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| California’s ban on self-driving trucks could soon be over; also, Amazon may drop USPS and build a competing service | 04 Dec 2025 | 00:05:43 | |
Revised rules in California would allow self-driving trucks to test on public highways. The rules also close a loophole allowing police to issue tickets for driverless vehicles.
Also, Amazon is the USPS' biggest customer, and the e-commerce giant's potential break from the postal agency comes as the two sides are negotiating a new deal.
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| Andy Jassy says Amazon’s Nvidia competitor chip is already a multi-billion-dollar business | 04 Dec 2025 | 00:04:51 | |
Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia's AI chip dominance? Maybe not entirely but Amazon is already making big bucks trying.
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| Altman describes OpenAI’s forthcoming AI device as more peaceful and calm than the iPhone; plus, DOGE days are over | 25 Nov 2025 | 00:06:20 | |
Altman and Ive tease a simple AI device aimed at calm, distraction-free computing, launching within two years.
Also, DOGE members are reportedly worried that they could face prosecution for some of their activities conducted while under the leadership of Elon Musk.
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| The Oakland Ballers let an AI manage the team. What could go wrong? | 23 Sep 2025 | 00:06:07 | |
The Oakland Ballers, an independent Pioneer League baseball team, took that concept of “playing the percentages” to the next level: they let an AI manage the team for a game. The Ballers were founded by edtech entrepreneur Paul Freedman as a salve to the departure of the beloved Oakland A’s, the Major League baseball team that owner John Fisher ripped away from local fans in what’s regarded as one of the most insidious managerial moves in sports history.
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| Waymo launches curbside robotaxi pickup at Phoenix airport | 18 Dec 2023 | 00:03:02 | |
Select Waymo One riders can now get picked up or dropped off by the company’s robotaxis curbside at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
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| Credit Karma co-founder Nichole Mustard stepping down after more than 16 years | 16 Dec 2023 | 00:02:51 | |
Credit Karma co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer Nichole Mustard is leaving the company after 16-and-a-half years.
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| Microsoft disrupts cybercrime operation selling fraudulent accounts to notorious hacking gang | 15 Dec 2023 | 00:05:24 | |
Microsoft says it has successfully dismantled the infrastructure of a cybercrime operation that sold access to fraudulent Outlook accounts to other hackers, including the notorious Scattered Spider gang.
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| Apple will no longer give police users’ push notification data without a warrant | 15 Dec 2023 | 00:02:49 | |
Apple said it will no longer give over records of users’ push notifications to law enforcement unless the company receives a valid judge’s order.
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| China’s autonomous vehicle regulation requires safety operators, in-car recordings | 14 Dec 2023 | 00:04:59 | |
When it comes to spurring the development of cutting-edge technologies, the Chinese government is rather pragmatic in its policymaking process.
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| Verve Motion raises $20M to grow its exosuit business | 13 Dec 2023 | 00:05:06 | |
Verve Motion, a startup building a robotic “exosuit” designed to help workers complete physically demanding tasks in factories and other like environments, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B round.
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| China’s WeRide tests autonomous buses in Singapore, accelerate global ambition | 13 Dec 2023 | 00:04:20 | |
After years of aggressive expansion at home, China’s autonomous vehicle upstarts are now setting their gaze on overseas markets.
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| Hasbro to cut 1,100 jobs despite Dungeons & Dragons thriving | 12 Dec 2023 | 00:03:45 | |
Hasbro is laying off 1,100 employees, according to an SEC filing. The company behind franchises like Dungeons & Dragons and Transformers, Hasbro already laid off 800 employees in January.
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| US-China tech war escalates over EV battery dominance | 12 Dec 2023 | 00:03:58 | |
Semiconductors have in recent years become a focal point in the U.S.’s efforts to impede China’s technological advancement.
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| TikTok to invest $1.5B in GoTo’s Indonesia e-commerce business | 11 Dec 2023 | 00:04:55 | |
ByteDance’s TikTok will take a 75.01% controlling stake in a joint venture entity formed in partnership with GoTo’s e-commerce unit Tokopedia.
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| Trump says Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch might invest in TikTok deal, also, Google isn’t kidding around about cost cutting | 22 Sep 2025 | 00:06:28 | |
The Trump administration has been talking up a potential TikTok deal this weekend, with President Donald Trump telling Fox News on Sunday that Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan are “probably” going to be involved.
Also, Google is ending its enterprise subscription to the Financial Times, and it’s not the only enterprise media subscription on the chopping block, sources say. The cuts reflect broader cost-reduction efforts at the search giant, even as the company reports strong financial performance.
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| Threads is rolling out its hashtags without the hash symbol globally | 11 Dec 2023 | 00:02:55 | |
Meta’s social network Threads got a major update Thursday as the company started rolling out tags (without the hash symbol) on the platform.
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| Google’s best Gemini demo was faked | 08 Dec 2023 | 00:08:05 | |
Google’s new Gemini AI model is getting a mixed reception after its big debut yesterday, but users may have less confidence in the company’s tech or integrity after finding out that the most impressive demo of Gemini was pretty much faked.
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| EU ‘final’ talks to fix AI rules to run into second day — but deal on foundational models is on the table | 08 Dec 2023 | 00:07:16 | |
As European Union lawmakers clock up 20+ hours of negotiating time in a marathon attempt to reach agreement on how to regulate artificial intelligence a preliminary accord on how to handle one sticky element.
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| Meta finally starts rolling out default end-to-end encryption for Messenger | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:03:11 | |
After years of promises and limited tests, Meta has started rolling out default end-to-end encryption protection for Messenger.
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| Bing’s new ‘Deep Search’ feature offers more comprehensive answers to complex search queries | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:03:57 | |
Microsoft Bing is getting a new “Deep Search” feature powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4.
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| X is now licensed for payment processing in a dozen U.S states | 06 Dec 2023 | 00:04:32 | |
Elon Musk is moving forward with his plans to turn the company formerly known as Twitter, now called X, into an “everything app” that includes its own payments system.
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| Meta set to discontinue cross-messaging between Instagram and Facebook | 06 Dec 2023 | 00:02:25 | |
Meta has silently updated its support pages to indicate that the company won’t let users on Instagram message their Facebook contacts anymore.
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| Cruise faces fines in California for withholding key details in robotaxi accident | 05 Dec 2023 | 00:06:44 | |
Cruise keeps getting kicked while it’s down.
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| TikTok expands its in-app Ticketmaster ticketing feature to users in 20 countries | 05 Dec 2023 | 00:02:44 | |
TikTok and Ticketmaster are expanding their partnership into 20 new countries after initially launching it in the United States back in August 2022.
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| Meta faces $600M competition damages claim in Spain as media owners pursue privacy breach lawsuit | 04 Dec 2023 | 00:05:19 | |
Meta is facing a major legal challenge and damages claim in Spain that argues the adtech giant’s years of failing to have a valid legal basis for processing people’s data for ads under European Union data protection rules.
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| Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web | 19 Sep 2025 | 00:04:00 | |
Mastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative to social networks like Threads and X, has a new plan to make money. Instead of relying entirely on donations and grants as before, the company announced Friday that it will now offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations that want to join the open social web.
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| Smartphone sales to rebound on AI gains, Morgan Stanley says | 04 Dec 2023 | 00:04:40 | |
Smartphone sales will mount a comeback starting in 2024, defying growing warnings of a prolonged slump across the mobile sector, according to separate projections by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reviewed by TechCrunch.
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| Former Blue Origin rocket engine manager alleges wrongful termination for whistleblowing on safety | 01 Dec 2023 | 00:04:56 | |
The former program manager of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging whistleblower retaliation after he spoke up about safety issues.
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| Immensa, a MENA-based additive manufacturing and digital inventory platform, raises $20 million | 01 Dec 2023 | 00:08:38 | |
The global energy spare parts market is valued at over $90 billion, with the Middle East representing about 35% of this sector.
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| Here’s your reminder that Google is deleting inactive accounts tomorrow | 30 Nov 2023 | 00:02:21 | |
As Google ramps up its security measures, the company is deleting inactive accounts that haven’t been touched for two years as a way of protecting users from security threats, such as identity theft, unwanted spam and scams.
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| Polestar’s climate-tweeting bot isn’t actually a bot, for good reason | 30 Nov 2023 | 00:03:24 | |
“When is a bot a person?,” my colleague Kirsten asked after I learned that Polestar’s climate bot is more human than machine.
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| London’s iconic black cabs can soon be hailed on Uber | 29 Nov 2023 | 00:03:01 | |
Uber has secured another win over the struggling taxi industry. Soon, riders in London will be able to hail an iconic black cab in the city.
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| AWS brings Amazon One palm-scanning authentication to the enterprise | 29 Nov 2023 | 00:04:31 | |
Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary AWS (Amazon Web Services) has lifted the lid on a new palm-scanning identity service that allows companies to authenticate people when entering physical premises.
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| Apple partner Foxconn to invest $1.5 billion in India | 28 Nov 2023 | 00:03:15 | |
Foxconn plans to invest $1.54 billion in India, the latest in its growing expansion plan, following a surge in revenues in the South Asian market.
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| X loses Paris Hilton’s 11:11 Media partnership in latest brand pull-out | 28 Nov 2023 | 00:03:44 | |
Paris Hilton’s 11:11 Media is pulling out of its partnership with the X.
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| After two ambitious years, TikTok parent ByteDance starts mass layoffs in gaming | 27 Nov 2023 | 00:03:59 | |
ByteDance’s gaming ambition has been an expensive, short-lived pursuit.
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| US government charges British teenager accused of at least 120 ‘Scattered Spider’ hacks; plus, OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild | 19 Sep 2025 | 00:09:56 | |
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday unsealed federal charges against British teenager Thalha Jubair, who prosecutors accuse of being involved in at least 120 cyberattacks, including the U.S. Courts system, and the extortion of dozens of U.S. companies.
In other news, Every now and then, researchers at the biggest tech companies drop a bombshell. There was the time Google said its latest quantum chip indicated multiple universes exist. Or when Anthropic gave its AI agent Claudius a snack vending machine to run and it went amok, calling security on people, and insisting it was human. This week, it was OpenAI’s turn to raise our collective eyebrows.
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| OpenAI will benefit from unity of purpose with Sam Altman’s return | 23 Nov 2023 | 00:04:20 | |
In case you missed it, Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO. His reinstatement comes after a whirlwind few days in which we saw unusual corporate governance lead to an attempt to oust Altman, despite support from both Microsoft and the vast majority of OpenAI’s workforce. While the whole process was incredibly messy, the result […]
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| Florida judge finds Tesla, Elon Musk knew of defective Autopilot system | 22 Nov 2023 | 00:05:15 | |
There is “reasonable evidence” to conclude that Tesla and its officers, including CEO Elon Musk, knew its vehicles had defective Autopilot systems but still allowed the cars to be driven in areas “not safe for that technology,” a Florida judge found. The ruling last week from Judge Reid Scott, in the Circuit Court for Palm […]
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| Generative AI startup AI21 Labs raises cash in the midst of OpenAI chaos | 22 Nov 2023 | 00:04:49 | |
One AI startup’s undoing is another’s opportunity. Case in point: today, AI21 Labs, a company developing generative AI products along the lines of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and ChatGPT, closed a $53 million extension to its previously-announced Series C funding round.
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| Chaos at OpenAI adds fuel to the AI talent poaching war | 21 Nov 2023 | 00:05:07 | |
It may be difficult for just any company to court OpenAI employees even if compensation packages are eye-poppingly high because of loyalty to Sam Altman.
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| Tinder redesigns profile pages with prompts, info tags and quiz | 21 Nov 2023 | 00:02:21 | |
Tinder is revamping its profile pages to make them more informative and create easier starting points for conversations.
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| Altman won’t return as OpenAI’s CEO after all | 20 Nov 2023 | 00:04:40 | |
Capping off a tumultuous weekend at OpenAI that culminated in investors — and a contingent of employees — attempting to convince the company’s board to hire back former Y Combinator president Sam Altman after firing him on Friday, Altman won’t be returning as CEO
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| Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | 20 Nov 2023 | 00:05:54 | |
What price privacy? End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app Signal has put out an interesting overview of the costs required to develop and maintain its pro-privacy systems which shield user data from tracking by default.
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| Wattpad Premium subscribers now have access to 5 free monthly Wattpad Originals | 17 Nov 2023 | 00:03:33 | |
Wattpad announced today “Premium Picks,” a new offering that gives Premium and Premium+ subscribers monthly access to five free Wattpad Originals—the recently launched freemium model where select authors can choose to monetize chapters.
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| DeepMind and YouTube release Lyria, a gen-AI model for music, and Dream Track to build AI tunes | 17 Nov 2023 | 00:05:06 | |
Back in January, Google made some waves — soundwaves, that is — when it quietly released some research on AI-based music creation software that built tunes based on word prompts.
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| Toyota is turning to startup Redwood Materials for critical battery materials | 16 Nov 2023 | 00:03:53 | |
Battery cells produced at Toyota’s future North American EV factory will someday contain a little Redwood Materials DNA.
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| Nvidia buys $5 billion stake in Intel, planning AI chip collaboration, also,Bumble BFF’s revamped app is here, focusing on friend groups | 18 Sep 2025 | 00:05:55 | |
Nvidia has agreed to buy a $5 billion stake in Intel as part of a broader deal to together develop “multiple generations” of data center and PC products.
Also, With friendship apps continuing to gain popularity, Bumble announced on Wednesday the relaunch of its Bumble For Friends app. With younger generations seeking to expand their social circles, the revamped app aims to help users connect with new friends beyond the traditional one-on-one matching that BFF has been known for.
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| GM inserts exec at Cruise as safety review expands, manual self driving paused | 16 Nov 2023 | 00:03:55 | |
General Motors is taking a more active role in shaping the safety culture at Cruise.
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| Tesla hits reverse on threat to sue Cybertruck resellers | 15 Nov 2023 | 00:02:09 | |
Tesla seems to be walking back the punitive limits it placed on buyers of its yet-to-be-released Cybertrucks.
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