Monthly Archives: July 2025

AI referrals to top websites were up 357% year-over-year in June, reaching 1.13B

AI platforms in June 2025 generated over 1.13 billion referrals to the top 1,000 websites globally, up 357% year-over-year.

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Palantir joins list of 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with stock more than doubling in 2025

The provider of software for defense agencies jumped about 3% on Friday to a record, ranking the company among the top 20 U.S. firms by market value.

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Inside Tesla’s new retro-futuristic Supercharger diner

Tesla has opened its first diner Supercharger station in Los Angeles, bringing a long-teased vision from Elon Musk to life.

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Sam Altman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist

In response to a question about how AI works with today’s legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there’s no legal confidentiality for users’ conversations.

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A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot has happened already.

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Intel drops 9% as chipmaker’s foundry business axes projects, struggles to find customers

Intel’s stock dropped 9% after the chipmaker said it would slash foundry costs in its latest attempt to turnaround its struggling business.

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Citing New Rules, Meta Says It Will End Political Ads in E.U.

Meta said political advertising would end in October, citing a forthcoming E.U. regulation that it said presented “unworkable requirements.”

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Google took a month to shut down Catwatchful, a phone spyware operation hosted on its servers

Google has suspended the Firebase account of Catwatchful following a TechCrunch investigation. The spyware operation was caught using Google’s own servers to host and run its surveillance app, which was stealthily monitoring thousands of people’s phones.

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Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

The Trump administration says it wants AI models free from ideological bias, as it pressures their developers to reflect the president’s worldview.

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Lyft to add autonomous shuttles in 2026 as Uber inks more self-driving deals

It’s one of just a few similar partnerships Lyft has struck, while rival Uber has an increasingly long list of robotaxi deals.

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