Kristin Dahl

At the same time, there’s a burgeoning local AI movement, consisting of small developers and tinkerers who want to work on AI on their own computers for a combination of cost, privacy and convenience reasons. There’s even a belief among libertarian-minded developers that local AI gives them a way to ensure governments can’t take away their access to the technology. Autonomous agent platforms like OpenClaw, which can perform complex tasks with users’ local apps and files, have also contributed to the rise of the movement.Show more

Brand matters If you don’t already have a camera, or are replacing one, stay away from cheap or unfamiliar brands, says Paul Marrapese, a California cybersecurity specialist who has researched hacked webcams. Devices from established manufacturers are generally safer because bigger companies with reputations to protect give priority to security and roll out updates when problems arise. With smaller (and often cheaper) internet sellers, the risk is greater that flaws don’t get fixed or the devices are easily exposed on the web. Devices that offer these features will give you a head start on securing your feed: End-to-end encryption CloudShow more

Compute, the industry shorthand for computing power, is the lifeblood of the AI boom, and it’s in short supply. Now fights over how to get more of it—and what projects to give priority to—are sending a powerful industry scrambling. Bitter rivals are forming new alliances, such as Elon Musk and Dario Amodei, whose companies worked together to secure computing power. Venture-capital firms are touting access to AI chips to woo startups. And power struggles are more frequent as companies compete in a worldwide treasure hunt for the tech industry’s most coveted resourceShow more

The quasi-revenue numbers for OpenAI that got wide circulation last week were off— way off. Instead of $70 billion in annualized revenue, as we and others reported, OpenAI is generating closer to $50 billion in annualized revenue (sometimes shortened to ARR).

AMD announced on Monday that it’s acquiring AI innovator Dr. Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at around $8.2 billion. That’s a 62% premium over the $5 billion valuation World Labs earned just around seven months ago.

Motion turns reports, charts, product walkthroughs and other kinds of data and content into short animations. Because Claude is writing these purely in code, without a video model, you can ask for basic edits before exporting to an MP4 file. The best part is, there’s no extra setup required; once it launches for your plan, just type “/motion” into Claude’s message box to try it out.Show more

The housing market is “leaning a little bit more towards a buyer market right now,” said Kathryn McNeill, an agent in North Carolina. That is making some sellers hesitant to put their homes on the market, she said.

Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the team chose to focus on what it saw as a much larger opportunity: building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns themselves. “We scrapped the entire codebase; we burned all of it,” Kim said. Melius quickly went to work on an entirely new product. Nearly a year after its initial launch, it revealed a platform that it describes as an “agents lab for creative work.”Show more

Most surprising, the food we eat doesn’t determine only the energy we consume. It alters the energy we burn. For most adults, resting metabolism—the energy required simply to keep the body alive—accounts for roughly two-thirds of total daily energy burned. Our food choices can alter this resting metabolic rate by up to 300 calories a day.Show more