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Thatch raised $108 million at a $1 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth in 17 months by offering individual health insurance marketplaces that reduce employer costs and expand worker choice.
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StackBlitz's Bolt.new offers developers 50x more AI coding model usage through October 14 in exchange for anonymized session data to train a trillion-parameter open-weight model with Arcee AI.
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Meta launched WhatsApp Business Tools MCP server, letting AI agents handle setup tasks like phone verification, webhook configuration, and message templates through plain English commands. The tool keeps agents bounded by authenticated user permissions.
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Google and OpenAI released competing voice agent models five days apart, with divergent architectures for handling latency, tool execution, and developer orchestration at different price points.
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman argues AI agents should use computers like humans do, rather than relying on purpose-built connectors. The approach could simplify development but faces competition from expanding infrastructure.
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Research finds nearly 150 European politicians, overwhelmingly women, targeted on deepfake pornography sites. Women MPs are 33 times more likely to appear than men, revealing systematic abuse threatening democratic participation.
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AI coding tools correlate with an 81% jump in code duplication and an 82% drop in refactoring, signaling deteriorating quality despite modest productivity gains, GitClear's analysis finds.
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Waymo launched public robotaxi service in Las Vegas, its 15th market, with dozens of vehicles covering the Strip area. Nevada approved permits for up to 7,000 robotaxis across three companies within a year.
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