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20-year-old dropouts built AI notetaker Turbo AI to 5 million users; plus, YouTube paid out $8B to the music industry in 12 months

24 Oct 2025

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Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan, two 20-year-old college dropouts, grew an AI note-taker app to five million users and an eight-figure ARR. Also, The ...

As China’s 996 culture spreads, South Korea’s tech sector grapples with 52-hour limit

23 Oct 2025

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South Korea's 52-hour workweek cap is stricter than the U.S. and Singapore but more flexible than much of Europe. Still deep tech founders and investo...

Sumble emerges from stealth with $38.5M to bring AI-powered context to sales intelligence

23 Oct 2025

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The founders of machine learning community Kaggle are trying to upend the crowded sales prospecting market with AI. And they're making headway. Also,...

Airbnb is becoming more social by allowing users to connect with fellow travelers

22 Oct 2025

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The company is also improving search by suggesting properties that you might have missed due to your filters and has redesigned the Maps view to let y...

OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas

22 Oct 2025

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The company says Atlas will first roll out on macOS, with support for Windows, iOS, and Android coming soon. OpenAI says the product will be available...

Cards Against Humanity settles trespass lawsuit against SpaceX

21 Oct 2025

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The dispute centered on a plot of land along the Rio Grande River in Cameron County, Texas, that Cards Against Humanity purchased in 2017. Learn more ...

FTC removes Lina Khan-era posts about AI risks and open source

21 Oct 2025

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These removals are part of a broader pattern under the Trump administration, which began issuing executive orders to direct federal agencies to remove...

Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video

20 Oct 2025

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The online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader trends, with human pageviews falling 8% year-over-year, according to Marshall Miller of th...

Silicon Valley spooks the AI safety advocates

20 Oct 2025

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Silicon Valley leaders including White House AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks and OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon caused a stir online this week ...

Ousted Luminar CEO Austin Russell wants to buy the company; also, VLGE is making it easier to world build and shop on Roblox

17 Oct 2025

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Austin Russell was replaced in May following an ethics inquiry, but now he wants to use his new AI lab to buy Luminar. Plus, 50 fashion brands are la...

VC legend Ron Conway quits Salesforce Foundation ; also, Kayak launches an ‘AI Mode’ for travel questions, search, and bookings

17 Oct 2025

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VC legend Ron Conway quits Salesforce Foundation after Benioff’s National Guard comments Kayak is bringing AI directly to its main platform with a...

Pinterest adds controls to let you limit the amount of ‘AI slop’ in your feed, also Apple loses another AI exec to Meta ,

16 Oct 2025

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Pinterest is rolling out new controls that let users limit how much AI-generated content appears in their feeds. The company is also making its AI con...

Cyber giant F5 Networks says government hackers had ‘long-term’ access to its systems; also, Meta partners up with Arm to scale AI efforts

16 Oct 2025

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F5 Networks, which provides cybersecurity defenses to most of the Fortune 500, said the DOJ allowed it to delay notifying the public on national secur...

ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users; also, Waymo plans to launch a robotaxi service in London in 2026

15 Oct 2025

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OpenAI says it will soon roll back some of ChatGPT's safeguards, and even allow the chatbot to engage in erotica for adult users. Waymo already has t...

You’ll soon be able to shop Walmart from ChatGPT, also, Google’s Gemini can now help you schedule Google Calendar meetings

15 Oct 2025

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Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT. The new integration will allow users to link their Walmart ac...

SpaceX wraps action-packed Starship V2 era, Satellites exposed unencrypted data, and Grindr’s owners may take it private

14 Oct 2025

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SpaceX said farewell to its V2 on Monday night as it sent Starship’s current configuration on one last test flight, in a mission that the company sa...

Oura is winning young women and losing gym rats, and it’s fine with that

14 Oct 2025

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Oura's chief commercial officer doesn't seem particularly worried about capturing every demographic. Instead, she's focused on keeping Oura’s core u...

California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots; plus, Salesforce announces Agentforce 360 as enterprise AI competition heats up

13 Oct 2025

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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark bill on Monday that regulates AI companion chatbots, making it the first state in the nation to ...

Google Chrome silences those pesky notifications; also, Trump fires back at China’s rare earth mineral restrictions by threatening 100% tariffs

13 Oct 2025

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On Friday, the technology giant announced a new feature that will automatically disable browser notifications for the websites you haven’t interacte...

Investors are betting $21 billion that the energy transition isn’t going away; also, UK slapped Google Search with special market status, making way for stricter regulations

10 Oct 2025

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Political shifts might have set back the energy transition, but large investors are betting that renewables are at the future of energy. In other new...

While OpenAI races to build AI data centers, Nadella reminds us that Microsoft already has them; also, Andreessen Horowitz denies report of India office, calls it ‘fake news’

10 Oct 2025

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered a glimpse of the "first of many" massive Nvidia AI systems it is rolling out, starting now. a16z’s Anish Achary...

Tesla’s FSD software under investigation; Apple prepares to comply with Texas law; and SoundCloud gets more social

09 Oct 2025

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-The U.S.' top auto safety agency said it had identified more than 50 reports of FSD running red lights, crossing yellow lines, or making illegal turn...

Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown

09 Oct 2025

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From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine. Learn mo...

SoftBank bulks up its robotics portfolio with ABB Group’s robotics unit; also, Square launches AI voice ordering and an integrated Bitcoin solution for merchants

08 Oct 2025

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Japanese investing conglomerate SoftBank Group is buying a robotics company as the financial behemoth says physical AI is its next frontier.   Soft...

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones; also, North Korean hackers stole over $2 billion in crypto

08 Oct 2025

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement paid eight hundred twenty five thousand dollars earlier this year to a company that manufactures vehicles equ...

Deloitte goes all in on AI — despite having to issue a hefty refund for use of AI; plus Taylor Swift fans accuse singer of using AI in her Google scavenger hunt videos

07 Oct 2025

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Deloitte is rolling out Claude to its nearly 500,000 employees after issuing a refund for a report that contained AI hallucinations. Plus, Taylor Swi...

AMD to supply 6GW of compute capacity to OpenAI in chip deal worth tens of billions

07 Oct 2025

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AMD has signed a multi-year chip supply deal with OpenAI that could generate tens of billions in revenue for the chipmaker, helping accelerate its mom...

Waffles eat Bluesky, plus Suspect arrested after threats against TikTok’s Culver City headquarters

06 Oct 2025

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A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users. Also, police say they have arrested a susp...

Tesla’s insurance arm accused of ‘egregious delays’ and ‘systemic failures’ by CA regulator; also, Bezos predicts that millions will live in space in ‘couple of decades’

06 Oct 2025

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California's Department of Insurance has been warning Tesla to fix its claims process since 2022, but consumer complaints have skyrocketed anyways. A...

Apple removes ICEBlock and similar tracking apps from the App Store; also, Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases

03 Oct 2025

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A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website to extort its victims, threatening to release about a billion records ...

Hackers are sending extortion emails to executives after claiming Oracle apps’ data breach; also, OpenAI is the world’s most valuable private company

03 Oct 2025

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Google says hackers associated with a prolific ransomware group are sending extortion emails to executives at “numerous” large organizations after...

Hollywood is not taking kindly to the AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood, plus, Apple is shelving Vision Pro overhaul to focus on AI glasses

02 Oct 2025

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London-based actress Tilly Norwood has about 40 thousand Instagram followers. One thing to know though is she’s not real. She is an AI-generated cha...

OpenAI staff grapples with the company’s social media push

02 Oct 2025

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Current and former OpenAI researchers seem torn over how the company's Sora app fits in with its broader mission. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

Epic Games says Apple’s new install process cuts user drop-offs by 60%, also, Wikipedia data more accessible to AI and U.S. government takes stake in Canadian lithium miner

01 Oct 2025

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-Fortnite maker Epic Games said that Apple’s new installation workflow, implemented in iOS 18.6, has had a positive impact on its user growth, with ...

Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans, plus Fubo shareholders approve Hulu Live TV deal

01 Oct 2025

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Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, has blocked an effort to pass legislation that would have extended data privacy protections for federal law...

DoorDash unveils its autonomous robot; and Adobe’s video editing app Premiere arrives on iPhones

30 Sep 2025

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On Tuesday, DoorDash unveiled Dot, a small robot it built in-house that can autonomously drive on roads, bike lanes, and sidewalks to deliver food and...

California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill; also, Explosion, vehicle fire rock Faraday Future’s LA headquarters

30 Sep 2025

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed SB 53, a first-in-the-nation bill that sets new transparency requirements on large AI companies. The bill,...

Honda and Astrobotic team up to keep the lights on through the long lunar night; plus, the UK government bailed out Jaguar Land Rover

29 Sep 2025

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Automotive giant Honda and lunar startup Astrobotic are teaming up to explore how a regenerative fuel cell system could help keep the lights on during...

Do EA buyout talks hint at bigger industry troubles? plus, beware coworkers who produce AI-generated ‘work slop’, and AI startup Friend spent more than $1M on all those subway ads

29 Sep 2025

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Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier noted that video game companies are moving towards consolidation and that the deal could reflect EA executives’ broader...

The Trump administration is going after semiconductor imports; also, More executives depart Hyundai’s air taxi startup Supernal

26 Sep 2025

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In its latest bid to boost semiconductor production in the U.S., the Trump administration is reportedly considering a ratio-based approach that wou...

Trump signs executive order to facilitate TikTok deal

26 Sep 2025

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that essentially approves the sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations to an American investor group in...

Y Combinator launches “Early Decision” for students who want to graduate first, build later

25 Sep 2025

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For decades, Silicon Valley has valorized the college dropout. Founders like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg left school early to build co...

Trump admin wants 10% stake in American lithium miner that sells to GM; plus YouTube now lets you hide recommendation pop-ups at the end of videos

25 Sep 2025

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In exchange for renegotiating the repayment period of a two point two six billion dollars Department of Energy loan, the Trump administration is askin...

How Al Gore used AI to track 660M polluters; plus, UK police arrest man linked to ransomware attack

24 Sep 2025

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Former Vice President Al Gore’s latest project gives polluters nowhere to hide. Climate Trace, a non-profit that Gore co-founded, launched a tool We...

SpaceX boasts an impressive alumni list. Some have gone on to found the sector’s biggest startups; others become astronauts

24 Sep 2025

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NASA unveiled its 2025 astronaut class this week, and two familiar names popped out: Anna Menon and Yuri Kubo. Both spent more than a decade at SpaceX...

Meta launches super PAC to fight AI regulation as state policies mount, also Alloy is bringing data management to the robotics industry

23 Sep 2025

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Meta has raised the stakes in Big Tech’s fight against AI regulation. The Facebook-maker is investing “tens of millions” of dollars into a new s...

The Oakland Ballers let an AI manage the team. What could go wrong?

23 Sep 2025

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The Oakland Ballers, an independent Pioneer League baseball team, took that concept of “playing the percentages” to the next level: they let an AI...

Trump says Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch might invest in TikTok deal, also, Google isn’t kidding around about cost cutting

22 Sep 2025

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The Trump administration has been talking up a potential TikTok deal this weekend, with President Donald Trump telling Fox News on Sunday that Rupert ...

Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web

19 Sep 2025

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Mastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative to social networks like Threads and X, has a ...

US government charges British teenager accused of at least 120 ‘Scattered Spider’ hacks; plus, OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild

19 Sep 2025

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The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday unsealed federal charges against British teenager Thalha Jubair, who prosecutors accuse of being involved i...

Nvidia buys $5 billion stake in Intel, planning AI chip collaboration, also,Bumble BFF’s revamped app is here, focusing on friend groups

18 Sep 2025

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Nvidia has agreed to buy a $5 billion stake in Intel as part of a broader deal to together develop “multiple generations” of data center and PC pr...

Amazon launches AI agent to help sellers complete tasks and manage their businesses, also, Lyft and Waymo are partnering to bring robotaxis to Nashville

18 Sep 2025

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Amazon announced on Wednesday that it’s introducing an always-on AI agent that will help sellers on its platform run their businesses. The company i...

Sonair built its 3D ultrasonic sensor with robotic safety in mind, and Terra Oleo’s oil-producing microbes could replace destructive palm oil plantations

17 Sep 2025

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As robots increasingly enter human spaces, robotics companies will need to think about safety differently than they did when robots were largely siloe...

Silicon Valley bets big on ‘environments’ to train AI agents

17 Sep 2025

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For years, Big Tech CEOs have touted visions of AI agents that can autonomously use software applications to complete tasks for people. But take today...

Calm launches standalone iOS app for sleep support, also, Google launches new protocol for agent-driven purchases

16 Sep 2025

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Calm is launching a new standalone app for more personalized sleep support, the company announced on Tuesday. The new Calm Sleep app is available on i...

Awake’s new app requires heavy sleepers to complete tasks in order to turn off the alarm ... and more tech news

16 Sep 2025

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A new iOS app called Awake, designed specifically for heavy sleepers who must complete missions to turn off their alarms, launched Monday. The app is ...

‘Selling coffee beans to Starbucks’ – how the AI boom could leave AI’s biggest companies behind ... and more

15 Sep 2025

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How much do foundation models matter?  It might seem like a silly question, but it’s come up a lot in conversations with AI startups, which are inc...

Pilot union urges FAA to reject Rainmaker’s drone cloud-seeding plan

15 Sep 2025

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Rainmaker Technology’s bid to deploy cloud-seeding flares on small drones is being met by resistance from the airline pilots union, which has urged ...

Apple’s latest iPhone security feature just made life more difficult for spyware makers

12 Sep 2025

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The feature is called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) and is designed to help stop memory corruption bugs, which are some of the most common vulner...

Justice Department sues Uber for allegedly discriminating against people with disabilities, also, FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions

12 Sep 2025

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The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Uber, accusing the ride-hailing company of violating federal law by discriminating against p...

How Bill Gates’s fellowship program is adapting to global uncertainty, plus a California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law

11 Sep 2025

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There’s plenty of uncertainty to go around this year, including a global trade war, shifting policy priorities, and an economy that’s starting to ...

OpenAI and Oracle reportedly ink historic cloud computing deal, also Thinking Machines Lab wants to make AI models more consistent

11 Sep 2025

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Oracle sent its shares soaring after markets closed yesterday after reporting that it signed multiple multi-billion-dollar contracts with several cust...

Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons in $1.38B all-cash deal, plus Anchor’s co-founders are back with Oboe

10 Sep 2025

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Video platform Vimeo announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to be acquired by Bending Spoons, one of Europe’s largest mobile app developers, in a...

Apple’s creator-centric iPhone 17 Pro will make the vlogging camera obsolete

10 Sep 2025

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Apple unveiled its new line of iPhones on Tuesday, and the iPhone 17 Pro is making a direct appeal to content creators. Learn more about your ad c...

Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’ ... and more

09 Sep 2025

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After watching Reddit's OpenAI and Anthropic communities, Sam Altman thinks social media cannot be trusted. And bots are to blame. Also, OpenAI execu...

4 claim that Meta suppressed children’s safety research, also Salesloft says Drift customer data thefts linked to March GitHub account hack

09 Sep 2025

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Meta changed its policies around researching sensitive topics — like politics, children, gender, race, and harassment — six weeks after whistleblo...

Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

08 Sep 2025

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A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate, and whether anything can be do...

Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction? Plus, Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers

08 Sep 2025

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Why is a startup that bills itself as the Netflix of AI, and that recently raised money from Amazon’s Alexa Fund, talking about remaking a movie tha...

Tesla proposes new pay package for Elon Musk worth up to $1T, also, Snapchat's new Lens, and Rivian cut more workers

05 Sep 2025

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Tesla has proposed a new 10-year compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth as much as $1 trillion even as the EV maker’s car business ...

Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again, also, Stripe will build a new blockchain

05 Sep 2025

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The classic feature from Facebook’s early days lets users get a friend’s attention with a virtual nudge of sorts. While the poke fell out of use a...

Captions rebrands as Mirage; also, JetBlue will use Amazon’s satellites for free in-flight internet

04 Sep 2025

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Captions, an AI-powered video creation and editing app for content creators that has secured over $100 million in venture capital to date at a valuati...

Roblox expands use of age-estimation tech and Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor

04 Sep 2025

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Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age-estimation technolog...

Netflix updates its Moments feature and PayPal and Venmo are giving out Comet invites

03 Sep 2025

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Netflix launched a scene-clipping feature for mobile last year called “Moments,” which lets users quickly save their favorite scenes from shows an...

Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial , and more tech news

03 Sep 2025

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Google will not be forced to break up its search business, but a federal judge has tentatively ordered other changes to the tech giant’s business pr...

OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5 and introduce parental controls

02 Sep 2025

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OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month — ...

Space investing goes mainstream as VCs ditch the rocket science requirements

02 Sep 2025

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Five years ago, investor Katelin Holloway made what she calls a “literal moon shot” investment. A founding partner of the generalist venture firm ...

Taco Bell is having second thoughts about relying on AI at the drive-through plus cracks are forming in Meta’s partnership with Scale AI

01 Sep 2025

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Taco Bell’s chief digital officer says the company is having an “active conversation” about when to use and not use AI. The company has apparent...

Murder at Burning Man turns Silicon Valley’s desert playground into a crime scene plus Nvidia's two mystery customers

01 Sep 2025

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A homicide investigation has rocked the final days of Burning Man after a man was found dead “lying in a pool of blood” Saturday night at the Neva...

Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws; also Trump administration’s deal is structured to prevent Intel from selling foundry unit

29 Aug 2025

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Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull ou...

Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training

29 Aug 2025

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As TechCrunch's Connie Loizos writes, Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by Septem...

MathGPT.ai expands to over 50 institutions, also Mississippi’s age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test

28 Aug 2025

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Following a successful pilot program at 30 colleges and universities in the U.S., MathGPT.ai is preparing to nearly double its availability this fall,...

Nvidia reports record sales as the AI boom continues, also 911 centers are so understaffed, they’re turning to AI to answer calls

28 Aug 2025

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Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, reported another quarter of sustained sales growth in its earnings statement Wednesday, with $46.7 billio...

A 1997 Radiohead song is topping the charts, thanks to TikTok, plus Anthropic settled its AI book-training lawsuit, and US sanctioned a fraud network used by North Koreans

27 Aug 2025

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Thanks to an unexpected surge in popularity on TikTok, Radiohead now has its fourth-ever song on the Billboard Hot 100: the morosely gorgeous track “...

DOGE uploaded live copy of Soc. Sec. database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, plus Libby is adding AI and folks are not happy

27 Aug 2025

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A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, b...

Tesla could have avoided that $242.5M Autopilot verdict, plus more tech news

26 Aug 2025

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Months before a jury awarded a $242.5 million verdict against Tesla over its culpability in a 2019 fatal crash, the automaker had a chance to settle f...

Bounce launched a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon, Elon Musk xAI is suing Apple and OpenAI, and Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms

25 Aug 2025

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Today, Mastodon users unhappy with the service can opt to move their account to a different Mastodon server, while Bluesky is developing technology th...

The Trump administration’s big Intel investment comes from already awarded grants ... and more Tech news

25 Aug 2025

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Intel officially announced an agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday afternoon, following Trump’s statement that the gov...

Not everybody is happy about Meta’s $10B data center, Waymo will start testing in NYC, and more

22 Aug 2025

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When Meta selected a site in Louisiana for its largest data center to date, it signed a deal with Entergy to power the site with three massive natural...

Microsoft AI chief says it’s ‘dangerous’ to study AI consciousness, plus former X employees may get severance

22 Aug 2025

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The debate over whether AI models could one day be conscious — and merit legal safeguards — is dividing tech leaders. In Silicon Valley, this nasc...

Hackers who exposed North Korean government hacker explain why they did it

21 Aug 2025

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Earlier this year, two hackers broke into a computer and soon realized the significance of what this machine was. As it turned out, they had landed on...

Google, sorry, but that Pixel event was a cringefest

21 Aug 2025

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Late-night host Jimmy Fallon shouted,“I P 6 8! I P 6 8!,” trying and failing to fake excitement about the new Pixel smartphones. Fallon, who likel...

Zoox taps ex-UberPool exec’s startup for routing software help, also Notion now works without an internet connection

20 Aug 2025

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When James Cox, the former leader of Uber’s ride-share product, UberPool, left that company in 2019, the Silicon Valley giant had abandoned its auto...

Appeals court says NLRB structure unconstitutional and Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally

20 Aug 2025

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A federal appeals court handed SpaceX a win on Tuesday, in a ruling that prevents the National Labor Relations Board from prosecuting unfair labor pra...

TikTok’s latest feature lets college students find and connect with classmates, Meta is shaking up it AI org again, and Google pays out $30M

19 Aug 2025

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In a move reminiscent of Facebook’s early days, TikTok is launching a new feature that allows college students to find and connect with others on th...

X’s declining Android app installs are hurting subscription revenue plus Spotify’s latest feature

19 Aug 2025

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Elon Musk’s X is struggling on Android devices in terms of new installs, even while App Store downloads grow, according to new data from app intelli...

‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed, also Grammarly gets a design overhaul with multiple AI features

18 Aug 2025

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xAI’s website for its Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems ...

‘Stranger Things’ creators may be leaving Netflix plus AI stuffed animals and Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations

18 Aug 2025

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Earlier this week, Variety and other Hollywood publications reported that Matt and Ross Duffer, the brothers who created “Stranger Things” (and wr...

Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines and Louisiana's attorney general sues Roblox

15 Aug 2025

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Two years after launching, social network Bluesky is revising its Community Guidelines and other policies, and asking for feedback from its users o...

Co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI departs the company plus a worthy music experience in a Waymo

15 Aug 2025

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Igor Babuschkin is leaving xAI less than three years after he co-founded the startup with Elon Musk, following a series of scandals at company. Also,...

How we found TeaOnHer spilling users’ driver’s licenses in less than 10 minutes

14 Aug 2025

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Exclusive: A dating gossip app for men exposed thousands of users' personal data, including scans of driver's licenses. CEO Xavier Lampkin won't say i...