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Yahoo Scout is a new AI-powered 'answer engine' powered by Anthropic's Claude. It synthesizes information from the web and Yahoo's own data when constructing responses to natural language queries. The interface includes visible source links aimed at making answers easier to verify. The engine behind Scout will become more personalized as time goes on.

Amazon is closing all Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores and will shift its focus to online same-day delivery and expand its Whole Foods market business. The Go and Fresh stores failed to deliver a distinctive customer experience and couldn't be scaled up. Some of the shuttered stores will be converted into Whole Foods stores. Amazon plans to open 100 new Whole Foods stores in the coming years.

Biology is wildly complex, and our understanding of biological systems is just scratching the surface. Automating biology will require significant investment to achieve exit velocity. However, once we achieve it, we'll be able to explore the galaxies of genes, proteins, and microbes living all around us. These developments will pave the way for novel therapeutics that will improve health and longevity, boost biomanufacturing, and more.

Helix 2 is a single neural system that can control a full humanoid robot body directly from pixels. It enables continuous, room-scale autonomy that seamlessly blends walking and manipulation. This article details what Helix 2 is capable of. It contains several clips of the Figure 03 robot performing tasks while running on the new system.

Let's face it: vibe coding has resulted in a lot of demos, but not a lot of software. With v0 by Vercel, that's no longer the case. v0 is built for production apps and agents, including enterprise-grade security and integrations that enable teams to reliably ship real software, not just spin up demos. Start shipping with v0.

The new 'meta name=text-scale' HTML tag informs browsers that websites are designed to still work if users increase their OS text size. To support text scaling, developers should avoid overriding the initial font size, only use font-relative units for content, and test on devices to quickly figure out problem areas and think about how to adapt their layouts. The tag is currently supported in Chrome Canary with the 'Experimental Web Platform features' flag enabled. Support in other browsers will hopefully come later this year.

one-agent-one-browser is a web browser built in three days with a single Codex CLI agent. It contains 20,000 lines of Rust with no Rust crate dependencies at all, with only OS system frameworks for image and text rendering. The browser successfully renders HTML and CSS and can even display SVGs and PNGs. The project proves that an agent driven by a talented engineer is enough to get a very solid basic renderer working.

Amazon erroneously sent out a notice to cloud staffers on Tuesday acknowledging organizational changes at the company. The company is expected to announce widespread layoffs across its corporate workforce as soon as this week. The layoffs are meant to reduce management layers and bureaucracy inside the company. The efficiency gains from AI will likely further shrink Amazon's corporate staff count in the coming years.

A high-profile lawsuit against Meta and YouTube that alleges the companies caused psychological harm by designing features like infinite scroll and autoplay is set to begin this week. The case could set a meaningful precedent for hundreds of other complaints. TikTok and Snapchat were also targeted by the lawsuit, but both have settled. The lawsuit seeks untold damages, including potentially punitive damages, to help the plaintiff's family recoup losses and to punish social media companies and deter them from promoting harmful features to kids.

Granola takes your raw call notes and enriches them in the exact format your team needs. You then share or prompt it to draft follow ups — even on iPhone. Get Granola

The subscriptions will give paid users access to more features and extended AI capabilities.

Tether's to USAT is a stablecoin designed to be compliant with US regulations.

Pinterest expects the cuts to be complete by late September.

Claude will refuse to answer questions about pages if they contain a specific string.

Claude frees up mental capacity and increases your capacity for getting interrupted.

Mozilla will deploy roughly $1.4 billion worth of reserves to support startups that are working on safety and governance issues in AI.