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New Tennessee law requires data centers to pay for their own electricity infrastructure
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SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says
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Philly Cops Are Reportedly Monitoring Anti-AI Memes, According to Internal Alert
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Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says
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AI Has Ruined the Job Market
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It’s official: More money is now spent building data centers than the government spends on transportation
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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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Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search / Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.
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In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters
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Switzerland dug a hole the size of two soccer fields to install the world’s most powerful underground battery, able to release 1.2 GW in milliseconds and store 2.1 GWh at a multibillion-dollar price tag
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32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
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Cognizant CEO is swimming against the tide on AI: he's hiring over 20,000 graduates this year and says AI tokenmaxxing is a 'vanity metric'
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Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor
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New study reveals top AI models (GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, Gemini 2.5) completely fail the classic "Stroop" psychological attention test, exposing a fundamental limitation in artificial reasoning.
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Amazon’s search bar will invent AI-generated products you can’t buy
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Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features, rules UK / Website owners can also prevent their content from being used to ‘fine-tune’ Google’s AI models.
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The ‘angertainment’ trap: Why you can’t stop clicking on things that make you mad | All the ugly parts of the internet beast that has become the dominant political force of our time: we are living deep in an era of manufactured outrage and cynicism
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AI agents lag far behind human workers. Why are tech companies laying off the humans?
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Palantir Systems’ Potential for Enshittification Has Become an ‘Unacceptable’ Risk, UK Politicians Say
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Former Tesla employees say full self-driving is nowhere near as capable as Elon Musk claims
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Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, which would value the company at ~$1.77T (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
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The US and other Five Eyes nations warn that China is flooding online job platforms with fake profiles and offers targeting government and military personnel (Greg Miller/Washington Post)
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In a report, UK lawmakers call on the government to end a £330M NHS deal with Palantir and disclose more details of a military contract with the company (Bloomberg)
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Security firm Calif says it used OpenAI's Codex to discover HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS exploit affecting web servers like Nginx, Apache HTTPD, and Microsoft IIS (The Hacker News)
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OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)
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Nearly 40% of Alphabet's planned ~$85B in equity offerings for AI will go toward covering tax obligations tied to employee equity awards, amid the AI talent war (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
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Meta is alerting Instagram users whose accounts were taken over using Meta AI chatbot; some hackers claim to still be able to exploit Meta AI chatbot (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
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Collate, whose AI tools automate paperwork for life sciences companies, raised $95M led by Redpoint at a ~$1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $125M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
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Amazon announces new visual search features, including displaying AI-generated images of products within its app based on users' search queries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Leading the Future, the pro-AI super PAC backed by Greg Brockman, appears to be linked to multiple sockpuppet accounts, including a purported anti-AI activist (@themidasproj)
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Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
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Town, which is developing personalized AI assistants that connect to users' email and calendar, raised a $55M Series A led by a16z (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
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Forage, a payments processor that helps retailers and food-delivery companies accept EBT cards, raised a $40M Series B led by Mouro Capital at a $225M valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
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Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Melia Russell/Business Insider)
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Lassie, whose AI agent helps dental practices automate admin work, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, a source says, at a ~$250M valuation (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)