Congress has questions about 23andMe bankruptcy

3The leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce said they are investigating how 23andMe’s bankruptcy might affect customers’ data. Representatives Brett Guthrie, Gus Bilirakis, and Gary Palmer (all Republicans) sent a letter Thursday to the genetic testing company’s interim CEO Joe Selsavage asking a number of questions about how 23andMe will handle customer […]

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Robots run a half marathon, slowly

It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the first world’s first humanoid half-marathon on Saturday, with 21 humanoid robots competing alongside thousands of humans. Bloomberg reports that the winning robot, Tiangong Ultra, was built by the […]

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Week in Review: Google loses a major antitrust case

Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of stuff for you this week: antitrust lawsuits against Google and Meta; Grok can now remember; Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow wants to make his mark; and much, much more. Have a great weekend! It’s over: Google violated antitrust laws in the ad tech market, a judge […]

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Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere

Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that it’s difficult to discern if the startup is for real or just satire. Such is the case with Mechanize, a startup whose founder – and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch – is being skewered on […]

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An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess

When an AI model for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new rule, users revolted.

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Read what Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook execs said about Instagram before buying it

The first week of the Meta antitrust trial brought new revelations about how the company formerly known as Facebook approached the competitive threat posed by Instagram in the early 2010s. The U.S. government is accusing Meta of violating competition laws by acquiring companies like Instagram and WhatsApp that threatened the Facebook monopoly. If lawyers for […]

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Meet Partiful, the Gen Z party-planning staple that’s taking on Apple

Despite launching during the pandemic, Partiful survived to become a popular app for event planning among Gen Z users. It’s now also competing against Apple.

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I won’t put my relationships online again, says Lilly Sabri

The influencer explains how she rebuilt her life after a podcast implicated her fiancé had had an affair.

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AI dolls are taking over – but real artists are sick of them

Artists hit back on social media to warn artificial intelligence may be endangering their livelihoods.

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Google’s Big Bet on Nuclear Energy: ‘The Race to Power AI-Driven Data Centers is Accelerating’

Google and Kairos Power are collaborating to build small modular reactors to provide nuclear power to data centers to give them abundant, clean, and reliable energy.

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