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Elon Musk today confirmed our big story from yesterday that he’s been recruiting a team to build an AI and chatbot that is “anti-woke.” Jon Victor and I wrote that his aim was to build a chatbot that “would have fewer restrictions on divisive subjects compared to ChatGPT and a related chatbot Microsoft recently launched.”Today, Musk tweeted out a meme showing a dog labeled Based AI attacking monsters labeled Woke AI and Closed AI. “Based” is internet slang that is often used as an antonym for wokeness.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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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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Some manufacturers are using single-channel memory to keep prices low - but it can have big repurcussions for performance. Read more ›
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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is one of those indie games - much like Terraria - that's refused to stop growing since its birth more than a decade ago. Fast-forward to 2026 and an astonishingly good Steam Summer Sale discount has elevated it to new heights. Read more Read more ›
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WhatsApp is launching usernames later this year, but you can reserve yours starting this week. Read more ›
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Even if you only use WhatsApp sometimes, you might want to snag your username now to stop giving out your phone number. Read more ›
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WhatsApp is introducing a new way to add and chat with contacts, without having to share your phone number. Usernames will be launching "later this year," in a move to make the communications platform "even more private," allowing you to keep your phone number concealed from people who aren't already in your contacts. Usernames are […] Read more ›
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A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location […] Read more ›
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Dbrand announced Monday that it's refunding everyone who bought its Steam Machine Companion Cube, which it said it made "without a license from Valve." Dbrand announced the Portal-themed Steam Machine accessory in November and took preorders for it last Monday. But a few days later, the product had disappeared from the company's website and the […] Read more ›
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Sony is removing hundreds of StudioCanal titles from customers' libraries on September 1, 2026, without compensation. Read more ›
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Amnezia VPN has fully restored its configuration files, the key that lets routers, TVs, and other devices that can't use the standard app connect. Here's what changed and why it matters. Read more ›
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New crew, same ol' terrible Night City in Studio Trigger and Netflix's 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2.' Read more ›
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And it's not just Google and Xreal's Aura glasses that are pushing the boundaries. Read more ›
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A trailer for the second series of Netflix's animated Cyberpunk television series Edgerunners has been released at long last, giving us the first proper look at the new cast of characters and their adventures through Night City. Read more Read more ›
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Take a trip down memory lane. Discover the five iconic sedans, minivans, and early SUVs that dominated every American driveway during the 1990s. Read more ›
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The industry is moving toward fixing the private key vulnerability issue, just not evenly, Wish Wu, co-founder and CEO of Pharos, said. Read more ›
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I worked as a tour guide in Paris and often saw visitors make the same mistakes, like staying near the Eiffel Tower or trying to do too much in a day. Read more ›
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A dangerous heat wave is sweeping parts of the US, but many states set their all-time hottest temperature records decades ago. Read more ›
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Can Vinícius Júnior lead the Seleção through a tricky Round of 32 clash against the Japanese? Read more ›
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Starbucks is bringing back the viral Bearista Glass Cold Cup with a new Pink Drink-inspired look. Find out how and when to get yours before they sell out. Read more ›
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Open source AI startup Reflection will pay SpaceX $150 million per month for access to compute from its Colossus 2 data center, a person with direct knowledge of the deal said on Monday. The deal begins on July 1 and runs through 2029 but can be canceled by either company with 90 days’ notice, ... Read more ›
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Two former members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have raised $225 million for their debut venture fund, Banner VC, according to a person close to the fund and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Banner separately raised nearly $75 million to co-lead a recent round in the orbital infrastructure startup Impulse Space, according to the person and an SEC filing. Founded by the two former DOGE staffers,... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is pausing its employee monitoring tool after a major internal security lapse last week left sensitive employee data collected through the tool broadly accessible to staff across the company. The news was earlier reported by Business Insider. According to an incident report ... Read more ›
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President Trump signed two long-awaited executive orders on Monday focused on quantum technology, a focus area for the administration that has often taken a back seat to AI. The first order, whose draft has been circulating for months, encourages different agencies to invest in research, ... Read more ›
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Here’s a question: If you’re an investor who wants exposure to Elon Musk, is SpaceX or Tesla a better bet? Today, the answer seemed to be Tesla, with shares in the electric automaker climbing 1% to $405.05 as SpaceX shares tumbled 16% to $154.60. SpaceX shares are still above their IPO price of $135 per share, but today was their third consecutive trading day of decline. Some of the drop... Read more ›
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Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based startup founded by former Google researchers, has launched Fugu, a new artificial intelligence service that coordinates multiple AI models through one interface. Fugu uses various proprietary and open-source models to perform tasks, but Sakana packages it as a single AI ... Read more ›
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ByteDance on Tuesday unveiled Seedance 2.5, its new AI video generation model, at a conference in Beijing. The model upgrades its predecessor, Seedance 2.0, which was widely hailed as a major breakthrough for AI videos. The Chinese tech giant said Seedance 2.5 can generate a video up to 30 ... Read more ›
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As prices for Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s flagship products soar, some large customers are using cheaper AI models from those companies’ menus as well as from other providers. Ensemble Health Partners, a provider of software for hospitals that plans to spend up to $100 million on AI this year, says it’s had success switching to an OpenAI model that’s 23 times less expensive than the company’s more advanced models. Read more ›
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Nvidia on Tuesday released new open-source software for scientists and biotech firms to develop AI agents for their research, even if they don’t have coding experience. The software, Nvidia’s BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, is part of the AI chip leader’s effort to convince companies to use its AI ... Read more ›
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If you’ve been on the AI side of X or Reddit recently, you’ve probably seen the phrase “agent loops” popping up more than usual. That term refers to a new way to run models and AI agents to improve their performance on longer-running or more vaguely-defined tasks, and it’s been gaining traction with developers in recent months.The basic idea boils down to this: rather than giving an AI model a... Read more ›
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