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'Everyone is unhappy': Meta employees describe a grim environment as the company reportedly prepares to axe roughly 8,000 workers
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Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard
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Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers
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Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day
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The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending
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Meta's $10 billion Louisiana data center is getting $3.3 billion in tax breaksāmore than seven years of the state's entire police budget
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman holds more than $2 billion in companies that have done business with the company, a court document showed as Altman faces claims of self-dealing from state attorneys general.
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University of Tokyo develops device that increases computer processing speed by 1000 times, operating without generating heat.
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Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers / A new report calls the impact significant and "irreversible."
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Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
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Empty Waymos invade Atlanta neighborhood, circle cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers
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The Feed Is Fake | That āviralā song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama was probably the product of a stealth marketing campaign
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Samsung starts winding down chip production six days before planned 18-day strike ā company enters "emergency management mode," daily losses could hit $2 billion
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'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system
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ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
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OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts
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Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet
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Texas county pauses data center construction in rural areas for a year
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'Think twice before posing with hand signs': Experts warn of fingerprint theft
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AI Poop Analysis App Offers to Sell Database of Its Users
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How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more (Bill Gurley/Bill's Substack)
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In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a "VC vs GC" video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
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Semiconductor stocks fell globally on Friday after the Trump-Xi summit concluded without major chip deals; Nvidia closed down 4.42% and AMD closed down 5.69% (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review (Reuters)
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Sources: Nord Quantique, a quantum computing startup that is pursuing a hardware-level quantum error correction approach, raised $30M at a $1.4B valuation (Sean Silcoff/Globe and Mail)
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Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
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OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation (Transformer)
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ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have "incontrovertible evidence" of AI-generated work (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
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OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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Replit says it has "worked things out with Apple", which has approved a Replit update after four months, following a reported dispute over vibe coding apps (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, which is training models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3B, and added $40M in ARR in Q2 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
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Gridcare, which uses AI to detect underused capacity in electric grids, raised a $64M Series A, following a $13.5M seed in 2025 (Bianca Giacobone/Latitude Media)
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A look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strategy to fight unauthorized AI use of his image and likeness, by trademarking video and audio clips of himself (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours, after a probe (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)