Warner Bros. Discovery Is Suing Amazon Over a ‘Lawless Employee Shopping Spree’
Amazon says they were just hiring some talented execs. Warner Bros. Discovery hired lawyers.
OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got…
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An FDA Panel Just Moved Closer to Legalizing a Wellness Trend Worth Billions. Some Call the Decision ‘Alarming.’
The vote opens the door to easier access to peptides like BPC-157, but some scientists warn that the chemicals have not been proven safe or effective.
Single Americans Have Salary Expectations for Their Ideal Partners. Does Your Income Meet Them?
The majority of Americans in serious relationships value financial compatibility over physical attraction.
Snapchat now lets you share what you’re listening to in real time
Starting with Spotify, Snapchat users will be able to link their accounts, choose who can see their listening activity, and see what their friends are listening to in real time.
Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume
The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo’s Conviction Partners.
The Download: lasers for nuclear fuel, and organ preservation advances
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors Nuclear power provides about 9% of global electricity today, and that fraction could tick up as countries look to build new reactors.…
The path to artificial superintelligence
Imagine a healthcare system made up of multiple AI agents: one that manages symptom assessment, another scheduling, a third insurance, and a fourth pharmacy. Each is an expert in its domain. But they all have their own distinct knowledge and objectives. Today they can exchange data, but they are not yet able to actually coordinate…
Closing the data loop in AI-driven drug discovery
Drug discovery is a high-cost, high-risk endeavor that is under growing pressure from a market increasingly defined by first-mover advantage. Since the 1950s, the cost of developing new pharmaceuticals has roughly doubled every nine years—a phenomenon known as Eroom’s Law. Today, bringing a new drug to market takes an average of 10-15 years and costs…
Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI
For the enterprise, the promise of agentic AI is much more than just a better chatbot. It is software agents that execute business tasks end-to-end across people, business workflows, data, and systems. The platform best-suited to run agents is built with proper CPU capacity, resilient data access, policy-aware tool use, observability, memory management, and the…
Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot
On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet.