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In 2016, Microsoft released a chatbot called Tay that fed off people’s replies to it. Within hours, the bot turned racist and the company had to pull it down. This incident remains one of the classic lessons that teach us why it’s a bad idea to train an AI using social media. However, data scientists now have a chance to tune their AI to become aware of this kind of bias. Twitter announced last night that it’s opening up its entire archive of public tweets to researchers to use in their data projects. This
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models ... Read more ›
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Kuaishou Technology said its Kling AI video unit has raised $2 billion in a fundraising at a pre-money valuation of $15 billion, as the Chinese social media giant taps outside investors to fund the unit’s rapid growth. As the agreement allows more investors to join the funding round later, Kling ... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Researchers who tracked more than 90,000 people over a decade found that sitting or lying down while awake for more than 30 minutes in one period each day was associated with an increased risk of cancer death. The risk increases for every additional hour of continuous inactivity, the findings suggest. However, the researchers also found breaking up periods of sedentary behavior... Read more ›
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Nearly a year ago, Apple filed a lawsuit against YouTuber Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti over alleged theft of the company's trade secrets. Apple alleged that the duo coordinated to break into former Apple software engineer Ethan Lipnik's development iPhone, in order to access and profit off details about "iOS 19," which ended up being called iOS 26. Prosser is the host of the popular YouTube channel Front Page Tech,... Read more ›
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'Star Wars: Visions Presents — The Ninth Jedi' is a new limited series from Lucasfilm and Production I.G. Read more ›
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The video game disc is dead, and Sony's been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony's discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzberg that the company's Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs every day, half of which are for PlayStation. But […] Read more ›
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Instagram launched its CapCut rival Edits in January last year, and now the app has gained some new features. These include support for bilingual captions, which automatically translate your captions into a secondary language. Currently supported languages are English, Indonesian, Russian, Portuguese, Gujarati, Spanish, Hindi, Korean, Bengali, German, Italian, Thai, French, Japanese, and Kannada. Instagram Edits updates You can also build richer templates with support for overlays as well a Read more ›
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Two-thirds of enterprises have hedged their AI model strategy, and the past few weeks of controversy around Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 model showed why that posture has gone mainstream. On June 12, a U.S. export-control order pulled Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 — the most capable model on the market — offline for every customer, with no warning and no timeline. It returned this week wrapped in tighter safeguards, after China's... Read more ›
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A protein called “Mitch” may hold the key to a new generation of obesity treatments. Researchers found that disabling it in human cells boosts fat burning, increases energy use, and makes it harder for new fat cells to develop. The findings help explain why mice lacking Mitch were leaner, more athletic, and resistant to obesity. Read more ›
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GMKtec redesigned its Strix Halo workstation around cooling, local inference, and substantially higher memory capacities for AI. Read more ›
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Digital movies and games can be easy to buy, but Sony's latest PlayStation move is a reminder that access and ownership aren't always the same thing. Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's black Tom Ford leather jacket is up for auction, with proceeds benefiting charity, Sotheby's said. Read more ›
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Here's how to watch Switzerland vs Algeria for free online and from anywhere as the unbeaten Swiss face a battle-tested Algeria in the World Cup last 32. Read more ›
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The satirical site is fighting to officially take over Infowars. In the meantime, CEO Ben Collins says the new show will mock “how fucking stupid” conspiratorial brain rot has become. Read more ›
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For Prime members, Amazon First Reads gives you your choice of a free e-book every month. Here's what to know about the program, plus the July deals available. Read more ›
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The US Department of Energy wants changes to energy-efficiency standards enacted under the Biden administration that it says will lower costs and preserve consumer choice. Read more ›
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Meta's superintelligence chief says its upcoming Watermelon model now matches GPT-5.5 on key AI benchmarks. Read more ›
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A law is only as strong as the door it actually closes, and Australia’s ban on social media for under-16s appears to have left a window open. On 26 June, six months after the world-first measure took effect, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was keen to make the ban as strong as possible, after […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The regulator says customers were moved to a pricier Copilot-bundled plan unless they actively opted out, with too little information to choose. The mechanics of a price rise can matter as much as the price itself, which is the question Italy’s competition authority has now decided to examine. On 26 June, the regulator said it […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A 38% jump in valuation over six months is the kind of figure that tells you where investor appetite has gone. Airwallex, the global payments company, has raised $320m in a Series H round that values it at $11bn, up from $8bn in December 2025. The raise is being directed squarely at the part of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Every satellite company eventually looks down at the much larger market on the ground, and SpaceX appears ready to make the move. The company has told investors it plans to launch a Starlink mobile service for US consumers, the Financial Times reported on 26 June, citing people familiar with the matter. If it happens, it […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The number arrives with the bluntness of a government tally. TikTok and YouTube have deactivated roughly 4.7 million accounts belonging to children under 16 in Indonesia, the country’s communications minister said on 25 June. The bulk of the cuts came from one platform: TikTok deactivated 4.1 million accounts, while YouTube removed 600,000, according to Communications […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The maker of the autonomous Chaparral is in advanced talks to go public through a blank-cheque merger valuing the combined company at about $1bn. The SPAC, declared dead more than once over the past few years, keeps finding new uses, and the latest is a cargo drone. Elroy Air, a California startup that wants to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Sam Altman told staff Washington wants GPT-5.6 released first to a short list of trusted partners, with access approved customer by customer. For years the debate over slowing down powerful AI models was a matter for company safety teams and outside critics. Now it has a government request attached. The Trump administration has asked OpenAI […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Numbers in the trillions have a way of losing their edges, so it is worth holding this one still for a moment. Samsung is expected to announce plans to invest 1,000 trillion won, around $647.5bn, in South Korea over the next 10 years, according to local media reports that several outlets carried on 25 June. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A self-publishing platform exists to say yes. Kobo’s, last year, spent a remarkable share of its time saying no. Rakuten Kobo rejected 45% of the titles submitted to Kobo Writing Life, its self-publishing service, in 2025, and chief executive Michael Tamblyn attributes more than 80% of those rejections to books he judges to be manifestly […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A London court already found 26 of Samsung’s smartwatch faces infringed Swatch trademarks. Now the two sides are fighting over the bill. The fight between a Swiss watchmaker and the world’s largest phone maker has come down to a number, and the number is $170m. Swatch is asking the High Court in London to make […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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