Uber's CTO embedded its top AI engineers in HR, finance, and legal, and found better ways to build

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Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga speaks on a stage while sitting in a white chair and wearing jeans and a grey sweater.
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga said that the company is rolling out AI agents across the company using "agentic pods."

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I tried DoorDash's new AI search. As a home cook, this feature won me over.

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DoorDash unveiled its Ask DoorDash AI search tool earlier this month.

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I tried to whisper like an AI coder. It nearly ruined my life.

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A hot-mic moment is going to get me fired one of these days with this new voice-to-text app!

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Inside the $350 million missile silo that could become a data center

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As fears of global conflict grow, tech companies are racing to protect servers by turning nuclear missile silos and abandoned mines into ultra-secure data centers.

Former Google X exec warns the AI era will break the old rules

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Mo Gawdat is a former chief business officer at Google X and a longtime tech leader who worked on scaling Google in emerging markets.

How AI could destroy — or save — humanity, according to AI experts

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Artificial intelligence could transform medicine, education, and scientific discovery, but it could also deepen inequality, supercharge cybercrime, erase jobs, and put unprecedented power in the hands of governments and tech companies.

AI isn't replacing expertise — it's exposing who actually has it, an economist says

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Economist John A. List says AI isn't replacing experts — it's revealing who actually understands their work.

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Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use 'Dara AI' before talking to the big boss himself

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks while wearing a grey suit, watch, and light-blue dress shirt while gesticulating with his hands.
Some Uber employees use an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, he said on a recent podcast.

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A new platform lets AI agents 'rent a human.' Its creator says his job worries drove him to build it.

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RentAHuman's homepage as of Friday, February 6, including a dashboard showing a site visit count of about 2.8 million, 11,000 total bounties, and 180,000
RentAHuman's website tells gig workers that they can join "the meatspace" by doing tasks for AI agents.

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How AI will change everything

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Craig Mundie is a former chief technical officer at Microsoft who spent years working on the policy questions raised by new technologies, especially artificial intelligence.

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