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‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art
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In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room diagnoses than two human doctors
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TechCrunch Mobility: How do you issue a ticket to a robotaxi?
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This tiny, magnetic e-reader could stop you from doomscrolling
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AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars
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Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down
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Netflix delays Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ movie for big theatrical push in 2027
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The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked
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Beyond Lovable and Mistral: 21 European startups to watch
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Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
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Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell
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Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity
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Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions
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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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A look at Atlassian and Twilio earnings beats, with early signs of Atlassian's AI response success and Twilio becoming a picks-and-shovels layer for AI agents (Jason Lemkin/SaaStr)
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Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from 65% in 2025, as latest wave of collaborations shifts from chips to physical AI (Abhishek Vishnoi/Bloomberg)
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JLL: Japan's $23B data center market is set to grow ~50% by 2030, with 90% of sites concentrated in densely populated regions, prompting pushback from residents (Financial Times)
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How Amazon's expansion into fashion helped Jeff Bezos enter fashion's inner circle, as he and Lauren Sánchez Bezos become underwriters for this year's Met Gala (Chavie Lieber/Wall Street Journal)
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Nintendo's share price has fallen by ~45% since August 2025, as rising memory chip costs drive investor concerns over profit margins for the Switch 2 (David Keohane/Financial Times)
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A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
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An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date (NIST)
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A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
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Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally over failures to alert law enforcement when users describe plans for real-world violence to ChatGPT (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
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Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at $120M-$140M (The Economic Times)
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Amadeus IT Group, which operates the world's largest travel booking system, plans to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, for €1.2B in cash (Javi West Larrañaga/Reuters)
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Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC "continues to sharpen its focus"; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable)
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Maryland becomes the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores, as other states including CO, CA, MA, IL, and NJ consider similar bills (Sanya Mansoor/The Guardian)
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Analysis: after Trump's World Liberty raised $550M from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions in USD were privately sold in "white glove" transactions (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
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Investigation: Nobitex was founded by two brothers from Iran's elite Kharrazi family; the crypto exchange processed hundreds of millions beyond US sanctions (Reuters)