Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark measuring AI agents’ capabilities on professional tasks like law and corporate analysis. At the time, the scores were quite dismal, with every major lab scoring under 25 percent. We concluded that lawyers…
Carbon removal startup Terradot is acquiring competitor Eion, the two companies announced today. The sale was driven largely by big investors like sovereign wealth funds, which want to work with companies that can handle large contracts. Eion was simply too…
A senior Democratic lawmaker with knowledge of some of the U.S. government’s most secretive operations has said he has “deep concerns” about certain activities by the Central Intelligence Agency. The two-line letter written by Senator Ron Wyden, the longest serving…
A senior Democratic lawmaker with knowledge of some of the U.S. government’s most secretive operations has said he has “deep concerns” about certain activities by the Central Intelligence Agency. The two-line letter written by Sen. Ron Wyden, the longest serving…
A month after introducing mandatory facial verification for access to chats on its platform, Roblox says 45% of its daily active users have undergone age checks as of January 31. Roblox’s launch of age checks followed a wave of lawsuits…
Reddit is preparing for more mergers and acquisitions, according to comments made by company executives during its fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday. Reddit CFO Andrew Vollero stated that the online forum is seeking businesses that can either leverage Reddit’s scale,…
The European Commission accused TikTok on Friday of purposefully designing its app to be addictive. It specifically called out features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the platform’s recommendation engine. These preliminary findings come from an investigation into TikTok’s…
If you primarily want a tablet device to mark up, highlight, and annotate your e-books and documents, and perhaps sometimes scribble some notes of your own, Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft could be worth the hefty investment. For everyone else,…
OpenAI announced last week that it will retire some older ChatGPT models by February 13. That includes GPT-4o, the model known for excessively flattering and affirming users. For thousands of users protesting the decision online, the retirement of GPT-4o feels…
Modern biotechnology possesses the tools to edit genes and design drugs, yet thousands of rare diseases remain without treatment. According to executives from Insilico Medicine and GenEditBio, the persistent missing ingredient has been a shortage of skilled people to advance…
