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Ford rehires more than 300 veteran human engineers after it says AI failed to deliver the same level of expertise
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T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills
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TIDAL to automatically tag AI-generated music and block it from earning royalties
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Sony is deleting 551 movies and TV shows you bought on PlayStation, because you don't really own your digital purchases
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AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them
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RAM prices expected to rise another 40-50% in Q3 2026, and then 30% more in Q4 as AI demand outpaces supply
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Supreme Court restricts use of geofence warrants, ruling they violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches
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Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists
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The ‘Almost Homeless’ subreddit is a stark glimpse at soaring wealth inequality — As the billionaire class gets richer, the growing online community is offering tips on how to survive with very little
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T-Mobile retires legacy plans, prompting price hikes and customer backlash
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Drivers Are Not Happy With Their Cars' Screens
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Supreme Court allows firing of FTC commissioners, ends agency independence / The president can fire independent commissioners tasked with protecting consumers and preserving competition, the justices ruled.
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
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Meta has been secretly relying on Google's AI for customer service, ad tools, and content moderation – then got cut off
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Kalshi sues Illinois over new tax on prediction market sports bets | Illinois now a key battleground in fight over prediction market sports bets.
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House passes kids online safety package despite watchdog pushback
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Bombshell lawsuit alleges that RAM manufacturers are colluding to drive up prices. Three companies that account for 90% of RAM revenue are being sued for anti-competitive practices. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron (the "DRAM Triarchy" controlling ~90-95% of the global DRAM market)
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US lawsuit accuses Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron of worsening the RAM crisis by fixing memory prices and supply
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Paris deputy mayor blames the United States' carbon emissions for deadly heat wave
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New Florida Law Bans Local Net-Zero Emissions Policies
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The DOD seeks to recruit engineers experienced in frontier AI, machine learning and automation, and data systems, to embed them "down to the unit level" (John Harney/Bloomberg)
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An Indonesian court sentences Gojek co-founder and ex-education minister Nadiem Makarim to 10 years in prison for power abuses over a Chromebook contract (New York Times)
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Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning Grindr into an "AI-native company", "impos[ing]" AI on staff, facing "opposition", using AI as a CEO, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
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How Spain's LaLiga uses nationwide IP blocking to combat illegal sports streams, impacting an estimated 550K+ domains, putting it in conflict with Cloudflare (Bloomberg)
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As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new AI elite and may have to leave (Emmy Martin/New York Times)
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Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details (Reuters)
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AI and vibe coding fuel a surge in game releases; ATTN Economy says 181K mobile games launched in six months to May, up 118% on iOS and 73% on Android YoY (Orlando Crowcroft/Financial Times)
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The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment "steering" rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it "already made the changes" (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)
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Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future competition from AI travel agents (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
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AI may help transform air traffic control by processing vast amounts of data, spotting collision risks early, and easing staff shortages as air travel grows (Peter Campbell/Financial Times)
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Dubai- and London-based 1001, which uses AI to improve aviation, port, and energy infrastructure efficiency in the Gulf, raised $30M led by Lux Capital (Matthew Martin/Semafor)
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US political campaign managers and consultants are using AI to analyze voter data, create campaign materials, and more; survey: 87% of campaigners use AI daily (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
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Five Chinese tech and advanced manufacturing companies launch Hong Kong listings, seeking to raise up to $5.6B, led by Apple supplier Luxshare's $3.15B offering (Reuters)
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Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026 shipment targets, with Xiaomi cutting 30% to ~95M units (Nikkei Asia)
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Source: the Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating shares to Trump Accounts, which provide children with tax-advantaged savings accounts (Semafor)