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Librarian 'gobsmacked' after school use AI to remove 200 books from shelves including Orwell's 1984 and Twilight
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Judge tosses lawsuit against companies who stopped advertising on X
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Meta Lays Off 700 Employees, While Rewarding Top Executives
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OpenAI shelves erotic chatbot ‘indefinitely’
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Supreme Court rules ISPs aren't liable for user piracy without intent
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It's not just memory anymore: AI data centers are taking all the CPUs, too
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Meta's smart glasses make it easy to secretly film people. It's mostly women bearing the fallout
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Deloitte makes 'AI mistake' again, this time in report for Canadian government; here's what went wrong
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Netflix Raising U.S. Prices for Second Time in a Year
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Pentagon formalizes Palantir's Maven AI as a core military system with multi-year funding — platform's investment grows to $13 billion from $480 million in 2024
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Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
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Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content - 404media
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Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it 'Pied Piper' | TechCrunch
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Parents should monitor children 24/7 on Roblox, says developer
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'I can't believe this is happening': iPhone users are threatening to defect to Android over new iOS age verification push — and I'd do the same
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Microsoft backtracks on Copilot Chat access in M365 apps
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“I was surprised how upset some people got”: A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist, the bot that edited Wikipedia
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COVID vaccines not tied to risk of sudden death, study shows
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Scientists Identify Molecular Switch That Lets Exercise Reverse Muscle Aging
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Apple discontinues the Mac Pro and says it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
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Sources: Apple granted out-of-cycle bonuses worth several hundred thousand dollars to iPhone hardware designers, as OpenAI and others poach its engineers (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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X limits X Pro access to subscribers of the $40/month Premium+ plan without notifying users in advance; it was previously available in the $8/month Premium plan (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
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Xona, which aims to build a commercial alternative to GPS by launching a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation, raised a $170M Series C (Sandra Erwin/SpaceNews)
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Meta plans to increase its investment in a data center in El Paso, Texas, to more than $10B, a significant rise from the initial $1.5B commitment (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
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Netflix raises US prices following a January 2025 hike; standard with ads rises $1 to $8.99/month; standard with no ads and premium rise $2 to $19.99 and $26.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Sources: X let go of 20+ staffers in nontechnical roles ahead of a SpaceX IPO; X staff have been told to focus on growing revenue since xAI brought on a CRO (Wall Street Journal)
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Italy-based Subbyx, which builds infrastructure that lets businesses offer access-based subscriptions, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
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Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time; Coinbase launches a mortgage product allowing buyers to pledge bitcoin or USDC as collateral (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Apple plans to open up Siri to run any AI service via App Store apps in iOS 27, dropping ChatGPT as exclusive partner in Apple Intelligence and Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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The China Computer Federation calls for a boycott of AI conference NeurIPS after organizers barred submissions from US-sanctioned companies like Huawei (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
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Google expands Search Live, its AI conversational search feature previously limited to the US and India, to all languages and regions where AI Mode is available (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Meta stock fell 8% on Thursday after juries in two US trials found the company failed to adequately warn or protect young users (Reuters)
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Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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The US FCC opens a comment period for a proposal to help return outsourced call center jobs to the US; critics say the plan could drive companies to automation (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)