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Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+ gets new personality options: Users will be able to choose from Alexa styles like Brief, Chill, or Sweet, Amazon says. Read More

An accountant won a big jackpot on Kalshi by betting against DOGE: A tax accountant saw Elon Musk fans bidding up a Kalshi prediction market and saw a sure bet to make easy money. Read More

OpenClaw creator's advice to AI builders is to be more playful and allow yourself time to improve: Peter Steinberger talks about the creation of his viral AI agent OpenClaw and how being more "playful" makes for a better way to learn AI coding. Read More

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Jira's latest update allows AI agents and humans to work side by side: Atlassian is unveiling "agents in Jira," which gives users the ability to assign and manage work given to AI agents the same as humans. Read More

Gemini can now automate some multi-step tasks on Android: Gemini on Android will be able to automate tasks involving rideshare requests, or grocery or food delivery, says Google. Read More

Harbinger acquires autonomous driving company Phantom AI: It's the Los Angeles trucking startup's first acquisition — the latest in a series of moves to spin up new revenue streams. Read More

Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic joins Google: Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google's domain. Read More

Inside the story of the US defense contractor who leaked hacking tools to Russia: The former boss of a U.S. hacking tools maker was jailed for selling highly sensitive software exploits to a Russian broker. This is how we first learned of his arrest, reported the story, and some of the unanswered questions we still have. Read More

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