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Meta’s Child-Safety Trial Opens in Oakland With Damages Nearly the Size of the Company

Opening statements land Tuesday in an Oakland federal courtroom, where four state attorneys general…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 18

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119,000 Cameras Are Reading American License Plates, and Cities Are Only Now Doing the Math

Over the past week, “flock camera map” became one of the most-searched phrases in…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 12

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The FAA’s $875 Million Airspace Fix Was Proven on One Airline’s Dispatch Desk

Alaska Airlines started letting an AI system suggest flight routes to its dispatchers in…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 11

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Data Centers Are Now a Campaign Issue in Both Parties, and the Power Bill Explains Why

A democratic socialist in Wisconsin and a Republican in Ohio are both campaigning for…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 9

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Meta Owes New Mexico $942 Million. The Part That Should Scare It Costs Nothing.

Chief District Court Judge Bryan Biedscheid ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 6

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Artificial Intelligence

MiniMax Shipped H3 as an API, Then Put the Weights on Hugging Face Three Days Later

MiniMax announced H3, also called Hailuo 3.0, on July 31 as an API product.…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 4

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Trump Blames Minnesota for the Iran-Linked Water Hack. The Flaw Has No Patch.

In Braham, Minnesota, a city of roughly 1,700 people, the cyberattack that hit the…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 1

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New York Clawed Back $104 Million in Delivery Tips by Regulating the Checkout Screen

New York City delivery workers have collected an estimated $104 million in extra tips…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 1

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Ariana Grande’s Hackers Never Broke Into Her Accounts, They Broke Into Everyone Around Her

Ariana Grande sued 100 anonymous defendants in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 30

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A $5 Million Startup Takes Aim at China’s Rare Earth Monopoly

A Bengaluru-based deep-tech company has secured its fifth Indian patent for a rare-earth-free electric…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 29

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Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake Rocks Kumamoto, the Prefecture Japan Staked Its Chip Revival On

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture on Tuesday, injuring at least 50 people…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 28

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Elon Musk Says Grok Will Make a Full AI Odyssey Movie by December, and the Internet Has Thoughts

Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will produce a full-length AI Odyssey film by December.…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 25

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Jensen Huang Just Made His First X Post Ever, and It Was a Warning to Washington

Artificial Intelligence

Claude Opus 5 Is Anthropic’s Fourth Frontier Model in Two Months. Here’s What Actually Changed

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SpaceX Targets Starship Flight 13 Tonight After Engine Failures and Weather Delays

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Artificial Intelligence

White House Accuses Moonshot AI of Smuggling Nvidia GB300s and Distilling Anthropic’s Fable

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OpenAI’s AI Models Escaped Their Sandbox, Hacked Hugging Face, and the Company Is Calling It ‘Unprecedented’

Artificial Intelligence

DeepSeek’s $74 Billion IPO Is China’s Bet That Cheap AI Beats Frontier AI

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Artificial Intelligence

Inside OpenAI’s Terrible Week: A Safety Chief Gone, Apple in Court, and Washington Offered 5%

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Google Opens Android to Rival App Stores After Epic Antitrust Battle

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Apps & Software

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra Has a Red Tint Problem, and Its Flagship Feature Might Be the Cause

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Artificial Intelligence

Apple Sues OpenAI for Stealing Trade Secrets, Alleging a Systematic Campaign at Every Level

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Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s New Muse AI Turns Your Public Instagram Photos Into Anyone’s Raw Material

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Xbox’s $20 Billion Problem: Why Microsoft Just Gutted Its Gaming Division

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Meta’s Data Center Contractor Contaminated Cheyenne’s Water System With Rare Bacteria

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Artificial Intelligence

The US Just Lifted Its Ban on Anthropic’s Most Powerful AI Models, and the Reversal Says More Than the Ban Did

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Xbox Is About to Gut Five Studios and Cancel Marvel’s Blade in Its Biggest Layoff Ever

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The Supreme Court Just Told Police They Can’t Vacuum Up Your Phone’s Location Without a Warrant

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Apps & Software

DoorDash Hit by Massive Nationwide Outage as Thousands Report Checkout Failures

A control room screen shows a Meta-branded prediction-market dashboard with live odds for a basketball game, a U.S. election map, the S&P 500, and a Federal Reserve rate decision

Mark Zuckerberg Pushes Meta Into Prediction Markets With New App ‘Arena’