Freedom of the Press Foundation Threatens Legal Action if Paramount Settles With Trump Over ’60 Minutes’ Interview

As Paramount considers settling a lawsuit with Donald Trump over a “60 Minutes” interview, the Freedom of the Press Foundation warns that it will sue over a deal that allegedly “could amount to a bribe.”

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Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi unit issues second software recall in a month after San Francisco crash

Zoox’s recall comes after an unoccupied robotaxi was struck by an e-scooter rider at an intersection earlier this month.

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At Trump’s $148 million meme coin dinner, ‘the food sucked’ and security was lax

Trump’s meme coin dropped 16% the morning after a black-tie gala for buyers, triggering political backlash that threatens to derail stablecoin legislation.

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Khosla Ventures among VCs experimenting with AI-Infused roll-ups of mature companies

Venture capitalists have always focused on investing in companies that leverage technology to either disrupt established industries or create entirely new business categories. But some VCs are starting to flip the script on their investing styles. Rather than funding startups, they are acquiring mature businesses –such as call centers, accounting firms, and other professional service […]

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Zoox issues second robotaxi software recall in a month following collision 

Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company Zoox has issued its second voluntary software recall in a month, following a collision between one of its robotaxis and an e-scooter rider in San Francisco on May 8. The latest incident involved an unoccupied Zoox vehicle operating at low speed, which the company says was struck by the e-scooter after […]

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Indian IT giant investigates M&S cyber attack link

M&S said earlier this week that the hackers got into systems via a third party – but did not say who that was.

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Landa promised real estate investing for $5. Now it’s gone dark.

The idea of becoming a real estate investor for as little as $5 may seem too good to be true. And for many users of Landa, a proptech company that promised just that — it has been. Landa emerged from stealth in August 2022, announcing a total of $33 million in funding and a pledge […]

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Marjorie Taylor Greene picked a fight with Grok

Last week, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok experienced a “bug” that made it tell users about the “white genocide” conspiracy theory in South Africa, even when prompted with questions that had nothing to do with the topic … and soon after, Grok expressed skepticism over the Holocaust death toll, which it chalked up to a “programming […]

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Inside Anthropic’s First Developer Day, Where AI Agents Took Center Stage

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said everything human workers do now will eventually be done by AI systems.

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A Helicopter, Halibut, and ‘Y.M.C.A’: Inside Donald Trump’s Memecoin Dinner

On Thursday evening, US president Donald Trump attended a private banquet with 200 of the largest investors in his personal crypto coin. Here’s what happened.

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