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Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas

Elon Musk's plans to get into the AI chip manufacturing business are going to be costly. As the New York Times and CNBC report, SpaceX is planning to invest at least $55 billion into its "Terafab" chi

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Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

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Elon Musk’s lawsuit is putting OpenAI’s safety record under the microscope

Elon Musk's legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab's founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial

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Bumble is getting rid of the swipe, CEO says

Based on Whitney Wolfe Herd's past comments about Bumble's new direction, the company is expected to lean into AI -- Bumble is even working on an AI dating assistant called Bee, and the CEO has made m

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Colored Shadow Penumbra

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Peak Design is taking up to 50 percent off some of our favorite camera bags

To celebrate founder Peter Dering’s birthday, Peak Design is taking up to 50 percent off a host of bags and accessories through May 8. The sale includes steep discounts on many of the company’s most p

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AI slop is killing online communities

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Tome, another Goodreads book-tracker rival, shuts down

Built on the back of the sizable and influential BookTok community -- creators who discuss and review books on TikTok -- the app offered readers a place to chronicle and rate their books, get recommen

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Could Lovable’s automatic 10% pay raise be the cure for toxic cultures?

Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform Lovable is offering employees an automatic 10% raise as a way to sidestep classic corporate politics.

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Hackers hack victims hacked by other hackers

An unknown group of hackers is breaking into systems previously breached by the cybercrime group TeamPCP. Once inside, the hackers immediately kick out TeamPCP and remove its hacking tools from the vi

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Valve is fighting Steam Controller scalpers with a new reservations system

Valve's new Steam Controller sold out quickly when it went on sale on Monday, and the company is going to open a "reservations queue" on Friday at 1PM ET for anyone who missed that initial run. When t

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Kalshi doubles valuation in 5 months, hitting $22B

Prediction market startup Kalshi has raised a $1 billion Series F round led by Coatue.

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ChatGPT’s ‘Trusted Contact’ will alert loved ones of safety concerns

OpenAI is launching an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that allows adult users to assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns. Friends, family members, or caregivers designat

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Jeff Bezos rep leaves Slate Auto’s board

Melinda Lewison's departure raises questions about Bezos' support and involvement with the startup at a time when the Amazon founder is now apparently focused on robotics at his new startup, Project P

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Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

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Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard

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Principles for agent-native CLIs

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Did Microsoft just tease a new Xbox UI?

Microsoft showed off a "consistent" Xbox UI across handhelds, consoles, and cloud gaming during its Xbox keynote at the Game Developers Conference in March. At the time it was difficult to see if ther

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OpenAI's WebRTC problem

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