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Crimson Desert Apologizes For Using AI Art And Issues First Big Patch

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Inside Amazon's plan to bring fast delivery to rural America and reduce its reliance on USPS; Amazon aims to have 200 rural delivery hubs serving 13K zip codes (Sean McLain/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

Google signs deals with five US electric utilities for 1GW of "demand response" in total, to reduce data center power consumption during peak grid demand hours (Laila Kearney/Reuters)

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A look at Andrej Karpathy's "autoresearch" experiment, where an AI agent runs in a loop iterating and evaluating on training code to optimize a model (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

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Palantir won a three-month, £30K+/week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA (Robert Booth/The Guardian)

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Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions (Mike Sorrentino/CNET)

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Sources: activist investor Elliott has a multibillion-dollar stake in Synopsys and plans to engage with the company to boost its software and service profits (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

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Reality Labs lost $80B+, but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

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AI influencer awards season is upon us

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A profile of John Ternus, Tim Cook's likely successor who shapes Apple's hardware portfolio, as he expands his public visibility and his influence within Apple (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources describe Meta's efforts to build and use internal AI tools; a source says Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO agent to help him get information faster (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

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Poste Italiane says it will launch a €10.8B cash-and-share offer to fully acquire Telecom Italia; Poste is already Telecom Italia's largest shareholder (Reuters)

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Topical Dancer is propulsive, playful, and political

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Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated into WeChat, letting its 1B+ MAUs send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat (Reuters)

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AI tools like Claude Code have transformed coders' lives, and AI labs are now eyeing a bigger goal: automating everyone's lives and winning the non-coder market (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

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The best Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 accessories for Pokémon superfans

Polygon - All

This 2012 Channing Tatum classic explains Project Hail Mary's secret sauce

Polygon - All

Mux — Video API for Developers

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Crimson Desert dev apologizes for use of AI art

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‘Good, I’m Glad He’s Dead.’

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