This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 31)

Future It’s Not Your Imagination: AI Is Speeding Up the Pace of ChangeJulie Bort | TechCrunch “Venture capitalist Mary Meeker ...
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Crystal Commanders, Slap Fighter VR, Bow Course & More

Welcome back to the XR News Roundup, and our latest edition is live with extra stories from this week. Across ...
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The big Leslie Benzies interview: MindsEye, Everywhere, and the double-edged sword of GTA

As the producer behind the Grand Theft Auto games from GTA 3 through to GTA 5, as well as Red ...
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Barclays head of fintech strategy leaves

Barclays head of fintech strategy and open innovation, Andrew Elphick, is stepping down after 14 years at the British bank. ...
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This startup wants to make more climate-friendly metal in the US

The star of Magrathea’s process is an electrolyzer, a device that uses electricity to split a material into its constituent ...
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Agentic RAG Applications: Company Knowledge Slack Agents

I that most companies would have built or implemented their own Rag agents by now. An AI knowledge agent can ...
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Real TikTokers are pretending to be Veo 3 AI creations for fun, attention

Since Google released its Veo 3 AI model last week, social media users have been having fun with its ability ...
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Never Drink Alone: A Guide to Turkish Coffee

Out of all caffeinated rituals, Turkish coffee takes the (coffee) cake. That’s because, according to some experts, Turkish coffee isn’t ...
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This benchmark used Reddit’s AITA to test how much AI models suck up to us

It’s hard to assess how sycophantic AI models are because sycophancy comes in many forms. Previous research has tended to ...
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Playdate’s second season is off to a great (and very weird) start

A lot of games have been released for the Playdate since it launched in 2022, as a quick browse of ...
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