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Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
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Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding ag…
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:07:32 +0000
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US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search
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US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:53:30 +0000
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Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year’s mark
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Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year’s mark
Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:33:19 +0000
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Build in public, fail in public: what it’s like to be a founder under 20 right now
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Build in public, fail in public: what it’s like to be a founder under 20 right now
AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000
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Anthropic launches Opus 5
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Anthropic launches Opus 5
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000
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India’s move against Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat sparks legal debate
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India’s move against Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat sparks legal debate
The offline messaging app surged in popularity in India amid protests in New Delhi.
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:54:58 +0000
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OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating
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OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wand…
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:50:08 +0000
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Sam Altman’s biometric startup World raises $52.5M via crypto sale
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Sam Altman’s biometric startup World raises $52.5M via crypto sale
Sam Altman's side project — which seeks to scan the world's eyeballs and turn them into unique digital identifiers — has raised some fresh cash through a crypto sale.
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:11:56 +0000
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As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
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As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:51:49 +0000
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Rivian sues the US government for ‘full refund’ of Trump tariffs
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Rivian sues the US government for ‘full refund’ of Trump tariffs
The automaker joins a long line of companies seeking such refunds. In April, Rivian CFO Claire McDonough said she expected the company stood to reap a refund in the "tens of millions of dollars."
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:16:31 +0000
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Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool
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Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool
Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:13:57 +0000
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Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star
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Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:09:55 +0000
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OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
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OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:36:42 +0000
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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
🕐 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0000
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Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics
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Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics
Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.
🕐 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:40:08 +0000
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AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
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AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
🕐 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:33:02 +0000
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