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Bookshop.org mocks Jeff Bezos wedding invite in anti-Prime Day promo,

Bookshop.org mocks Jeff Bezos wedding invite in anti-Prime Day promo,

Grok is being antisemitic again and also the sky is blue

Moonvalley’s ‘ethical’ AI video model for filmmakers is now publicly available

Frontier is helping Arbor build a “vegetarian rocket engine” to power data centers

Ask not for whom the Louvre of Bluesky tolls, it tolls for thee ... plus TikTok's new app, Hidden AI prompts, and EU AI legislation

AI is forcing the data industry to consolidate — but that’s not the whole story

Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years

X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes

Figma moves closer to a blockbuster IPO that could raise $1.5B

Congress just greenlit a NASA moon plan opposed by Musk and Isaacman

Tesla sends driverless Model Y from factory to customer to promote its robotaxi tech

Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping

YouTube’s mobile video editor is coming to iOS

Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’

SCOTUS porn ruling, Denmark clamps down on deepfakes, and Meta buys over 1 GW of renewables

Redwood Materials launches energy storage business and its first target is AI data centers

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue, plus people use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to think

Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books

Sam Altman comes out swinging at The New York Times

Bill Gates-backed AirLoom begins building its first power plant

Kodiak is using Vay’s remote driving tech in its self-driving trucks

Novoloop is making tons of upcycled plastic

How a data processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual

Why Danny Boyle shot ‘28 Years Later’ on iPhones ... and more tech news

SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up

Rippling spy says men have been following him, and his wife is afraid

The Robinhood founder who might just revolutionize energy, if he succeeds

Voi CEO says he’s open to acquiring Bolt’s micromobility business

‘Kid-pilled’ Sam Altman ‘constantly’ asked ChatGPT questions about his newborn

Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers

OpenAI’s $200M DoD contract could squeeze frenemy Microsoft

Sword Health nabs $40M at $4B valuation, pushes IPO plans to at least 2028

Spotify’s Daniel Ek just bet bigger on Helsing, Europe’s defense tech darling

Patreon will increase the cut it takes from new creators ... and more

Instagram users complain of mass bans, pointing finger at AI

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster

Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS

Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft — and people are paying anyway

How Warp is introducing robots to automate its network of warehouses

Uptime Industries wants to boost localized AI usage with an ‘AI-in-a-box’ called Lemony AI

Sam Altman thinks AI will have ‘novel insights’ next year

Mistral releases a pair of AI reasoning models

Paragon says it cancelled contracts with Italy over government’s refusal to investigate spyware attack on journalist

PayPal is adding hotel booking within its app, powered by Selfbook

Waymo robotaxis, Lime e-scooters set ablaze during LA protests

Walmart and Wing expand drone delivery to five more U.S. cities

Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control

Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data

Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook

Reddit now lets you hide content, like posts and comments, from your user profile