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Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as head of product

Mike Krieger, one of the co-founders of Instagram and, more recently, the co-founder of personalized news app Artifact (which TechCrunch corporate parent Yahoo recently acquired), is joining Anthropic as the company’s first chief product officer.

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Google has an idea to prevent phone scams, but it'll mean allowing its AI to listen in on your calls

Google is playing around with AI tech that would listen to your calls and warn you of potential scams. Google announced on X on Tuesday that it's testing a new Gemini AI feature that "provides real-time alerts during a call if it detects conversation patterns commonly associated with scams."

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Snowflake invests in Metaplane to solve data quality issues plaguing AI development

Today, Snowflake announced an investment in Metaplane, a Boston-based startup helping enterprises identify and rectify data quality issues with an end-to-end AI-powered platform.

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The hunt for rare bitcoin is nearing an end

Satoshis produced in the year bitcoin was created are considered vintage and can sell for tens of millions of times their face value.

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What OpenAI did

GPT-4o may not be a major leap over its predecessor, but it will be more widely accessible, allowing many more people to understand how impressive AI can be.

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Here's the inside story of why Elon Musk fired the entire Tesla Supercharger staff

This article presents the story of Tesla's Supercharger firings based on interviews with eight former charging-division employees, one contractor, and an email that Tesla sent to outside vendors.

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"Is This Project Still Maintained?"

This post looks at what it means to 'maintain' an open source project, the nature of succession, and how expectations differ between maintainers, contributors, and users.

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