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Flipboard’s new ‘social websites’ help publishers and creators tap into the open social web
Flipboard on Thursday announced social websites, a new way for creators and publishers to build their own spaces on the web. These social websites are built around conversations already taking place across the open social web, which includes decentralized platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as other public web content.
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мэдээSam Altman and AI’s decel debate
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be time to “pace the rate of AI development” so that society can “harden around some of these new capability levels.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed how Altman’s comments were probably prompted by a recent hack in which an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face’s systems. Sean noted that while a hack performed by an AI agent is novel, the hack itself was not “some new advanced thing
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технологиBlock rolls out "Builderbot," an AI agent that fully automates software development
Technology giant Block (formerly Square) has announced the rollout of Builderbot, an AI agent framework designed to automate complex cross-service tasks across its entire codebase.
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мэдээChinese company Z.ai unveils GLM-5.2, an open model capable of working across large-scale codebases
Chinese AI company Z.ai has officially unveiled GLM-5.2, a new-generation open-source model built for long-horizon tasks and large-scale codebases. Released under the MIT license, the model supports context lengths of up to one million tokens and is notable for being designed for developers and AI coding agents working on large software projects.
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