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Gen Alpha is using makeup to pass age verification tech online. One mom caught her son using an eyebrow pencil
Back in the old days, you’d snag an older sibling’s expired license or put on some makeup and try your best to sneak into a bar or 18 and over venue. Well, it’s 2026 and kids are no different. They’re using someone else’s IDs and drawing on facial hair to get into the hottest venue
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Jamie Dimon and Dario Amodei sidestep question about whether the AI cyber ‘freakout’ is warranted
Andrew Ross Sorkin didn’t waste any time getting to the question on many people’s minds this morning when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appeared on-stage in Lower Manhattan with Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan and a freshly-minted Anthropic partner. “Is the freakout over AI-enabled cyberattacks warranted?” the CNBC host and veteran New York Times‘ business journalist
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ServiceNow just unveiled an AI workforce that can run your entire company: ‘Enterprises need AI that senses, decides, and securely acts’
ServiceNow used its biggest annual stage to make one sweeping argument: the era of AI as a helper is over. The era of AI as a worker has begun. At Knowledge 2026, held this week at the Venetian Expo Center in Las Vegas, the enterprise software company — valued at roughly $95 billion and increasingly
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UK-based Google DeepMind workers vote to unionize over military AI contracts amid internal backlash over its Pentagon deal
Google’s UK-based DeepMind workers have launched a bid to form what would be the world’s first union at a frontier AI lab. The move follows a controversial deal Google inked with the Pentagon, sparking a wave of internal backlash over the company’s military contracts. Last week, Google agreed to let the U.S. Department of Defense
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Exclusive: AI grocery startup Vori raises $22 million to help independent retailers compete with Walmart and Amazon
Brandon Hill’s parents met and fell in love in an independent grocery store. Decades later, the startup founder is trying to make sure stores like that don’t get swallowed up by Walmart and Amazon. Hill is the cofounder and CEO of Vori, a San Francisco company building “the self-driving operating system for supermarkets.” The company
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Exclusive: Nova Intelligence raises $31.5 million to bring agentic AI to SAP’s $89 billion migration wave
An estimated 77% of the world’s transactions touch an SAP system at some point. And most of that code is decades old, written in a proprietary language, and locked inside the workflows at the largest enterprises on earth. It is also, by SAP’s own mandate, on a clock. Nova Intelligence is betting that’s a generational
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Supermicro’s co-founder allegedly smuggled $2.5 billion in Nvidia-chipped servers to China—now the whole company is under the microscope
Super Micro Computer will report third quarter earnings on Tuesday with two potentially explosive problems on its hands at once. The first is that CEO and chairman Charles Liang told investors the server manufacturing company could hit $40 billion in revenue this fiscal year. Liang called the target “conservative,” when he first discussed it with
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An AI ‘godfather’ says CEOs hyping job loss are ‘extremely destructive’—and your kids are paying the price
It’s become a common pattern over the past few months: A business leader makes an ominous claim about the impact of AI on the labor market, sparking weeks of discourse and sending U.S. workers reeling. Now, a “godfather” of AI is pushing back on those claims—and warning about the dangers they spur. In an interview
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A Harvard study just found AI can now out-diagnose physicians in the ER: ‘We’re already at the ceiling’
AI has entered your office, your kid’s classroom, and the courtroom. Now, it’s coming for the hospital. A recent study from a team led by physicians and computer scientists at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center compared emergency room diagnoses from OpenAI’s o1-preview against those offered by two internal medicine attending physicians.
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Anthropic takes shot at consulting industry in joint venture with Wall Street giants
Anthropic announced Monday that it has partnered with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to launch a new AI-native enterprise services company — one that puts the Claude maker in direct competition with the world’s largest consulting firms for the lucrative business of corporate AI transformation. The venture, backed by approximately $1.5 billion in