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D&AD report calls on industry to teach junior talent ‘human judgement’ in wake of AI
D&AD’s AI & Creativity Report 2026: The Cost of the Shortcut found that entry-level roles are disappearing, impacting junior talent’s opportunity to learn about taste and craft.
This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected
Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in…
Owner Just Raised $240M to Prove AI Can Kill the DoorDash Model
Owner.com raised $240M from Goldman Sachs to build AI agents that replace the tech and marketing stack small restaurants currently rent from DoorDash at 15 to 30 percent per order. The same thesis threatens every marketplace built on…
Days After Astra’s Launch, OpenAI Gets Questioned Over the Wiki Incident
Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers
Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market
Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone
ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images
Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?
Meta bets on AI agent Muse to catch up in AI race
OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician
AI power users claim Anthropic duped them with subscriptions, and they’re taking it to court
Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape
AI Data Centers Are Swallowing Farmland — and Rural America Is Fighting Back
Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal
Suno pulls controversial Mary J. Blige AI ad after 'representative' fraud
Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business
Anthropic’s Distillation Battle Moves To The Dark Web As China Fears Grow
Google’s Atlas of the human genome could pave the way for new treatments
Adobe is trying to make its AI generators idiot-proof in Premiere
Zuckerberg Opposed White House AI Regulator Plan In Trump Call
NVIDIA Just Built a $99 Billion AI Portfolio — It’s No Longer Just Selling Chips
Ghana, Burkina Faso deepen cooperation on Human Capital and AI
Bernie Sanders Finally Asks a Rare AI Question: When Should We Stop?
Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know
Every Major AI Model That Shipped in Six Weeks, From Kimi K3 to GPT-6 Astra
The Download: the hunt for underground hydrogen and more rogue OpenAI agents
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