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  • AI law firm Crosby bids on disintegrating, famed firm Weil Gotshal

    Like a real-life episode of “Suits,” the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry this week. And now Silicon Valley has entered the picture. Two-year-old AI-first law firm Crosby has put in a bid to buy some of the assets of Weil […] More

  • Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’

    “You Can See Everything,” the documentary capturing disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ final weeks before prison, is sparking national conversation as it becomes one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. The film, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, intentionally refuses to characterize Holmes as a master manipulator or victim, instead highlighting her uncanny, […] More

  • Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.

    What’s worse is that the number is likely to be much higher than that once we factor in other eating disorders. And, disturbingly, those in the field are already starting to see GLP-1 weight-loss drugs exacerbating the issue. Cheri Levinson is a clinical psychologist at the University of Louisville in Kentucky who has specialized in […] More

  • AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says — but first, it will spend big

    Andy Jassy has made it known that he believes AWS can be a trillion-dollar revenue business. During Amazon’s quarterly earnings call on Thursday, he repeated this ambition. “What we’re building at Amazon is unlike anything that’s ever been seen before. There has never been a business with a trillion dollars of annual revenue,” he said. […] More

  • The Download: GLP-1s and eating disorders, self-aware cities, and forever chemicals

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse. GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinicians, they can […] More

  • Waymo taps Toyota to supply robotaxis for Japan and the U.K.

    Waymo will begin testing autonomous Toyota bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year as part of a broader partnership with the automaker to provide electric vehicles for robotaxi operations in international markets, including the U.K. Under the partnership announced Friday, Toyota will manufacture the 2027 bZ4X vehicles and integrate Waymo’s self-driving system at its Takaoka factory […] More

  • You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work

    Pope Leo XIV has decried AI as a threat to human dignity, but it’s not just the devoutly faithful who might worry about how AI squares with their beliefs. David Durman, a nontheistic Humanist, recently secured a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace. “Humanism is a collection of beliefs about the human experience […] More

  • How we detect frontier model misalignment

    OpenAI uses layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior so responders can intervene before incidents escalate. Source link More

  • Andy Jassy says Prime Video is on track to earn ‘tens of billions of dollars’

    It’s been four years since Amazon bought MGM for $8.5 billion. But coming off the blockbuster success of this year’s hit movie Project Hail Mary, Hollywood has become a lucrative business for the e-commerce giant. Prime Video, Amazon’s streaming service, “has emerged as a significant business with a revenue run rate in the tens of […] More

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