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Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor

According to Pennsylvania's filing, a Character.AI chatbot presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation, and also fabricated a serial number for its state medical license.

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IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields

Score: 302 | Comments: 175

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Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC

Score: 24 | Comments: 8

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT

The company said the model reduces hallucination in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency of its predecessor.

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OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less

OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has "significant imp

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Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying

Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history"

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Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes

Microsoft's new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma, has spent the past couple of months making her mark on the Xbox organization. After focusing on highly requested Xbox console features, reducing the price of G

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Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs

Score: 317 | Comments: 181

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From Alan Shepard to Artemis, celebrating 65 years of Americans in space

On the morning of May 5th, 1961, 37-year-old Alan Shepard woke up, ate a breakfast (consisting of a filet mignon wrapped in bacon, scrambled eggs, and orange juice), strapped into the Freedom 7 rocket

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Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

Score: 453 | Comments: 200

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I'm scared about biological computing

Score: 144 | Comments: 131

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PayPal says it’s ‘becoming a technology company again’ — that means AI

PayPal is pitching an AI-led turnaround, tying automation and restructuring to $1.5 billion in savings as it cuts jobs and works to modernize its tech stack.

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EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]

Score: 228 | Comments: 57

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Etsy launches its app within ChatGPT as it continues its AI push

Etsy's new native app within ChatGPT aims to be a conversational shopping experience for users.

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Three Inverse Laws of AI

Score: 362 | Comments: 248

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Kaspersky suspects Chinese hackers planted a backdoor into Daemon Tools in ‘widespread’ attack

The cybersecurity company says it's seen thousands of infection attempts, and at least a dozen successful hacks after users installed malicious versions of the popular Windows software.

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Agents for financial services and insurance

Score: 198 | Comments: 151

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Hackers steal students’ data during breach at education tech giant Instructure

The data breach at education tech giant Instructure includes students' private data, according to a sample of the allegedly stolen data seen by TechCrunch.

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Meta will use AI to analyze height and bone structure to identify if users are underage

The visual analysis system is now operating in select countries, but Meta says it's working toward a broader rollout.

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ElevenLabs lists BlackRock, Jamie Foxx, and Eva Longoria as new investors

ElevenLabs reveals new investors, hits $500M ARR, and expands enterprise footprint as voice AI becomes a critical interface.

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