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China Moves to Block US Capital in Its AI Startups: The New Wall Around Tech Talent and Technology
In a significant escalation of its tech decoupling strategy, China is now actively discouraging its leading AI companies from accepting American investment without explicit government approval.
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- ComfyUI Cracks Open Real Human Faces in Seedance 2.0 — But Is It Really Fixed?
Sony’s Table-Tennis Robot “Ace” Just Beat Human Pros — And It’s Far More Impressive Than a Marathon-Winning Bot
While the world was still buzzing about a robot completing a half-marathon faster than any human, Sony AI quietly dropped something far more significant: a robotic system that can actually beat elite and professional table tennis players in real matches under official rules.
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Instagram Just Launched Instants — A Private, Ephemeral Photo App That Feels Like Locket + Snapchat + BeReal
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A former high-level executive at Beast Industries has filed a federal lawsuit accusing MrBeast’s company of fostering a toxic, male-dominated “boys’ club” where women were systematically excluded, harassed, and ultimately pushed out — especially after maternity leave.
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“The Classic Product Playbook Is Dead”: What Anthropic’s Head of Product Learned Building Claude
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Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0: The $3/Hour Voice AI That’s About to Replace Entire Call Centers
xAI just released Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 — and the economics of voice AI have officially broken.
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DeepSeek-V4: The Open-Source Model That Just Made 1 Million Tokens Routine
DeepSeek has dropped the preview of DeepSeek-V4 — a direct, no-compromise open-source challenger to Claude, GPT-5, and Gemini.
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OpenAI’s $10B DeployCo Play: Turning Private Equity Portfolios into an Enterprise AI Launchpad
OpenAI has just made its boldest move yet to crack the enterprise market. Instead of relying on traditional sales teams or pure software licensing, the company is betting big on implementation — and it’s doing so through a massive new joint venture called DeployCo.
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ComfyUI Cracks Open Real Human Faces in Seedance 2.0 — But Is It Really Fixed?
Anyone who has spent time wrestling with Seedance 2.0 in ComfyUI knows the pain. The model is incredibly powerful — cinematic camera control, native audio sync, buttery motion — but the built-in censorship made generating videos with actual human faces a nightmare.
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Sierra AI Just Reinvented the Software Engineering Interview — And It’s Brilliant
Sierra AI — the enterprise AI startup co-founded by Bret Taylor (OpenAI board chairman and former Co-CEO of Salesforce) — just published a quietly revolutionary blog post titled The AI-native interview.
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Hey CEO Who Can’t Stop Asking ChatGPT for Strategy Advice — HBR Just Dropped the Receipts
Tell your friend (the one who’s been mainlining ChatGPT for every board deck and offsite) that the son of his mom’s friend has exactly the same strategy.
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François Chollet’s Radical New Definition of AGI: It’s Not About Automation — It’s About Human-Like Skill Acquisition
In a recent Y Combinator podcast, François Chollet — the creator of Keras, author of Deep Learning with Python, and the mind behind the ARC-AGI benchmark — dropped what might be the clearest, most provocative definition of Artificial General Intelligence we’ve heard in years.
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