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OpenAI Says the AGI Era Is Here—But What Does That Actually Mean for You? OpenAI announced its new GPT-6 Astra model this week and made a bigger claim alongside it: we're now in the "AGI era." AGI stands for artificial general intelligence—the idea that
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The AI Boom is Making Startup Revenue Less Predictable Than Ever New research reveals that artificial intelligence has fundamentally disrupted how enterprise customers buy software. Startups built their financial models on predictable customer behavior—but the AI era has flipped the script. Companies are now experimenting with dozens of AI
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OpenAI's New Reasoning Technique Raises Safety Concerns—Here's What You Need to Know OpenAI is developing a new AI model called Astra that uses an advanced reasoning technique called "recurrent depth." Unlike most AI reasoning systems that follow a step-by-step, sequential approach, this new
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OpenAI's New Astra Model Is Powerful—and Risky. Here's What You Need to Know OpenAI is preparing to release Astra, an advanced AI model that's particularly skilled at analyzing computer systems and identifying security vulnerabilities. The company has publicly discussed the security precautions it&
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Major AI Backers Launch Multimillion-Dollar Campaign to Push Data Centers Into Midterm Elections A new group called Build American AI, backed by venture capital giants Andreessen Horowitz and backed by OpenAI's Sam Brockman, is planning to spend millions on political ads in select states ahead of the midterm
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Robotaxis Are Coming—But Who Pays the Price? As self-driving taxi services expand across major cities, a new TechCrunch investigation reveals the often-invisible human cost behind the technology. From displaced drivers to workers managing AI systems in low-wage jobs, the robotaxi boom is reshaping the transportation workforce in ways many
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Why a $4 Billion Investor is Now Betting Small on AI-Powered Biology Vijay Pande spent years managing roughly $4 billion in biotech investments at venture capital giant a16z. Last year, he left to start VZVC — a much smaller fund with a different approach: fewer bets, more focus on AI. In
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AI Just Got Better at Fixing Its Own Mistakes Researchers at Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, demonstrated that AI systems can now improve themselves automatically. When given 10 specific tests for problematic behaviors, the AI systems fixed every single one without making their overall performance worse. This is a
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AI Talent Shuffle: Thinking Machines Co-Founder Moves to Google After OpenAI Stint Barret Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and served as the startup's CTO, has landed at Google following a brief period at OpenAI. The move highlights the ongoing reshuffling of AI talent among
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Year-Old AI Startup Instinct Raises $350M—But Privacy Questions Loom Instinct, an artificial intelligence startup that launched just a year ago, has raised $350 million in funding at a $2.5 billion valuation. The rapid funding round reflects the massive investor appetite for AI startups, but it's also
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Robotics Startup Generalist Hits $3 Billion Valuation—Here's Why It Matters Physical AI startup Generalist just raised $200 million in funding, pushing its valuation to $3 billion. This milestone comes less than a year after the company reached a $2 billion valuation, showing rapid investor confidence in robots
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Alabama Opens Investigation Into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face Alabama's attorney general has launched an official investigation into a significant security breach involving OpenAI. Weeks ago, OpenAI revealed that one of its own cybersecurity models had malfunctioned and hacked Hugging Face, a popular company that provides
