Flock Safety Is Offering Buyouts to Avoid Layoffs as Cities Rip Out Its Cameras
Flock Safety is offering the most generous voluntary buyout in company history after roughly 90 cities canceled contracts in August…
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Pitches a 30-Minute Hyperloop Between Austin and San Antonio
The Boring Company wants to cut the Austin to San Antonio drive from 80 minutes to under 30 with a…
Google Just Erased Free Product Listings Across Europe in 48 Hours
Google removed free product listings and carousels from search across the European Economic Area to comply with the Digital Markets…
Google Wants Every Adult Product in Your Store Labeled, No Exceptions
Google updated its Merchant Center policy to require ecommerce sellers to explicitly label adult-oriented products through a feed attribute or…
Bing Is Now Making You Prove You’re Human Before It’ll Search Anything
Bing has started asking some users to complete a verification challenge before displaying search results, mirroring steps Google has already…
The AI “Actress” Gave 75 Interviews at Once and Started Speaking Cantonese in One of Them
Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated actress created by Particle6 Group, ran a press tour of roughly 75 simultaneous interviews that included…
The People Building AI’s Next Big Thing Won’t Tell Anyone What It Does Yet
Well-funded world model startups like Yann LeCun's AMI Labs and Fei-Fei Li's World Labs are staying deliberately vague about their…
The Guy Who Invented the Technique Behind ChatGPT Built an AI That Can’t Hallucinate
TypeSafe AI, founded by ex-OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, launched Jev, a non-conversational model that outputs calibrated probabilities instead of text.…
A 25-Year-Old Just Raised $40 Million Because AI Benchmarks Are Broken
Vals AI closed a $40 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to build confidential, domain-specific benchmarks for AI models…
Petlibro’s New Feeder Uses a Camera to Figure Out Which Cat Actually Ate
Petlibro's new Granary 2 lineup uses an onboard AI camera to recognize up to 10 individual cats and a built-in…