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The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends — Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world
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Erin Brockovich launches map of over 4,200 data centres in the US, appeals for local communities to report environmental impact and other costs
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US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
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The People Do Not Yearn for Automation: "everyone in tech understands how much regular people dislike AI. What I think they’re missing is why"
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Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it's worth it
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California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law
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You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze | Ads, rate limits, feature restrictions, price hikes. The AI free ride is over
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Angry TSMC employees considering strikes, unionization over employee bonuses, report claims — company reportedly considering 15% payout cut to fund capex despite record revenues fuelled by AI surge
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Random People Armed with AI and No Lawyer Are Reportedly Filling Judicial Dockets with Lawsuits
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Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI
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America’s schools face a backlash on digital devices as screens saturate classroom
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Linus Torvalds is fed up with AI-generated bug reports bloating the Linux kernel
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Anthropic Demolished Legacy SaaS Stocks. Now It's Coming for Palantir.
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Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits
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FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent
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‘What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought
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Exclusive: Pentagon spars with SpaceX over Starlink price hike during Iran war | Reuters
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U.S. Seeks to Give Weapons-Grade Plutonium to Start-Ups for Fuel
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Social media as bad for young people as smoking, top doctors say
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Survey reveals that 99% of CEOs now expect AI-driven layoffs — companies are racing to replace junior workers with AI, even as many executives remain uncertain about the returns on AI investments
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Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~$5B, up from $2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise $250M+ (Axios)
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Charter confirms a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to steal 40M customer records from Charter's Salesforce instance and threatened to leak the data (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
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Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares jumped 19%, driven by demand for its memory chips in the AI race (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end AI platform for drug development is being used by top pharmaceuticals, raised a $12M seed led by Accel (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
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Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the information ecosystem with Search changes, putting AI agents in everything, when AI will replace him as CEO, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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Nvidia officially retires its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years, following the porting of all of its major features to the Nvidia app (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000+ camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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American Airlines picks SpaceX's Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi on more than 500 planes; SpaceX already has contracts with United Airlines, Southwest, and others (Leslie Josephs/CNBC)
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Sources: Qualcomm reached a deal with ByteDance to supply millions of ASICs for AI data centers to support AI agents in the Doubao chatbot; QCOM jumps 4.48% (Ian King/Bloomberg)
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Filing: Monzo reports its "refer a friend" payouts grew 40% YoY to £29.5M for the 12 months ending March 2026, as part of a broader £143M marketing spend (Financial Times)
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China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal (Koh Ewe/BBC)
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How AI startups like Altur are using chatbots to help automate debt collection; YC incubated six debt collection and settlement startups in the past six years (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
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Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years to become executive chairman, replaced by Ashraf Alkarmi, who is SVP and GM of Dropbox Core (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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Google Fitbit Air review: slim, comfortable, and stylish, robust tracking, seven-day battery life, and cheaper than Whoop, but can only be worn on the wrist (Max Buondonno/The Shortcut)