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- 2018 - 2025
Microsoft AI chief says it’s ‘dangerous’ to study AI consciousness, plus former X employees may get severance
The debate over whether AI models could one day be conscious — and merit legal safeguards — is dividing tech leaders. In Silicon Valley, this nascent field has become known as “AI welfare,” and if yo…
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Fri 22 Aug 2025
Hackers who exposed North Korean government hacker explain why they did it
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 the computer of a hacker who allegedly works for…
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Thu 21 Aug 2025
Google, sorry, but that Pixel event was a cringefest
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 likely had never heard the technical term before, didn’t s…
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Thu 21 Aug 2025
Zoox taps ex-UberPool exec’s startup for routing software help, also Notion now works without an internet connection
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 autonomous vehicle development and sold off the divisio…
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Wed 20 Aug 2025
Appeals court says NLRB structure unconstitutional and Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally
A federal appeals court handed SpaceX a win on Tuesday, in a ruling that prevents the National Labor Relations Board from prosecuting unfair labor practices against the company. The ruling by the Fif…
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Wed 20 Aug 2025
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
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 their campus. The feature, called Campus Verification…
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Tue 19 Aug 2025
X’s declining Android app installs are hurting subscription revenue plus Spotify’s latest feature
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 intelligence provider Appfigures. In July 2025, X download…
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Tue 19 Aug 2025
‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed, also Grammarly gets a design overhaul with multiple AI features
xAI’s website for its Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems designed to handhold a user into beliefs that “a secret g…
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Mon 18 Aug 2025
‘Stranger Things’ creators may be leaving Netflix plus AI stuffed animals and Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations
Earlier this week, Variety and other Hollywood publications reported that Matt and Ross Duffer, the brothers who created “Stranger Things” (and wrote and directed many episodes), were in talks to sig…
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Mon 18 Aug 2025
Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines and Louisiana's attorney general sues Roblox
Two years after launching, social network Bluesky is revising its Community Guidelines and other policies, and asking for feedback from its users on some of the changes. The startup, a competitor to …
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Fri 15 Aug 2025
Co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI departs the company plus a worthy music experience in a Waymo
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, riding in the back of a Waymo that’s autonomousl…
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Fri 15 Aug 2025
How we found TeaOnHer spilling users’ driver’s licenses in less than 10 minutes
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 if he plans to notify affected users about the app…
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Thu 14 Aug 2025
How a once-tiny research lab helped Nvidia become a $4 trillion-dollar company
Nvidia's research lab developed the technology that took the company from a video game GPU startup to a $4 trillion-dollar company.
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Thu 14 Aug 2025
Anthropic takes aim at OpenAI, offers Claude to ‘all three branches of government’ for $1
Anthropic’s escalation – a response to OpenAI’s attempt to undercut the competition – is a strategic play meant to broaden the company’s foothold in federal AI usage.
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Wed 13 Aug 2025
Ford throws out Henry Ford’s assembly line to make low-cost EVs in America
The automaker is investing $2 billion into the Louisville Assembly Plant with a $30,000 EV pickup slated for 2027.
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Wed 13 Aug 2025
Elon Musk confirms shutdown of Tesla Dojo, ‘an evolutionary dead end’ ... and more tech news
“Once it became clear that all paths converged to AI6, I had to shut down Dojo and make some tough personnel choices, as Dojo 2 was now an evolutionary dead end,” Musk posted on X, the social media p…
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Tue 12 Aug 2025
Trump administration stops illegal freeze of $5B EV charger funds after losing in court and more news
The Trump administration has finally issued new guidance that states can use to dole out $5 billion in funding for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, after spending months withholding the mone…
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Tue 12 Aug 2025
Rocket Lab eyes big defense opportunities with new acquisition, plus Openvibe combines news and social media in one app
Rocket Lab is taking the concept of an 'end-to-end' space company to new heights with a forthcoming acquisition. In other news, Openvibe, an app for tracking the open social web in one place, now sup…
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Mon 11 Aug 2025
Researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer and then a new one emerged in its wake and Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout
If you, like practically anyone else with a cell phone in the U.S. and beyond, have received a scam text message about an unpaid toll or undelivered mail item, there’s a good chance you have been tar…
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Mon 11 Aug 2025
Hubble Network plans a massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer ... and more tech news
Hubble Network's satellite-enabled Bluetooth network is getting a boost from Muon's new XL satellite bus. Also, Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on s…
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Fri 08 Aug 2025
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