/r/technology
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Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free
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Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%
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New York has banned smart glasses in all 1,240 state, county, city, town and village courts.
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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’
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Bethesda HR Forced Staff To Remove Small Memorial To Laid-Off Colleagues
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If you thought SpaceX stock was doing badly before, now it’s really tanking — closing below $150 debut price
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$70 EA Sports College Football 27 Locks Single-Player Content Behind Microtransactions And Earns ‘Mostly Negative’ Rating On Steam Within 24 Hours Of Release
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Cracked version of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced leaked days prior to official release despite Denuvo DRM protection — Denuvo unable to stop crackers, with some finding ways to completely remove it from other titles
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Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic
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Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
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Flock Cameras Screw Up, Swarm Innocent Man With Armed Police
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John Deere owners will get the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement
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PlayStation Fans Officially Refuse To Let Sony Ignore Gaming's Biggest Conflict
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OpenAI faked inability to search training data, hid billions of logs, NYT says — OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight
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AI software that generates ‘rage bait’ developed by Germany’s far-right AfD
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Federal Investigators Say Certain DOGE Records were Deleted
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T-Mobile faces backlash over new customer support restriction: disabling screenshots of customer support chat
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The ChatGPT browser is already dead / Less than a year after launch, Atlas is being shut down.
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Big Tech Is Now Targeting Native American Land for Massive Data Centers
Techmeme
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Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
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Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock (Wall Street Journal)
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Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is stepping down after six years; VP of legal Molly Abraham moves into his role with the title of general counsel (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
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Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI (Andrew Ackerman/Washington Post)
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Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
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Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fable 5 on July 12, aims to return the model to Claude's subscription plans "when sufficient capacity allows" (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp (Sam Clark/Politico)
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OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing raising new funds at a roughly $20B valuation, less than a year after raising money at a $10B valuation (Bloomberg)
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OpenAI merges Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for Mac and Windows under a new ChatGPT desktop app, allowing users to switch between Codex, Chat, and Work (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.50 and $15, and GPT-5.6 Luna costs $1 and $6 (OpenAI)
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OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on Mac and Windows (Axios)
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Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI "regulation without transparent or complete rules", and adds that "without rules, businesses can't plan" (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
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Kraken Technology, which designs and builds autonomous maritime platforms, such as uncrewed subsurface vessels, raised a $175M Series B at a $1B valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)