/r/technology
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Elon Musk to Owe Billions After Jury Finds He Misled Twitter Investors Before Takeover
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Nvidia "confirms" DLSS 5 relies on 2D frame data as testing reveals hallucinations
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Pentagon to adopt Palantir AI as core US military system, memo says
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Planned 10-gigawatt Softbank data center in Ohio might be the largest in the world — will require a $33 billion natural gas plant, equivalent to nine nuclear reactors
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The CEO of Patreon blasts AI companies for the ‘bogus excuse’ they’re using to not pay artists
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Iran war cuts off helium from Qatar, and shortages will start to bite in a few weeks, threatening chip supply chains that fuel the AI boom
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‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance
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Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US
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Peter Thiel: The Antichrist Hunter of Silicon Valley
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RFK Jr. may replace entire panel of CDC vaccine advisors again, ally lets slip | Dr. Robert Malone, vice chair of Kennedy’s ACIP, made the claim, then retracted it, as HHS denied it.
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Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows
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From malls to neighborhoods, why high-tech ‘scarecrows’ are now everywhere
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The FBI is buying Americans’ location data
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Bloomberg - BYD Showrooms Are Bustling Across Asia After Iran Oil Shock
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ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance - OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human-AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare.
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Judge for now dismisses lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing OpenAI CEO of sexual abuse
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Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
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‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance
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MAGA and progressives unite to push back on big AI
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Pearl Abyss announces Crimson Desert has sold more than 2 million copies in less than 24 hours, promises to "work to make improvements quickly"
Techmeme
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A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
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Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
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Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
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CEO of Halide-maker Lux Optics, Ben Sandofsky, sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now on Apple's design team, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
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Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
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Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it doubled down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage as its commercial business soars (Steven Levy/Wired)
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Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to stop Anthropic's momentum with business customers (Financial Times)
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A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments (Chang Che/The Guardian)
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Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats (Jerry Neumann/Colossus)
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A review of Polymarket's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts, as the betting market presents itself as "News 2.0" (New York Times)
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Nvidia Chief Software Architect Jonathan Ross discusses the $20B Nvidia-Groq deal; sources say Groq's annual revenue was near $100M at the time of the deal (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)
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Super Micro names VP DeAnna Luna as acting chief compliance officer, after SMCI closed down 33% on March 20 amid a chip smuggling scandal (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
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A US judge dismisses a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing Altman of sexual abuse from 1997 to 2006, as the claims expired in 2008, but says she can refile (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
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Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal (Wall Street Journal)
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Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the military has deployed it, denying DOD accusations that Anthropic could tamper with models during war (Paresh Dave/Wired)