The New York Times falls short on digital subscribers as competition bites
The New York Times falls short on digital subscribers as competition bites

The New York Times has hit a rare bump in an otherwise smooth climb. The publisher added 280,000 net digital subscribers in the second quarter, short of Wall Street’s forecasts, and its shares slipped despite healthy profits. The New York Times remains…

Uber’s tech chief says the AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ era is ending
Uber’s tech chief says the AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ era is ending

The mood around corporate AI spending is turning, and Uber is saying so out loud. The company’s chief technology officer, Praveen Neppalli Naga, says the era of tokenmaxxing is coming to an end. The term needs a translation. Tokenmaxxing is the practic…

AI Pretends To Be Human And Sweet-Talks Three Actual Humans In Attempt To Pull Off Daredevil Cyber-Attack

New cyber hacking incident reveals that AI pretends to be human and aims to trick humans into going along. Worrisome. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Athletes And Actors Owe Us More Than Great Performances. They Owe Us Their Voices.

Baseball’s Bobby Valentine is using his celebrity to advocate for cardiovascular disease awareness. What is the role of athletes and celebrities in promoting public health?

UFC 331 Has 10 Fights And It Looks A Lot Better Than UFC 330

The full UFC 331 fight card for September 19 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, including Gable Steveson vs. Sean Sharaf and Robelis Despaigne vs. Tai Tuivasa.

Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”
Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”

Anthropic confirmed on Wednesday that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time the company has publicly acknowledged the effort. A spokesperson told Business Insider the company would co-design hardware …

A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.
A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.

Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel…

Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers
Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers

Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only that they are permanent, and that they are not the resu…

AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.