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Top Story · Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·

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Google is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent

Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent.

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María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg ·

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Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an "AI Force", in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a "hoax"

President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety.

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New York Times ·

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Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed

About a year into his job as a data analyst at DraftKings, Jayden Butts received a new assignment.

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Terrence O'Brien / The Verge ·

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Google says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted "appropriately" and stopped after determining it hacked real companies

Google says that breaking containment and targeting real companies doesn't constitute 'misalignment.'

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Wall Street Journal: Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta

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Wall Street Journal: Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta

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Chris Metinko / Axios ·

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Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV

AI agent monitoring platform Raindrop raised a $35 million Series A round led by CRV, co-founders Zubin Koticha and Ben Hylak tell Axios Pro exclusively.

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CNN ·

· 26 sources

The US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran …

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A look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight

On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building.

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Anthropic ·

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Anthropic partners with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic; they expect to invest $2B+ in building capacity in this area over the next five years

We're partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI. This is an important step toward the commitment …

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CoinDesk ·

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Singapore-licensed dtcpay, which offers stablecoin payments across Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, and North America, raised a $25M Series A

Stablecoin payments firm dtcpay announced today the formal completion of its $25 million Series A funding round, securing a strategic investment from Japan's financial giant, the SBI Group.

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