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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
“These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.””
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Uber to open 2 campuses in India to support product development, operations
Uber plans to open two new engineering campuses with a capacity of nearly 10,000 people in India by the end of 2027.
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Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante
Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.
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Why Q2 Is the Most Overlooked Opportunity to Fix Your Brand Strategy
As Q2 unfolds, many brands quietly realize their early-year strategies aren’t delivering as expected. This is the moment that separates stagnant brands from growing ones.
Senate Confirms Kevin Warsh as the New Federal Reserve Chair — Here’s What this ‘Regime Change’ Will Mean
The Wall Street veteran takes over from Jerome Powell at a challenging moment, with rising inflation complicating interest rate decisions.
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Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents
Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software.