This startup wants to clean your dirty dishes and clutter to help train AI

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Shift is offering limited-time free cleanings, with workers recording their tasks to train AI.

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Cisco exec says adopting AI is like 'surgery without the drugs'

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Surgical instruments
Cisco says AI transformation goes beyond bolting the technology onto existing workflows.

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Your AI bill is out of control. Google has been waiting for this moment.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai

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Dan Loeb says his firm 'made the mistake' of underestimating AI's impact on some industries

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Dan Loeb of Third Point
Dan Loeb says he's encouraging Third Point employees to use AI.

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Amazon plans to make SpaceX's Grok models available on its flagship AI service

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy

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Software companies are already swarming ChatGPT's ad economy

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

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Some users may be giving Google's AI search the bird, and DuckDuckGo is benefiting

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Oregon Ducks mascot The Oregon Duck stands on the sideline with cheerleaders during the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl against the Indiana Hoosiers on January 09, 2026 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
Oregon Ducks mascot The Oregon Duck stands on the sideline with cheerleaders

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The pope, Sam Altman, and Jensen Huang have something in common: They all said reasonable things about AI.

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Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and Pope Leo
Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and Pope Leo have something in common, it seems to me: They've all said reasonable things lately about AI.

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Your returns could be headed to a landfill. An AI-native software aims to reroute them to nonprofits.

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Luxome Fabric Wall
At Luxome, returns of bedding and other textiles go to nonprofits in need through the AI-native software LiquiDonate.

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AI curing cancer has become a meme. This Google researcher is actually trying to do it.

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Tech Memo author Alistair Barr with Yossi Matias (right), head of Google Research, at Google I/O.
Tech Memo author Alistair Barr with Yossi Matias (right), head of Google Research, at Google I/O.

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