548 Startup West podcast 99: Pete Curulli, Three Little Pixels

Defense Department Scrambles to Pretend It's Called the War Department

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Dell Cameron @ Wired 1 place · today 18:22 EDT

President Donald Trump said the so-called Department of War branding is to counter the “woke” Department of Defense name. Read more ›

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ICE arrests 475 workers at a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia in 'largest single-site enforcement operation'

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Sarah E. Needleman @ Business Insider 1 place · today 17:45 EDT

"This, in fact, was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security investigations," a DHS official said. Read more ›

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The crackdown on Elon Musk's pay has backfired spectacularly

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Alistair Barr @ Business Insider 2 place · today 18:20 EDT

A Delaware judge successfully challenged Musk's previous package. The result? It's even easier now for companies to pay execs massive compensation. Read more ›

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Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner

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Brian Barrett @ Wired 2 place · today 10:16 EDT

At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump. Read more ›

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OpenAI widely thought to be Broadcom's mystery $10 billion custom AI processor customer — order could be for millions of AI processors

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · today 17:46 EDT

Broadcom has secured a $10 billion deal to supply custom AI accelerators and rack-scale hardware to an undisclosed customer — widely believed to be OpenAI — signaling that the design has been validated and full-scale deployment is on track for late 2026. Read more ›

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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

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Kate Knibbs @ Wired 3 place · today 15:14 EDT

Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools. Read more ›

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Top DOJ Official Caught in Catfish Video Claiming Gov Will ‘Redact Every Republican’ From Epstein Files

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Lucas Ropek @ Gizmodo 1 place · today 16:00 EDT

The White House's least favorite subject just had another viral glowup this week. Read more ›

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Deal: Nothing Headphone 1 discounted for the first time!

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Edgar Cervantes @ Android Authority 1 place · today 18:02 EDT

These headphones will turn heads wherever you go. Read more ›

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5 Things We Loved, 3 Things We Didn’t About ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Part 2

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Sabina Graves @ Gizmodo 2 place · today 19:15 EDT

Jenna Ortega stars in Netflix's 'Addams Family'-inspired series from Tim Burton. Read more ›

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Venezuela buzzed an American destroyer with US-made F-16s amid a Caribbean standoff

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Jake Epstein @ Business Insider 3 place · today 10:10 EDT

The Pentagon called the move, which occurred in international waters, "highly provocative" and said it was meant to interfere with operations. Read more ›

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Climate Experts Roast Joe Rogan After He Misinterprets Simple Graph to Claim Earth Is Cooling

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Ellyn Lapointe @ Gizmodo 3 place · today 15:27 EDT

“It’s almost impressive how incorrect he’s able to be about an article he’s looking directly at," one expert said. Read more ›

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Meta is paying contractors up to $55 an hour to build AI chatbot characters

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Pranav Dixit @ Business Insider · today 17:00 EDT

Meta invests in AI chatbots by hiring contractors for markets like India and Indonesia, as privacy and policy scrutiny escalate. Read more ›

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What the new jobs report tells us, briefly explained

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Cameron Peters @ Vox 1 place · today 17:52 EDT

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report this morning, and the numbers aren’t looking good for the US economy, or President Donald […] Read more ›

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Zuckerberg caught on hot mic telling Trump ‘I wasn’t sure’ how much to promise to spend on AI in the US

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Engadget 1 place · today 17:19 EDT

Mark Zuckerberg has certainly come a long way in his relationship with President Donald Trump. Almost exactly a year after the president threatened the Meta CEO with imprisonment, the two sat side-by-side at a White House dinner, alongside numerous other tech CEOs.The nearly three dozen CEOs and execs in attendance took turns praising and thanking Trump. But Zuckerberg's comments were especially notable. In one moment that was widely shared on... Read more ›

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Trump's administration is making another shift away from Biden's student-loan forgiveness efforts

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Ayelet Sheffey @ Business Insider · today 14:54 EDT

Trump's Department of Education is soliciting feedback on a new manual focused on helping student-loan borrowers better manage repayment. Read more ›

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Donald Trump summoned Big Tech CEOs to a White House dinner. We decided to zoom in on the seating chart.

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Katie Notopoulos,Peter Kafka @ Business Insider · today 15:04 EDT

Donald Trump's Big Tech dinner included guests Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, and Sam Altman. Let's examine the seating chart. Read more ›

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Why AI chatbots hallucinate, according to OpenAI researchers

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Lakshmi Varanasi @ Business Insider · today 18:15 EDT

Hallucinations are when chatbots confidently present wrong information as fact. They plague the most popular chatbots, like ChatGPT and Claude. Read more ›

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Fede Alvarez Won’t Direct the ‘Alien: Romulus’ Sequel

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Sabina Graves @ Gizmodo · today 18:00 EDT

The 'Romulus' filmmaker co-wrote the sequel script and will help choose the helmer for the next 'Alien' movie. Read more ›

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The Biden-Era Plan to Pay Travelers for Airline-Caused Delays Is Dead

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Nelson Aguilar @ CNET 1 place · today 17:39 EDT

The Trump administration axed a proposal that would have forced airlines to pay cash for delays or cancellations that were the carrier's fault. Read more ›

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Photos show every time Melania Trump has appeared at a public White House event this year

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Talia Lakritz @ Business Insider · today 11:50 EDT

Melania Trump, who remained an enigmatic figure during President Donald Trump's first term, continues to keep a low profile during his second. Read more ›

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