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When being Hitler’s guard was a literal drag…

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AI conferences have rushed to restrict the use of LLMs for writing and reviewing research papers in recent months after being flooded with AI-generated slop (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

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Q&A with D‑Wave CEO Alan Baratz on the Quantum Circuits acquisition, error-correcting quantum systems, its Davidson and Anduril defense collaboration, and more (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

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Disney Lorcana’s Winterspell won me over when I leaned into silly nostalgia

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French IT company Capgemini plans to sell its US subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, whose contract with the US ICE drew scrutiny from French lawmakers (Sybille de La Hamaide/Reuters)

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Anthropic researchers detail "disempowerment patterns" in AI assistant interactions where AI potentially distorts a user's reality, beliefs, or actions (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

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Who is Egg from A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms? Aegon Targaryen V and his Game of Thrones role, explained

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TikTok US says it has resolved technical issues caused by an Oracle data center outage; core features such as video view counts were impacted over the past week (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Apple, long dominant in the electronics supply chain, is starting to be outbid by AI companies for components like memory, as suppliers gain leverage over Apple (Wall Street Journal)

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Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through a combination of debt and equity sales (Vincent Lee/Bloomberg)

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SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's ravenous appetite for cash and compute (Bloomberg)

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A survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production, above Anthropic's 44%, but Anthropic's gains are impressive (a16z)

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Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

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Bill Gates says accusations contained in Epstein files are ‘absolutely absurd’

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Shedding light on Iran’s longest internet blackout

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India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Independence Day is still the ultimate alien invasion movie — and it's streaming on Netflix

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You need to listen to M83’s icy post-rock record Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

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Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X "outlining concrete steps" to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)

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Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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