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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
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College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor
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Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
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Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance
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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow
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Mississippi Residents Sue xAI Over 'Near Constant Noise' From Data Centers
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Bucking RFK Jr., OB-GYNs release vaccine guidance that conflicts with CDC / Thirteen other medical groups have already endorsed the independent schedule.
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Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day
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Microsoft doesn't know what to do about the memory pricing crisis Microsoft is causing
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Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of POTUS
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Iran warns SpaceX & Starlink will be considered 'military targets'
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Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for data center development — $10 gift became $10M for city government, with $30M tax expected over next decade
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Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
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Canada announces bill banning social media for anyone under 16
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Tesla Apparently Won't Let Cybertruck Buyers Transfer FSD Without Spending Another $20k
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The theory taking the rich by storm: China funds data center haters
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Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by "93% match" in facial recognition
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Tech layoffs 2026: More than 150,000 jobs cut at Meta, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Intuit and more
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Greg Abbott wants data centers to stop passing the bill to Texans
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Seattle is close to approving a year-long ban on large data centers
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Sources: BlackRock put in an order to buy at least $5B worth of SpaceX shares; SpaceX received an over $1B request from a single family-office investor (Wall Street Journal)
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Citigroup launches a blockchain-based platform for wealthy and institutional clients to trade tokenized shares of private firms, initially for foreign investors (Gina Heeb/Wall Street Journal)
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OpenAI acquires Ona, which offers cloud services to support AI agents, and plans to bring Ona's team into its Codex effort (Seth Fiegerman/Bloomberg)
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The US House fails to extend FISA's Section 702, ensuring the warrantless surveillance program will expire for the first time since its 2008 enactment (Politico)
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Crusoe said it had "paused" a plan to build a Wyoming data center; sources: it failed to win customers including Google amid concerns about costs and timetable (Bloomberg)
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Amazon says its data centers used ~2.5B gallons of water in 2025, or 0.12 liters of water per kWh, and water use at sites it owns and operates fell 2% from 2024 (Anvee Bhutani/Wall Street Journal)
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Apollo Global has implemented a new risk assessment that categorizes software investments into 12 to 14 sectors to rank their susceptibility to AI disruption (Hannah Webster/Bloomberg)
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Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI models for physical tasks, raised a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation, following a $6.2B Series A (Dan Primack/Axios)
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Nvidia and Abridge, maker of an AI note-taking app for doctors, are training an AI model for clinical conversations using de-identified data and Nemotron models (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
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Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raised $355M, including $100M from a16z crypto (Bloomberg Law)
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Anthropic donates $150M to launch Claude Corps, a fellowship program that will teach 1,000 fellows how to use Claude and place them with nonprofits in the US (Glenn Gamboa/Associated Press)
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DoorDash launches an in-app AI chatbot to let users order food and groceries and make reservations with photos and prompts (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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Sources: Google is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a memory input-output die for its 10th-gen Icefish TPU, while making the computing engine at TSMC (Qianer Liu/The Information)
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Sources: SpaceX's IPO has attracted $70B+ in orders from retail investors, who are expected to be allocated at least 20% of the available shares (Bloomberg)
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KKR launches Helix Digital, a new company to finance AI infrastructure, with $10B+ in committed capital from Nvidia, the Kuwait Investment Authority, and others (Brian Fagioli/NERDS.xyz)