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Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves DeepMind for rival Anthropic

June 22, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Nobel laureate John Jumper, a key architect of the AlphaFold AI model, announced Friday that he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join rival AI company Anthropic. The move, disclosed in a post on X, marks another high-profile departure from the Alphabet-owned lab and signals Anthropic’s aggressive push to recruit top-tier AI […]

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How to turn off AI in your Google Docs (and banish Gemini pop-ups)

June 22, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

I opened a Google Doc to write an article last week, and I was immediately confronted with a text box inviting me to “write with Gemini.” I looked for some button to swipe away the garish AI display, but I could not find it. It made me mad. Now, instead of writing the article I’m […]

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Signal President Meredith Whittaker: AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ — here’s why that matters for privacy

June 21, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Signal President Meredith Whittaker issued a stark warning about AI chatbots during a Bloomberg interview published June 20, 2026, telling users that tools like ChatGPT and Claude are not their friends and should not be trusted with sensitive personal data. Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned in a June 2026 Bloomberg interview that AI chatbots like […]

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In the Weights: A New AI-Centric Vanity Search Lets You See How LLMs Remember You

June 21, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn, former OpenAI designers, have launched a new website called In the Weights that lets you check how well AI models remember you. The tool queries multiple large language models (LLMs) — including Grok, Gemini, GPT, Claude, and Llama — and assigns a strength score based on how consistently and confidently […]

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Nearly half of US singles view AI in dating negatively, Match Group survey finds

June 20, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Nearly half of U.S. singles have a negative view of artificial intelligence being used in romantic contexts, according to a new survey from Match Group, the parent company of Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid. The survey of 1,000 people aged 18 to 39 found that 47% of respondents hold a negative opinion of AI in dating, […]

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AWS signals it may sell its Trainium AI chips directly to third parties, challenging Nvidia

June 20, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Amazon Web Services is exploring direct sales of its custom Trainium AI chips to third-party companies, a move that would intensify competition with Nvidia in the $200 billion-plus market for artificial intelligence hardware. AWS chief Peter DeSantis told Bloomberg the cloud giant is in early-stage talks with potential buyers, though he declined to name specific […]

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AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B at $13B valuation months after last mega round

June 19, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

AI inference startup Baseten is reportedly on the verge of closing a massive $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The new round comes just five months after the company announced a $300 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation, and nine months […]

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OpenAI adds DeepMind AI pioneer Noam Shazeer and ex-White House policy official Dean Ball ahead of IPO

June 19, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

OpenAI is bolstering its ranks with two high-profile hires as the company moves closer to its initial public offering: Noam Shazeer, a co-lead at Google DeepMind and co-founder of Character AI, and Dean Ball, a former White House AI policy official under President Donald Trump. OpenAI has hired Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the foundational […]

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NEA’s Tiffany Luck: Enterprises Are Still Figuring Out Their AI ROI

June 18, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and Meta killed […]

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Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join Frontier’s $915M carbon removal push

June 18, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude language model, has become the first pure artificial intelligence startup to join Frontier, a carbon removal collective that announced a new $915 million tranche of funding on Tuesday. The pledge brings Frontier’s total commitments to $1.8 billion, nearly doubling its previous fundraising. Anthropic has joined Frontier, a carbon […]