IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI

IBM plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026 but these jobs will have different tasks than in previous years.

This Startup Is Boosting AI With Real Brain Cells

Training AI models using neurons. Getting hydrogen energy from water using sunlight. Elon Musk’s pivot to the Moon. All that and more in this week’s edition of the Prototype.

Dating online this Valentine’s Day? Here’s how to spot an AI romance scam

AI has transformed romance scams into highly efficient operations, using cloned voices, deepfake video calls and emotionally responsive messages. Experts warn that the season of love is also the most dangerous time to lower your guard online.
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Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha.

“I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space.”

Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot

Didero functions as an agentic AI layer that sits on top of a company’s existing ERP, acting as a coordinator that reads incoming communications and automatically executes the necessary updates and tasks.

Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new value of $380B

The infusion of funding for the AI startup takes place as it is vying for customers and cultural attention with its competitor, OpenAI.

ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 Nails Real World Physics And Hyper-Real Outputs

ByteDance’s latest Seedance 2.0 release produces hyper-real outputs from fairly simple text and image outputs that blur the line between real and AI generated.

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip

OpenAI calls the new coding tool the “first milestone” in its relationship with the chipmaker.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a rollicking parable about this moment in tech
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a rollicking parable about this moment in tech

We are all guilty of pulling out our phones and doomscrolling through stressful headlines or mindnumbing videos when we should be doing anything else. We know it’s bad, but we still do it because it’s hard to resist when much of our time is spent living and working on our devices. And even though we […]