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Manus raises over $500M to rebuild its agent alone

The Chinese agent developer lands a Boyu Capital-led round at a reported $4B valuation after…

Agentic AI Foundation takes on four projects and reaches ten total

OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face and Alibaba each handed over a component of the agent stack.

TypeSafe banks $870M at a $7.5B valuation weeks after Jev launch

TypeSafe, maker of the non-text Jev model, has raised $870M at a $7.5B valuation led…

Anthropic rewrites its usage rules to ban abusive chats and election meddling

Anthropic's updated usage policy outlaws election interference, weapons software, surveillance and prolonged verbal abuse of…

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Uber’s Dark Plan to Turn Every Driver Into an Unpaid Sensor for Its AV Empire

Uber's plan to turn its driver fleet into a sensor grid for AV companies raises serious questions about consent, privacy,…

The Great Tech Bloodletting of 2025: 22,000+ Workers Sacrificed on the Altar of AI

Tech companies are using AI as a convenient cover for mass layoffs, cutting over 22,000 jobs in early 2025 while…

OpenAI’s 2025 Reckoning: Code Red, Lawsuits, and the Race Against Rivals

OpenAI's 2025 was a year of frantic product releases and existential legal battles, but its most troubling pivot was toward…

OpenAI’s Secret War on Goblins: Inside the Bizarre Codex Prompt That Bans a Fantasy Species

OpenAI's latest Codex CLI reveals GPT-5.5 has a goblin obsession so severe the company had to embed a bizarre fantasy…

Japan Airlines Ropes in Wobbly Humanoid Robots to Fill Airport Jobs. It’s Not Going Great Yet.

Despite slick videos, the first footage of Japan Airlines' humanoid baggage handlers shows robots that can only mimic work while…

Google’s Privacy Maze: How Gemini Traps You and Your Data

Google's Gemini integration across Workspace traps users in a coercive choice between AI features and genuine privacy, using deliberately hidden…

Google’s $40 Billion Anthropic Bet Is Really a $40 Billion Self-Dealing Loop

Google's $40 billion Anthropic investment is a self dealing loop where Google pays Anthropic, Anthropic pays Google for compute, and…

GitHub Pulls the Plug on Copilot Subsidies, Billing by the Token Starting June 1

With internal documents showing Copilot costs doubling in weeks, GitHub's shift to token based billing signals the death knell for…