DOGE days are over as Trump disbands Elon Musk’s team of federal cost-cutters
DOGE members are reportedly worried that they could face prosecution for some of their activities conducted while under the leadership of Elon Musk.
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Pocket Casts now lets you create a playlist of your favorite podcast episodes
Pocket Casts now lets you create playlists for putting podcasts episodes in your desired listening order.
Meta had a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking, former safety leader claims
Meta allegedly gave accounts engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex” 16 chances before suspending them, according to testimony from the company’s former head of safety and wellbeing, Vaishnavi Jayakumar. The testimony — along with several other claims that Meta ignored problems if they increased engagement — surfaced in an unredacted court filing related […]
A new AI benchmark tests whether chatbots protect human wellbeing
Most AI benchmarks measure intelligence and instruction-following rather than psychological safety. Humane Bench evaluates models based on core principles of human flourishing, prioritizing wellbeing, and respecting user attention.
Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they finally have an AI hardware prototype
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive have been keeping the finer details of the first mysterious OpenAI hardware under wraps, but it sounds like they’ve settled on a design. In an interview with Laurene Powell Jobs at Emerson Collective’s 2025 Demo Day, they said they are currently prototyping the device, and […]
Zombies, Run! isn’t headed for the grave after all
Earlier this year, it looked like time was up for ZRX: Zombies, Run!, a popular fitness app that mixed couch-to-5K plans with postapocalyptic audio storytelling. Now, cocreator and author Naomi Alderman has announced that she’s bought back the franchise from the brink. Zombies, Run! was first founded in 2012 with about 10 million users worldwide. […]
Facebook takes on Reddit with launch of nicknames for Facebook Groups
Facebook users can protect their privacy in Groups using a new nicknames feature.
Former MrBeast content strategist is building an AI tool for creator ideation and analytics
Palo is tool for short video creators to gain insights into what is working for them.
‘Holy shit’: Gemini 3 is winning the AI race — for now
When an AI model release immediately spawns memes and treatises declaring the rest of the industry cooked, you know you’ve got something worth dissecting. Google’s Gemini 3 was released Tuesday to widespread fanfare. The company called the model a “new era of intelligence,” integrating it into Google Search on day one for the first time. […]
US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm
U.S. banking giants including JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Morgan Stanley are working to identify what data was stolen in a recent cyberattack on a New York financial firm.