Elon Musk and Donald Trump are smack talking each other into their own digital echo chambers

Well, it finally happened. This town wasn’t big enough for the two towering egos of billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, and now they’re duking it out publicly, albeit from their own separate corners of the web. Musk is taking to his own social media platform, X, to take jabs at Trump, and Trump […]

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Perplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO says

Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially with the new Comet browser that it’s working on.

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Palantir Is Going on Defense

Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.

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Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and robotics

Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills.

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Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too

The fight between HR tech startups has heated up again after Rippling filed an amended complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising of four other competitors, in addition to Rippling. 

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Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control

Bonfire’s mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google.

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X tests highlighting posts that are liked by users with opposing views

X says that this feedback will help develop an open source algorithm that can identify posts liked by people with different perspectives.

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Google says its updated Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model is better at coding

Google says the update to its Gemini 2.5 Pro preview model is better at certain programming tasks and builds on the upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Pro the company announced around a month ago.

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Apple says 82% of compatible iPhones are running iOS 18

Apple said on Thursday that more than 82% of compatible iPhones are running the latest version of its smartphone operating system, iOS 18.

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Anduril raises funding at $30.5 billion valuation in round led by Founders Fund, chairman says

Anduril Chairman Trae Stephens told Bloomberg on Thursday that the defense tech company has just raised $2.5 billion at a $30.5 billion valuation.

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