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Text • Samuel Axon

AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia

AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia

The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws

Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws

FCC unlikely to stop Trump ads described as illegal taxpayer-funded propaganda.

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Text • Eric Berger

NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers

NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers

So is SpaceX just being selfish, or what?

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Text • Kyle Orland

Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack

Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack

Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code."

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Text • Ashley Belanger

Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals

Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals

Lawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional.

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Text • Jonathan M. Gitlin

Connected car data privacy is still abysmal, study finds

Connected car data privacy is still abysmal, study finds

Between the cars and their companion apps, you’re exposed to a lot of trackers.

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Text • Jacek Krywko

Fruit flies remember their larval diet, which influences their longevity

Fruit flies remember their larval diet, which influences their longevity

Eating less protein as larvae may limit their ability to produce proteins as adults.

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Text • Kyle Orland

OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release

OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release

Similar performance, security tradeoffs also seen in current public models.

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Text • George Hammond, Financial Times

Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction

Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction

The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.

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Text • Samuel Axon

Mozilla's head of Firefox talks product priorities, AI skepticism, and browser choice

Mozilla's head of Firefox talks product priorities, AI skepticism, and browser choice

Mozilla's Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web.

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Text • Eric Berger

Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation

Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation

"We couldn't provide detailed pricing to the CLD suppliers."

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Text • Ashley Belanger

Nvidia may sell more chips in China as Jensen Huang’s influence over Trump grows

Nvidia may sell more chips in China as Jensen Huang’s influence over Trump grows

China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.

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Text • Stephen Clark

Starship's first orbital launch gives lift to SpaceX's next-gen Starlinks

Starship's first orbital launch gives lift to SpaceX's next-gen Starlinks

Starship had already flown 99 percent of the way to low-Earth orbit. Monday's flight added the last bit.

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Text • Kyle Orland

Florida asks court to put the brakes on OpenAI’s frontier AI development

Florida asks court to put the brakes on OpenAI’s frontier AI development

State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."

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Text • Scott K. Johnson

New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery

New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery

The design requires less energy to capture CO2 than current systems.

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Text • Beth Mole

To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents

To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents

Add-on patents have increased drug patent periods from two years to over six.

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Text • Jonathan M. Gitlin

Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels

Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels

In 2020, Trump cut CAFE to 40 mpg. Now he’s cut it again to just 35 mpg.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

Another court rules Kalshi sports bets aren’t “swaps,” says states can crack down

Another court rules Kalshi sports bets aren’t “swaps,” says states can crack down

Kalshi's defiance of state gambling laws may be headed to Supreme Court.

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Text • Ryan Whitwam

Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034

Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034

Google support maps out how Googlebooks can take over where ChromeOS left off.

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Text • Jennifer Ouellette

Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery

Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery

19th century Nature account of 1841 train delayed by geomagnetic storm got year wrong—thanks to a typo.

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Text • Jonathan M. Gitlin

F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing

F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing

Kimi Antonelli could not repeat his Monza magic after a crash in qualifying.

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Text • Eric Berger

NASA, for the time being, is unable to move the space station's large robotic arm

NASA, for the time being, is unable to move the space station's large robotic arm

NASA isn't saying much. The problem may be temporary.

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Text • Kyle Orland

OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents

OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents

US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.

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Text • Eric Berger

The large robotic arm on the International Space Station has stopped working

The large robotic arm on the International Space Station has stopped working

NASA isn't saying much. The problem may be temporary.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."

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Text • Alec MacGillis, ProPublica

How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war

How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war

The Smithsonian has faced withering pressure from the Trump administration.

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Text • Aarian Marshall, wired.com

Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge

Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge

The 500-mile Semi arrives as charging gaps still limit electric trucking.

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Text • Beth Mole

Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.

Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.

Heidi Overton faced questions focused on vaccines, birth control, and vapes.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

Court rules Trump can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features

Court rules Trump can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features

"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.

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Text • Jeremy Hsu

Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements

Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements

Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.