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OpenAI’s existential questions | TechCrunch

OpenAI’s existential questions | TechCrunch

OpenAI has been all over the news recently, whether that news is about acquisitions, competition with Anthropic, or bigger debates about AI’s impact on society. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I did our best to round up all the latest OpenAI news. While the company’s latest acquisitions seem to be classic acqui-hires, …

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The NSA is reportedly using Anthropic’s new model Mythos

The NSA is reportedly using Anthropic’s new model Mythos

Despite the months-long feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon, the National Security Agency is using the AI company’s new Mythos Preview, according to Axios, which spoke to two sources with knowledge of the matter. Anthropic announced Mythos Preview at the beginning of April, describing it as a general-purpose language model that is “strikingly capable at computer security tasks.” But back …

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’امریکا تیار، ایران کا انکار‘: اسلام آباد میں مذاکرات کے دوسرے مرحلے کی تیاریاں جاری – Pakistan

’امریکا تیار، ایران کا انکار‘: اسلام آباد میں مذاکرات کے دوسرے مرحلے کی تیاریاں جاری – Pakistan

اسلام آباد میں امریکا ایران مذاکرات کے متوقع دوسرے مرحلے کے لیے سیکیورٹی کے انتظامات انتہائی سخت کردیے گئے ہیں۔ امریکی صدر ڈونلڈ ٹرمپ کی جانب سے امریکی نمائندوں کی پیر کے روز پاکستان روانگی کے بیان کے بعد وائٹ ہاؤس نے امریکی میڈیا کو تصدیق کی ہے کہ نائب صدر جے ڈی وینس، اسٹیو وٹکوف اور جیرڈ کشنر ایران …

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The 12-month window | TechCrunch

The 12-month window | TechCrunch

In a recent episode of “No Priors” — the excellent podcast co-hosted by AI investors Sarah Guo and Elad Gil — Gil made a point about exit timing that’s undoubtedly familiar to founders who’ve spent time with him, but seems particularly useful in this moment of go-go dealmaking. For most companies, Gil said, there’s roughly a 12-month period where the …

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Beijing’s robot half-marathon is back for its second year with far less embarassing results

Beijing’s robot half-marathon is back for its second year with far less embarassing results

To make up for an incredibly laughable inaugural event, Beijing is running back its humanoid robot half-marathon. Fortunately, the event that pits humanoid robots made by Chinese companies against each other across 13 miles went a lot smoother this year. This year’s half-marathon hosted more than 100 competitors, with first place going to Honor, better known for its smartphones, and …

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Iran rejects second round of talks with US: IRNA

Iran rejects second round of talks with US: IRNA

Iran has rejected taking part in the second round of talks with the United States, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Iran’s official state news agency, reported on Sunday. IRNA’s report said “US excessive demands and unreasonable, unrealistic requests, repeated changes in positions, continued contradictory statements” had so far prevented progress in the negotiations. It added that “the continuation of …

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Blue Origin’s New Glenn put a customer satellite in the wrong orbit during its third launch | TechCrunch

Blue Origin’s New Glenn put a customer satellite in the wrong orbit during its third launch | TechCrunch

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin successfully re-used one of its New Glenn rockets for the first time ever on Sunday, but the company failed at its primary mission: delivering a communications satellite to orbit for customer AST SpaceMobile. AST SpaceMobile issued a statement Sunday afternoon that the upper stage of the New Glenn rocket placed BlueBird 7 satellite into …

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Robots beat human records at Beijing half-marathon | TechCrunch

Robots beat human records at Beijing half-marathon | TechCrunch

The winning runner at a Beijing half-marathon for humanoid robots finished the race today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — significantly faster than the human world record of 57 minutes recently set by Jacob Kiplimo. Comparing human and robot running times may seem unfair; one social media user observed, “my car can outrun a cheetah too.” Still, the winning …

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وزیراعظم شہباز شریف کا ایرانی صدر سے ٹیلیفونک رابطہ، خطے کی صورتِ حال پر گفتگو – Pakistan

وزیراعظم شہباز شریف کا ایرانی صدر سے ٹیلیفونک رابطہ، خطے کی صورتِ حال پر گفتگو – Pakistan

وزیرِاعظم شہباز شریف اور ایران کے صدر مسعود پزشکیان کے درمیان ٹیلیفونک رابطہ ہوا، جس میں دونوں رہنماؤں نے خطے کی موجودہ صورتِ حال اور امن کے لیے جاری سفارتی کوششوں پر تفصیلی تبادلہ خیال کیا۔ ایران اور امریکا کے درمیان مذاکرات کے ممکنہ دوسرے مرحلے سے قبل دونوں رہنماؤں نے تقریباً 45 منٹ طویل گفتگو کی، جس میں خطے …

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