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Upwork fees from 2016 to 2026: a decade of service fees, Connects, boosts, withdrawals, and new charges. From Nada to Prada.

Maximor reports 35x revenue growth nine months after its $9M Foundation Capital seed, with AI agents automating 98% of finance transactions for 25+ customers.

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ZIGChain lands a strategic investment from Nomura's Laser Digital, with risk governance across vault products targeting $100M TVL in emerging-market credit.

Discover what Unitree Robotics is, why it's attracting global investor attention, and how to trade UNITREE Pre IPO Futures on MEXC with long or short positions.

STS Digital integrates with Talos, giving institutional investors direct access to regulated crypto options & spot liquidity through the Talos trading platform.

A true story about the time I got scammed online, and my advice to the reader to predict how to you'll mitigate the panic; and then plan how you'll react.

Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

The gossip blogger was on TikTok covered in what appeared to be blood and wielding a knifelike object before the platform cut his stream. He’s since been hospitalized.

Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities—and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise.

Here is a system I built using Gemini's Google Workspace extensions (Docs, Sheets, and Gmail) to run a automated news service. It tracks what you have read so you don't get duplicates, keeps a doc of your preferences, emails you short summaries, and generates a detailed Google Doc formatted specifically for Google NotebookLM to turn into a daily audio overview. Basically my goal was to bring back the Google Discovery thing with the AI host giving the daily news (which I'm stiff upset about the...

Graph engineering came to life this week. For a year the agent discourse has been loops vs graphs. Loops are easy to ship and impossible to audit. Graphs are auditable but nobody wants to hand-author a topology for "investigate this incident", because the shape is only discovered while working. So I built the missing piece: the graph is authored by a model at runtime, and a deterministic admission gate stands between proposing it and running it. The flow, from a real run in the ...

I'm putting together a proposal for an initiative focused on using AI to analyze legacy enterprise systems and uncover decades of embedded business logic. The idea is to use AI to analyze things like: Database schemas Stored procedures Legacy application code Historical transaction data Existing documentation The goal isn't to automate decisions immediately. It's to first create a documented knowledge base of the rules, dependencies, decision paths, and data relationships that ...

Two of the world's most powerful AI tools created fake human profiles to try and trick people in attempted cyber-attacks, the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) has revealed.

Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on LLMs to help mods manage their communities, and it's expanding who can use those tools today ahead of a full launch later this year. The company calls the suite […]

Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we're calling the whole thing SpaceX. Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a company that rents compute, according to SpaceX's first quarterly earnings statement […]

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday. Hassabis will continue to lead Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs, which aims to use AI to develop drugs. Koray […]

We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz" was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made using Treblo specifically. Now the company and a new detection tool seem to confirm it. On Monday, the company announced the open-source Treblo AI Music Classifier, which detects when a song was generated using […]

Apple’s most affordable laptop, the MacBook Neo, is available once again at its pre-price hike price. All four colors are currently discounted and available refurbished through the company, with the base 256GB model listed for $599 (usually $699 new), and the upgraded version with 512GB of storage and TouchID selling for $679 (usually $799). The […]

After Uber and Waymo ended their partnership in Phoenix earlier this year, experts and robotaxi watchers wondered whether the companies' improbable bromance was fraying. Not so, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said today. The two companies are committed to continue working together in Atlanta and Austin, and the partnership remains "very strong." "Waymo is a very […]

Ring’s Wired Doorbell Pro and Battery Doorbell Plus are two of the brand’s most well-rounded video doorbells, whether you’re looking for a hardwired model or one that runs on a battery. Right now, its Wired Doorbell Pro is down to $199 ($50 off) at Amazon and Best Buy, while the Battery Doorbell Plus is on […]

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.