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AI failure could trigger the next financial crisis, warns Elizabeth Warren

"I know a bubble when I see one." That's what Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who led the push to create a new consumer financial regulator in the wake of the 2008 recession, told a crowd at a Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator event in Washington, DC on Wednesday. Warren warned of what she called "striking" parallels to […]

Sources: xAI held talks in recent weeks with Mistral and Cursor about a potential three-way partnership; Mistral co-founder Devendra Chaplot joined xAI in March (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sources: xAI held talks in recent weeks with Mistral and Cursor about a potential three-way partnership; Mistral co-founder Devendra Chaplot joined xAI in March  —  - Elon Musk's xAI recently announced a partnership with AI coding startup Cursor.  — The two companies have also explored …

OpenAI now lets teams make custom bots that can do work on their own

OpenAI is giving users of its Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans access to cloud-based "workspace" agents available in ChatGPT that can perform business tasks. In its blog post, OpenAI gives examples of agents like one that finds product feedback on the web and sends a report in Slack and a sales agent that can […]

Elden Ring movie set leaks confirm new details of Alex Garland's film

Leaks from Alex Garland's Elden Ring movie show off Marika, Dung Eater, and more will appear in the live-action video game adaptation coming in 2028.

Alexis Ohanian shocks Washington with pro-immigration remarks

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