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Roblox announces short-video, AI features amid child safety concerns

Roblox on Friday announced new short-video and AI features that come amid increasing lawmaker scrutiny into how the company protects children on its platform.

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Tesla’s ad spend on X has shrunk to almost nothing

Tesla spent a fraction on X in early 2025 compared to 2024. It also paid $300,000 to Kimbal Musk’s drone company.

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Roblox announces short-form video feed for gameplay clips, new AI tools for creators, and more

Users can scroll through a feed of gameplay moments shared by the Roblox community and react to the clips using emojis, and they can jump into an experience right from a video.

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Google hit with $3.45 billion antitrust EU fine amid U.S. trade tensions

The European Commission accused Google of distorting competition in the adtech market by unfairly favoring its own display advertising technology services.

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Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance

The Commission said competitors faced higher costs and reduced revenues as a result.

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Natron’s liquidation shows why the US isn’t ready to make its own batteries

The sodium-ion battery startup went from announcing a $1.4 billion factory to filing for liquidation in just over a year. Natron’s troubled journey illustrates the challenges in making batteries in the U.S.

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Warner Bros. sues Midjourney for AI images of Superman, Batman, and other characters

Warner Bros. is suing Midjourney for AI images of Superman, Batman, and other characters.

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The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All

Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI’s prince of doom, explains why computers will kill us and provides an unrealistic plan to stop it.

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Scale AI’s former CTO launches AI agent that could solve big data’s biggest problem

Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI.

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Cybercriminals ‘Grok’ Their Way Past X’s Defenses to Spread Malware

Hackers exploit X’s Grok AI to spread malware via promoted ads, exposing millions to malicious links in a scheme researchers call “Grokking.”

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