“Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.
Meta won’t force Facebook page owners to allow AI training on linked content.
Ashley Belanger
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AI // Open the pod doors
Could potential AI clones of GTA VI force a quicker official port?
A former Rockstar tech director thinks the developer is facing new time pressures.
Kyle Orland
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Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable
Google is technically offering schools more choice but not the choices anyone wants.
Ryan Whitwam
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Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder.
Bitter energy drinks turned out to be ChatGPT-steered poisoning, lawsuit says.
Ashley Belanger
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Agility Robotics’ Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot market
US leader in deploying humanoid robots goes public on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Jeremy Hsu
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Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
Tech industry in denial as US overwhelmingly votes to restrict AI, data centers.
Ashley Belanger
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Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
Russia tries to fix exposed digital infrastructure as data center war backfires.
Jeremy Hsu
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Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
Google will offer schools AI tools that purportedly don’t give away the answers.
Ryan Whitwam
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Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights
Apple robot backed by CEO John Ternus may have hefty price tag and limited uses.
Jeremy Hsu
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Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
The tsunami of imitators is way bigger than any one model maker can stem.
Kyle Orland
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Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
Jeremy Hsu
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Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
It’s still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic’s verified Cursor account.
Dan Goodin
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Dartmouth’s provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
People who love AI don’t always love telling others they used it.
Nate Anderson
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Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
But it’s still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.
Kyle Orland
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Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job.
Nick Indge
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Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
Applying for FAFSA may get messy as DOJ “ghost student” crackdown ramps up.
Ashley Belanger
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Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
President orders trade talks on foreign-made factory robots, threatens tariffs.
Jeremy Hsu
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Google admits AI search makes less money, but it’s fixing that with more ads
Google’s negative cash flow balloons to -$9.06 billion, and stock price tumbles following Q3 earnings.
Ryan Whitwam
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Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can’t use
Gemini 4 Carbon is essentially a slightly better version of Argon.
Ryan Whitwam
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Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.
Kyle Orland
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“No human at the helm”: Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
Owners of AI-run firms would evade liability for “reckless” AI, US Rep. Comer says.
Jon Brodkin
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Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity
Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic’s 93-page “Risk Factor” tome.
Kyle Orland
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Vibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software
You can apparently now tell AI tools what sort of protein you want them to make.
John Timmer
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DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model promising more realistic physics and humans
Genie 4 will roll out to developers and Google AI Ultra subscribers soon.
Ryan Whitwam
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Apple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo
Included is the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access.
Samuel Axon
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ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees
US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk.
Jeremy Hsu
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Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
Investigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment.
Ashley Belanger
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Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race.
Tesla hopes autonomy subscriptions can deliver the margins car sales cannot.
Financial Times
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Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising
Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.
Ryan Whitwam
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Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs
Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production.
Jeremy Hsu
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Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability
Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.
Financial Times
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The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world
Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.
Aurich Lawson
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OpenAI’s latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity
Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.
Ryan Whitwam
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Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits
Trump’s EPA can’t unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.
Ashley Belanger
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The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using
OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.
Financial Times
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Meta drops the word “train” from its commercial TOS after AI backlash
Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.
Ashley Belanger
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