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Start Up No.2747: Meta ignores smart glass row, Dyson toothbrush has damp reception, Fukuyama on AI risk, and more

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OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says, Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline • Reuters, and more ›

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Start Up No.2746: Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse agent, chatbots aren’t customer service, the AI writing Alaska News, and more

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Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI assistant, citing security and privacy concerns, Analysts predict gas price jump, long disruption from damaged pipeline, and more ›

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Start Up No.2745: US military followed false AI report, how AI found problem gamblers, life on Ozempic, Miami’s drowning, and more

The Overspill2d2 days ago15 min read

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics, At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose, and more ›

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Start Up No.2744: can an AI beat Pangram’s detector?, Siri AI put to the test, AI-produced sitcom airs, charge up!, and more

The Overspill5d5 days ago10 min read

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I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots, 125 Tests of the New AI Siri - by David Pogue, and more ›

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Start Up No.2743: Russia recruits UK vandals online, AI Odyssey film loses the plot, Samsung hurries to unfold new foldable, and more

The Overspill6d6 days ago10 min read

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Commerce Dept. ordered Kalshi to take down AI-compute futures product, Kalshi Announces Compute Forward Curves, Becoming the Exchange for the AI Economy, and more ›

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Start Up No.2742: US deploys its first space weapons, how agents are ruining the internet, home EV charging at last!, and more

The Overspill1w1 week ago10 min read

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Google warns of lower quality as it revamps Europe search results to avoid EU fines • Reuters, ‘Like Syd Barrett’: AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon, and more ›

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Start Up No.2741: China’s top spy warns on AI, UK grid needs rapid upgrade, EV price delta grows, Photosynthesis!, and more

The Overspill1w1 week ago10 min read

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China’s Top Spy Chief Warns A.I. Is a Threat to Party Rule, How the male fruit fly's brain map is advancing neuroscience, and more ›

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Start Up No.2740: AI chiefs call for slowdown, mathematicians say AI proofs don’t help, how words lost their meaning, and more

The Overspill1w1 week ago10 min read

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OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development, Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board, and more ›

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Start Up No.2739: California warms to nuclear power, IDScan confirms 150m drivers licence hack, Huang nixes AI fears, and more

The Overspill1w1 week ago10 min read

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Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities, ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver’s licenses stolen, and more ›

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Start Up No.2738: what’s the risk AI wipes us out?, US might bomb Chinese AGI, Apple unfurls foldable, vibe code this!, and more

The Overspill1w1 week ago10 min read

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Anthropic safety researcher says more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans', Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon, and more ›

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Start Up No.2737: UK government demands to know smartphone users’ age, EV batteries do last well, DeepMind goes genomic, and more

The Overspill2w2 weeks ago10 min read

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Navier-Stokes Equation - Clay Mathematics Institute, OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul, and more ›

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Start Up No.2736: how AI is changing our perception of each other, relive one of 100 billion lives, Huawei on trial, and more

The Overspill2w2 weeks ago10 min read

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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses, Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation, and more ›

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Start Up No.2735: what if we had taxed the internet?, OpenAI swarm found on German site, Sony says games aren’t real, and more

The Overspill2w2 weeks ago10 min read

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Facing lawsuit, Sony argues it’s already obvious that digital games aren’t owned by consumers, Prolific finance journalists facing questions over identities, and more ›

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Start Up No.2734: UN warns that world will pass 1.5ºC warming, China’s emissions fall, the loneliness of the baseball viewer, and more

The Overspill2w2 weeks ago15 min read

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Pegasus Spyware Infection of Serbian Pro-Democracy Student Activist, Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use, and more ›

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Start Up No.2733: Google escapes adtech selloff in US, the “ghost creators” in American politics, Word to be less annoying, and more

The Overspill2w2 weeks ago10 min read

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How a new kind of video business cashed in on America's divided politics, Text predictions off by default in Word and Outlook, and more ›

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Start Up No.2732: how conscious are AI agents?, solar overtakes coal in China, Meta disables hacked smart glasses, and more

The Overspill3w3 weeks ago10 min read

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Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You., Meta disables cameras on thousands of tampered smart glasses, and more ›

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Start Up No.2731: the depth of US data centre opposition, academia’s AI ghosts, the Superbox ripoff, Steve Jobs’s closed mind, and more

The Overspill3w3 weeks ago15 min read

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Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI, An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on B.C.'s largest reservoir, and more ›

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Start Up No.2730: a deeper look at the Hugging Face hack, Google AI Overview hurts web traffic, 3D AI models flop, and more

The Overspill3w3 weeks ago10 min read

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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations, The Hugging Face attack surprised me, and more ›

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Start Up No.2729: the devastation of the Nepal glacier disaster, Nvidia looks to hug open source LLMs, GTA6’s big ambitions, and more

The Overspill3w3 weeks ago10 min read

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Apple Maps launches ads on iPhone, here’s what’s new, I watched my village disappear in an instant • Kathmandu Post, and more ›

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Start Up No.2728: did glacier fracture cause Nepal flood?, Meta settles child safety trial, rogue AI worse than thought, and more

The Overspill3w3 weeks ago10 min read

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Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident, OpenAI Hugging Face Incident Technical Report, and more ›

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