The Verge
The RealReal, a secondhand luxury fashion consignment retailer, said it's updating its bot defense system, effectively making it harder for AI agents to shop on its site. The change comes days after The Verge reported that an AI agent could be used to take advantage of The RealReal's item reserve system.
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The Decoder
ia is buying into its customer Meta, which plans to run more of its AI agents on Nvidia hardware. Nvidia is investing $3 billion in Meta's planned equity offering, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Wired
I ranked six AI agents, from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet, on how well they completed basic tasks. Last year, I remember sitting in WIRED’s office, complaining to my colleagues nonstop about how much AI agents suck.
MIT Technology Review
Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply.
TechCrunch
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.