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AI backlash is moving from “it will steal jobs” to “why is this data center secretly taking our power and water?
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Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method
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Tesla Caps Employee AI Spend at $200 per Week After Adoption Push
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Tesla driver charged with manslaughter after car in FSD mode crashes into Texas home
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Inside Chernobyl, a Fungus Has Been Quietly Feasting on Radiation
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A leaked Microsoft experiment reveals a new OS built entirely around Copilot and AI agents
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French Presidential Candidate Calls For Legislation After PlayStation Announces End To Physical Discs
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Rural Americans say they're worried AI data centers will drain their wallets
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‘It’s just his AI and my AI going back and forth’: The workplace phenomenon that’s undermining human relationships
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Chevy built an all-American EV truck — why is nobody buying it? | TechCrunch
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The Ghost Gun Crackdown Is Quietly Threatening the Future of 3D Printing
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Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible
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Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated
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Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected
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Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech
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Data centers are so power hungry that cow manure fuel is now on the table — Critics warn it could mean even more factory farms
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'Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real': Github, wagging its finger at Sony's own goal, is offering CD-ROMs of your code for a few days
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India: Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material, BBC finds
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US homeowners installed a record amount of battery storage this year, and its reshaping the grid
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Number of billionaires globally soars by 13% amid AI shares boom — Billionaires’ wealth grew by 25% on average in the year ended in April, research from Swiss bank UBS finds
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A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs (Robert P Baird/The Guardian)
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Micron breaks ground on its ~$9.3B Hiroshima factory expansion, part of its global ramp-up to meet AI demand, and plans to start HBM shipments from summer 2028 (Mari Kiyohara/Bloomberg)
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Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics, which develops spatial tech to let autonomous robots operate in complex, GPS-denied environments, raised a $125M Series A (Duc Dao/TNGlobal)
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Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a Series A at a $500M valuation (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
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Montreal-based Stathera, a maker of MEMS-based silicon timing components for chips, raised a $55M Series B led by Maverick Silicon, taking total funding to $75M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)
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Midjourney wants Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to reveal in court how they use AI across their companies; studios sued Midjourney in 2025 for infringement (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
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A look at the quant fund frenzy in China, as assets under management have more than doubled to ~$384B in less than a year amid rapid AI adoption (Bloomberg)
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Meta could use its compute for its own models, ad scaling, SpaceX-like neocloud deals, and hosting 3rd-party models; it may be close to an Anthropic deal (Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros/SemiAnalysis)
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Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
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Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like "rape video" and "child video" and linking to Telegram channels (Divya Arya/BBC)
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An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says "there will not be an FDA for AI" under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industry's "doomer" messaging, and more (Financial Times)
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opens an investigation into StubHub following complaints of last-minute ticket cancellations for FIFA World Cup 2026 matches (Giles Turner/Bloomberg)
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How Jeff Bezos' changing relationship with President Trump has helped Amazon and Blue Origin, such as more federal contracts awarded during Trump's second term (Wall Street Journal)
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Filing: GoDaddy challenges a New Delhi court ruling requiring domain sellers to stop offering privacy by default, saying it could expose website owners globally (Reuters)
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India's IT secretary said the country is investigating a data breach at Apple supplier Tata, which exposed files that included photos of iPhone 18 Pro models (Reuters)