"We're doubling down on entertainment, doubling down on trust and safety." Our new CEO, Karandeep Anand, sat down with @CNN to tease the next chapter for @character_ai
. In his first 60 days, he's focused on: Smarter tools for creators A richer social feed experience
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Character AI’s New CEO Focuses on Entertainment and Creator Tools
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Tech Scam Reveals Attention Economy Exploitation Risks
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soham-gate isn't even controversy-marketing, it's literally a guy scamming people the attention economy and its consequences. pretty easy to see how this extrapolates. who's next?
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Bring Back the Golden Timeline of Daily Industry Reinvention
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we had a 6 month golden-timeline where every day you saw someone reinventing industry. bring that back please
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Anysphere’s Cursor App Reaches $9 Billion Valuation
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Anysphere's Cursor App Achieves $9 Billion Valuation
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Amazon deploys millionth robot; MIT sensors give robots X-ray vision
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Top stories in robotics today: – Amazon deploys its millionth robot
– MIT’s sensor gives robots X-ray vision
– Galbot raises $153M to scale its semi-humanoid
– Tiny humanoid gets huge boost post-marathon
– Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://
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as-1-million-robots
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Cohere Opens Montreal Office to Expand AI Team
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Cohere is excited to announce our new office in Montreal, QC! We look forward to contributing to the local AI landscape, collaborating with new and existing partners in the city, and growing our Montreal-based team. http://
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AI Band Hits 500K Spotify Listeners; New AI Tools Released
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Top stories in AI today: – AI band hits 500k listeners on Spotify
– Sakana AI teaches models to team up
– Accelerate development workflows with Gemini
– Scientists build an AI that can think like humans
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
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Fundamental Launches Shortcut: AI Spreadsheet Agent Solving Tasks 10x Faster
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Fundamental dropped Shortcut, a "superhuman" spreadsheet agent, in early preview
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 3 juillet 2025
It one-shots most knowledge work tasks on Excel, also scoring >80% on Excel World Championship Cases in about 10 min.
That's 10x faster than humanspic.twitter.com/FZ5EYWNgPGFundamental dropped Shortcut, a "superhuman" spreadsheet agent, in early preview It one-shots most knowledge work tasks on Excel, also scoring >80% on Excel World Championship Cases in about 10 min. That's 10x faster than humans
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Perplexity Launches Max Subscription at $200 Monthly
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Perplexity just launched a new "Max" subscription, priced at $200/mo. It offers: —Unlimited access to its Labs tools
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Beyond Therapy: Unexplored LLM API Applications
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You have access to an API that can have a pretty great conversation with humans that people actually seem to enjoy, as well as the ability to access tools, websearch, and run code. Somehow, founders seem to have trouble thinking of applications beyond therapist or fake friend…