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    Anthropic is piloting a Chrome extension for Claude so it can work in your browser.

    “We view browser-using AI as inevitable: so much work happens in browsers that giving Claude the ability to see what you’re looking at, click buttons, and fill forms will make it substantially more useful,” the company wrote in a blog post. But an AI agent doing such things on your behalf also introduces substantial risks. That’s why Anthropic says it’s just piloting the feature.

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    Two of Meta’s new Superintelligence hires have returned to their former employer: OpenAI.

    Both were at Meta for less than a month, Wired reported. A third Superintelligence lab employee also left but did not specify where he was headed in a post on X.

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    A 16-year-old took his own life after months of confiding in ChatGPT.

    Now the teen’s family is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over his death. The lawsuit, filed today in California state court in San Francisco, states that “over the course of just a few months and thousands of chats, ChatGPT became Adam’s closest confidant,” alleging that it provided instructions for how to die by suicide and drew the teen away from real-life support systems.

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    Elon Musk’s xAI quietly dropped its status as a public benefit corporation.

    Public benefit corporations have societal and environmental obligations besides their financial goals and legally have to report on how those obligations are going. But at some point before May 2024, xAI quietly changed its structure so it wouldn’t need to do those things anymore, CNBC reported.

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    Perplexity expanded its revenue-sharing program with publishers.

    The program, which it first announced in July 2024, now extends to its Comet web browser, allowing publishers and media outlets to share in revenue from AI searches.

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    Elon Musk’s xAI is building a “purely AI software company called Macrohard.”

    He wrote on X, “It’s a tongue-in-cheek name, but the project is very real!” Since software companies don’t build physical hardware, he wrote — name-checking Microsoft as an example — he wants to fully automate such a company using AI. The Verge found a filing suggesting a Macrohard Ventures, LLC, was incorporated in Delaware last Friday, but it’s unclear whether it’s linked to Musk.

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    Elon Musk reached out to Mark Zuckerberg to join his $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI.

    That’s according to court filings, which state that Musk asked the Meta CEO about “potential financing arrangements or investments” before sending his letter of intent. Neither Zuckerberg nor Meta signed it.

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    Elon Musk’s xAI published hundreds of thousands of user chats with Grok.

    Whenever a user hit “share” on a Grok conversation, the URL it generated was also searchable on Google, Forbes reported. And xAI isn’t the only company to have reckoned with this — OpenAI recently said it would discontinue its own such feature.