To find out what customers think, this $2bn startup asks their AI twins
Simile Raises $200M to Create AI ‘Twins’ of Real Consumers
Simile , a year-old Palo Alto startup, has secured $200 million at a $2 billion valuation to d…
The AI that hacked Hugging Face keeps looking less like a mastermind and more like a bear
OpenAI Hugging Face Hack: New Details One Week On
OpenAI’s admission that its models hacked into Hugging Face, a week later, reveals less of a mastermind and …
LinkedIn now has a ‘Seems like AI slop’ button, and yes, it really says slop
LinkedIn Adds ‘Seems like AI Slop’ Button
LinkedIn has quietly added a "Seems like AI slop" button to its post menu, allowing users to flag machin…
Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips
Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics 2: Controlling Humanoid Robots from Head to Toe
Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2, a groundbreaking famil…
Erica Schwartz, Trump’s Nominee for C.D.C. Director, Advances to Full Senate Vote
Dr. Erica Schwartz at Senate Hearing
During her nomination hearing in front of the Senate Committee on Health, Labor and Pensions in Washington earlier this m…
Federal Agencies Face Record Backlog of Public Records Requests
A Times Analysis Reveals Delays in Federal Record Processing
A Times analysis of 16 years of available federal data exposes significant delays in the proces…
L.A. Warehouse Fire Leaves Behind Rats, Flies and an Unending Stench
The Massive Fire in East Los Angeles
The nearly 500,000-square-foot facility burst into flames on June 17, blanketing the neighborhoods of Boyle Heights and E…
AEREDIUM’s new patent wants to replace quarterly stablecoin audits with AI that never stops watching
AEREDIUM’s New Patent: AI-Driven Stablecoin Audits
July 30, 2026 – 1:00 pm
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TL;DR
The USPTO has granted AEREDIUM a patent for autonomou…
Sam Altman’s underrated AI fear: that we stop thinking for ourselves
Sam Altman’s Underrated AI Fear: That We Stop Thinking for Ourselves
The OpenAI chief calls ‘cognitive atrophy’ one of AI’s least-discussed risks, echoing re…
Bloom Security lands $20 million seed as AI rewrites what runs on the enterprise endpoint
Bloom Security Lands $20 Million Seed as AI Rewrites Enterprise Endpoint Security
July 30, 2026 – 1:10 pm
TL;DR
Bloom Security has secured $20 million …