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Anthropic enables Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 to end conversations in “cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions”; users can still start new chats — We recently gave Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end conversations in our consumer chat interfaces.
More: TechCrunch and Blockchain.News
Bluesky: @pekka, @mariadagloriaii, @mmasnick, @carnage4life, and @timkellogg.me. Mastodon: @tommorris@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/artificial, r/ArtificialSentience, and r/singularity
| Thomas Black / Bloomberg: |
A look at the problems at Uber Freight, which has posted operating losses every year since it was founded in 2017, except for 2022, and just appointed a new CEO — The unprofitable unit doesn't fit the company's model and has little to no synergies with its main ride-hailing and delivery businesses.
More: Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch, Truck News, Uber Freight, Yahoo Finance, and Chicago Business Journal. LinkedIn: Mark Kapostasy
| Financial Times: |
GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that the current approach of scaling LLMs is starting to reach the limits of available resources — OpenAI's underwhelming new GPT-5 model suggests progress is slowing — and competition in the space is changing
More: CNET, Wired, and Financial Express
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b, shows how open-weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across hosting providers — Artificial Analysis published a new benchmark the other day, this time focusing on how an individual model - OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b - performs across different hosted providers.| Amanda Hess / New York Times: |
A look at AI-powered stuffed animals like Grem, Grok, and Gabbo, which are being promoted as an alternative to screen time for children as young as 3 — Curio is a company that describes itself as “a magical workshop where toys come to life.” When I recently visited its cheery headquarters … | Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
How an editor uncovered the “largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia's history” that promoted obscure composer David Woodard with entries in 335 languages — Quick—what are the top entries in the category “Wikipedia articles written in the greatest number of languages”?
More: The Signpost. Mastodon: @Khrys@mamot.fr. X: @egavactip and @wikisignpost. Forums: news.ycombinator.com
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
XOPS, which uses AI and knowledge graphs to automate enterprise IT tasks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding led by Activant Capital and FPV Ventures — The startup XOPS is using artificial intelligence and ‘knowledge graphs’ to build a new platform for automating corporate IT departments … | Counterpoint Research: |
Global smart glasses shipments grew 110% YoY in H1; Meta's share of the market rose to 73%; AI smart glasses accounted for 78% of shipments, up from 46% YoY — - The global smart glasses market grew by 110% YoY in H1 2025, fueled by robust demand for Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses and the entry …
More: South China Morning Post, Tech in Asia, Financial Times, and Engadget
Bluesky: @glinden, @om.co, @davidinsf, and @lovecircle
| BBC: |
Barbour ABI: the UK's data center count, currently 477, is set to jump by ~100 over the next five years, with more than half in London and neighboring counties — The number of data centres in the UK is set to increase by almost a fifth, according to figures shared with BBC News.| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Otter.ai of “deceptively and surreptitiously” recording private conversations to train its AI without user consent — A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Otter.ai of “deceptively and surreptitiously” … | Martina Di Licosa / Forbes: |
A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks — This computer science professor became a billionaire launching four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including unicorns Databricks and Anyscale.
More: EECS at UC Berkeley. X: @mohapatrahemant, @robertnishihara, @forbes, @williamwangnlp, @ashugarg, and @humphrey_shi
LinkedIn: Rich Lyons, Ashu Garg, Martina Di Licosa, Hui Zhang, Luisa Kroll, Tuan Vu, and Rich Adao
| Forbes: |
Sources say Meta's chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to AI brain drain; Meta strongly denies it has had issues with talent and retention — At Meta, a chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to brain drain, with rivals saying its AI talent is lackluster.
More: Livemint, Business Insider, The Information, The Information, and Fortune
Bluesky: @chronotope.aramzs.xyz, @richardnieva, and @rismith
LinkedIn: Luisa Kroll and Rashi Shrivastava
| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's “hyperrealistic” VR research prototype with beyond-retinal resolution, high brightness and contrast, and a narrow field of view — At SIGGRAPH 2025, I went hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's research prototype that combines beyond-retinal resolution … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed — TikTok is preparing an update to its Community Guidelines, which dictate the rules for participating on the social video platform … Sponsor Posts
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Connecting, collaborating, and growing: Zoho Mail 2025 wrap-up — Your inbox has been home to a lot this year—quick updates, long threads, approvals, reminders, and the occasional late-night draft you weren't sure about.
Connecting, collaborating, and growing: Zoho Mail 2025 wrap-up — Your inbox has been home to a lot this year—quick updates, long threads, approvals, reminders, and the occasional late-night draft you weren't sure about.
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