Tinder CEO to step down in July

Faye Iosotaluno, the CEO of Tinder, will step down from her role in July, according to a post she published on LinkedIn.  Isootaluno served less than a year in the role, and spent nearly eight years overall at the company, which is owned by Match Group. In her post, she said she was “especially proud […]

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Founders of Amazon’s PillPack launch health-care marketplace startup General Medicine

General Medicine acts as an online health-care marketplace that can connect users with medical providers or assess what care they need based on symptoms.

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Senate votes to revoke California’s ability to set air pollution standards

The state was to require increasing sales of zero-emissions cars and passenger trucks starting in 2026.

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A safety institute advised against releasing an early version of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 AI model

A third-party research institute that Anthropic partnered with to test one of its new flagship AI models, Claude Opus 4, recommended against deploying an early version of the model due to its tendency to “scheme” and deceive. According to a safety report Anthropic published Thursday, the institute, Apollo Research, conducted tests to see in which […]

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A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley

As Donald Trump pens deals in the Middle East, the gulf nation opens a research lab in San Francisco.

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Hinge Health opens at $39.25 per share after pricing IPO at top end of range

Hinge Health is betting that Wall Street is ready to back a new digital health offering after a difficult few years for that market.

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Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline

Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system and give it sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the decision, the company said in a safety report released Thursday. During pre-release testing, Anthropic asked Claude Opus 4 to act as […]

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Open social web browser Surf makes it easier for anyone to build custom feeds

With Starter Sets, Surf is simplifying the process of building those custom feeds, personalizing them, and even publishing them off-platform, if you choose.

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Anthropic’s New Model Excels at Reasoning and Planning—and Has the Pokémon Skills to Prove It

When Anthropic’s older Claude model played Pokemon Red, it spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one city and had trouble identifying non-player characters. With Claude 4 Opus, they noticed an improvement in Claude’s long-term memory and planning capabilities.

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Snowflake shares soar to highest level in over a year as revenue tops $1 billion for first time

Snowflake shares popped on Thursday after the data analytics company reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue.

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