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When Patricia Tani moved to San Francisco last year, she kept hearing a koan about the city’s dating scene: “The odds are good, but the goods are odd.””There’s all this talk online about how dating is cooked in SF, but I never really believed that, because there’s way more guys than women,” she tells me. “Shouldn’t it be easy to find a boyfriend?”The answer was no. Tani, who is 21, tried Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge to no avail. San Franciscans were too locked in building the future to build futures with romantic partners; it was a city of situationships. Tani…
AI can already write most of Simon Willison’s code. The bigger question, he says, is what happens when it no longer needs him at all. Loading audio narration… Willison, the co-creator of the Django web framework, which thousands of sites, including Instagram, have used to get started, said professionals who use AI tools typically follow a specific sequence: They tell the AI what they want, monitor its progress, and then review the finished code to ensure it’s correct.However, what if humans trusted AI to oversee the entire process? That, he said, is called the “dark factory.””There’s this idea in factory…
OpenAI executive Fidji Simo is taking a temporary medical leave to treat postural tachycardia syndrome, or POTS. Loading audio narration… The company said in an internal memo to OpenAI staffers on Friday that Simo would leave to pursue treatment and would return in several weeks.Simo, who cofounded the Complex Disorders Alliance and the Metrodara Foundation, was diagnosed with POTS in 2019. She was initially misdiagnosed by doctors, including one who credited her health issues to being a “tired mom.””I was fainting constantly, I was feeling weak,” Simo told Fortune in 2021.POTS affects the autonomic nervous system, which regulates involuntary functions…
Total Funding: $17 millionWhat it does: Larridin is a measurement and analytics company focused on how AI is actually used inside organizations.Its product, Scout, helps companies understand “what’s actually happening in your org with AI.”Russell Fradin, a cofounder of the company, said its goal is to give companies visibility into the usage and impact of AI.Scout can be used to answer questions like “what’s actually happening in your org with AI, what’s working, what’s not working, what’s making your employees more productive,” Fradin said.It can also help answer questions around cost optimization, which typically falls into the realm of consulting…
It’s about to become more expensive for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools. According to a customer email shared on Hacker News, Anthropic said that starting at noon Pacific on April 4 (today), subscribers will “no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw.” Instead, they’ll need to pay for extra usage through “a pay-as-you-go option billed separately from your subscription.” The company said that while it’s starting with OpenClaw today, the policy “applies to all third-party harnesses and will be rolled out to more shortly.”…
Falling debris from an intercepted missile has damaged the Dubai office of American tech giant Oracle, city officials said on Saturday. Loading audio narration… “Authorities confirm that they responded to a minor incident caused by debris from an aerial interception that fell on the facade of the Oracle building in Dubai Internet City. No injuries were reported,” the Dubai Media Office said on X.Iran has threatened to strike US-owned companies in the Middle East in retaliation for the US-led war that has now dragged on for six weeks. In a statement published on Tuesday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps advised…
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions aren’t considering race in admissions. The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV in Boston on Friday granting the preliminary injunction follows a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general. It will only apply to public universities in plaintiffs The federal judge said the federal government likely has the authority to collect the data, but the demand was rolled out to universities in a “rushed and chaotic” manner. “The…
Ross Nordeen didn’t announce he was leaving xAI. He didn’t need to. Loading audio narration… The 36-year-old engineer was abruptly cut off from the company systems last week and disappeared from a sprawling group chat with CEO Elon Musk and hundreds of other engineers. Later, he posted a photo of a hiking trail with the caption: “Touching some grass.”Nordeen, one of the billionaire’s closest deputies, was the final non-Musk cofounder to depart the startup, and the eighth to exit in under three months. It’s an unusually rapid unraveling of a founding team at a critical point in the company’s history.As…
If you’ve ever wondered how Polymarket and Kalshi are different, you’re probably not alone. Loading audio narration… The two prediction market giants are often spoken about in the same breath, and they largely serve the same purpose: allowing people to trade on the probability of real-world events.They’ve also both exploded in popularity in recent years, partnered with major institutions such as sports leagues, award shows, and media organizations, and engaged in attention-grabbing stunts to build their brands.But there are some crucial differences between Kalshi and Polymarket that you should be aware of. Here’s what to know.Kalshi is fully regulated by the federal government.…
Meta has paused its work with Mercor and is investigating after a recent data breach at the AI training startup, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Business Insider. Loading audio narration… Mercor, which was valued at $10 billion in a funding round in October, works with major tech companies like Meta to train AI models with the help of thousands of human contractors and experts. Wired first reported on Friday that Meta had paused all its work with the company.Meta declined to provide a comment.Mercor confirmed to Business Insider on Friday that the company had experienced a security…