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Dan Defrancesco

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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Dan DeFrancesco

    Higher education is becoming the newest playground for billionaires (opens the original)

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    Ken Griffin's latest bet? South Florida's higher education. The billionaire hedge fund manager gifted $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, with $2 billion earmarked to develop a Miami campus for the Pittsburgh-based school. Griffin has a history of shelling out big to schools. Back in 2023, he gave Harvard University, his alma mater, the school's largest-ever donation. While that gift was "unrestricted," the Carnegie Mellon one has a clear intent: developing talent in his backyard.In recent

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Dan DeFrancesco

    Personal agents are AI companies' best shot at keeping you faithful (opens the original)

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    After watching an upstart (Instinct) and tech giant's (Meta) AI agents grab the spotlight, OpenAI has responded. Dots, OpenAI's "always on" AI agent, got the big reveal at the startup's annual DevDay conference in San Francisco. It's the third major AI agent launch over the past few months and could be tech companies' best bet at getting the customer lock-in they've been chasing. The first noticeable difference between Dots and Meta's Muse and Instinct is that it's not free. Initially, Dots will

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Dan DeFrancesco

    The risk that comes from outsourcing our brains to AI (opens the original)

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    With AI seeping into every corner of our lives, a BI writer had a nagging question: Did AI write this? BI's Aki Ito donned her detective cap and went hunting, unleashing an AI detector on every aspect of her professional and personal life. The results were eye-opening and, in at least one case, heartbreaking. But it also led to a bigger question, one worth considering as our new AI overlords companions take on a bigger part of our lives: Why does it matter so much to us whether AI or a human cre

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Dan DeFrancesco

    The reality Meta is pitching is one where we're not always relying on our iPhones (opens the original)

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    Meta's looking to make virtual reality a reality … again. The tech giant unveiled a new version of its virtual reality glasses at its annual developers conference, Meta Connect. Before you panic that you've traveled back in time, this isn't quite the same metaverse Mark Zuckerberg was pitching back in 2021. The goal of replacing the hardware in your pocket, though, remains the same. More on that in a bit. Meta VR Glasses, which go on sale next spring, are a far cry from the bulky headsets we typ

  5. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Dan DeFrancesco

    AI might take us all down, just not the way you think (opens the original)

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    Please read this newsletter before the end of the world. I don't mean to be dramatic — ok, maybe a little — but there's a lot of AI apocalypse talk these days. An Anthropic researcher's resignation and warning earlier this week that AI giants are "gambling with our lives" sparked a wider conversation. Mainly: Is AI actually going to kill us all? The debate quickly broke into the mainstream, with billionaire hedge fund investor Paul Tudor Jones calling AI a "Category 6 hurricane." Even my 71-year

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