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Leave school phone bans to head teachers, children’s commissioner says

Dame Rachel de Souza says most schools restrict phone use and children are racking up screen time at home.

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How a hydrogen explosion led a teenage founder to become Sequoia’s first defense tech investment

As Sequoia Capital’s first defense tech investment, Mach Industries is an industry darling, raising over $80 million since its founding in 2023. Its founder, Ethan Thornton, now 21, began Mach as a teenage MIT student before dropping out to focus … Continue reading

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Google says it’ll embrace Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data

Just a few weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides, Google is following suit. In a post on X on Wednesday, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis announced … Continue reading

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OpenAI attorneys call for Elon Musk to be enjoined from ‘further unlawful and unfair action’

The dramatic suit between OpenAI and its estranged co-founder, billionaire Elon Musk, shows no sign of letting up. In a filing Wednesday, attorneys for OpenAI and the other defendants in the case, including CEO Sam Altman, called for Musk to … Continue reading

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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 134 Vulnerabilities, Including 1 Zero-Day

One CVE was used against “a small number of targets.” Windows 10 users needed to wait a little bit for their patches.

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a16z backs Base Power in $200M round for home backup batteries

The money will fund a rapid expansion, including dozens more megawatt-hours of battery storage and plans for a domestic battery factory.

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Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ’emotional state’

Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Director of Global Public Policy for Facebook and author of the recently released tell-all book “Careless People,” told U.S. senators during her testimony on Wednesday that Meta actively targeted teens with advertisements based on … Continue reading

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Google reverses policy telling workers not to discuss DOJ antitrust case

Google previously directed employees not to discuss antitrust matters following the search monopoly ruling.

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Apple has best day since 1998 on Trump’s 90-day tariff pause

Apple shares soared 15% on Wednesday, their seventh-best day on record.

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Dot-com bust, 1987 crash had massive relief rallies similar to Wednesday’s pop

The Nasdaq had its second-best day on record on Wednesday, the kind of rally the market only sees during the worst of times.

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