[[{“value”:” For years, school education has largely focused on helping students understand concepts through textbooks, classroom discussions, and examinations. But understanding a concept and being able to apply it in a real situation are not always the same thing. A student may learn about electricity without building a circuit, study agriculture without working with plants, or […] The post Why…
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
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AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
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What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]
No little kids allowed, and other new info about Tesla’s Cybercab
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Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
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