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Girls say AI is a smarter tutor, a funnier comedian, and has better better taste than their parents, new Girl Scouts survey finds
Girl Scout cookies may still sell themselves, but when it comes to homework help, jokes, and emotional support, young girls are letting AI do the heavy lifting. A new survey from Girl Scouts of the USA finds that AI has quietly become a fixture in the lives of girls ages 5 to 13, and most
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Greenboard raises $15.5 million to keep compliance from slowing down business in the AI era
Financial compliance can be a pretty dry affair—so much so that there are compelling business opportunities to be found for those who can help people to do less of it. One startup seizing on this opportunity is Greenboard, a platform for using AI to automate aspects of financial compliance, that has raised $15.5 million in
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Exclusive: White Circle raises $11 million to stop AI models from going rogue in the workplace
One evening in late 2024, Denis Shilov was watching a crime thriller when he had an idea for a prompt that would break through the safety filters of every leading AI model. The prompt was what researchers call a universal jailbreak, meaning it could be reused to get any model to bypass their own guardrails
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Wall Street thinks memory is AI’s golden ticket. Harvard’s chip expert warns: ‘Curves that just go to the sky with no end…never continue forever’
Memory chips have become the most valuable commodity in the AI economy. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index has leaped 60% in six weeks, and Micron—a memory chipmaker—surged 38% last week alone, its best week since 2008. Retail traders have caught on and piled into the rally at the highest level in a year that
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Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary wants to build a massive $100 billion data center in rural Utah. Residents are revolting
Local residents are revolting against a $100 billion Utah data center project backed by Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary that would use more electricity than the entire state does in a year. Commissioners in Box Elder County—a rural county of just under 60,000 residents in the northwest corner of Utah—unanimously voted to advance the 9-gigawatt project
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‘It’s here’: Google issues dire warning after catching hackers using AI to break into computers
Google said Monday that it had disrupted a criminal group’s attempt to use artificial intelligence to exploit another company’s previously unknown digital vulnerability, adding to heightened worries across government and private industry about AI’s risks for cybersecurity. Google shared limited information about the attackers and the target, but John Hultquist, chief analyst at the tech giant’s threat
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Roger Bennett’s message to A-Rod is one for the country: Soccer has already overtaken baseball in America
Roger Bennett walked onto Alex Rodriguez’s podcast a few months ago and delivered the news with the calm of a man who had been waiting decades to say it. A-Rod kept asking some version of the same question — “When’s this soccer thing finally going to take off?” — and Bennett, Liverpool-born, Everton-supporting, and Lower-Manhattan-dwelling
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Apple and Andreessen Horowitz alums raise $20 million to bring AI to ‘real economy’ businesses
AI is swiftly rewiring the way people work, but an outsize amount of this workplace revolution has so far been confined to Fortune 500-style companies. Ciridae has raised $20 million in seed funding on the promise of bringing AI to the many U.S. businesses that don’t hold quarterly earnings calls. The funding round was led
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AI wins have Alphabet poised to become world’s biggest company
Over the past year, Alphabet Inc. has gone from an artificial intelligence afterthought to the one firm in the market with dominant positions in nearly every aspect of the technology. Now it’s on the brink of overtaking AI chip giant Nvidia Corp. as the largest company in the world. “Alphabet holds a significant spot in
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Gen Z and millennials are using ChatGPT like a ‘life advisor’—but college students might be one step ahead
As ChatGPT becomes more sophisticated, its practical use cases grow. And as it turns out, different generations use the product differently, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “Gross oversimplification, but like older people use ChatGPT as a Google replacement. Maybe people in their 20s and 30s use it as like a life advisor, and then,