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Hyundai’s eVTOL startup Supernal pauses work following CEO and CTO departures

The shakeup comes as the startup was still struggling to get its test vehicle off the ground — literally. The first flight was only in March.

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Microsoft says Azure affected after cables cut in the Red Sea

It’s not clear who cut the cables or why.

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Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?

This is a bad idea.

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EU fines Google $3.5B over adtech ‘abuse’

This is the EU’s largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to “nullify” it.

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The growing debate over expanding age verification laws

As age and identity verification laws become more mainstream, this legislation could have a dire impact on privacy.

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Musk’s $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises

Musk used to say Tesla would make 20 million cars and one million humanoid robots per year. The company’s board wants far less than that in exchange for $1 trillion.

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OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT’s personality

OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models’ behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company.

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Screw the money — Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers

Writers aren’t getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI — this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.

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Attorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for children and teens. 

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Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down

Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down.

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