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Several police officers arrested for using controversial Flock AI license plate reader system to stalk romantic partners, says report — investigators have unearthed at least 18 such cases in the US over recent years
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First human trial of reverse-aging drug begins
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AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flaw
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$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
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Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat | A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions
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Disgraced FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Appeal of 25-Year Sentence
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Massive Effigy Raised Over Times Square to Protest Grok
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Red Lobster CEO Damola Adamolekun Plans To Make The Seafood Chain 'The Most AI-Forward Restaurant Company That Exists'
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AMD denies researcher a $10,000 bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability — security flaw took 124 days to patch
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Rivian's CEO Says There's a Big Market for a Small Electric Truck
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Washington Post subscriber sues news outlet, accuses it of using ‘surveillance pricing’ to gouge readers
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Scientists Invented a Disease to Test Whether A.I. Knew It Was Fake. Then, Chatbots Started Saying It Was Real
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Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named ‘Elias Thorne’?
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Grok AI broke Canada’s laws, created 6K sexual deepfakes per hour: probe
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Google director René Mayrhofer, for Android platform security resigned, citing the company's military deals: "management has lost its moral compass"
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Furious Judge Cancels Entire Trial After Finding Out Lawyers on Both Sides Used AI
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‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Sh*t’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
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SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading
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Nintendo's Palworld Lawsuit Is Falling Apart
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After backlash, Anthropic says its AI will now tell users when their request is being rejected or rerouted for national security concerns
Techmeme
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The US DOJ approves Paramount's $111B purchase of WBD without forcing divestitures or behavioral remedies; state AGs could still try to block the move (Yasmin Khorram/Politico)
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Sources: three ex-DOGE staffers are raising $130M from a16z, Sequoia, and others for a startup that aims to use AI to secure government systems (Vanity Fair)
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KPMG retracts a report on AI's benefits after it has been found to exaggerate AI adoption with case studies that appear to have been based on AI hallucinations (Financial Times)
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Sources: Roku is in talks to sell itself; its shares have risen about 24% this year, giving the company a market value of $19.9B; ROKU jumps 20%+ after hours (Bloomberg)
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Staff memo: Meta plans to limit employee token usage and encourage employees to use MetaCode, after internal AI spending forecasts reached billions for 2026 (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
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Sources: SpaceX decided to rent its Colossus 1 data center to Anthropic after internal teams struggled to use it for Grok development due to latency issues (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Microsoft considered spinning out or restructuring its Xbox unit as a wholly-owned subsidiary, or creating a joint venture with other partners (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
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A profile of former Google DeepMind employee Thibault Sottiaux, now OpenAI's head of core products tasked with combining ChatGPT and Codex into a super app (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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SpaceX debuts on the Nasdaq at $150, after pricing at $135, making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire; SPCX closes up 19%, for a ~$2.1T market cap (Alex Harring/CNBC)
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SpaceX makes Nasdaq debut at $150 after pricing at $135: Live updates (CNBC)
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Meta's services, including Facebook and Instagram, are recovering after a brief outage that affected thousands of users (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
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MrBeast hits 500M subscribers on YouTube, a record for the platform (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
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Sam Bankman-Fried loses his bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence over the collapse of FTX (Luc Cohen/Reuters)
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Sources: six months after acquiring Rivos, Meta is struggling to integrate the chip startup and halted development of a chip for training its largest AI models (The Information)
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Sources: French startup Mistral AI is in talks to raise ~€3B at a ~€20B valuation; it was last valued at €11.7B during a funding round in September 2025 (Bloomberg)