This will not be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing along the bottom,” CEO Jeremy Wacksman said in our conversation this week. Last year was dismal for the real estate market, and he expects…
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Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull
Elon Musk is addressing a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six out of the original 12.
At an all-hands meeting Tuesday night, Musk suggested the exits were about fit, not…
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Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull
Elon Musk is addressing a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six out of the original 12.
At an all-hands meeting Tuesday night, Musk suggested the exits were about fit, not…
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Cohere’s $240M year sets stage for IPO
As the top AI labs like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI chase enterprise adoption, Canadian AI startup Cohere has been quietly cleaning up.
The startup told investors in a memo that it surpassed its $200 million annual recurring revenue target in…
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How AI-powered threats are rewriting email security economics
Ten years ago, email security ROI was simple: deploy pattern-matching systems, accept some false positives, staff a SOC for escalations. The math worked because attacks followed patterns machines could learn.
AI broke that model.

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times. The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get…
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I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn’t make a single cent
I called a car and started heading that way, only to get a text that the person was actually at a different location, about 10 minutes away from where I was headed. Alright, no big deal. So, I rerouted the ride and headed…
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‘If someone can inject instructions or spurious facts into your AI’s memory, they gain persistent influence over your future interactions’: Microsoft warns AI recommendations are being “poisoned” to serve up malicious results
- Microsoft warns of new fraud tactic called AI Recommendation Poisoning
- Attackers plant hidden instructions in AI memory to skew purchase advice
- Real-world attempts detected; risk of enterprises making costly decisions based on compromised AI…
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IBM says it will actually start hiring entry-level human workers, rather than relying entirely on AI
- IBM will triple entry-level worker hiring in the US in 2026
- Human workers are still valuable for customer interactions and verifying AI output
- Dropbox also expanding internship and graduate programs
IBM reportedly plans to triple entry-level…
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I matched Google’s Nano Banana Pro AI image-maker against ByteDance’s new Seedream 5.0 model and the real winner surprised me
ByteDance has lured plenty of YouTube Shorts viewers away to TikTok, but their new Seedream 5.0 AI model seems calculated to win over fans of Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro AI image-generator.
After hearing more than a few bold claims of new…
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