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What happens when AI starts building itself?
Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.
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Wired12:17 PMThe US Is Using AI to Hunt Down Insider Trading on Polymarket
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Wired12:17 PMMira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’
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