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1 🏷️ mnilax: 17 Prompts That Make Hermes Run While You Sleep (Jun 8, 2026)

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2 Why Apple’s slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart

Can Apple's new AI glow up put to bed accusations that it's losing an all-important industry race?

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3 Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks

Sequoia is just one of the top firms that sells same equity at two different prices.

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4 As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says

Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman's identity verification company, is reportedly struggling to generate revenue and will downsize its staff.

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5 Apple’s WWDC AI demos looked more real after $250M false ad settlement

The vibe of Apple's 2026 WWDC keynote felt like a spouse proudly listing all the honey-do-list items tackled. One subtle example: the many AI demos of someone standing, phone in...

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6 The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos

On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link...

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7 How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits

Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by people without a lawyer. Many of them can’t afford...

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8 Rehumanizing global health care with agentic AI

The global health care sector is under increasing strain. Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Gaps...

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9 A New Study from Harvard and Perplexity Finds AI Agents Perform 26 Minutes of Autonomous Work per Session vs 33 Seconds for Search

A new Harvard and Perplexity paper uses matched-pair sessions to compare an autonomous agent with a search assistant. It finds large gains in autonomy, time, and cost, plus broader scope...

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10 ClawHub Security Signals: A Coding Guide to End-to-End Security Signal Analysis and Verdict Classification on the AI Skills Dataset

In this tutorial, we explore the ClawHub Security Signals dataset to see how scanners assess AI skills. We load the data from the Hugging Face Parquet conversion and inspect verdicts,...

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