Tax Breaks: The What’s Fair In Tax And What Happens Next Edition

Plus: It’s Supreme Court opinion season, more on claiming a parent as a dependent, Social Security solvency, state tax ...
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India's AI talent gap is real, growing, and a business crisis in the making

India produces the world's largest number of STEM graduates and leads global rankings in AI skill penetration. And yet the ...
TechSpot

Just 16% of Americans think AI will benefit society, despite chatbot use climbing to 49% of US adults

The takeaway: Despite the apparent growth of an anti-generative AI movement, more Americans are using chatbots than ever before, according to a new survey. But somewhat paradoxically, just 16% of ...
The Next Web

Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival AI chatbots

Hundreds of contractors on a Meta project posed as teenagers to test how ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI handle suicide, drugs and sex, WIRED found.
Ars Technica

SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion

SpaceX will acquire AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced today. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter. It comes just two days after ...
SiliconANGLE

With chatbot regulation, Canada proposes a ban on social media for under 16s

The government of Canada announced today that it’s mulling a ban on social media for children under 16, though unlike some other countries that have already introduced such a ban, Canada has said the ...

Building An AI Strategy That Lasts

Space XAI and OpenAI release new frontier models (and one to talk to); tech execs trust agents with code, but not complex ...
The Hill

Pentagon AI chief: Musk’s Grok chatbot used to launch thousands of missiles at Iran

The Pentagon artificial intelligence chief on Monday said Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is tantamount to national security in a sworn statement that noted xAI’s technology has been used throughout the Iran ...
TechCrunch

Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows

Despite the fact that AI increasingly dominates our economy (it’s a hot IPO summer and we’re all just along for the ride), most Americans are not particularly optimistic about the technology’s ...
CNBC

OpenAI to acquire Ona to support its AI coding assistant, Codex

OpenAI announced it will acquire Ona, a startup that provides cloud environments for AI agents. Ona's technology will allow OpenAI's coding assistant, Codex, to take on longer-running tasks, OpenAI ...
CNBC

SpaceX to acquire the AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion

SpaceX announced it will acquire the AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in an all stock transaction. The Cursor deal could bolster SpaceX efforts to compete with rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI ...