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Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down âNice Pile Of Moneyâ For AI Ad: âI Canât Be The Poster Boy For AIâ
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"Profoundly Disappointed:" Companies Respond To Sony's Decision To End Disc Support
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New California study finds highly educated workers most harmed by AI
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âWe are screwedâ: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution.
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CEO of $248 billion cybersecurity company says workers are about to face a âDarwinian momentâ thanks to AI: Evolve or get cut
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PlayStation 6 bill of materials nears $1,000 as RAM shortages worsen
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Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes â state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing
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Companies Are Throttling Employeesâ AI Use Because Itâs Too Expensive
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Tech giants lose $2 trillion in SpaceXâs IPO month â âThe valuations were unsustainableâ: asset manager
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SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day
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Microsoft Teams' new controversial AI will listen to your meetings and answer before you ask, but it won't be turned on by default
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CEO Says Heâll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop
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Sony is killing discs â and showing us why itâs a terrible idea | When digital stores shut down, games get lost alongside them. Welcome to the digital-only future
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Google slapped with record $4.7 billion fine by EU
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AM Radio Could Be Legally Mandated in New Cars
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US considers ending ban on supersonic flights
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The case of the missing Tesla fatal crash data
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Swedish court orders Google to pay $1.5 billion to Klarna in antitrust damages
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PlayStationâs Physical Media-Free Future Isnât Just Concerning, Itâs Offensive / You cannot trust digital purchases, and you cannot trust the corporations that offer them
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Project Helix, the next XBOX console, is not expected to feature a disc drive
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Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip (Qianer Liu/The Information)
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Global VC funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217B, or 43% of the total; in Q2, VCs put $205B into 5K+ startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
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Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to support businesses with AI deployments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
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Sam Altman proposes a "US-led international forum" to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies (Sam Altman/Financial Times)
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SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by 2030 (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
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Z.ai launches ZCode, an "Agentic Development Environment" optimized for its new GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan costs from $16.20 to $144 per month (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
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Filings: Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day he unveiled his AI action plan (New York Times)
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Amazon says Leo reached 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit following a recent launch, which is "enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes" (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
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German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 (Jim Tankersley/New York Times)
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The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks (Joe Warminsky/The Record)
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President Trump says Micron will invest $250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a $250 deposit in some US states (New York Times)
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Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked (Samantha Elkins/NBC News)
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Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised $1.2B led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent at an ~$8B valuation (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
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An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with AI-enabled gadgets, and more (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
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The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a âŹ4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android's market power should stand (Bloomberg)