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Following rivals like Amazon and OpenAI, Microsoft is upgrading its artificially intelligent assistant to track your health. There are benefits and risks to consider. Source link

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Source link

In television and movies, depictions of nihilistic billionaires and amoral opportunists are replacing the quirky strivers of older shows like HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” Source link

Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check for mistakes. Source link

Thomson Reuters, best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, provides an investigative tool to immigration enforcers. Its Minnesota employees want that to stop. Source link

Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab. Source link

Blaming chatbots, they are joining an earlier push for better protections by parents who say social media contributed to their children’s deaths. Source link

Social media companies are under pressure to crack down on so-called deepfake videos that use deceptive images of real people. Source link

We want to hear how artificial intelligence helps you with tasks like meal prep, translation and planning a trip. Source link

Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, founded by Yann LeCun and other ex-Meta researchers, has raised more than $1 billion from investors. Source link