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Stores open at midnight as fans rush to buy Nintendo Switch 2

One retailer says it’s the “biggest gaming pre-order ever” – but there questions over whether high prices will dent sales.

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Court denies Apple appeal in Epic Games case, keeping App Store changes in place

Developers including Amazon and Spotify have been able to update their apps to avoid Apple’s 15% to 30% commission.

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Amazon’s R&D lab forms new agentic AI group

The new group will help develop an agentic AI “framework” for use in its robotics operations, an application often referred to as “physical AI.”

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Uber adds Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora to its board after executive shakeup

Nikesh Arora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, is joining the board of Uber. Prior, he was COO of Softbank and also held positions at Google and T-Mobile.

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Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook

It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models … Continue reading

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Ransomware gang claims responsibility for Kettering Health hack

A group of cybercriminals known as Interlock is advertising stolen data from Kettering Health, which includes patients’ data.

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This California startup is cleaning water and removing CO2 from the atmosphere — all at a reduced cost

Capture6 is a California-based startup with new technology to both clean water and capture carbon from the atmosphere.

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Reddit Sues Anthropic, Accusing It of Illegally Using Data From Its Site

In its lawsuit, Reddit said Anthropic had also declined to enter into a licensing agreement for data and had unjustly enriched itself at Reddit’s expense.

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Klarna CEO says company will use humans to offer VIP customer service

CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told the crowd at London SXSW that his company plans to balance employees and AI workers.

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Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data

Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly using the site’s data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement, according to a complaint filed in a Northern California court on Wednesday. Reddit claims in the complaint that Anthropic’s unauthorized use … Continue reading

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