HumanX and Humanrace Capital Launch The AI Coalition to Amplify Startup Voices in Washington - As Congress races to shape historic federal AI regulation, two organizations—HumanX and Humanrace Capital—are ensuring that the innovators building AI’s future also have a seat at the table.

Major Retailers Pilot First Insight’s Predictive AI Copilot Ellis Ahead of 2026 - As the 2026 planning season ramps up, major retailers are turning to AI copilots like First Insight’s Ellis to make faster, smarter merchandising decisions that protect margins and anticipate shifting consumer demand.

When the Cloud Crashes: What Today’s Outages Say About the Future of AI Infrastructure - One moment the design tools, voice assistants and newsletters we rely on were humming along; the next, they froze—revealing that our future driven by AI rests on the same fragile clouds as our past. As I sat there refreshing, waiting, I couldn’t help but ask the question: If AI is supposed to make us more efficient, will it also make us more fragile?

Slack Transforms Slackbot Into a Personalized AI Assistant - Slack is giving its long-standing Slackbot a major upgrade, turning the familiar notification tool into a personalized AI assistant that helps teams plan, search, and collaborate more effectively across workspaces.

Dwarkesh Patel Podcast: Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away - Andrej explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse), why model collapse prevents LLMs from learning the way humans do, why AGI will just blend into the previous ~2.5 centuries of 2% GDP growth, why self driving took so long to crack, and what he sees as the future of education. And Elon's response about Grok achieving AGI.

Nvidia unveils first Blackwell chip wafer made with TSMC in US - Nvidia unveiled on Friday the first U.S.-made Blackwell wafer, produced at TSMC's semiconductor manufacturing facility in Phoenix, as demand for AI chips accelerates. The move "bolsters the U.S. supply chain and onshores the AI technology stack that will turn data into intelligence and secure America's leadership for the AI era," Nvidia said in a blog post.

Anthropic Is Preparing for AI’s economic impact: exploring policy responses - Users are becoming increasingly likely to delegate full tasks to Claude, “collaborating” with Claude less. As AI models continue to work independently for longer periods of time, and as more employers adopt AI to improve their productivity, we expect this trend to accelerate. The implications for the workforce are uncertain.

Generate your headshot and workspace in Google Gemini using prompts like "photo of this person [upload reference], casual denim shirt, looking slightly right" and "modern office, city view, minimalist desk"

Open Google Flow, create a new project, switch from "Text to Video" to "Ingredients to Video,” and upload both generated images

Prompt your first scene: "Using the uploaded photo as me, sitting at a desk, smiling at the camera while sipping coffee, then typing on a laptop. Warm morning light, add soft acoustic music"

Click "Add to Scene", then "+" to Extend with: "I finish typing, look at the camera saying 'Ready to collaborate? DM me!' Fade to text overlay with title"

Review timeline, ensure smooth transitions between clips, then click the download icon to export your complete branding video

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