Reid Hoffman doesn’t do much in half measures. He cofounded LinkedIn, of course, and helped bankroll companies including Meta and Airbnb in their startup days. He has also fashioned himself, via books, podcasts, and other public appearances, as…
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‘Small decisions have long tails’ – I asked ChatGPT for my horoscope, and what it told me was surprisingly grounding
I don’t believe in astrology. I never have, despite growing up in the golden era of glossy horoscope pages tucked beside celebrity gossip in magazines, and long before apps started charging for full-moon rituals. My skepticism isn’t…
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How to Read a Machine Learning Research Paper in 2026
In this article, you will learn a practical, question-driven workflow for reading machine learning research papers efficiently, so you finish with answers — not fatigue.
Topics we will cover include:
- Why purpose-first reading beats linear,…
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US Senators call on Apple and Google to ban X and Grok from app stores amid image-generation controversy
- X’s Grok AI tool has created pornographic images of women and children
- Now, US Senators have told Apple and Google they must ban the apps
- Malaysia and Indonesia have already blocked the apps from use
In recent weeks it’s emerged that X’s…
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Google AI Releases Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP): An Open-Source Standard Designed to Power the Next Generation of Agentic Commerce
Can AI shopping agents move beyond sending product links and actually complete trusted purchases end to end inside a chat? Universal Commerce Protocol, or UCP, is Google’s new open standard for agentic commerce. It gives AI agents…
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Meta-backed Hupo finds growth after pivot to AI sales coaching from mental wellness
When Justin Kim, co-founder and CEO of Hupo, first launched his company about four years ago, it wasn’t selling AI-powered sales coaching to banks, finance services, or insurance companies. The company originally began as Ami, a mental…
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Hands-on with Bee, Amazon’s latest AI wearable
In early tests with a review unit of Bee, we found the device itself was easy to use. It’s just a press of a button to turn recording on or off. In the app, you can configure whether a double press bookmarks a section of the conversation,…
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Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Code-like for general computing
Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality to more general office work with a…
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Claude just joined your healthcare team — and might be ready to help your doctor help you
- Anthropic’s new Claude for Health platform can summarize your health data
- It can also analyze and explain medical test results in plain language
- Healthcare professionals can use Claude to speed up tasks like prior authorizations and claims…
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Hobby GitHub repo shows Linus Torvalds vibe codes (sometimes)
Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds’ latest hobby project contains code that was “basically written by vibe coding,” but you shouldn’t read that to mean that Torvalds is embracing…
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