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Anthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027 Apr 29, 2025

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Thursday highlighting how little researchers understand about the inner workings of the world’s leading AI models. To address that, Amodei set an ambitious goal for Anthropic to reliably detect most AI model problems by 2027. Amodei acknowledges the challenge ahead.

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Chess.com reaches 200 million members Apr 29, 2025

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Chess.com reaches a new membership milestone as it nears its 20th birthday. Chess.com, the online chess platform that was founded in 2005 and launched in 2007, has surpassed 200 million members. Of those 200 million members, 1.5 million are paying users.

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Adobe wants to create a robots.txt styled indicator for images used in AI training Apr 28, 2025

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For years, websites included information about what kind of crawlers were not allowed on their site with a robots.txt file. Adobe, which wants to create a similar standard for images, has added a tool to content credentials with an intention to give them a bit more control over what is used to train AI models.

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Uber, Volkswagen pair up to launch robotaxi service in US with self-driving, electric microbuses Apr 28, 2025

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Volkswagen of America and Uber on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to launch a commercial robotaxi service — using autonomous electric VW ID. BUZZ vehicles — in multiple U.S. cities over the next decade. The companies expect to launch a commercial service in Los Angeles, the first city on the list, by late 2026

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Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps … yet Apr 25, 2025

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Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there’s currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured. Earlier this month, Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the request of Turkish governmental authorities, according to a recent report by the Freedom of Expression Association.

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Linktree rolls out a suite of monetization features for creators Apr 25, 2025

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Linktree is launching a set of new features aimed at helping creators earn more money directly from its platform. The new tools include the ability to sell courses and digital products, earn from brand-sponsored links, and build shoppable storefronts.

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The U.S. doesn’t refine cobalt. This startup wants to change that. Apr 24, 2025

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Xerion says it has a new technique to produce highly refined cobalt in a single step.

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Crowdsourced AI benchmarks have serious flaws, some experts say Apr 24, 2025

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AI labs are increasingly relying on crowdsourced benchmarking platforms such as Chatbot Arena to probe the strengths and weaknesses of their latest models. But some experts say that there are serious problems with this approach from an ethical and academic perspective.

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Tariff turmoil may have killed the tech M&A market’s comeback Apr 23, 2025

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The tech market doesn’t need to be soaring up and to the right to foster healthy M&A activity. Deals can get done even in down markets. But can M&A thrive in an uncertain market? That’s a harder question. The venture market soured in 2022 as fundraising and exits largely dried up

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Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed ‘dangerous and dumb’ Apr 23, 2025

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A digital rights group blasted the Florida bill, but lawmakers voted to advanced the draft law.

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