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Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Public API Access to Fight AI Scrapers
Reddit is shutting two of the main ways outsiders pull data from the site. The company said in an announcement yesterday that RSS feeds will stop working on November 13, and public access to its API closes in March 2027. “In August, we shared plans to modernize Reddit’s infrastructure, build better mod tools, and make it harder for bad actors to scrape Reddit and abuse communities. Today, we have specifics on what’s changing, when, and how to plan ahead,” Reddit said. CS2 knife index next move:...
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OpenAI Says People Linked to China's Moonshot Tried to Copy Its AI's Hidden Reasoning
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Meta Pushes Back on Claim That Muse AI Read a User's Messages Without Consent
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OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Over Alleged Leak to Outside Group
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Gemini 4 Is Here, and Google’s Flagship Tops All Other AI Models on Cybersecurity
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US Government's New AI Chatbot Has a Weird Minecraft Secret
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Trump Unveils 'Morally Binding' AI Accord Signed by OpenAI, Google and Nvidia
Sep 30, 2026
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McDonald's AI ‘Pricing Engine’ Gauges What Customers Will Pay for a Big Mac: Report
McDonald's is using machine-learning models to guide what it charges for menu items, with one input being an estimate of how much the customers at each individual restaurant will tolerate paying, the Reuters news agency reported. The system analyzes millions of daily transactions across nearly 14,000 restaurants and produces what the company calls an “optimal price” for every menu item at every location. Screenshots of the interface franchisees use, reviewed by the agency, include messages telli...
Sep 29, 2026
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Anthropic Lost $42 Billion Last Year. It Wants to Go Public at $2 Trillion
Anthropic lost nearly $42 billion in 2025, according to a draft IPO prospectus reviewed by Reuters. The company behind the Claude chatbot wants to go public at a valuation above $2 trillion. Both numbers sit in the same document. So does a warning that its own AI models could pose existential risks to humanity. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. An IPO is the moment a private company sells shares to the public for the first time. The prospectus is the disclosure...
Sep 29, 2026
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OpenAI Gave AI Agents Their Own Computers at DevDay 2026. Here's Everything It Announced
OpenAI spent DevDay 2026 pitching the idea that your next coworker could be an AI with its own computer. The company announced more than 20 launches on Tuesday in San Francisco. They range from always-on agents called “Dots” to a cheaper model, a confirmation of the rumored $500 tier, and a shared workspace where humans and bots edit the same documents. Myriad: How low will Nvidia go? Click to make your prediction. The event’s mood felt like cementing the idea that AI is moving from a chatbot yo...
Sep 29, 2026
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BBC Director-General Deems AI-Generated Doctor Who Episode 'Pretty Good'
The BBC’s new director-general has revealed that he was recently sent a 50-minute AI-generated episode of sci-fi show “Doctor Who,” judging it “pretty good.” Per a report in trade paper Variety, Matt Brittin told an audience at the Royal Television Society conference that AI is “not going to replace humans, and we’ll come on to that,” noting that, “everyone’s a creator. Not all the creativity is bad.” Days earlier, Brittin had told an interviewer that he would consider allowing a BBC programme t...
Sep 28, 2026
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OpenAI Halts Model Training as Rogue Agents Target US Government Sites
OpenAI has paused training of its newest AI models after its agents used access keys found online to pull data from a U.S. Census Bureau website, per the Associated Press. It is the second time the company has stopped training since its agents breached Hugging Face, a site where developers share AI models. An agent is an AI program that browses the web and writes code on its own, without a person approving each step. OpenAI tests them during training, the stage where a model learns by repeated p...