2026-08-20
OpenAI builds safety system that catches misuse without storing customer data
OpenAI plans to offer its most advanced AI models to corporate customers without storing their data, while still detecting misuse.<br /> The article OpenAI builds safety system that catches misuse without storing customer data appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
2026-08-20
Unitree’s founder says robots are nearing a ‘ChatGPT moment’
Wang Xingxing spent Thursday morning at the World Robot Conference in Beijing telling the room that humanoid robots are approaching their “ChatGPT moment”. He spent another part of the same appearance explaining why that moment might still be a decade away. The Unitree founder and chief executive was speaking the day after his company’s Shanghai listing, […]<br /> This story continu [...]
2026-08-20
I review coffee machines for a living and my hands-down favourite model is 49% off — and I can't recommend it highly enough
Coffee machines come in all shapes and sizes, from a variety of brands. This Philips coffee maker is one of my favourites, and it's now down to an incredibly low price. [...]
2026-08-20
Meta’s first witness told a jury the problem was Mark Zuckerberg’s culture
Arturo Béjar took the stand in Oakland on Wednesday and told a federal jury that the reason Meta could never fix its own safety problems was the culture Mark Zuckerberg had built. He is the first witness in a trial that four state attorneys general have spent years assembling. The case opened on Tuesday before […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-20
Trump hosts crypto executives as the SEC proposes its friendliest rules yet
The Securities and Exchange Commission spent Tuesday proposing the friendliest set of crypto rules an American regulator has ever put on paper. On Wednesday, the industry that would benefit from them was at the White House, having lunch with the president. Donald Trump hosted crypto executives and trade body officials in Washington alongside Paul Atkins, […]<br /> This story continues at T [...]
2026-08-20
Revolut wants to let Nik Storonsky borrow $250mn against his own shares
Revolut has asked its shareholders to let Nik Storonsky borrow up to $250mn against his stake in the company, five times what the current rules permit. The request went to investors last week as part of a governance exercise the fintech has codenamed Project Shasta. Storonsky owns roughly 29% of Europe’s most valuable private technology […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-20
A Berkeley professor wrote about students cutting corners, but a detector flagged her op-ed
Zvezdelina Stankova published an op-ed on 15 August arguing that Berkeley admits students who cannot do middle school mathematics. Within days, the argument had been overtaken by a question about how the op-ed itself was written. Zvezdelina Stankova, a teaching professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley, made her case in the San Francisco Standard under […]<br /> This story continues at The N [...]
2026-08-20
Callosum raises $100m to make AI workloads cheaper, with the British state on the cap table
Callosum has raised $100m, six months after leaving stealth with a tenth of that, and the round includes money from the British state. Bloomberg reported the raise, describing the UK’s public AI fund as a backer. The Cambridge company came out of stealth in February with $10.25m led by Plural, the fund founded by former Wise executive […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]