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In today's Techpresso:
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🤖 Anthropic CEO warns humanity may not be ready for AI 💥 TikTok uninstalls surge 150% as users flock to UpScrolled 💎 Meta to test premium subscriptions 👀 EU orders Google to open Android AI access to rivals 🛒 Amazon is closing its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores 📱 Google pays 68 million dollars to settle voice spying lawsuit 🎁 + 16 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 3 trending papers & reports
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🤖 Anthropic CEO warns humanity may not be ready for AI
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- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 38-page essay arguing that humanity's social, political, and technological systems may lack the maturity to handle the almost unimaginable power that AI will soon provide.
- Amodei warns that AI models are now approaching the point where, without safeguards, they could help someone with a STEM degree but no biology training produce a bioweapon.
- He predicts that within one to five years, half of all entry-level white-collar jobs will disappear, and suggests companies may need to reassign employees while governments consider progressive taxation.
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💥 TikTok uninstalls surge 150% as users flock to UpScrolled
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- After TikTok signed a deal with American investors last week, some users are moving to UpScrolled, a social network that promises to stay neutral on political issues and now ranks 12th overall in Apple's App Store.
- UpScrolled saw roughly 41,000 downloads between Thursday and Saturday, nearly one-third of its 140,000 lifetime installs, representing a 2,850% increase in daily downloads as the small team scrambles to scale its servers.
- The migration follows user concerns that TikTok's new owners may have political ties to Trump, plus worries about potential content censorship and an updated privacy policy that allows GPS tracking of users.
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💎 Meta to test premium subscriptions
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- Meta is testing new paid subscriptions across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that will give users access to exclusive features while keeping the core experiences on each app free.
- The company plans to offer freemium access to AI features like Vibes video generation, and will scale Manus, an AI agent it acquired for $2 billion, as part of its subscription plans.
- Instagram's subscription may include unlimited audience lists, a way to see followers who don't follow you back, and the option to view Stories anonymously, according to unreleased features found by a reverse engineer.
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👀 EU orders Google to open Android AI access to rivals
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- The European Commission has ordered Google to give third-party AI services the same level of access to Android that its own Gemini assistant has, as part of Digital Markets Act compliance proceedings.
- Google must also share anonymized ranking, query, click and view data from Google Search with rival search engines, which the Commission says will help competitors optimize their services.
- Google has roughly six months to comply before facing a formal investigation and potential fines of up to 10 percent of its global annual revenue for a DMA violation.
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🛒 Amazon is closing its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores
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- Amazon announced it will shut down all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores while expanding same-day grocery delivery and opening more Whole Foods Market locations instead.
- The company said it could not create a distinctive customer experience with the right economic model for large-scale expansion, and lease costs made the stores financially unworkable.
- Amazon plans to open more than 100 new Whole Foods stores in the coming years, betting that shoppers have stronger brand affinity with Whole Foods than Amazon-branded stores.
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📱 Google pays 68 million dollars to settle voice spying lawsuit
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- Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming its voice assistant secretly recorded users without consent and shared that data with third parties for targeted advertising.
- The case focused on "false accepts," where Google Assistant allegedly activated and recorded people's conversations even when they had not said the wake word to trigger it.
- Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement, and this follows a similar pattern after Apple paid $95 million in 2021 over claims that Siri also recorded users without prompts.
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Anthropic brings Asana, Figma, Slack, and more tools directly into Claude as interactive apps
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China’s Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent
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Micron to invest $24 billion in Singapore plant as AI boom strains global memory supply
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Pinterest to lay off 15% of staff to redirect resources to AI
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The Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold will cost $2,900 in the US
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OpenAI reportedly launches ChatGPT ads at premium TV prices
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Zoom’s quiet $51M investment in Anthropic could be worth $4B as IPO buzz pushes shares up 11%
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Some ChatGPT browser extensions are stealing your data
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YouTubers sue Snap for alleged copyright infringement in training its AI models
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Uber launches an ‘AV Labs’ division to gather driving data for robotaxi partners
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Inside OpenAI’s big play for science
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As data from space spikes, an innovative ground station company seeks to cash in
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Former Tesla AI chief Andrej Karpathy now codes "mostly in English" just three months after calling AI agents useless
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New study finds 92% of Amazon Leo satellites too bright for scientific research
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🧰 Trending tools
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Kilo Code Reviewer: automated PR analysis tool that catches bugs, security issues, and code quality problems using AI before merging changes.
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Clawdbot: a self-hosted AI agent that executes system-level tasks through messaging apps while keeping all data local and private on your machine.
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LobeHub: an open-source platform for coordinating multiple AI agents to collaborate on complex development tasks, streamlining multi-model workflows for developers.
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Timeless: captures meeting context to auto-schedule follow-ups, draft documents, and sync team workspaces, eliminating manual task tracking across conversations.
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CapslockMute: remaps your Caps Lock key to mute/unmute your microphone, making it faster to control audio during calls than keyboard shortcuts.
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TetrisBench: a benchmark that tests and measures LLM performance at playing Tetris, tracking win rates and decision-making capabilities across different AI models.
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You can check the previous tools here, or add your tool here
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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The habits of high-performing mobile teams: The Bitrise Mobile Insights Report breaks it down using real customer data, showing what drives app development success and what sets high-performing teams apart. Get the full report.
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New York Times word puzzles stump AI models: even advanced language models struggle with Spelling Bee and Connections games, performing worse than average human players on pattern recognition tasks.
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Chess960 Position Complexity Varies Widely: some starting positions in this chess variant lead to much simpler or harder games than others, affecting competitive fairness.
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ESA Meerkat Asteroid Guard monitoring service: astronomers created an automated system that scans for asteroids on collision course with Earth, alerting agencies days before impact.
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