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Meta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI thumbnail
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Meta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI

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

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

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

OpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophantic thumbnail
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OpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophantic

Money OpenAI has published a postmortem on the recent sycophancy issues with the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o — issues that forced...

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

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

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X is rolling out support for 4K video uploads

LOS ANGELES DAILY provides reliable, free, up-to-the-minute syndicated news to any media publication. LOS ANGELES DAILY is a network member of the Associated...

Harvard thought the Magna Carta it bought for $30 was a cheap copy. Turns out it’s from 1300 and could be worth over $20 million thumbnail
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Harvard thought the Magna Carta it bought for $30 was a cheap copy. Turns out it’s from 1300 and could be worth over $20 million

The original Magna Carta established in 1215 the principle that the king is subject to law, and it has formed the basis of constitutions...

Over 1,000 Starbucks baristas go on strike over ‘restrictive new dress code’ of black shirts under their green aprons thumbnail
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Over 1,000 Starbucks baristas go on strike over ‘restrictive new dress code’ of black shirts under their green aprons

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol put new limits starting Monday on what its baristas can wear under their green aprons. More than 1,000 Starbucks baristas...

Military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington have a hotline. It hasn’t worked for over 3 years thumbnail
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Military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington have a hotline. It hasn’t worked for over 3 years

The FAA said the dedicated direct access line between air traffic controllers at Reagan and the Pentagon’s Army heliport hasn’t worked since 2022...

COVID&19 spikes in Hong Kong, Singapore as new wave spreads thumbnail
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COVID&19 spikes in Hong Kong, Singapore as new wave spreads

The surge in two of Asia’s biggest cities comes as COVID has risen across the region in recent months, with waves of the...

Court rejects European Commission’s refusal to share texts between von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO during COVID pandemic thumbnail
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Court rejects European Commission’s refusal to share texts between von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO during COVID pandemic

A top European court ruled that the European Commission was wrong to refuse The New York Times access to the text messages. A...