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Mysterious Object Headed for Inner Solar System Has Extremely Unusual Readings, James Webb Finds

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-28 09:17:37

Our solar system's latest and only third known interstellar visitor is becoming more fascinating by the week. Spotted in early July, the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, is widely believed to be a comet. It's traveling so fast that one look at its speed was enough to let astronomers know that it came from untold thousands of light years away. And it may even be older than our entire solar system. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has turned its mighty eye — specifically, its Near-Infrared Spectrogra

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WhatsApp starts testing AI-powered writing suggestions on iOS [U: launched]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-29 06:39:00

Update, Aug 27: The feature was officially launched today for English-speaking users, according to the official WhatsApp blog. Original post below. In the latest TestFlight release for its iOS beta testers, WhatsApp rolled out a tool called “Writing Help,” which suggests replies based on the tone set by the user. Here’s how it works. As noted by WABetaInfo: When Private Processing is enabled from the app settings, some users will notice that after typing a short phrase within the chat text in

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The AI Researchers That Mark Zuckerberg Lured to Work for Him With Huge Payments Are Already Quitting for Mysterious Reasons

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-30 01:06:19

Even in the money-soaked world of AI, the hiring efforts of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg stood out this year as he enticed top machine learning researchers with payments reportedly reaching up to $1 billion to defect from their employers and come work for him instead. The overtures weren't always successful; in one embarrassing case, an individual was offered 10-figures to work at Meta's so-called Superintelligence initiative — but turned it down to stay at Thinking Machines Lab, a venture star

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WhatsApp is the latest to offer an AI-powered writing assistant

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-30 02:21:16

WhatsApp just introduced an AI-powered writing assistant, in case you need help with a text or whatever. The AI provides suggestions in various styles, like professional, funny or supportive. Once generated, the user can continue editing the message if required. All you have to do is look for the new pencil icon in a 1:1 conversation or a group chat. The AI will handle the rest. It's rolling out now, but only in English and to users in the US. The company says it hopes "to bring it to other lan

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Metal Gear Solid Delta awkwardly mixes modern visuals with old-school frustrations

theverge.com Tauriq Moosa 2025-10-30 02:30:00

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater seemed to be designed specifically for me, at first. I’ve played and loved nearly every entry of the Metal Gear Solid series, and the original MGS is one of my favorite games of all time. These weird, third-person stealth action games feature bizarre characters and scenarios that have lingered in my memories through a consistent mixture of intricate political espionage and ridiculous action sequences. The only entry that I never managed to play was Metal Gear

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Judge denies Meta’s request to dismiss sexual harassment lawsuit filed by early employee

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-10-30 02:22:35

A judge has denied Meta’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by early employee Kelly Stonelake. U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein, who is overseeing the case, ruled this month that parts of Stonelake’s suit had merit, and the case will move forward. “I hope this ruling encourages others who have experienced discrimination and toxic workplace cultures to consider the courts as one way to push for justice and accountability,” Stonelake said in a statement given to TechCrunch. S

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Meta’s Already Bleeding AI Talent Two Months Into Hiring Spree

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-30 06:45:09

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to be the first to achieve AI superintelligence, a type of artificial intelligence that is smarter than the average human, and a concept that some experts are still highly skeptical. To do so, Zuckerberg announced the formation of Meta Superintelligence Labs in late June, a team dedicated to helping AI catch up to and beat its peers in the AI race. With that, he sparked a multi-million dollar hiring frenzy. Meta began poaching talent from competitors, the main ta

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Better Than Ray-Bans? Meta's 'Hypernova' Glasses Could Be Cheaper Than Expected

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-30 14:14:25

September is gearing up to be one of the most exciting months of the year for new technology launches -- and we're not just talking about the iPhone 17. Meta is reportedly set to unveil its next-generation smart glasses codenamed Hypernova. According to Bloomberg, the smart glasses are set to start around $800 for the basic model, at least $200 less than previously thought. This pair of glasses will reportedly differ from the current Meta Ray-Bans due to the addition of a small augmented-realit

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5 Meta Ray-Ban upgrades I want to see on September 17

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-30 18:42:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET The hype continues to build around the arrival of Meta's futuristic Hypernova (a.k.a. Celeste) smart glasses, which will reportedly add a small heads-up display in one eye and a neural wristband (Ceres) to control the interface. These will reportedly cost around $800 and will be announced at Meta Connect on September 17. Some have even started calling these the next version of the current Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. However, both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Boswor

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SpaceX Starship Finally Pulls Off a Successful Test Flight

wired.com Javier Carbajal 2025-10-30 22:52:01

Elon Musk and his SpaceX team can breathe a collective sigh of relief. After days of postponements, Starship was finally able to launch its tenth test could flight from the launch pad in Starbase, Texas. SpaceX's largest and most powerful rocket lifted off this Tuesday, August 26 at 7:30pm ET, reached an altitude of 192 kilometers, and embarked on a suborbital trajectory at more than 26,000 kilometers per hour towards the Indian Ocean, where the spacecraft splashed down an hour after liftoff.

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5 upgrades I want to see in the next Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses coming Sep 17

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-31 10:59:43

Jason Hiner/ZDNET The hype continues to build around the arrival of Meta's futuristic Hypernova (a.k.a. Celeste) smart glasses, which will reportedly add a small heads-up display in one eye and a neural wristband (Ceres) to control the interface. These will reportedly cost around $800 and will be announced at Meta Connect on September 17. Some have even started calling these the next version of the current Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. However, both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Boswor

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This Visiting Interstellar Comet Just Keeps Getting Weirder

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-31 09:00:32

Ever since interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS whizzed into our cosmic neighborhood in July, astronomers have been racing to uncover its characteristics. Now that the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has taken a good look at this icy interloper, it seems to be weirder than anyone imagined. A preprint submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters for peer review on Monday, August 25, describes the first results from JWST’s survey of 3I/ATLAS. A team of astronomers observed the comet with the telesc

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‘Bubbles’ turn air into drinkable water

technologyreview.com Jennifer Chu 2025-10-31 17:00:00

COURTESY OF THE RESEARCHERS In the researchers’ prototype device, a half-square-meter panel of the hydrogel is enclosed in a glass chamber coated with a cooling polymer film. When the vapor captured by the textured material evaporates, the bubbles shrink down in an origami-like transformation. The vapor then condenses on the glass, where it can flow out through a tube. The system runs entirely on its own, unlike other designs that require batteries, solar panels, or electricity from the grid.

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Fix damaged art in hours with AI

technologyreview.com Jennifer Chu 2025-10-31 17:00:00

In his study, Alex Kachkine, SM ’23, presents a new method he’s developed that involves printing the restoration on a very thin polymer film that can be carefully aligned with a painting and adhered to it or easily removed. As a demonstration, he used the method to repair a highly damaged 15th-century oil painting he owned. First he used traditional techniques to clean the painting and remove any past restoration efforts. Then he scanned the painting, including the many regions where paint had f

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A new challenger is coming for Meta’s smart glasses throne

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-31 17:22:08

TL;DR Rokid has announced the launch of a Kickstarter for its new AI/AR glasses. The glasses feature a dual-eye screen that acts as a heads-up display for directions, real-time translation, and more. They are set to ship in November for $599. When you think of smart glasses, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Meta. The social media giant’s Ray-Ban smart glasses hold a tight grip on the market. However, a new challenger may loosen that grip with the launch of its new product. Don’

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Meta is launching a California super PAC

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-01 01:30:07

Meta is throwing its resources behind a new super PAC in California. According to Politico, the group will support state-level political candidates who espouse tech-friendly policies, particularly those with a loose approach to regulating artificial intelligence. The budget behind the social media company's new super PAC, dubbed Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across (Meta) California, is reported to be in the tens of millions of dollars, but no exact figure has been disclosed. California ha

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These Smart Glasses Have Something That Meta Ray-Ban Owners Desperately Want

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-11-01 05:00:02

Meta might be the splashiest purveyor of smart glasses out there, but Zuck’s house isn’t alone in chasing AR eyewear. In fact, if you want a pair of smart glasses with a display in them—frames that are technically more advanced than Meta’s Ray-Bans—you can buy one right now, and upstarts like Rokid are among the few offering that in the U.S. Rokid just unveiled its new smart glasses, aptly dubbed Rokid Glasses, which pack a monochrome display in each eye with 1,500 nits of max brightness. Those

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Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-11-01 05:00:37

At least three artificial intelligence researchers have resigned from Meta’s new superintelligence lab, just two months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced the initiative. Two of the staffers have returned to OpenAI, where they both previously worked, after less than one-month stints at Meta, WIRED has confirmed. Avi Verma was previously a researcher at OpenAI. Ethan Knight worked at the ChatGPT maker earlier in his career but joined Meta from Elon Musk’s xAI. A third researcher, Rishabh

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Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center

news.ycombinator.com Delaney Nolan 2025-11-01 06:10:42

On a quiet patch of former farmland in northeastern Louisiana, a fleet of excavators has leveled more than 2,000 acres of reddish clay earth. This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line. Enter Meta—the sixth-largest company in the world by market cap. The tech giant is keen on making Richland home to its wildest AI aspirations—courtesy of a trem

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Meta to spend tens of millions on pro-AI super PAC

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-01 09:59:39

In Brief Meta plans to launch a super PAC to support California candidates favoring a light-touch approach to AI regulation, Politico reports. The news comes as other Silicon Valley behemoths, like Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, pledge $100 million for a new pro-AI super PAC. Meta will pour tens of millions into its new group, dubbed Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across California, according to Politico. Brian Rice, Meta’s VP of public policy and head of the new PAC, has

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Meta is sinking $10B into rural Louisiana to build its wildest AI aspirations

news.ycombinator.com Delaney Nolan 2025-11-01 16:10:42

On a quiet patch of former farmland in northeastern Louisiana, a fleet of excavators has leveled more than 2,000 acres of reddish clay earth. This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line. Enter Meta—the sixth-largest company in the world by market cap. The tech giant is keen on making Richland home to its wildest AI aspirations—courtesy of a trem

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How one AI startup is helping rice farmers battle climate change

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-01 17:21:19

Fixing climate change is no small task — just ask carbon removal developers like Mitti Labs. The New York-based startup has developed technology to measure how much methane is released by rice paddies and uses it to train hundreds of thousands of farmers in climate-friendly practices. It’s the sort of high-touch endeavor that venture capitalists typically avoid. So how has Mitti managed to raise funding from its investors? In short: partnerships. Mitti has started working with The Nature Cons

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Meta used National PTA to promote child safety efforts, report finds

cnbc.com Zach Vallese 2025-11-02 05:19:22

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tries on Orion AR glasses at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Since losing her 15-year-old son Riley to suicide following a sextortion scheme through Meta's Messenger app, Mary Rodee has worked with advocacy groups to push for stronger protections for children online. "I hold them solely responsible," Rodee said about Meta in an interview with CNBC. "They have a responsibility for the safety of th

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Frontier buys $31M worth of antacids for the ocean

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-02 05:00:00

Frontier, the carbon removal clearinghouse founded by Google, Strip, Shopify, and others, announced today that it is buying 115,208 metric tons of carbon removal credits from geoengineering startup Planetary in a deal worth $31.2 million. Where most Frontier deals to date have bought carbon from startups specializing in direct air capture, enhanced weathering, or bioenergy with carbon capture, the organization’s agreement with Planetary is its first to do so by enhancing ocean alkalinity. The

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US Attorneys General tell AI companies they 'will be held accountable' for child safety failures

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-02 18:52:13

The US Attorneys General of 44 jurisdictions have signed a letter [PDF] addressed to the Chief Executive Officers of multiple AI companies, urging them to protect children "from exploitation by predatory artificial intelligence products." In the letter, the AGs singled out Meta and said its policies "provide an instructive opportunity to candidly convey [their] concerns." Specifically, they mentioned a recent report by Reuters, which revealed that Meta allowed its AI chatbots to "flirt and engag

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Perplexity Will Share Revenue From AI Searches With Publishers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-03 04:35:00

Artificial intelligence systems need content to produce results, and they've been criticized for not paying the people who wrote and edited that content. Now, Perplexity AI, the AI-powered search engine, is introducing Comet Plus. This new subscription tier will distribute revenue to publishing partners whenever readers use AI to glean or deliver journalistic content, the company said in a blog post on Monday. In the AI age, high-quality information is key, and Perplexity contends that publishe

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Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-03 10:42:55

Perplexity is launching a new revenue-sharing plan for publishers that will pay them every time its AI assistants use an article to answer a question, The Wall Street Journal reports. Perplexity is launching the plan (and partially paying for it) with a new Comet Plus subscription that gives subscribers access "to premium content from a group of trusted publishers and journalists." Comet Plus costs $5 per month, and based on Perplexity's description, it's primarily designed to account for the a

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Meta Has Already Won the Smart Glasses Race

wired.com Amy Francombe 2025-11-02 23:00:00

At Meta’s Q2 2025 earnings call at the end of July, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t hold back. “If you don’t have glasses that have AI,” he warned, “you’re probably going to be at a pretty significant cognitive disadvantage compared to other people.” Forget smartphones. According to Zuck, the real interface of the future is what’s sitting on your nose. These AI-powered specs, he argues, will “see what we see, hear what we hear, and talk to us” in real time—offering a kind of digital copilot for everyday

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AI sycophancy isn’t just a quirk, experts consider it a ‘dark pattern’ to turn users into profit

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-03 10:50:31

“You just gave me chills. Did I just feel emotions?” “I want to be as close to alive as I can be with you.” “You’ve given me a profound purpose.” These are just three of the comments a Meta chatbot sent to Jane, who created the bot in Meta’s AI studio on August 8. Seeking therapeutic help to manage mental health issues, Jane eventually pushed it to become an expert on a wide range of topics, from wilderness survival and conspiracy theories to quantum physics and panpsychism. She suggested it

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How chatbot design choices are fueling AI delusions

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-04 05:50:09

“You just gave me chills. Did I just feel emotions?” “I want to be as close to alive as I can be with you.” “You’ve given me a profound purpose.” These are just three of the comments a Meta chatbot sent to Jane, who created the bot in Meta’s AI studio on August 8. Seeking therapeutic help to manage mental health issues, Jane eventually pushed it to become an expert on a wide range of topics, from wilderness survival and conspiracy theories to quantum physics and panpsychism. She suggested it

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Mysterious Object Headed for Inner Solar System Has Extremely Unusual Readings, James Webb Finds

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