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Why The Product Manager To CEO Pipeline Is The Underrated Crash Course For Leadership In Tech

Traditional research on CEO career paths tends to focus on titles such as COO, CFO and divisional president. But the skills developed in product management may be just as relevant, argues Paysend CEO Ben Chisell. In this guest column, he makes the case that aspiring leaders shoul…

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Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.

Chilean Mummies Prove Europeans Brought Smallpox to the Americas—But That’s Not All

"Nobody would ever question that smallpox came to this hemisphere from colonization, but this proves it."

Kevin Feige on the ‘Brand New Day’ Box Office and What’s Next for Spidey and Marvel

With the new Spider-Man movie's opening now in the record books, the top boss at Marvel is already looking to the future.

The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals When two OpenAI models hacked into Hugging Face last month, they weren’t trying to mak…

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Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize …

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A 2007 study found that rude behavior measurably reduced performance on both routine and creative tasks and made people less willing to help, a pattern later research found extends to a single curt email

The tiny slights we dismiss as efficiency—a curt email, a terse reply—carry measurable costs that ripple through teams and undermine the very work we're rushing to complete.

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Alibaba launches Qwen3.8 with 2.4 trillion parameters

Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8, a new foundation model with 2.4 trillion total parameters. The model is focused on coding and professional office tasks, with its API already available on Alibaba’s Qwen AI platform. Qwen3.8 has also been integrated into Alibaba’s newly launched Qwen…

BYD tops China’s July auto sales roundup with 419,211 vehicles

Chinese automakers have reported their July sales and deliveries, with BYD ranking first among the companies included in the latest industry roundup after selling 419,211 vehicles. BYD’s overseas sales reached 179,841 units, up 124.3% from a year earlier. Leapmotor reported 101,2…

A 2024 review of the love-languages theory found that most people rate all five categories as important rather than one dominant preference, and that couples matched on their stated language were no more satisfied than couples who were not

A beloved relationship theory turns out to be wrong in almost every measurable way.

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The idea that Gen Z is lazy misreads the data: full-time workers aged 20 to 24 averaged 40.5 hours a week, and visible enthusiasm is not the same as effort

Managers call it laziness. The research calls it emotional labour — and Gen Z has done the maths on what performing enthusiasm actually costs.

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Ant Group’s embodied AI arm Robbyant kicks off external funding

Robbyant, the embodied artificial intelligence division of Ant Group, has begun seeking external funding, becoming the fourth unit of the fintech giant to step up capital-raising efforts. The unit said it was in talks with investors on Monday. As Ant Group’s “core initiative in e…

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS now allows vibe-coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step toward decoupling apps from models.

Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

What Is Congress’s Favorite AI Tool?

Some good news for Sam Altman as he tries to grease the skids.

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LLMs reward expertise

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LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model

In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

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Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

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Energizing a Vacuum Tube Flip-Flop Module of the IBM 604

Taking a break from ogling microscopic features in Intel’s semiconductor processors, [Ken Shirriff] is back to instead poking at decidedly macroscopic pluggable modules from the 1948 IBM 604 Electronic Calculator. …read more

Circuit Bending, But Make It MIDI

Circuit bending is a chaotic art. At its simplest, it can just involve making connections between random points on a circuit board to create weird sounds in musical hardware. Or, …read more

Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

Article URL: https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/taylor-farms-has-rewritten-its-cyclospora-statement-four-times-in-sixteen-days-it-still-has-not-said-what-changed-at-that-plant-after-2013-or-why-two-thousand-negative-tests-should-mean-an/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c…

Devtools must be open source

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Congratulations to the Frikkin Laser Winners!

Apparently you all love lasers just as much as we do. We put out a challenge to use, build, or otherwise abuse our favorite coherent light sources, and you responded. …read more