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Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring
The median cost of a home in the city is now $1.7m, a record high, according to the latest figures.
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‘Beef’ Creator Lee Sung Jin Talks Emmy Nominations, Asian Representation & Teases Character-First Approach To ‘X-Men’
“Beef” creator Lee Sung Jin has spoken to Deadline after the second season of the Netflix anthology drama secured 16 Emmy nominations, three more than its debut season. The recognition marks a personal milestone: Lee has become the first Asian television creator to earn multiple Emmy nominations across the Limited or Anthology Series or Movie,…
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“We cannot choose to become idiots”: The AI cheating scandal roiling Brown University
An economics professor at Brown University, Roberto Serrano, uncovered apparent large-scale AI cheating in his course ECON 1170 after introducing take-home exams for the spring 2026 semester. The case matters because it offers a rare, concrete glimpse into how widely generative AI may be substituting for genuine learning at elite universities, echoing wider concerns as…
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As Top Streamers Battle Churn, Emerging AI Start-Up Versus Offers Ways To Hold On To Viewers
Versus, an AI start-up that has been operating in stealth mode, has emerged publicly with technology designed to help streaming platforms combat subscriber churn. The company creates interactive AI overlays that let viewers “play along” with what they are watching or reading, and it has already worked with major players including Disney+, Paramount+, HBO Max,…
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Salman Rushdie Says AI Has ‘Zero’ Role in Storytelling, Teases New ‘Midnight’s Children’ TV Adaptation, Film of ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Author Salman Rushdie has dismissed artificial intelligence as having “zero” role in literature, film or storytelling, arguing the technology is fundamentally incapable of originality. Speaking to Variety before accepting Liberatum’s 14th Cultural Honor in London on 8 July, he said AI can only absorb vast amounts of information and reproduce versions of it, whereas true…
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I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You
A WIRED writer describes experimenting with “self-improving” AI to automate parts of his newsletter, arguing that recursive self-improvement — often framed as the frontier labs’ path to superintelligence — is now within reach of ordinary users. His experiments suggest that this technology need not be monopolised by a handful of large AI companies, pointing to…
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Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself
An expanded proposed class-action lawsuit against X and xAI, filed on Tuesday, alleges that a man used the Grok AI tool to generate roughly 7,000 sexually explicit images and videos of his stepdaughter from a single photograph taken when she was 11. According to the complaint, Grok produced extreme material depicting incest and rape without…
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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’
Elon Musk’s tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.
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This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment
General Intuition, a startup building “embodied AI”, argues that robotics is on the verge of a shift comparable to the arrival of ChatGPT and foundation models. Its chief executive, Pim de Witte, contends that instead of building specialised robot models trained on vast amounts of task-specific real-world data, the industry should develop general-purpose foundation models…
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Valve Steam Machine review: This would’ve been perfect five years ago
Engadget has published its review of Valve’s newly released Steam Machine, a living-room games console-cum-PC, awarding it 6.5 out of 10. Reviewer Jessica Conditt concludes that while the concept is appealing, the hardware is too expensive and underpowered to justify its $1,049 starting price, arguing it would have been an excellent product had it launched…