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Energy storage industry set aggressive goals for 2025 — and already crushed them

The battery storage industry in the U.S. has grown in leaps and bounds in recent years, surpassing its most aggressive targets to become one of the largest new sources of power on the grid.

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Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. in a disruptive deal valued at $82.7B

In one of the most groundbreaking deals the streaming world has ever seen, Netflix acquires Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion. 

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Petco confirms security lapse exposed customers’ personal data

The pet company has published almost no details about what happened, who was affected, and what personal data was exposed.

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After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something stranger

“You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain,” Hodak says, “possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people.”

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Walmart-backed PhonePe winds down its Pincode app in yet another e-commerce step back

PhonePe has shut down its Pincode app over two years after its debut.

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Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity

The newspaper is alleging copyright infringement and calling out Perplexity’s Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as a culprit.

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Micro1, a Scale AI competitor, touts crossing $100M ARR

Micro1 started the year with roughly $7 million ARR. Now, it claims to have surpassed $100 million in ARR, double what it reported in September.

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Feds ask Waymo about robotaxis repeatedly passing school buses in Austin

The agency already opened an investigation in October over Waymo’s performance around school buses.

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Anthropic CEO weighs in on AI bubble talk and risk-taking among competitors

Anthropic’s CEO shared his thoughts on the economics of AI and the risk-taking of competitors, saying some were “YOLO-ing” with regard to spending.

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Musk says new Tesla software allows texting and driving, which is illegal in most states

Texting while driving is banned in nearly every state, even with the use of advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software.

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