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Exclusive: Cloneable Raises $4.6M To ‘Clone’ Expert Worker Knowledge With Agentic AI For Utilities And Infrastructure
Cloneable, a startup that uses AI to shadow human experts in heavy industries such as energy and replicate their specialized workflows into autonomous agents, has raised $4.6 million in seed funding, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
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Meet Noscroll, an AI bot that does your doomscrolling for you
Noscroll wants to cure doomscrolling with an AI bot that reads the internet for you.
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OpenAI unveils Workspace Agents, a successor to custom GPTs for enterprises that can plug directly into Slack, Salesforce and more
OpenAI introduced a new paradigm and product today that is likely to have huge implications for enterprises seeking to adopt and control fleets of AI agent workers. Called "Workspace Agents," OpenAI's new offering essentially allows users on its ChatGPT Business ($20 per user per…
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‘Fullmetal Alchemist’ Is the Greatest Anime of All Time
In an era overflowing with new anime, no series has managed to outrun the shadow of 'Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood,' the show that defined what 'peak' actually means.
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Mystery solved: Anthropic reveals changes to Claude's harnesses and operating instructions likely caused degradation
For several weeks, a growing chorus of developers and AI power users claimed that Anthropic’s flagship models were losing their edge. Users across GitHub, X, and Reddit reported a phenomenon they described as "AI shrinkflation"—a perceived degradation where Claude seemed less cap…
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Microsoft Offers Voluntary Retirement to Long-Serving Employees
Tom Warren, The Verge (gift link): “Many of these employees have spent years, and in some cases, decades, shaping Microsoft into what it is today,” says Microsoft’s HR chief Amy Coleman in a memo seen by The Verge. “For those who may be considering their next chapter, we’re offer…
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I’m 66 and I sold the business I built over two decades for more money than I ever thought I’d see — and I spent the first week staring at my bank account trying to figure out why I didn’t feel anything, and I finally understood that the money was never the point, the building was the point, and once it was gone I had to meet the version of myself who wasn’t building something anymore
After decades of 5:30 AM wake-ups and building something from nothing, he discovered that staring at all those zeros in his bank account felt exactly like staring into an empty toolbox—the money meant nothing without the work that defined him.
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Zerodha Pivots Creator-Led Zero1 To In-House Content Model
Zero1 Network, a new-age media joint venture between Zerodha and LearnApp, is pivoting its business from its erstwhile model of…
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People who start businesses in their 50s and 60s have an advantage no 25-year-old can replicate — they’ve already failed inside someone else’s company on someone else’s dime, and every mistake they watched a boss make is a mistake they’ll never repeat, and that accumulated library of other people’s errors is worth more than any startup capital because it buys something money can’t
While young entrepreneurs chase venture capital and viral growth, seasoned professionals in their 50s and 60s are quietly building bulletproof businesses using a secret weapon no amount of funding can buy: three decades of watching other people's expensive mistakes unfold in real…
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Tencent unveils first flagship AI model with former OpenAI researcher at helm
Tencent Holdings has released a new flagship artificial intelligence model, the first since former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu joined the Chinese tech giant to lead its foundational AI development efforts. The Shenzhen-based company said on Thursday that the new model, an open-s…
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Microsoft offers voluntary exit to 7% of US employees amid increased AI spending: Report
Microsoft has reportedly introduced a voluntary retirement program for a section of… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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ByteDance Launches Seed3D 2.0, a Next-Generation 3D Foundation Model
ByteDance’s Seed3D 2.0 sets a new benchmark in 3D generation, leading in both geometry and texture quality.
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This KiCAD Plugin Enables Breadboarding
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GPT-5.5
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092 Points: 953 # Comments: 595
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