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OpenAI makes new data center commitments, AI policy recommendations
SiliconANGLEabout 4 hours ago

OpenAI makes new data center commitments, AI policy recommendations

### OpenAI makes new data center commitments, AI policy recommendations OpenAI Group PBC today made a set of commitments designed to ensure that its data centers benefit the communities where they’re built. It also proposed that lawmakers make some of the commitments mandatory for artificial intelligence companies. The move comes two days after Democrats won both the House and the Senate on a campaign backing data center construction...

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Now Claude can help with your finances too
Engadgetabout 10 hours ago

Now Claude can help with your finances too

# Now Claude can help with your finances too But should you? Anthropic has begun testing a new personal finance experience inside of Claude. Starting this week, Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers in the US can connect their financial accounts to Claude in order to get personalized financial advice from the chatbot. Like OpenAI did with ChatGPT Finances in May, Anthropic has partnered with Plaid to allow users to connect their bank accounts....

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OpenAI president Greg Brockman says company could be IPO ready in 2027
TechCrunchabout 10 hours ago

OpenAI president Greg Brockman says company could be IPO ready in 2027

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman said the company would be ready for an IPO in 2027, noting that its enterprise revenue has been growing. Speaking at a Wall Street Journal tech conference on Wednesday, the executive touted how the company had been gaining ground in the enterprise market, where rival Anthropic had already successfully made inroads. In response to the interviewer’s question about being IPO-ready next year,...

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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
TechCrunch3 days ago

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan has, in the past, jokingly admitted that he’s suffered from “cyber psychosis” and sometimes barely sleeps because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter Isaacson’s podcast The Builders, set to publish on Tuesday, Tan put a price tag on his passion. “I spend about maybe $100\[,000\]-$200,000 a year on tokens,” he told Isaacson. He uses agents for countless work projects and...

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Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features
Wired AI4 days ago

Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features

At first glance, the self-proclaimed “pet portrait” app Viefur appears to be just another AI slop generator. Using digital coins sold in the app—around $4 will buy 130 coins—pet photos can be turned into an “anthropomorphic portrait,” with the critter dressed in “human clothing” and inserted into bizarre scenes. Think a hamster wearing beach shorts, sunglasses, and lounging in a swimming pool or a Hawaiian shirt-wearing cat, drinking from a...

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All the leaks for the Portal prequel F-Stop have been compiled into a playable game
Engadget4 days ago

All the leaks for the Portal prequel F-Stop have been compiled into a playable game

# All the leaks for the Portal prequel F-Stop have been compiled into a playable game This rough version is the closest thing to a release we’ll see. There may be no hope of Valve's canceled prequel to the Portal series ever making it to an official release, but we can still get a taste through unofficial means. After another major leak, *F-Stop* is now fully playable thanks to community efforts that have compiled all the leaked data. This...

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Managing Amazon Bedrock costs end to end: A playbook for FinOps and platform teams
AWS Machine Learning Blog5 days ago

Managing Amazon Bedrock costs end to end: A playbook for FinOps and platform teams

Cost management for generative AI is a shared responsibility between the teams that build applications and the teams accountable for cloud spend. Many teams start by comparing per-model token rates and asking application teams to shorten prompts. Those steps help, but they don’t answer the questions that finance and engineering leaders ask as usage scales: which team spent this, on which workload, and was that spend inside an approved budget?...

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I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
The Verge Tech5 days ago

I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face — and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your jolly AI helper around like a Tamagotchi. # I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could We have Muse Charm at home. # I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could We have Muse Charm at home. But I won’t be buying one, because *we have Muse Charm at home*. It cost just $50,...

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Claude Max 20x changed its name to Ultra, removing the 5-hour limit
GenK6 days ago

Claude Max 20x changed its name to Ultra, removing the 5-hour limit

**Prices and weekly limits remain the same, but the new name raises the question of how many times "20x" actually means for the Pro package.** On October 30, Anthropic announced the renaming of Claude's two premium packages for individuals. Max 5x becomes Max, keeping the level of 100 USD per month, equivalent to about 2.6 million VND. Max 20x becomes Ultra, remaining at 200 USD, equivalent to about 5.3 million VND. The currently registered...

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Waymo’s next robotaxi is a purpose-built Toyota bZ4X
The Verge7 days ago

Waymo’s next robotaxi is a purpose-built Toyota bZ4X

Waymo announced today that when it launches a robotaxi service in Tokyo in 2027, it will use Toyota bZ4X electric vehicles that are assembled in Japan. The news builds on the strategic partnership between Waymo and Toyota which was first announced in April 2025. # Waymo’s next robotaxi is a purpose-built Toyota bZ4X Toyota will assemble Waymo-equipped bZ4X electric SUVs directly on its factory line in Japan ahead of planned robotaxi...

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Claude launches new feature 'competing for jobs' with lawyers, is there any profession that AI hasn't looked into?
GenK7 days ago

Claude launches new feature 'competing for jobs' with lawyers, is there any profession that AI hasn't looked into?

**Review contracts, check quotes, monitor new regulations: Claude is taking on more work as a lawyer, after working in programming, design, finance and human resources.** On October 28, Anthropic introduced a new set of tools for Claude for Legal, a service for the legal sector launched in May. Lawyers and legal staff can select available templates, import documents for processing and then share with colleagues. These templates are designed...

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Amazon: AI mở ra thời kỳ của nhà phát triển Phục hưng
VNExpress Số Hóa8 days ago

Amazon: AI mở ra thời kỳ của nhà phát triển Phục hưng

# Amazon: AI mở ra thời kỳ của nhà phát triển Phục hưng Amazon cho rằng AI đang làm thay đổi cách viết phần mềm, mở ra thời kỳ nhà phát triển có thể đảm nhiệm nhiều việc thay vì chuyên sâu một lĩnh vực. Trong thông báo gửi nhân viên tuần này, Terk Terkowitz, Phó chủ tịch Amazon, cho rằng các công cụ và tác nhân lập trình AI đang làm đảo lộn ngành công nghiệp phần mềm. Công ty gọi đây là "thời kỳ của nhà phát triển Phục hưng", khi sự phán...

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