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Louis Rossmann is suing Samsung after firm offers $330 refund for defective SSD while selling the drives on Amazon for $949 — spat over 4TB 990 Pro SSD is headed to court
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OpenAI Execs Are Panicking
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OpenAI says China ran a covert campaign to turn Americans against data centers, but used facts that happen to be true
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Several police officers arrested for using controversial Flock AI license plate reader system to stalk romantic partners, says report — investigators have unearthed at least 18 such cases in the US over recent years
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Microsoft's president says Gen Z's AI backlash should be a wake-up call for Big Tech
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First human trial of reverse-aging drug begins
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Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat | A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions
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SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever
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Massive Effigy Raised Over Times Square to Protest Grok
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AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flaw
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A Rivian Fender Bender Cost $42,000. Its CEO Says That Should Never Happen
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AI is hitting employment among young software developers hard
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Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing / Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, exposed some of the license plate cops were looking for and the reason for doing so
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AI isn’t making developers more productive – it’s making them busier
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Scientists Invented a Disease to Test Whether A.I. Knew It Was Fake. Then, Chatbots Started Saying It Was Real
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Google director René Mayrhofer, for Android platform security resigned, citing the company's military deals: "management has lost its moral compass"
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Furious Judge Cancels Entire Trial After Finding Out Lawyers on Both Sides Used AI
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Grok AI broke Canada’s laws, created 6K sexual deepfakes per hour: probe
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Red Lobster CEO Damola Adamolekun Plans To Make The Seafood Chain 'The Most AI-Forward Restaurant Company That Exists'
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Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year / Amazon finally released annual water usage data and claims it’s actually more efficient than the others.
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MrBeast hits 500M subscribers on YouTube, a record for the platform (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
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Sam Bankman-Fried loses his bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence over the collapse of FTX (Luc Cohen/Reuters)
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Sources: six months after acquiring Rivos, Meta is struggling to integrate the chip startup and halted development of a chip for training its largest AI models (The Information)
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Sources: French startup Mistral AI is in talks to raise ~€3B at a ~€20B valuation; it was last valued at €11.7B during a funding round in September 2025 (Bloomberg)
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Companies hit by rising AI costs are increasingly using tools that tap cheaper models, including some from China, putting price pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)
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Niantic Spatial says Pokémon Go data is "not part of" its deal with spatial AI company Vantor, after concerns that game data could be used for military drones (Kenneth Shepard/Kotaku)
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New York City-based Current, which manages a consumer fintech platform, raised an $80M Series E at a $1.5B valuation led by Springcoast Partners (FinSMEs)
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Google sues Chinese cybercrime network Outsider Enterprise, accusing it of using Gemini AI to create fake websites and scam hundreds of thousands of Americans (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
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SpaceX's trading debut will be a test of the "Musk premium", the force behind Tesla's $1T+ valuation, and a gauge of investor appetite ahead of upcoming AI IPOs (Reuters)
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FanDuel owner Flutter plans to delist its London shares on August 3, citing low trading and high costs; Flutter moved its primary listing to the US in 2024 (Lauren Almeida/The Guardian)
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Memory chipmaker Kioxia replaces Toyota as Japan's most valuable company; Kioxia's shares surged 7.6% on Friday, lifting its market value to ~$274B (Kanoko Matsuyama/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Nvidia has told Chinese clients that its new Vera CPUs for AI data centers could be available as soon as August and that they can begin placing orders (Reuters)
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How Chinese manufacturers are dominating the humanoid robot supply chain, even as the industry struggles to find a purpose for such robots (New York Times)
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Hyderabad, India-based Equal AI, which makes an eponymous AI-powered call screening app, raised a $30M Series B led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Oracle warns customers of a critical PeopleSoft flaw after ShinyHunters claimed breaches of 100+ organizations using PeopleSoft; Oracle has not issued a patch (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)