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Bernie Sanders pushes for 50% public ownership of American AI companies — proposes AI sovereign wealth fund that would hold direct ownership stakes in largest AI firms
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Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the erosion of privacy
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Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI
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Americans don’t know how to fight AI. So they’re fighting data centers.
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'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices
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Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial recognition feature
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Cloudflare layoffs: After firing 20% staff, CEO Matthew Prince explains in op-ed on how to decide which employees AI should replace
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Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
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We [404 Media] Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything | Paragon's software is capable of remotely break into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.
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Philly Cops Are Reportedly Monitoring Anti-AI Memes, According to Internal Alert
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Google owner Alphabet to sell $80bn in stock to fund AI spending spree
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GoPro Warns of Going-Concern Risk Amid AI-Fueled Memory Crunch - company expects to declare bankruptcy.
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Electric cars became more affordable across much of the world in 2025 — except the U.S
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Intuit Becomes S&P 500’s Worst Performer This Year / Shares of Intuit dropped 8.9% on Tuesday, adding to a 51% decline so far this year, the worst performance among all stocks tracked by the S&P 500
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Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated | Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks
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Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold
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Moderna gets $50 million to develop mRNA Ebola vaccine against Bundibugyo | Amid a raging Ebola outbreak, officials “urgently accelerate development” of vaccines.
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Dell Unveils $699 Laptop With Features 'You Won't Find on a MacBook Neo'
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Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don't Care About Safety or Reliability
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‘More harmful than helpful’: young people sour on AI — Gen Z uses the technology more than anyone, but many fear it is weakening their job prospects and creativity
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Sources: a Broadcom-backed portion of Apollo and Blackstone's $36B debt deal to buy TPUs for Anthropic to lease may yield ~5.75% vs. 8%-9% for a riskier portion (Bloomberg)
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The US sanctions Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, accusing it of helping Iran's government and blacklisted state institutions evade Western sanctions (Gavin Finch/Reuters)
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Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $3B, including $388M from CyberArk and Chronosphere, vs. $2.94B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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Meta is testing a Series feature, letting select creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profile, using both old and new Reels (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised $900M via five-year junk bonds, priced at par to yield 7.5%, as the sector increasingly turns to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)
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Marvell shares closed up 32.52% on Tuesday after Jensen Huang hailed the chipmaker as the "next trillion-dollar company" at Computex (Sawdah Bhaimiya/CNBC)
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Microsoft releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
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Internal memo: Meta is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool, launched in April to help train its AI models, after staff raised concerns (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
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Microsoft and Mayo Clinic partner for an AI model trained on Mayo's medical data, with plans to build an AI healthcare assistant and AI tools for clinicians (Clare Duffy/CNN)
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An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about its models catching up to the state of the art from months ago, refusing to distill models, and more (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
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Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning AI model, trained "from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Microsoft unveils Majorana 2, a quantum chip that it developed using AI tools for materials science, and says it will have commercial quantum machines by 2029 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
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Google adds a scam-detection feature, built on RCS, to Android 12 and later that verifies whether a call is coming from the caller's actual Android smartphone (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
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Microsoft announces the Agent Control Specification, an open-source standard that gives developers a granular, consistent way to control what AI agents can do (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
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GitHub unveils a GitHub Copilot desktop app in technical preview, which introduces a new feature called canvases for bidirectional work between users and agents (Mario Rodriguez/The GitHub Blog)