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Some of the nation’s rich are letting AI teach their kids
Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 (Grace Kay/The Information)
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Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 — Tesla said it rolled out its Robotaxi service in Miami on Friday, according to a post from its social media account on X.
AI-native startups hire fewer juniors and more elites, Harvard study finds

Startups built around AI hire fewer entry-level workers than their peers, according to a working paper from Harvard Business School and INSEAD, first reported by Business Insider. The firms are leaner, flatter, and heavily weighted towards senior technical talent. Researchers Rembrand Koning and Hyunjin Kim examined Y Combinator startups from 2020 to 2024 alongside a broader set of […]
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Minions & Monsters wins July 4 box office with a franchise-low $64M debut

[tldr]Universal’s Minions & Monsters topped the US July 4 box office with roughly $64m over its first five days, the weakest opening in Despicable Me franchise history and far below the $120m-plus debuts of its two predecessors. The soft start raises franchise-fatigue questions for Comcast’s most reliable animation machine.[/tldr] Universal’s Minions & Monsters led the […]
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Judge grants Alibaba a reprieve from the lobbying ban tied to the Pentagon’s blacklist

A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba temporary relief from a law that stripped it of every lobbyist it had in Washington, Bloomberg reports. The reprieve stands while the court considers whether the measure is constitutional. The case is shaping up as a test of how far the US can go in curbing […]
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