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Apple's Jony Ive Teams With OpenAI on Hockey Puck-Sized Smart Speaker Coming in 2027 OpenAI and legendary designer Jony Ive are building a new AI device shaped like a hockey puck—roughly the size of a doughnut—that works as a smart speaker without a screen. The battery-powered
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Venture Capital Is Banking on Creators to Reach Young Founders Lightspeed Venture Partners is making a major bet on creator-led investing. The firm is leaning heavily into partnerships with popular online personalities and content creators who can build trust with the next generation of startup founders. This strategy follows similar
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Powerful Open AI Models Are Racing Ahead—But Safety Standards Aren't Keeping Up A new SaferAI report has found that Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 model is approaching the capabilities of frontier AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude, but it's missing critical safety protections
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Design Arena Raises $7.9 Million to Teach AI Models What Humans Actually Want Design Arena, a platform that gathers human feedback on AI-generated designs, just closed a $7.9 million funding round. The platform is already being used by 5.3 million people worldwide to evaluate and improve designs
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The Robotaxi Race: Two Very Different Paths Emerging The robotaxi industry is splitting into two distinct camps with competing visions for the future. Some companies are betting on fully autonomous vehicles that require little to no human intervention, while others are taking a hybrid approach—combining AI automation with human
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OpenAI CEO Pitches ChatGPT as a Parenting Tool—Here's What Small Business Owners Should Know Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, recently highlighted what he sees as a practical use case for ChatGPT: helping parents navigate the challenges of raising kids. While Altman presented this as an exciting application,
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AI Just Leveled the Playing Field—But Success Still Takes More Than Youth Silicon Valley has long celebrated young founders as the next big thing. But a new reality is emerging: AI tools are democratizing startup creation so much that age matters less than execution. Tools that once required a
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Big Tech's AI Bet Is Paying Off—But There's a Catch for Your Business Amazon is spending billions on data centers to power AI services, and Wall Street is cheering rather than panicking. Investors see this massive infrastructure investment as a sign that cloud companies are
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Zuckerberg Says Billions Will Have Personal AI Agents in Five Years—Here's What It Means for You Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting billions on artificial intelligence, predicting that within five years, billions of people will have personal AI agents to help them work and live. The company
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AI Industry Leaders Ask Government to Slow Down and Set Rules Employees from major AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Mistral have signed a joint statement calling on the U.S. government to pump the brakes on frontier AI development. The statement pushes for stronger global coordination
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Don't Put All Your AI Eggs in One Basket, Microsoft's Chief Warns Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says companies that rely on a single AI tool for everything—without building their own AI infrastructure or protective layers—risk falling behind. He specifically highlighted the importance of "
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Why Wall Street Is Panicking Over a Chinese AI Tool (And Why You Shouldn't) Moonshot AI's Kimi, a Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot, recently sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street. On the latest Equity podcast episode, tech insiders discussed why this tool sparked such a
