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Verily is closing its medical device program as Alphabet shifts more resources to AI

Alphabet’s life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program as AI and data infrastructure take center stage.

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Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smith’s office

The incident is the latest escalation by current and former employees who are demanding the company end its cloud contracts with Israel.

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Anthropic launches a Claude AI agent that lives in Chrome

Anthropic is the latest AI lab to offer an AI agent with the ability to view and take action in a user’s Chrome browser.

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A Radiohead song from 1997 is on the Hot 100 charts, thanks to TikTok

“Let Down” broke into the Billboard Hot 100 nearly 30 years after its release, marking just the fourth Radiohead song to enter the charts.

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Why the US government is not the savior Intel needs

Intel doesn’t need cash. Instead, the struggling semiconductor giant needs to figure out how to drum up interest for its foundry business.

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Anthropic settles AI book-training lawsuit with authors

Called Bartz v. Anthropic, the case deals with Anthropic’s use of books as training material for its large language models.

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Meta to spend tens of millions on pro-AI super PAC

Meta’s new PAC, dubbed Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across California, signals an intent to influence statewide elections, including the next governor’s race in 2026.

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DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

The Social Security Administration’s chief data officer has publicly blown the whistle, alleging DOGE put hundreds of millions of Social Security records at risk of compromise by uploading a critical government database of citizen’s data to Amazon’s cloud.

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The wait is almost over: The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 list drops tomorrow

After reviewing thousands of groundbreaking applications from around the globe, we’re just one day away from announcing the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200.

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Not so fast: German court says Apple can’t call Watch carbon neutral

Apple’s carbon neutral claims are undermined by the short-term nature of carbon credits used to support them, the court said.

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