Senior tech editor at @BusinessInsider. Signal: Rob_Scammell.12
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🚨 Some personal news 🚨
I'm incredibly excited to share that I'm starting a new position as Senior Editor of VC, Startups & Tech at @BusinessInsider.
I've been a long-time admirer of Business Insider's startup and tech coverage. I can't wait to get started!
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Google makes Carbon official, confirming my scoop from earlier this month businessinsider.com/google-e…
I did say we'd be releasing our models periodically...introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, our next frontier model.
Following Argon's release just two weeks ago, Carbon shows the pace at which we’re pushing the frontier, it ranks #1 on the recently updated v5.0 of @ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index at 59. It also leads across key cybersecurity evaluations scoring 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploitation, and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching.
We’re seeing significant improvements in long-horizon tasks even compared to Argon, and we’ve strengthened frontier safeguards.
As we did with Argon, we’re going to roll it out gradually + responsibly. Some trusted cyber defenders will get access starting this week. We'll be expanding it to more partners through our Fairwind Program, ahead of wider availability soon, so hang tight!
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Scoop: Cognition is seriously considering a round between $70-$80B valuation. They have inbound interest there businessinsider.com/cognitio…
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Sundar Pichai says Google is still in the early phases of recursively self-improving AI. bit.ly/4yZEnEg
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"We consider this one of the most impactful security issues in recent memory," OpenAI said. bit.ly/47xbO5c
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Google is more widely testing changes to its hiring process that include the use of AI in coding interviews, Business Insider can exclusively reveal. bit.ly/3VVD6zB
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Google Cloud is experiencing outages that appear to have knocked out a number of banking services in the UK, including Revolut. bit.ly/4i3fsZi
That Slack message you sent to your boss? The email you received from HR? Both are now a hot commodity in the world of AI training.
For @BusinessInsider, @CharlesRollet1, @tom_hcarter, and @stephencouncil, explored the booming market for employee data.
businessinsider.com/ai-train…
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Google's new Gemini 4 Argon could put the company back on the AI frontier bit.ly/4zcGp3P
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Gemini 4 is here (but you probably can't play with it yet) businessinsider.com/googles-…
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Meta's Muse AI was fraught with issues earlier this year. Here's the inside story of how it became a massive hit under Nat Friedman's leadership, bolstering Meta's standing in the AI market. bit.ly/4xKWqMY
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Is your mother suddenly taken with her new agent? Does dad refuse to use the tech? Did your 14-year-old Zoomer kid give all his passwords to Mark Zuckerberg? bit.ly/4hdxwRo
Meta is on a tear right now thanks to its new personal AI agent.
@PranavDixit was in the room at #MetaConnect when Mark Zuckerberg shared his AI victory lap with a thicc Muse mascot.
Full story on @BusinessInsider, including "Agent" cocktails.
businessinsider.com/meta-con…
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NEW: Noah Shinn, the 23-year-old founder of Instinct, is often described as a college dropout.
But there's way more to the story.
He was a star AI researcher, publishing a hugely influential paper on AI agents.
He only dropped out to become one of Sierra's first employees.
Alexandr Wang's 'tweet cannon' is Meta's not-so-secret weapon in the AI promo war
Me for @BusinessInsider:
businessinsider.com/alexandr…
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Excited to launch VC Insider! Starting with a newsletter
Coming soon: VC Insider, Business Insider’s first subscriber-only newsletter, written by @thebenbergman and @Katie_Roof.
Sign up for your free preview of VC Insider here: businessinsider.com/subscrip…
Business Insider subscribers will receive the full newsletter every week. Not a subscriber? Sign up for the free preview — and get your first edition in full.
Tech leaders say a kill switch won't be enough to stop rogue superintelligent AI
@ThibaultSpirlet for @BusinessInsider
businessinsider.com/ai-kill-…
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Scoop: Google gives all its engineers access to Claude.
Staff are being told to treat it as supplementary to Gemini, but this will please a lot of engineers who have been frustrated with the limitations of Google's own models businessinsider.com/google-f…
Sergey Brin is cooking up Google's AI destiny from a microkitchen in Mountain View.
New details from @HughLangley about Brin's growing influence over Gemini, the dynamic with Jeff Dean and Demis Hassabis, and Google's unlikely AI command center.
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