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Meta contractor fires 1,100 AI trainers after they revealed Ray-Ban glasses recorded private and intimate footage
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The New York Childrens Online Safety Act will ban anyone under 18 from chatting online.
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Mark Zuckerberg Says AI Costs Contributed To Layoffs Of 8,000 Staffers, Report Says
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Microsoft says 32GB of RAM is the “no-worries” upgrade for Windows 11 gaming
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Infowars Site Goes Offline Amid The Onion’s Legal Battle to Secure Control of Right-Wing Outlet
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Bernie Sanders urges international cooperation to halt AI’s ‘runaway train’
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Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers
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Brendan Carr ‘Launches’ His Bogus FCC ‘Review’ Of ABC Broadcast Licenses And It’s Just Pathetic And Stupid
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Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps
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Utah’s New Law Targeting VPNs Goes Into Effect Next Week
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California Police Can Start Ticketing Driverless Cars
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Perfect homework, blank stares: Why colleges are turning to oral exams to combat AI
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EU Now Requires USB-C Charging for New Laptops Up to 100 W
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Ex-Meta manager says just 2% of engineers know how to use AI 'very effectively'
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Women sue the men who used their Instagram feeds to create AI p0rn influencers
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‘Never Talk About Goblins’: OpenAI’s Instructions to Codex Have a Weirdly Emphatic No-Creatures Policy - Goblins are expressly forbidden, along with gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons.
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Japan's low-cost cardboard drones can make war expenses nosedive
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YouTube has quietly become the backbone of US classrooms
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Meta CEO Zuckerberg blames layoffs on capital spending, won't rule out more job cuts
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Meta raises specter of shutting down service to New Mexico in legal clash over child safety
TechCrunch
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Coatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, possibly for Anthropic
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Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks
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Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack
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Musk v. Altman is just getting started
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People are finally using Reddit’s search
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ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India, but not a big winner elsewhere, yet
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As Tim Cook steps down, Apple hit record sales — but a chip shortage looms
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Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105M cash, only raised $8M, founder says
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Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
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Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs
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Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter
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Rivian downsizes DOE loan to $4.5B for Georgia factory
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Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websites
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After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, too
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EV startup Faraday Future paid $7.5M to company tied to founder Jia Yueting
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OpenAI announces new advanced security for ChatGPT accounts, including a partnership with Yubico
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Elon Musk testifies that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models
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FDA approval, fundraising, and the reality of building in healthcare according to BioticsAI founder
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Google’s Gemini AI assistant is hitting the road in millions of vehicles
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TikTok’s new ‘Campus Hub’ features college group chats and feeds
Techmeme
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issues new rules saying acting and writing must be performed by humans and not AI to be eligible for Oscars (Lisa Richwine/Reuters)
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Sources: Cerebras is seeking to raise as much as $4B in its IPO and is targeting a valuation of about $40B (Bloomberg)
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How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
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"Podslop" is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
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Pushing back on AI job loss fears, AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, a figure in line with recent years (Ben Shimkus/Business Insider)
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Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, as exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit roll out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
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The US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand publish guidance on orgs' use of agentic AI systems, saying many give AI more access than can be safely monitored (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
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The gender gap in AI use may be a matter of visibility more than usage, as data suggests women face more judgment for using AI and are less likely to admit it (Issie Lapowsky/Bloomberg)
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The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)
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Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing AI models for robots; Assured Robot Intelligence's team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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A bug in popular cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared software has reportedly been exploited since Feb.; CISA it gives a 9.8 CVSS score, tells agencies to patch by May 3 (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
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Experts say supply chain attacks compromised SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the PyPI package Lightning, in a campaign that calls itself Mini Shai-Hulud (Jessica Lyons/The Register)
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Fun, which builds fiat and crypto payment rails for platforms like Polymarket and Aave, raised a $72M Series A in January, co-led by Multicoin and SignalFire (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
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Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that has raised $5.7B via junk bonds (Wall Street Journal)
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The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz (Mike Stone/Reuters)