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‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
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Data center drained 30 million gallons of water without reporting or paying for it, investigation reveals
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Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired
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'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers
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As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help
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Claude helps man recover $400,000 in BTC 11 years after he got high and forgot password
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Tech Layoff Wave Has Already Hit 100,000 Jobs This Year
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Most Americans say AI development is moving too fast and twice as many are AI pessimists as AI optimists
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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
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Amazon employees are inflating AI usage to top leaderboards and impress managers
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Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for AI in their local area, including nearly half who are strongly opposed. Barely a quarter favor these projects, with 7% strongly in favor
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South Korean official proposes 'citizen dividend' payouts from AI windfall — markets spooked by suggestion AI revenue should be redistributed to citizens
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Exclusive: Meta employees launch protest against mouse-tracking tech at US offices
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Data centers could account for up to 9% of Texas water use by 2040, UT Austin report finds
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Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
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Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
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Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores
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BuzzFeed sold to Byron Allen, who will take over as CEO in $120m deal | Allen, a media entrepreneur, to replace founder Jonah Peretti as chief executive with ‘significant’ cost cuts to come
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The balcony solar boom is coming to the US
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Exclusive: LinkedIn planning to lay off 5% of staff in latest tech-sector cuts, source says
TechCrunch
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Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents
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Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center
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Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are
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This is what some the world’s largest banks of malware look like stacked as hard drives
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Geothermal startup Fervo Energy pops 33% in IPO debut fueled by AI data center demand
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X launches a History tab for bookmarks, likes, videos, and articles
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Instagram’s new ‘Instants’ feature combines elements from Snapchat and BeReal
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Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics raises another $400M
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Who trusts Sam Altman?
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Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders
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Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners
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Ransomware hackers claim breach at Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer for Apple, Google, and Nvidia
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Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search bar, powered by Alexa+
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Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B
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r/WallStreetBets really hates the SEC’s proposal to weaken quarterly reporting
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US lawmakers demand answers from Instructure after Canvas data breaches
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Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI, according to Ramp data
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Introducing the 6 stages at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — built for today’s tougher startup market
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WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats
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Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life
Techmeme
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Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $15.84B, vs. $15.56B est., forecasts Q4 revenue above est., and is cutting almost 4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps 17%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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Mythos Preview is the first AI model to complete both of AISI's cyber ranges, which measure models' cyberattack capabilities; GPT-5.5 solved only one of them (AI Security Institute)
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Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the "cone of uncertainty" in AI, allocating compute, returns to frontier intelligence, platform vs. application, and more (Invest Like The Best on YouTube)
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Musk v. Altman: Microsoft executive Michael Wetter testifies that Microsoft has spent $100B+ on OpenAI, including its investments and to build infrastructure (Bloomberg)
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LinkedIn says it has "implemented organizational changes"; source: LinkedIn plans to cut ~5% of its 17,500 full-time workers and focus on business growth areas (Reuters)
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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's Mind Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots for manufacturing tasks, raised $400M, source says at a $3.4B valuation (Sean McLain/Wall Street Journal)
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Instagram rolls out Instants, which lets users share ephemeral photos, as an in-app feature and as a standalone Android and iOS app in select countries (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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Adaption, co-founded by ex-Cohere VP of AI research Sara Hooker, unveils AutoScientist, which can automate the research loop behind model training and alignment (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
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Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, featuring a host of automated services like bookkeeping functions, business insights, and tools for ad campaigns (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
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Microsoft unveils MDASH, a security system that orchestrates 100+ AI agents to find vulnerabilities, and says it identified 16 previously unknown Windows flaws (Gyana Swain/CSO)
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Sources: Mistral has been developing a cybersecurity-focused AI model and has held discussions about it with European banks, which don't have access to Mythos (Bloomberg)
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Sources: Arm and its parent company SoftBank expressed preliminary interest in acquiring Cerebras weeks before its expected IPO; Cerebras rebuffed them (Bloomberg)
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The US FTC says Shutterstock will pay $35M to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
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OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act and Illinois SB 315, an AI safety bill to establish requirements around transparency, incident reporting, and more (OpenAI Global Affairs)
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Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stack, Muse Spark, personal superintelligence, Meta acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence, Sam Altman, and more (Ashlee Vance/Core Memory)