2026-08-05

Bank of America is spending $250 million a year on weight loss drugs for employees

CEO Brian Moynihan says GLP-1 medications now account for roughly 13% of the bank's total annual healthcare spending [...]

2026-08-05

Anthropic is building an in-house team to design its own AI chips for Claude

The AI startup confirmed the move on Wednesday, saying it will hire engineers to co-design chips and models to run Claude faster and at greater scale [...]

2026-08-05

AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses. [...]

2026-08-05

Reddit is replacing Automod with AI that reads intent, not keywords. Old Reddit’s days are numbered.

Reddit announced plans to replace core moderation infrastructure that has run the platform for years. The most significant change: Rules Hub, a new moderation system that uses large language models to evaluate whether posts and comments match the intent of a community rule, will eventually replace many of Automod’s enforcement workflows. Unlike Automod, which relies […]<br /> This story [...]

2026-08-05

10 backyard hazards most pet owners don't think about

These backyard hazards for pets hide in plain sight, from toxic mulch and pond algae to rodent bait most owners never think to lock away [...]

2026-08-05

8 tech scams that spike every summer

Fake booking confirmations, cloned rental listings, AI-cloned voices asking for emergency wire transfers — the scams timed specifically to summer travel and how each one actually works [...]

2026-08-05

Wordsmith Extends Series B With $14 Million to Scale AI for In-House Legal Teams

Wordsmith AI has secured a $14 million extension to its Series B financing as companies increasingly explore whether artificial intelligence can help their internal legal teams handle work that would traditionally be sent to outside counsel. The new investment was led by Intact Private Capital, with participation from existing backers Highland Europe and Index Ventures. FT Ventures, the investment [...]

2026-08-05

Larper is the internets new favorite insult. Heres what it means.

As social media turns identity into content, "larper" has become the internet's favorite way to accuse someone of playing a role instead of being themselves. [...]

2026-08-05

A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.

Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel. That takes total funding to $50 million. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]