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Tesla proposes new pay package for Elon Musk worth up to $1T, also, Snapchat's new Lens, and Rivian cut more workers
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 stumbles and it sets its sights on humanoid robotic…
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Fri 05 Sep 2025
Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again, also, Stripe will build a new blockchain
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 ages ago, the company has more recently seen an uptick…
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Fri 05 Sep 2025
Captions rebrands as Mirage; also, JetBlue will use Amazon’s satellites for free in-flight internet
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 valuation of $500 million, is rebranding to Mirage, the …
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Thu 04 Sep 2025
Roblox expands use of age-estimation tech and Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor
Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age-estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International …
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Thu 04 Sep 2025
Netflix updates its Moments feature and PayPal and Venmo are giving out Comet invites
Netflix launched a scene-clipping feature for mobile last year called “Moments,” which lets users quickly save their favorite scenes from shows and movies within the Netflix app. The streaming giant …
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Wed 03 Sep 2025
Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial , and more tech news
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 practices to keep it from further anticompetitive beh…
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Wed 03 Sep 2025
OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5 and introduce parental controls
OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month — part of an ongoing response to recent safety incide…
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Tue 02 Sep 2025
Space investing goes mainstream as VCs ditch the rocket science requirements
Five years ago, investor Katelin Holloway made what she calls a “literal moon shot” investment. A founding partner of the generalist venture firm Seven Seven Six admits she and her team had “no clue”…
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Tue 02 Sep 2025
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
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 apparently rolled out voice AI-powered ordering at more than 50…
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Mon 01 Sep 2025
Murder at Burning Man turns Silicon Valley’s desert playground into a crime scene plus Nvidia's two mystery customers
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 Nevada desert festival, according to the Pershing County …
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Mon 01 Sep 2025
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
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to d…
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Fri 29 Aug 2025
Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training
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 September 28 whether they want their conversations used…
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Fri 29 Aug 2025
MathGPT.ai expands to over 50 institutions, also Mississippi’s age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test
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, with hundreds of instructors planning to incorpo…
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Thu 28 Aug 2025
Nvidia reports record sales as the AI boom continues, also 911 centers are so understaffed, they’re turning to AI to answer calls
Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, reported another quarter of sustained sales growth in its earnings statement Wednesday, with $46.7 billion in revenue, a 56% increase compared to the same p…
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Thu 28 Aug 2025
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
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 “Let Down” from the 1997 album “OK Computer.” “Let …
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Wed 27 Aug 2025
DOGE uploaded live copy of Soc. Sec. database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, plus Libby is adding AI and folks are not happy
A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE uploaded hundreds of millions o…
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Wed 27 Aug 2025
Tesla could have avoided that $242.5M Autopilot verdict, plus more tech news
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 for $60 million. Instead, Tesla rejected that offe…
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Tue 26 Aug 2025
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
Today, Mastodon users unhappy with the service can opt to move their account to a different Mastodon server, while Bluesky is developing technology that allows users to migrate their account to a new…
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Mon 25 Aug 2025
The Trump administration’s big Intel investment comes from already awarded grants ... and more Tech news
Intel officially announced an agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday afternoon, following Trump’s statement that the government would be taking a 10% stake in the struggling…
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Mon 25 Aug 2025
Not everybody is happy about Meta’s $10B data center, Waymo will start testing in NYC, and more
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 gas power plants. Earlier this week a state regu…
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Fri 22 Aug 2025
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