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Everyone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google

Xreal, Google’s smartglasses partner, thinks it has finally mastered this notoriously tricky industry

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Sarah Tavel, Benchmark’s first woman GP, transitions to venture partner

Eight years after joining Benchmark as the firm’s first woman general partner, Sarah Tavel announced on X that she is...

Meta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI

On Tuesday, Meta held its first-ever AI developer conference, LlamaCon, at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. The company announced the...

Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI...

Warning issued over impending climate ‘disaster’ – as govt urged to better prepare for heavy flooding and intense heat

A blistering new report has slated government efforts to protect Britons from climate change that is already flooding homes, farmland...

Figure AI sent cease-and-desist letters to secondary markets brokers

Last month, Brett Adcock, founder of a robotics startup Figure AI, claimed in a post on X that his company...

Snapchat abandons plans for a simplified version of its app

As part of its Q1 2025 earnings release, Snap said it’s scrapping plans for a simplified version of its app....

Startups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app Cluely

AI cheating startup Cluely went viral last week with bold claims that its hidden in-browser window is “undetectable” and can...

Freepik releases an ‘open’ AI image generator trained on licensed data

Freepik, the online graphic design platform, unveiled a new “open” AI image model on Tuesday that the company says was...

OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Tuesday the company is “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering...

Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year