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Michael Burry says AI safety warnings from OpenAI and Anthropic are exaggerated hype that helps sustain excitement as growth slows ahead of potential IPOs.
Oracle employees reportedly lost system, Slack and office access before receiving early-morning layoff emails as the company begins another round of job cuts.
Tesla has launched steering-wheel-free Cybercab rides in Austin, bringing its purpose-built autonomous taxi onto public roads for the first time.
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, setting new performance highs across coding, scientific research and knowledge-work benchmarks.
Excerpt: Anthropic unveiled Model Hardware Standard, a framework that enables AI agents to operate laboratory and manufacturing equipment in the physical world.
A philosopher rejected a $335,000 job offer from Anthropic, saying the growing reliance on AI risks weakening human skills and increasing social isolation.
OnlyFans says it has paid more than $30 billion to creators since 2016, with over 5,000 creators earning at least $1 million on the platform.
An internal survey found that nearly 78% of Nvidia employees are millionaires, while half have accumulated net worth exceeding $25 million.
Alibaba's quarterly profit fell about 75% as aggressive investment in AI infrastructure and cloud computing continued to pressure near-term earnings.
Visa, Mastercard, and more than 25 companies have formed the Agentic Payments Alliance to develop standards for AI agent payments, identity, security, and fraud prevention.
LG Electronics and NVIDIA plan to build a 100,000-hour robot training dataset using real and synthetic data to accelerate development of next-generation humanoid robots.
The Wall Street Journal estimates that major U.S. technology companies have nearly $3 trillion in future AI-related commitments beyond their reported capital expenditures.