Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and robotics
Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills.
Cartoonist Paul Pope is more worried about killer robots than AI plagiarism
Paul Pope has written and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century — from “Batman: Year 100,” in which Batman challenges a dystopian surveillance state, to “Battling Boy,” with its adolescent god proving his mettle by fighting giant monsters. But it’s been more than a decade since Pope’s last major comics […]
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Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and robotics
Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills.
Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too
The fight between HR tech startups has heated up again after Rippling filed an amended complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising of four other competitors, in addition to Rippling.
Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’
Anthropic Co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said his company cut Windsurf’s direct access to Anthropic’s Claude AI models largely because of rumors and reports that OpenAI, its largest competitor, is acquiring the AI coding assistant. “We really are just trying to enable our customers who are going to sustainably be working with us […]
Google’s CEO Is Spending His Free Time ‘Vibe Coding’ a Webpage with AI: ‘I’ve Just Been Messing Around’
Vibe coding is the process of prompting AI to write code, instead of doing it manually.
Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control
Bonfire’s mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google.
8 Passive Income Ideas That Are Actually Worth Pursuing
These passive income ideas offer long-term earning potential with minimal ongoing effort.
Your Competitors Are Winning with PR — You Just Don’t See It Yet
While PR might not generate immediate clicks or sales, it builds something far more enduring.
From ‘Hot Ones’ to Creating the Hottest Pepper in the World, Smokin’ Ed Currie Says He’s on a Mission From God to Bring Pleasure and Pain to the Masses
Smokin’ Ed Currie, founder of Puckerbutt Pepper Company and creator of Pepper X, the Guinness World Record holder for hottest pepper, talks about the soul behind his legendary sauces.
X tests highlighting posts that are liked by users with opposing views
X says that this feedback will help develop an open source algorithm that can identify posts liked by people with different perspectives.