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Adafruit's New CircuitPython 'Turbo' Brings Native Code To Tiny Boards
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As Part of California's Coast Begins to Crumble, Is the Clock Ticking on Moving Radioactive Waste?
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Anthropic Commits to Independent AI Evaluators, Wants Slower Development. Nvidia's CEO Wants It 'As Fast as You Can'
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Firefox Touts Lower CPU Use for Large JPEGs, Faster PDF Viewer Startup (and AI Controls)
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America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Fails Spectacularly, Despite Hundreds of Millions in Industry Lobbying
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Ubuntu's 'Rust-ification' Hits New Milestone: Coreutils Migration is Complete
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While Hollywood Fears an AI Future, China's Film Industry is Embracing It
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Scientists Discover Mysterious New X-Ray Objects 'Unlike Any They Have Seen Before'
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Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg'
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Math Professor Accuses OpenAI of Copying His Work, Says AI Compute Power Makes Racing to Publish 'Pointless'
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ChatGPT-Using Lawyer Cited Its Fake Witnesses and Police Testimony in Court
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Reservations Go Live for Valve's Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress?
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A Visit to San Francisco's AI-run Store: No Customers, Nothing Useful, And Losing Money Fast
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No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage
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Union Contract with Microsoft Ratified by 1,900 Blizzard Developers and Workers
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OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an "unrelated persona instruction" during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences (OpenAI)
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In an unsealed court ruling, a US judge orders Google to make ad tech tools interoperable with rivals, share ad auction data, and appoint an internal monitor (New York Times)
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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis (Wall Street Journal)
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AWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring (Omar Abdel-Baqui/Wall Street Journal)
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Generac signs a long-term deal to supply Amazon with up to $8B worth of backup generators for data centers and grants Amazon a warrant for up to a 2.6% stake (Michelle Ma/Bloomberg)
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Hands-on with Snap's Specs: more advanced than Meta's top-end glasses, fully untethered, mostly comfortable, navigation works well, but design has compromises (Bloomberg)
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Snap introduces Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant designed to work across iPhone, Mac, and Specs glasses, calling it an "anticipatory AI service" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act, aimed at preventing data center-related utility costs from being passed on to consumers, by a vote of 417-3 (Justin Papp/CNBC)
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OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment (Axios)
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Sources: a group of 10 banks is giving a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's cloud venture Crux AI, which aims to provide compute for AI labs, to buy TPUs (Bloomberg)
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Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$20B valuation, up from $7.6B in January, and Paradigm is in talks to lead the round (Bloomberg)
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Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
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X adds a "Trade" option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages such as Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, expanded its seed funding by $53M, led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds (Joann Muller/Axios)