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Coursera is investing $100M in LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng that aims to build AI agents that function as personal tutors

July 28, 2026, 4:20 PM Top News More: International Business Times, The Verge, Pacing the Frontier, and Bloomberg Law X: @zeffmax, @micsolana, @logandobson, @hadas_gold, @shakeelhashim, @zeffmax, @theobearman, @dylhunn, @thezvi, @wholemars, @mark_k, @adamthierer, @chadwahl, @tedlieu, @shiringhaffary, @stevesi, @woke8yearold, and @abhominedeus More: Apple, 9to5Mac, The Verge, ZDNET, International Business

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Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that it may be time “pace” AI development so the world will be ready for it. “We may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new capability levels,” he told Patrick

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Apple TV’s Neuromancer Doesn’t Look Exactly Like Blade Runner — and It Shouldn’t

Neuromancer was supposed to be unfilmable. That was one theory about why this 40-year-old novel, winner of Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick awards, had yet to be made into a film or TV show. After all, how do you visualize “bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void”

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Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 29, #1866

Today’s Wordle answer isn’t a tough one, with an unusual repeated letter. Read on for hints and the answer. Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now. Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats

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Pet Parents, Don’t Miss This Dyson Vacuum at One of Its Best Prices Yet

Save $135: All pet parents know that fur has a way of getting everywhere, from carpets and couches to everything in between. If you’re ready for an upgrade, the Dyson Ball Animal 2 Plus vacuum is currently discounted to $315, making now a great time to invest in one

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This USB Microphone Just Dropped to $15, an Impressive 85% Off

Save $85: The Neat Bumblebee II has dropped to just $15, making it one of the most affordable USB microphones we’ve seen with premium recording features. Whether you’re a gamer, content creator, podcaster or something else, this 85% discount is almost impossible to say no to and proves

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CISO's guide to data obfuscation | TechTarget

Organizations today generate, process and share more sensitive information than at any other point in history. Customer records, financial transactions, healthcare information, intellectual property, employee data, operational telemetry and AI training data sets routinely move across cloud platforms, SaaS applications, development environments, analytics pipelines and third-party ecosystems. While encryption has

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#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Gary Gallagher is a historian of the American Civil War. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep499-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. CONTACT LEX: Feedback – give feedback to Lex:

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The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is the modern-day wild Nokia phone and may finally put foldables on the map — but how much credit will Samsung get for this enchanting design once the iPhone Ultra arrives

Confusion is the typical first reaction. They hold the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 in their hands, marveling at the passport-sized cover screen, and ask without irony or sarcasm, "Is this new?" I'm finding that people think the Z Fold 8's design is

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Meta smart glasses were the best tech I took on my honeymoon, but privacy concerns kept them from being as frictionless…

It’s probably fair to say Meta is facing serious public backlash to its AI glasses. Musician Lorde took time at a recent concert to tell her audience, “Don’t get the glasses,” many online are branding them “pervert glasses,” and activist group Everyone Hates Elon has put up spoof

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AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development — or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. “Al could help

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Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs

Secret to their success: Using the right model for the right security job Two agentic bug-hunting systems from Microsoft and Google-owned Wiz show that when it comes to finding and remediating software vulnerabilities, at least two models’ minds work better than one - and Wiz tells us it’s adding

Coursera is investing $100M in LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng that aims to build AI agents that function as personal tutors

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

Apple TV’s Neuromancer Doesn’t Look Exactly Like Blade Runner — and It Shouldn’t

Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 29, #1866

Pet Parents, Don’t Miss This Dyson Vacuum at One of Its Best Prices Yet

This USB Microphone Just Dropped to $15, an Impressive 85% Off

CISO's guide to data obfuscation | TechTarget

#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee

The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is the modern-day wild Nokia phone and may finally put foldables on the map &mdash; but how much credit will Samsung get for this enchanting design once the iPhone Ultra arrives

Meta smart glasses were the best tech I took on my honeymoon, but privacy concerns kept them from being as frictionless…

AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI

Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs

The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is the modern-day wild Nokia phone and may finally put foldables on the map — but how much credit will Samsung get for this enchanting design once the iPhone Ultra arrives