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• OpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing release [402d]
• Friend delays shipments of its AI companion pendant [402d]
• US safety regulators expand Ford hands-free driving tech investigation [402d]
• At the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnel [402d]
• Flipboard’s new app Surf adds its own video feed, too [402d]
• DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks [402d]
• RedNote, Flip, Clapper and Likee claim the top of the App Store as TikTok comes back online [402d]
• Meta confirms it will keep fact-checkers outside the U.S. ‘for now’ [402d]
• Here are the types of AI companies enterprise VCs want to back in 2025 [402d]
• Confirmed: AI vision startup Metropolis acquires Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M [402d]