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Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't want to compromise its core mission of developing AI safely and for the benefit of humanity. But greater model capabilities bring greater risks, and shareholders eager for returns may have
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"What is most radical in Tools for Conviviality — and also most frustrating, because it is so difficult to envisage — is the proposal that we should limit our tools. Illich rightly calls this a 'taboo.' Western society, loosely called, has harnessed its conce…
Microsoft’s first Voluntary Exit Offer targets roughly a quarter of its workforce at level 70 and below in participating teams. The individualized packages vary by level, location, and tenure, and may include severance, continued stock vesting, and health ins…
Pharmaceutical industry leaders have urged sales and marketing professionals in Nigeria to prioritise patient safety over profit at a conference in Lagos. Read More: https://punchng.com/prioritise-patient-safety-over-profit-pharmacists-tell-drug-marketers/
Learn how health insurance software development works in 2026. Our guide explains insurance software types and core features, compliance, and development steps.
Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta are collectively on track to pour roughly $700 billion into AI data centers, chips and computing infrastructure this year alone.
Following reports of iPhone Duos with cracked and broken inside screens, often showing a bright line running from the center to the right side, Apple says in a statement to Bloomberg and 9to5Mac that it's aware of "an issue impacting the inner display" on a "small number of iPhone Duo units." If your iPhone Duo is affected, Apple says to contact AppleCare for a replacement. Here is the full statem
Anthropic thinks “closing the loop” is the best path to AI triumph—and a recipe for “existential” threats to humanity.
Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.
The filing sets up the San Francisco company for a Wall Street debut next month, potentially eclipsing the SpaceX initial public offering in June that raised a record $86 billion.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Opinion: The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms —Sam Hiner, cofounder of the Young People’s Alliance, and Emma Leiken, executive director of the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund at…
Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’. The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more about AI's impact on the web, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The digital publishing industry has relied on Google for a very long time. Many outlets spent time and money optimizing their webpa
A Nigerian tech expert has developed an AI-powered platform, Kidneydotcom, to provide free, reliable kidney health information to patients and families. Read More: https://punchng.com/tech-expert-develops-ai-tool-to-support-kidney-patients/
Billions in AI spending promise to transform home care with smarter scheduling and faster assessments, but a widow recovering from a fall could still face an unexpected bill if she assumes the app's recommendation works the same way Medicare does.
Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human. Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
Lee Chang Dong's seventh feature film, Possible Love, is inspired by true events from 2009, when a Korean conglomerate fired a third of its staff - 2,600 employees - after which many died by suicide. Possible Love is the latest in a long line of Lee movies that engage with themes of class or labor or religion or compressed modernity, that uniquely Korean affliction, without feeling didactic. A dif
No cameras? No problem. Ditching the surveillance baggage makes Meta’s audio-only frames surprisingly easy to live with.
Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail, share the do's and don'ts for building hit products.
Customers measure your brand by what you deliver. Every gap between promise and execution chips away at their trust. Continue reading...
Melanie Dulbecco, the CEO of flavored syrup giant Torani, doesn’t buy the idea that laying off employees is always necessary.
Marketing metrics show what happened in a campaign. The harder job is connecting customer behavior to growth, margin, and profit. The post Your CEO wants answers your dashboard can’t give appeared first on MarTech.
This feature common to VPN services gives you protection and privacy specifically when and where you need it.
Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback. Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents.
Although the case is considered exceptional, investigators are working to determine how the infection occurred and whether the pathogen played a role in the patient’s death.
The fashion retailer says it’s piloting Bridgette, an AI-enabled virtual career guide, to make hiring "faster, simpler, more engaging, and more human where it counts."
On October 13th, Brendan Carr's FCC gave itself a new power - it can block gadgets for containing any computer chip made by any company on its list of potential threats to national security. Today, it's exercising that power for the first time, blocking two gadgets because they contain "foreign surveillance chips," the FCC claims. The agency doesn't say which specific gadgets it blocked, and it di
WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”
A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Future conference explores what it takes to build that foundation in a highly regulated environment and how a responsible, trustworthy implementation can turn emerging capabilities, including agentic…
Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course.
Rising costs leave US workers juggling multiple jobs as financial security becomes increasingly elusive.
New book discusses Steve Jobs, U2’s automatic album download and the culture of secrecy at one of the world’s biggest companies
We must support the common principles that healthcare is a human right, must be free from corporate profit, and must be via national legislation
A first for CRISPR: powerful prime editing alters DNA directly in the human body.
Meta had to shell out $9.89 billion to pay for a chunk of the child safety settlement it reached with US attorneys general. That's according to the company's third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, which says Meta's income from operations would have been $22.89 billion without the settlement. In August, Meta agreed to pay $17.1 billion to settle a massive nationwide lawsuit that claim
Static journeys can’t keep up with modern buyers. On Nov. 4, discover how real-time AI decisioning helps you build dynamic, high-impact customer experiences. The post From journeys to decisions: The next era of customer engagement appeared first on MarTech.
Checking out of your next Airbnb might be less of a hassle now that the company is banning hosts from including time-consuming chores in their house rules. Airbnb's updated house rules policy, which starts with reservations booked on or after November 20th, says hosts can't ask guests to "complete tasks that require significant effort or time, or would typically be performed by a cleaner." Accordi
U.S. Hunger, a nonprofit addressing food insecurity, uses Amazon Quick to connect organizational data with leadership decisions. Leaders explore applicant data directly, share KPI definitions and financial context in Quick Spaces, and investigate policy quest…
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- According to MarketsandMarkets™, the global sustainability certification market is projected to grow from USD 3.39 billion in 2026 to USD 5.02 billion by 2032, registering a CAGR of 6.8%. Browse 180 market dat…
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- According to MarketsandMarkets™, the global sustainability certification market is projected to grow from USD 3.39 billion in 2026 to USD 5.02 billion by 2032, registering a CAGR of 6.8%. Browse 180 market dat…
Author summary Taenia solium is a parasitic tapeworm that infects both people and pigs. This parasite is a serious concern due to human morbidity and mortality among infected people, and income losses to pig producers. Burden reduction requires a One Health a…
Humans are far from the only species with a gift for gab, and our furry, feathered, and finned friends could have a lot to tell us. Decoding how animals communicate with one another could offer a window into the inner lives of other species and help humans realize that “animals are sentient creatures who think,…
HONG KONG, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On 20 October, the Sustainability Global Leaders Conference 2026 was held in Shanghai. The Conference, themed "Building a Resilient Future Together: Global Governance, Innovation-Driven Growth, and Industrial Upgrading…
The Tinder owner says scams and fake accounts are among its most prominent user complaints, but does not disclose India-specific safety spending, scam reports or revenue
Using AI to offer personalized health advice.
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI running amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
Alissa Totman ’13 was a sophomore when she joined MIT BrainTrust, a student-run organization that connects Institute undergraduates and people with brain injuries for support and socializing. “That group was a great way to learn about the human experience of what people go through when they experience a brain injury,” she says. And it laid…
Oura is introducing two new cardiovascular-focused health tracking features to its smart rings designed to help users better understand the effect regular workouts and exercise are having on their long-term health, and whether they need to ramp it up or dial things down. Cardio Effort and automatic VO2 Max (previously known as Cardio Capacity) are available for the Oura Ring Gen 3 and later models
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.
The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several months, as AI labs grapple with a rash of safety incidents that have spurred concerns over the potential harms of their technology.
The Miles is a smart plug for your car. My 15-year-old daughter just got her learner's permit, so when I was pitched a new gadget tailored to teen drivers, I was intrigued. The Miles Plug is a small device that plugs into your car's OBD-II port and monitors location, driving habits, and vehicle health, along with emergency accident response and roadside assistance. The idea is that knowing all
MAICON 2026 warned that cutting junior roles today cuts tomorrow’s senior marketers, and made the case for turning entry-level jobs into apprenticeships. Continue reading...
Today, I’m talking with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of unexpected political realignment — and with the midterms coming up next month, and early voting already underway in a lot of places, the stakes are pretty hig
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- According to MarketsandMarkets™, the Environment, Health, and Safety Market is projected to grow from USD 9.28 billion in 2026 and to reach USD 13.97 billion by 2032, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of…
Honor recognizes growth, innovation positive impact HOBOKEN, N.J., Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- eMazzanti Technologies, a leading Hoboken, NJ-based Cybersecurity, managed services, and digital transformation provider with a national footprint, announced toda…
UP Tourism Policy 2022: The policy is the state government's principal investment and development framework for tourism and hospitality projects
Computers run on energy, compute, and cryptography. Humans work with bodies, judgement, and skin in the game. Understand the difference to get the right worker.
As AI reshapes the franchising landscape, successful integration depends on balancing human experience, brand voice and operational automation.
Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way. Marvin told Philadelphia's ABC13 "I know they're taking the jobs of human delivery workers and so, I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front of them and preventing them from going forward." Police responded to the scene and