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America's AI architects are converging on a chilling consensus: The pace of progress may soon demand a slowdown, but no single lab can afford to pull the brake alone.

Founded in 2024 by Nitin Jayakrishnan and Abhijeet Manohar, Freehand said its agents decide whether to pay supply-chain invoices.

OpenAI is launching a new program Wednesday that will provide 100,000 academic researchers with free access to its advanced AI models through 2027, the company told Axios ahead of the announcement.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for today’s workforce.

Brookfield and NextEra to build $100bn AI campus on ex-nuclear weapons site Financial Times

China overcomes US ban with AI chip breakthrough Yahoo Finance Singapore

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said he discussed the company’s upcoming artificial intelligence model with US lawmakers and expressed his support for Congress to pass AI legislation, highlighting calls to safeguard the emerging technology.

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. Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, used to work late.

Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.

We wasted thousands on our marketing efforts. To stop bleeding the budget, we shifted to a two-track strategy for real ROI. A work-in-progress.

In this tutorial, we configure and operate Kimi CLI as a fully non-interactive AI coding agent. We install the CLI through uv with an isolated Python 3.13 environment, configure Moonshot API authentication through a TOML-based provider and model definition, and build a reusable Python wrapper for…

Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university match system.

It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury.

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance…

Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more.

Progressive faith communities are increasingly leveraging religious freedom laws to protect civil liberties across the US A defining image of resistance in Donald Trump’s second term is a pastor recoiling as he is shot with pepper balls outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.

Open-source questions stir frank discussion – and both sides have clear economic incentives for where they land Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be looking at a debate over the future of artificial intelligence that’s dividing the tech industry, as well as how the European Union…

In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.

Some say the $3,100 per title payout is small compensation for what they view as big, ongoing threats from the makers of generative AI models.

Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot.

The literary world is celebrating Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors. But AI firms may still train models on legally purchased books. What does that mean?

The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered.

Moonshot AI is poised to make its Kimi K3 model available for public download, expanding its reach and influence in the global open software community at a time of growing US concern about Chinese encroachment into the top echelons of AI development.

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Discover how to create self-evolving AI agents using the OpenSpace framework. This tutorial guides you through the entire workflow. from environment setup and custom skill creation to MCP integration and using SQLite to manage agent lineage.