When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.
I Didn’t Know What I Was Doing. So I Did It Anyway
[[{“value”:” I always knew I wanted to study abroad. It was one of those things I would say out loud like it was already part of my future. But if I’m being honest, I had no idea how to actually make it happen. For a long time, I was holding myself back. The idea of going abroad felt exciting, but…
Hunger Games (Abroad Edition): How to Eat Well Without Going Broke.
[[{“value”:” Having access to a college dining hall (although it’s not always the best) often masks the real cost and effort required to prepare a healthy, nutritious, and affordable diet. For students like me who still live in a dorm and rely on a 15, 21, or unlimited college meal plan, it can be confusing at first to balance a…
Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
nthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.
Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing
The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company’s massive AI data center buildout.
The Aeropod automates soil aeration without robotics — see it at TechCrunch Disrupt
Muju Earth Technologies has developed a deceptively simply pod that can save farmers money while improving crop yields.
Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web
The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users’ data when not configured or secured properly.
Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing’s World War II codebreaking work.
Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off
Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agents’s promotion across its own apps and beyond.
Will Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company that stole the spotlight was Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s early numbers and is headed for smart glasses and […]