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    Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2025 3:24


    A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on their copyrighted works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Sam Altman comes out swinging at The New York Times

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 5:45


    From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not going to be a normal interview. Altman and his chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, stood awkwardly toward the back of the stage at a jam-packed San Francisco venue that typically hosts jazz concerts. Hundreds of people filled steep theatre-style seating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Bill Gates-backed AirLoom begins building its first power plant

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 3:45


    Wind power has run into some headwinds, and not the kind that spin its turbines.  Recently, President Trump has decided to wage war against the technology, an unwelcome bit of friction that coincides with rising costs in recent years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Kodiak is using Vay's remote driving tech in its self-driving trucks

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 5:19


    Kodiak Robotics has partnered with driverless car-sharing startup Vap to bring a remote-driving system into its self-driving trucks operation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Novoloop is making tons of upcycled plastic

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 3:52


    Novoloop recently raised a $21 million Series B to begin building its first commercial scale plastic upcycling plant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    How a data processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 4:33


    Eventual's data processing engine Daft was inspried by the founders' experience working on Lyft's autonomous vehicle project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Why Danny Boyle shot ‘28 Years Later' on iPhones ... and more tech news

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 8:19


    Director Danny Boyle famously shot his post-apocalyptic classic “28 Days Later” on Canon digital cameras, making it easier for him to capture eerie scenes of an abandoned London, and giving the movie's fast-moving zombies a terrifying immediacy. Also, LinkedIn users seem to have embraced AI, but there's one area that's seen less uptake than expected, according to CEO Ryan Roslansky: the AI-generated suggestions for polishing your LinkedIn posts; Google's adding a slew of AI features to the Chromebook Plus line, including a search and text capture tool, NotebookLM, and a tool for simplifying text; European governments may be reconsidering their use of American technology and services, according to a new report in The New York Times; a Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 6:36


    Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Rippling spy says men have been following him, and his wife is afraid

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 3:33


    If becoming a corporate spy sounds exciting, let this newest affidavit from confessed Rippling spy Keith O'Brien serve as a warning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    The Robinhood founder who might just revolutionize energy, if he succeeds

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 7:56


    Baiju Bhatt is building something the space industry has largely dismissed, and it might be more groundbreaking than anyone realizes. When Baiju Bhatt stepped away from his role as Chief Creative Officer at Robinhood last year, only those close to him could have predicted his next move: launching a space company built around tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Voi CEO says he's open to acquiring Bolt's micromobility business

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 4:02


    Frederik Hjelm, CEO of shared micromobility startup Voi, said he sees a path to acquiring the scooter and bike operations of Bolt, the European mobility super-app best known for ride-hailing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    ‘Kid-pilled' Sam Altman ‘constantly' asked ChatGPT questions about his newborn

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 4:32


    Across hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, an impossible question has befuddled our species: why is the baby crying?! Sam Altman, who is both the father of a three-month-old and CEO of OpenAI, hopped on OpenAI's new podcast today to talk about how his company is impacting his experience with fatherhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI's talent with $100M offers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 4:16


    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta's new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    OpenAI's $200M DoD contract could squeeze frenemy Microsoft

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 3:26


    The contract could put the model maker in competition with the OpenAI services that Microsoft wants to sell to the DoD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Sword Health nabs $40M at $4B valuation, pushes IPO plans to at least 2028

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 3:45


    The digital health startup says it secured the fresh capital to update its valuation and finance acquisitions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Spotify's Daniel Ek just bet bigger on Helsing, Europe's defense tech darling

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2025 4:46


    Spotify's Daniel Ek just led a €600 million investment in Helsing, a four-year-old, Munich-based defense tech company that is now valued at €12 billion, according to the Financial Times. The deal makes it one of Europe's most valuable privately held companies; it also highlights Europe's scramble to build its own military muscle as the world grows messier and the U.S. turns inward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Patreon will increase the cut it takes from new creators ... and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2025 7:36


    Patreon is bumping its take fee from creators from 8% to 10%, but only for new signups; ChatGPT seems to have pushed some users towards delusional or conspiratorial thinking, according to a recent feature in The New York Times; Meta's massive investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startup's biggest customers pause. Reuters reports that Google had planned to pay Scale AI $200 million this year but is now planning to cut ties with the startup and is having conversations with its competitors; Pornainen recently turned on a 100 MWh thermal battery filled with ground up soapstone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Instagram users complain of mass bans, pointing finger at AI

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2025 4:07


    Instagram users report that their accounts were banned even though they had not violated the company's terms of service or other policies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2025 3:54


    It sounds like the start of a 21st century horror film: Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea. That's basically what it feels like right now on the new standalone Meta AI app, where swathes of people are publishing their ostensibly private conversations with the chatbot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 3:37


    Amazon and Talen revised an existing deal to buy power from the Susquehanna nuclear power plant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft — and people are paying anyway

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 5:53


    A new analysis done by ride-hailing aggregator Obi shows Waymos cost more especially on shorter trips. They also have longer wait times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    How Warp is introducing robots to automate its network of warehouses

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2025 4:16


    Warp can't automate long-haul trucking or short-range delivery, so it's working on what it can potentially change: the workflows inside its warehouses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Uptime Industries wants to boost localized AI usage with an ‘AI-in-a-box' called Lemony AI

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2025 3:33


    The Lemony AI device can run large language models, AI agents and automated workflows locally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Sam Altman thinks AI will have ‘novel insights' next year

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 4:18


    In a new essay published Tuesday called “The Gentle Singularity,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared his latest vision for how AI will change the human experience over the next 15 years. The essay is a classic example of Altman's futurism: hyping up the promise of AGI — and arguing that his company is quite close. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Mistral releases a pair of AI reasoning models

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 3:44


    Mistral released Magistral, its first family of reasoning models. Like other reasoning models — e.g. OpenAI's o3 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro — Magistral works through problems step-by-step for improved consistency and reliability across topics such as math and physics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Paragon says it cancelled contracts with Italy over government's refusal to investigate spyware attack on journalist

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 5:28


    The Italian government claims that accepting Paragon's help would have compromised national security and classified information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    PayPal is adding hotel booking within its app, powered by Selfbook

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 2:36


    PayPal is partnering with hotel payment provider Selfbook to let users search for and book hotels within the PayPal app. The company said that it will let users pay through PayPal at checkout and offer exclusive discounts to users within the app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Waymo robotaxis, Lime e-scooters set ablaze during LA protests

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2025 3:02


    Several Waymo robotaxis and Lime e-scooters were set ablaze this weekend as unrest in downtown Los Angeles continued. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Walmart and Wing expand drone delivery to five more U.S. cities

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2025 3:33


    Walmart and Wing are expanding their partnership and rolling out drone delivery to dozens of more stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Bonfire's new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 5:59


    Bonfire's mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 3:27


    Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly using the site's data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement, according to a complaint filed in a Northern California court on Wednesday. Reddit claims in the complaint that Anthropic's unauthorized use of the site's data for commercial purposes was unlawful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 3:12


    It's becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. AI dev platform Hugging Face released earlier this week an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments, Hugging Face claims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Reddit now lets you hide content, like posts and comments, from your user profile

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 3:45


    Reddit announced a new feature that will offer its users more privacy when it comes to what's shared on their user profiles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Anthropic's AI is writing its own blog — with human oversight

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 4:30


    Anthropic has given its AI a blog. A week ago, Anthropic quietly launched Claude Explains, a new page on its website that's generated mostly by the company's AI model family, Claude. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Health giant Kettering still facing disruption weeks after ransomware attack

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 3:57


    A healthcare giant with dozens of facilities across Ohio is still recovering after shutting down nearly all its operations following a ransomware attack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    TikTok launches ‘TikTok for Artists,' a new music insights platform

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 3:07


    TikTok announced on Tuesday that it's officially launching TikTok for Artists, a new music insights platform that is designed to help artists build their careers. The official launch comes two months after TikTok was spotted testing the platform in select countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 7:09


    Elad Gil started betting on AI before most of the world took notice. By the time investors began grasping the implications of ChatGPT, Gil had already written seed checks to startups like Perplexity, Character.AI, and Harvey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    For the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-worker

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 5:05


    Generative AI comes in many forms. Increasingly, though, it's marketed the same way: with human names and personas that make it feel less like code and more like a co-worker. A growing number of startups are anthropomorphizing AI to build trust fast — and soften its threat to human jobs. It's dehumanizing, and it's accelerating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    DeepSeek's updated R1 AI model is more censored, test finds

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 3:16


    Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's newest AI model, an updated version of the company's R1 reasoning model, achieves impressive scores on benchmarks for coding, math, and general knowledge, nearly surpassing OpenAI's flagship o3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Tesla pleads for Senate to spare its booming energy business

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 3:31


    If the Senate were to pass it with those repeals in tact, it could have a devastating impact on Tesla's energy division. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Volteras wants to connect to more EVs than anyone else

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 3:54


    Volteras has raised $11.1 million to expand its connected car offerings to automakers and companies that want to interact with EVs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    LoveJack, the dating app designed for users to find love using just five words

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 5:35


    As Kevin Malone from “The Office” once said, “Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?”  For Julia LeStage and Lisa Le, the creators of a new dating app called LoveJack, finding love online doesn't have to feel like filling out a mountain of paperwork Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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