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Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.
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Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash
After critics called the bill a “get-out-of-jail-free card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.
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Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta’s ‘Superintelligence’ Team
After a poaching frenzy that’s brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.
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Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors
The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.
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OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they’re ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
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I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn’t Terrible
The latest wave of AI tools claim to take the pain out of booking your next trip. From transport and accommodation to restaurants and attractions, we let AI take the reins to put this to the test.
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OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta
Mark Zuckerberg has been working to poach talent from rival labs for his new superintelligence team.
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The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
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OpenAI’s Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations
The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft in many ways hinges on the definition of artificial general intelligence, creating a tension that has spilled over into OpenAI research that has not been made public.
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Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we explore Disney and Universal’s lawsuit against Midjourney, which could be consequential for the future of how intellectual property is treated in the AI era.