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Anthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool

In the battle between two “agentic” coding tools — Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI — the latter appears to be fostering more developer goodwill than the former. That’s at least partly because Anthropic has issued takedown notices to … Continue reading

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Trump meme coin insiders have to wait additional 90 days before they can sell

President Donald Trump’s meme coin was supposed to unlock for some insider sales, but that move got delayed by 90 days.

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Deel files countersuit against Rippling as rivalry escalates

In the latest development of an increasingly public dispute between HR and payroll services rivals, Deel has filed a countersuit against Rippling. To recap: Rippling publicly announced on March 17 that it was suing Deel over alleged corporate espionage, with … Continue reading

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Slate Auto eyes former Indiana printing plant for its EV truck production

Slate Auto, the buzzy new EV startup that broke stealth this week, is close to locking in a former printing plant located in Warsaw, Indiana as the future production site for its cheap electric truck, a review of public records … Continue reading

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Trump dinner for meme coin buyers prompts senators to demand ethics probe

Senators Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren are calling for an ethics investigation into President Trump’s promotion of his meme coin.

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SEC Chair Atkins says crypto innovation ‘has been stifled’ as regulators push for change

The SEC’s Crypto Task Force hosted its first major roundtable under Chair Paul Atkins, signaling a shift toward a friendlier posture.

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California overhauling self-driving vehicle regulations. Tesla shares climb 10%

California’s new regulations would impact Waymo, Tesla, Zoox and other driverless vehicle makers

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An OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-4.5 had their green card denied

Kai Chen, a Canadian AI researcher working at OpenAI who’s lived in the U.S. for 12 years, was denied a green card, according to Noam Brown, a leading research scientist at the company. In a post on X, Brown said … Continue reading

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The Meta Trial Shows the Dangers of Selling Out

Several founders of hot startups took big payouts and let Mark Zuckerberg gobble up their companies—and came to regret it.

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Google’s AI search numbers are growing, and that’s by design

Google started testing AI-summarized results in Google Search, AI Overviews, two years ago, and continues to expand the feature to new regions and languages. By the company’s estimation, it’s been a big success. AI Overviews is now used by more … Continue reading

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