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Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store

Two origin ID apps, NonUSA and Made O’Meter, are seeing downloads surge as Europeans boycott US-made goods.

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Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference

Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop.

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The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think

WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI’s Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches satellite internet service to rival SpaceX, Amazon

Blue Origin is looking to send the first of TeraWave’s 5,408 satellites into space in the fourth quarter of 2027.

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Intel’s stock jumps 10% to highest since early 2022 ahead of earnings

Intel has gotten a boost due to optimism around its latest server CPUs and following investments from the U.S. government and Nvidia.

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Meta to begin rolling out Threads ads globally

Meta launched Threads in July 2023 to compete with Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter.

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Google’s New Update Refreshes Android Voice Search UI

Google’s hands-free voice search on Android is getting a major UI overhaul, replacing the bodyless face with a microphone, “Ask Anything,” and a colored arc. The post Google’s New Update Refreshes Android Voice Search UI appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Blue Origin’s satellite internet network TeraWave will move data at 6Tbps

The network will be designed for enterprise, data center, and government customers and could offer an alternative to SpaceX’s Starlink service.

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Zipline charts drone delivery expansion with $600M in new funding

The startup plans to expand to at least four new U.S. states in 2026.

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Micron Megafab Project Faces a New Hurdle as Activists Seek a Benefits Deal

Activists are demanding a way to hold the memory-chip maker accountable to its promises to protect the environment and embrace communities of color in central New York.

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