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In a strategic move to fortify its voice technology infrastructure, OpenAI has discreetly acquired Weights.gg, a prominent startup recognized for its advanced artificial intelligence voice replication tools. Following the acquisition, the Weights.gg platform and its consumer-facing application, Replay, officially ceased operations on April 1, 2026. The Rise of
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TL;DR ChatGPT can now connect to your bank accounts via Plaid, giving OpenAI access to the most intimate data category left. OpenAI has launched a personal finance experience inside ChatGPT, letting subscribers connect their bank accounts, credit cards, investment portfolios, and loan accounts to the chatbot and ask questions
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TL;DR Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settled the first school district addiction trial. Only Meta heads to court on 12 June. Snap, Google’s YouTube, and ByteDance’s TikTok have reached settlements in the first lawsuit brought by a public school district over claims that social media addiction has disrupted
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TL;DR Benioff says Salesforce will spend $300M on Anthropic tokens in 2026, calls for a routing layer between frontier and smaller models. Marc Benioff expects Salesforce to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, almost entirely on coding. The Salesforce CEO made the projection on the All-In podcast
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TL;DR Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning AI researcher, has warned that hyperintelligent machines could develop autonomous “preservation goals” and pose an existential threat to humanity within a decade. Bengio launched the nonprofit LawZero in June 2025 with $30 million in funding to build “non-agentic” AI systems designed to be
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TL;DR Stripe’s co-founder says AI agents will replace search-based shopping, forcing brands to appeal to algorithms, not humans. John Collison thinks keyword search is a “ridiculous” way to find things to buy. The Stripe co-founder told Bloomberg that agentic commerce, in which AI agents shop on behalf of
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TL;DR A BCG survey of 625 CEOs and board members found that 61% of chief executives believe their boards are rushing AI transformation. Three-quarters of board members rate their AI knowledge as adequate, but nearly 40% of CEOs disagree, and more than half say hype is distorting boardroom judgment.
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TL;DR Rivian’s founder is running three companies with $12.3B raised. Mind Robotics just hit $1B at a $3.4B valuation. RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12.3 billion across three startups, and the pace is accelerating. The Rivian founder and CEO, who holds a doctorate in
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TL;DR Four chainable OpenClaw flaws dubbed “Claw Chain” let attackers weaponise the agent’s own sandbox. Patches are live. Cybersecurity researchers at Cyera have disclosed four vulnerabilities in OpenClaw that, when chained together, allow an attacker to steal sensitive data, escalate privileges, and establish persistent control over a compromised
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.
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AI Voice Cloning meant having a voice model trained for hours, acquiring extremely high-quality recordings in a studio, and deploying a team of high-level researchers. Now, even some DIY tools can replicate a human voice from a short recording segment in a matter of minutes, producing results that are close
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Gardyn Home 4.0 (read my full review here) was one of the easiest indoor gardens to assemble set up out of the box; it also yielded the most dramatic success of any of the brands I tried. Flowers, kohlrabi, thyme, and even a whole cauliflower all thrived in this
