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France is betting Eutelsat can become Europe’s answer to Starlink — but experts aren’t convinced

France views Eutelsat as a strategic asset in the EU’s push for technological sovereignty. But can it really compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink?

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Tesla says it made its first driverless delivery of a new car to a customer

Tesla shared a video showing its first driverless delivery of a car to a customer.

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OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta

Mark Zuckerberg has been working to poach talent from rival labs for his new superintelligence team.

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Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.

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Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI

Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI.

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Week in Review:  Meta’s AI recruiting blitz

Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots of news for you this week, including Travis Kalanick’s possible return, CoreWeave’s CEO is now worth $10 billion, Apple users aren’t happy with how the company is promoting its new F1 movie, and … Continue reading

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Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman’s World project has real privacy risks.

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Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’

Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued.

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FBI, cybersecurity firms say a prolific hacking crew is now targeting airlines and the transportation sector

The fresh wave of attacks targeting airlines comes soon after the hackers hit the U.K. retail sector and the insurance industry.

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Stablecoins go mainstream: Why banks and credit card firms are issuing their own crypto tokens

Stablecoins are seemingly everywhere, with Mastercard, Visa and JPMorgan all making recent moves in the crypto token space.

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