Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is looking to expand its influence via a bevy of new partnerships.
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI.
A Coding Guide to Build a Production-Grade Background Task Processing System Using Huey with SQLite, Scheduling, Retries, Pipelines, and Concurrency Control
In this tutorial, we explore how to build a fully functional background task processing system using Huey directly, without relying on Redis. We configure a SQLite-backed Huey instance, start a real consumer in the notebook, and implement advanced task patterns, including retries, priorities, schedu...
Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI’s shopping spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap
The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveil...
AI Quantum Intelligence - Pic of the week (2026-04-17)
This week's AI pic is a surreal digital artwork visualizing the dream state of artificial intelligence, where cosmic imagination, data streams, and neural abstractions merge into a luminous, contemplative mind exploring meaning, memory, and possibility.
The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveil...
AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it’s boosting their revenue too
Adobe says AI traffic to U.S. retail sites also jumped 269% in March, with visitors converting better and generating more revenue than non-AI shoppers.
Meta raises Quest 3 and Quest 3S prices due to RAM shortage
Starting April 19, the price of the Meta Quest 3S (128GB) and Meta Quest 3S (256GB) will go up by $50 to $349.99 and $449.99, respectively. The price of the Meta Quest 3 is going up by $100 to $599.99.
Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments
The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security, governance, and operations that set them apart from their business counterparts. For this reason, pu...
Why having “humans in the loop” in an AI war is an illusion
The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This debate has become urgent, with AI playing a bigger role than ever before in the current conflict with Iran. AI is no longer just helping humans analyze intellige...
How to Build a Universal Long-Term Memory Layer for AI Agents Using Mem0 and OpenAI
In this tutorial, we build a universal long-term memory layer for AI agents using Mem0, OpenAI models, and ChromaDB. We design a system that can extract structured memories from natural conversations, store them semantically, retrieve them intelligently, and integrate them directly into personalized...
Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.
Reid Hoffman weighs in on the ‘tokenmaxxing’ debate
Reid Hoffman says tracking AI token use can gauge adoption, but cautions it should be paired with context and not treated as a direct productivity metric.
Trustwise Appoints Gina Carfagno as CRO to Lead Growth and GTM Expansion
Enterprise AI sales leader with 20+ years of Fortune 500 transformation experience joins Trustwise to scale go-to-market operations as demand for AI trust and runtime control accelerates Trustwise, the AI trust management company, today announced the appointment of Gina Carfagno as Chief Revenue Off...
WatchGuard and Halo Partner to Deliver MSP Automation from Alert to Invoice
Integration embeds WatchGuard security operations inside HaloPSA, streamlining ticketing, provisioning, and billing workflows for MSPs WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity for managed service providers (MSPs), today announced a strategic partnership with Halo to help MS...
Data I/O introduces new era with products and brand update
New Website Introduces a New Services launch and Long-awaited On-site Programming-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offering Data I/O Corporation (NASDAQ: DAIO), the leading global provider of data provisioning solutions for flash memory, microcontrollers and security ICs, today announced the launch of its comple...