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WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private
The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations.
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Quoting Boris Mann
“11 AI agents” is meaningless as a phrase. If I said “I have 11 spreadsheets” or “I have 11 browser tabs” to do my work, it means about the same thing. — Boris Mann Tags: ai-agents, ai, agent-definitions
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Submit Your Questions: AI Is Changing Your Job—Now What?
Pose your questions ahead of our May 27 livestream AMA, where a panel of WIRED experts will discuss how AI is transforming work.
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Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry.
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CSP Allow-list Experiment
Tool: CSP Allow-list Experiment An experiment that shows that you can load an app in a CSP-protected sandboxed iframe (see previous note) and have a custom fetch() that intercepts CSP errors and passes them up to the parent window... which can then prompt the user to add that domain to an...
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Meta won’t let you block its AI account on Threads
Meta announced on Tuesday that it's testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers to questions or context about a conversation on the platform. If you've spent any time looking at replies on X as of late, this new feature sounds a lot like Meta's take on people […]
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The Unitree GD01 Is a Giant Mecha Robot You Can Actually Buy
China’s Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha.
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How finance teams use Codex
See how finance teams can use Codex to build MBRs, reporting packs, variance bridges, model checks, and planning scenarios from real work inputs.
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datasette 1.0a29
Release: datasette 1.0a29 New TokenRestrictions.abbreviated(datasette) utility method for creating "_r" dictionaries. #2695 Table headers and column options are now visible even if a table contains zero rows. #2701 Fixed bug with display of column actions dialog on Mobile Safari. #2708 Fixed bug...
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Quoting Mo Bitar
Now, if your CEO has never heard the phrase Ralph Loop, oh man, you are less than 30 days away from your next promotion. I'm not even exaggerating. Walk into his office, close the door, and say, hey chief, been experimenting with something. It's called Ralph Loops. And I think it could change...
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Quoting Mitchell Hashimoto
The thing about 90% of TDMs [Technical Decision Makers] is that they're motivated primarily by NOT GETTING FIRED. These aren't people who browser Lobsters or push to GH on the weekend. These are people that work 9 to 5, get paid, go home, and NEVER THINK ABOUT WORK AGAIN. So to achieve all that,...
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Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok
The feature is designed to help people get real-time context about trends and breaking stories, as well as receive recommendations, all within conversations.
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George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing
Hollywood actors and producers are standing behind a new AI licensing standard that will tell AI systems whether they'll need to pay to use a person's likeness, creative work, characters, and designs. With the Human Consent Standard, people can set terms for the use of their work or likeness,...
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Rivian’s AI-powered voice assistant is ready to roll
Rivian's AI-powered voice assistant is rolling out today to the company's vehicle fleet. The assistant will be available through a software update to all compatible Rivian Gen 1 and Gen 2 vehicle owners who subscribe to the company's Connect Plus cellular service, which costs $15 a month or $150 a...
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Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks
Right now, every AI model you've ever used works the same way. You talk, it listens. It responds, you listen. Thinking Machines is trying to change that by building a model that processes your input and generates a response at the same time, so it's more like a phone call than a text chain.
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GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well as prompt engineering and new AI workflows.
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Thoughts on GitLab's workforce reduction" and "structural and strategic decisions"
GitLab Act 2 There's a lot going on in this announcement from GitLab about the "workforce reduction" and "structural and strategic decisions" they are making with respect to the agentic era. They're "planning to reduce the number of countries by up to 30% where we have small teams". One of the most...
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Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks
Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto.
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Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS
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Quoting James Shore
Your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance costs. Three times as productive? One third the maintenance costs. Otherwise, you’re screwed....