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Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture robotics, AI, and space data center chips for Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX (Bloomberg)

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Speaking at a Beijing forum, Tim Cook praised Apple's partners and developers in China, a week after Chinese state media labeled the App Store "monopolistic" (Bloomberg)

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Cloaked, which offers security and privacy services such as VPNs, raised a $375M Series B in a mix of equity and growth funding, for enterprise expansion (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

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Reuters: ‘Amazon Plans Smartphone Comeback More Than a Decade After Fire Phone Flop’

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How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to videos of places (Shubham Agarwal/The Guardian)

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A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

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Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple

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Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

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These 20 one-season anime are perfect for unwinding during the weekend

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Planescape: Torment is the best D&D RPG of all time, and it's still waiting for a sequel

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After Project Hail Mary, watch Ryan Gosling's even better outer space epic

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Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)

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The AirPods Pro 3 are $50 off right now, nearly matching their best-ever price

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A Pokémon FireRed failure that could only happen in 2026

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CEO of Halide-maker Lux Optics, Ben Sandofsky, sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now on Apple's design team, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

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This lost gem from a forgotten animation pioneer is streaming free online

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Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

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Final Fantasy Type-0 should have been the future of Final Fantasy

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Here are 20 of our favorite outdoor deals from REI’s Member Days Sale

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