BitcoinWorld Replit CEO Amjad Masad to Discuss AI’s Role in Software Development at Disrupt 2026 Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad will take the stage at Bitcoin World Disrupt 2026, scheduled for October 13–15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, to discuss the future of programming and the broader implications of AI-driven software development. Masad’s appearance …
BitcoinWorld Instinct AI assistant draws praise and privacy concerns over data access and autonomy Instinct, a new AI personal assistant still in private testing, is generating both excitement and alarm for its powerful capabilities and its broad data access, with early testers raising serious privacy and security concerns that highlight the trade-offs of delegating sensitive …
BitcoinWorld Michael Polansky’s Outer Biosciences is training AI on living human skin — and finding new cosmetic ingredients Michael Polansky, co-founder and CEO of Outer Biosciences, is training an AI model on living human skin that his company keeps alive outside the body for up to a month — a breakthrough that could dramatically accelerate …
BitcoinWorld General Intuition in talks to raise at $6B valuation, backed by Valor and Point72, as it pushes into robotics General Intuition, a New York-based AI startup developing a foundation model for generalized AI agents that operate in physical space, is in talks to raise new funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, according to …
BitcoinWorld Who’s Behind the Mysterious ‘Stealth Model’ Ox Alpha? A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has ignited intense speculation across the internet about its true origins, with the model released on the OpenRouter platform on Thursday and described as a “reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workload.” The model, …
BitcoinWorld Linkdaze Smart Calendar: A Family Organizer That Syncs All Your Schedules Linkdaze, a smart digital calendar designed for households, launched last December with the goal of simplifying family coordination by syncing multiple calendar platforms into one touchscreen device. The device, available in 15.6-inch and 10.1-inch models, aggregates calendars from Google, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo, and …
BitcoinWorld Flock Safety CEO urges ‘compromise’ on privacy vs. safety amid police misuse backlash Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is calling for a national “compromise” between privacy and safety as his company faces mounting criticism over police misuse of its surveillance technology. In a recent Fox News interview, Langley said, “When people talk about just …
BitcoinWorld Is It Legal to Train AI on Copyrighted Books? The Answer Is Complicated The legality of training artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books remains unresolved, as courts grapple with applying decades-old copyright law to rapidly evolving technology. Recent rulings have offered partial clarity, but the core question—whether AI training constitutes fair use—continues to divide …
BitcoinWorld Harvard’s $699 Startup Bootcamp Uses AI Avatars for Personalized Feedback Harvard Business School has introduced AI avatars of its instructors in its $699, eight-week startup bootcamp, using them to provide personalized feedback during practice pitches and board meetings. The avatars, created by the AI video platform HeyGen, are part of the HBS Foundry program, …
BitcoinWorld DeepMind alumni startup Inherent says its small AI agent outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI in replicating research Inherent, a London-based AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, claims its newly released AI agent, Faraday, has outperformed larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI at independently reproducing the findings of published scientific papers, a task that could …
