hyundai plans 25,000 Boston Dynamics Atlas units across its plants starting 2028.
xAI sues Grok user for CSAM generation, argues users own AI outputs
Elon Musk's xAI filed its first lawsuit against a user accused of generating child sex images, staking out a legal theory that shifts liability from model to prompter.
AI Box ships MCP server, pipes 80+ models into Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini
The Model Context Protocol server routes 60 flagship endpoints across image, video, audio, and text through the assistant users already run.
Linus Torvalds tells anti-AI critics to fork Linux or walk away
The Linux creator says he will 'very loudly ignore' calls to ban LLM tools from the kernel, calling AI clearly useful for coding.
Roblox launches Build, an AI text-to-game tool inside its mobile app
The company opens public alpha in New Zealand on July 28, with a retention-based ranking system meant to keep AI slop off the homepage.
OpenAI defends teen access to ChatGPT with new safety framework
The company argues teens need age-appropriate AI access, pairing new protections with parental controls rather than blanket bans.
New York's Hochul used AI to review 'every single rule' in state law
Governor Kathy Hochul says AI compressed a five-year regulatory review into a couple of months, days after signing a hyperscale data center moratorium.
Moonshot's Kimi K3 aims to match Anthropic's Opus 4.8 as valuation hits $31.5B
The Chinese lab's next open-weight model will run 2–3 trillion parameters, the largest ever released from China.
Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, adds code execution
The research app keeps its standalone form but gains a secure cloud computer and syncs with the Gemini app and Search.
AMI Labs' Alexandre LeBrun rejects 'AGI' and 'superintelligence' labels
The Yann LeCun-backed world model startup raised $1.03B in March but is still pre-product and courting Korean robotics partners.
Ex-DeepMind researcher raises $55M at $300M valuation for visual AI startup Elorian
Andrew Dai closed the seed round months after leaving Google, before Elorian shipped a product, betting visual reasoning is the next AI frontier.
OpenAI launches a $70 ChatGPT basketball alongside its first hardware
The rubber ball ships with a $230 mini keyboard and a $175 quarter-zip as OpenAI tests physical merchandise under a 'Pause. Play. Prompt.' campaign.
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