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The AI Hype Index: College students are hooked on ChatGPT

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. Large language models confidently present their responses as accurate and reliable, even when they’re neither of those things. That’s why we’ve recently seen

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The Download: the story of OpenAI, and making magnesium

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI: The power and the pride OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT 3.5 set in motion an AI arms race that has changed the world. How that turns out for humanity is something we are

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This startup wants to make more climate-friendly metal in the US

A California-based company called Magrathea just turned on a new electrolyzer that can make magnesium metal from seawater. The technology has the potential to produce the material, which is used in vehicles and defense applications, with net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions. Magnesium is an incredibly light metal, and it’s used for parts in cars and planes, as

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Everyone’s looking to get in on vibe coding — and Google is no different with Stitch, its follow-up to Jules

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Vibe coding is arguably one of the hottest trends in tech right now, as it reflects a wider adoption of AI and natural language prompts for basic code completion (challenging the conventional coding mindset that humans

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Spott’s AI-native recruiting platform scores $3.2M to end hiring software chaos

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Anthropic debuts Claude conversational voice mode on mobile that searches your Google Docs, Drive, Calendar

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More San Francisco AI startup Anthropic has more up its sleeve than the new Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 large language models announced last week — today it has unveiled two major updates for its similarly

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Security leaders lose visibility as consultants deploy shadow AI copilots to stay employed

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Consulting firms’ accelerating adoption of generative AI to automate knowledge work is sending shockwaves across the industry, triggering workforce shakeups and layoffs. This month, PwC cut roughly 2% of its U.S. staff, approximately 1,500 jobs, in

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