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Researchers: GPT-4 was 64.4% more persuasive than humans in one-on-one debates when given basic personal information about the person it was trying to persuade (Isaac Schultz/Gizmodo)

Researchers: GPT-4 was 64.4% more persuasive than human...

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Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo: Researchers: GPT-4 was 64.4% more persuasive than hum...

Verizon halts its launch of the Moto Razr 2025 foldable with some in-progress shipments reversed, amid rumors of fire hazards and quarantines of in-store stock (Chris Thomas/Android Police)

Verizon halts its launch of the Moto Razr 2025 foldable...

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Chris Thomas / Android Police: Verizon halts its launch of the Moto Razr 2025 ...

Graphiant, a San Jose-based NaaS startup, raised a $19M Series B extension led by Aramco's Wa'ed and Saudi Telecom's Tali, bringing the round total to $102M (Fahad Abuljadayel/Bloomberg)

Graphiant, a San Jose-based NaaS startup, raised a $19M...

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Fahad Abuljadayel / Bloomberg: Graphiant, a San Jose-based NaaS startup, raise...

Sources: Circle recently engaged in informal talks to sell itself to Coinbase or Ripple, seeking at least $5B, the valuation it is targeting in a potential IPO (Luisa Beltran/Fortune)

Sources: Circle recently engaged in informal talks to s...

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Luisa Beltran / Fortune: Sources: Circle recently engaged in informal talks to...

Qualcomm plans to launch a CPU for data centers designed to work with Nvidia's GPUs, marking its re-entry into the data center market dominated by Intel and AMD (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Qualcomm plans to launch a CPU for data centers designe...

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Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Qualcomm plans to launch a CPU for data centers designed...

Source: the US DOJ has opened a probe into a recent data breach at Coinbase; Coinbase says it's working with the DOJ and other law enforcement agencies (Bloomberg)

Source: the US DOJ has opened a probe into a recent dat...

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Bloomberg: Source: the US DOJ has opened a probe into a recent data breach at ...

Investigation: New Orleans police secretly scanned city streets with 200+ facial recognition cameras for two years, seemingly defying a 2022 city ordinance (Washington Post)

Investigation: New Orleans police secretly scanned city...

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Washington Post: Investigation: New Orleans police secretly scanned city stree...

Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the dis...

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Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the...

The California Public Utilities Commission approves Waymo's proposal to expand its services to more parts of the Bay Area, including "nearly all of San Jose" (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

The California Public Utilities Commission approves Way...

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MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: The California Public Utilities Commission approves ...

Huawei launches its first laptops running on HarmonyOS, including the 18-inch foldable MateBook Fold, and is working to make the OS compatible with 2,000+ apps (Bloomberg)

Huawei launches its first laptops running on HarmonyOS,...

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Bloomberg: Huawei launches its first laptops running on HarmonyOS, including t...

The US House Budget Committee advances a budget bill that would ban US states from enforcing any law regulating AI for 10 years; the bill now goes to the House (Clare Duffy/CNN)

The US House Budget Committee advances a budget bill th...

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Clare Duffy / CNN: The US House Budget Committee advances a budget bill that w...

SAG-AFTRA files an NLRB unfair labor practice charge against Epic's Llama Productions for using AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice in Fortnite (Todd Spangler/Variety)

SAG-AFTRA files an NLRB unfair labor practice charge ag...

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Todd Spangler / Variety: SAG-AFTRA files an NLRB unfair labor practice charge ...

New lawsuit filings: Genesis creditors accuse Barry Silbert of fraud and propelling the 2022 crypto market collapse by misrepresenting his companies' finances (Kevin T. Dugan/Wall Street Journal)

New lawsuit filings: Genesis creditors accuse Barry Sil...

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Kevin T. Dugan / Wall Street Journal: New lawsuit filings: Genesis creditors a...

A look at Neuralink and other brain-computer interface startups, as the number of people with brain implants is set to double from ~100 in the next 12 months (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Neuralink and other brain-computer interface ...

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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at Neuralink and other brain-co...

Sources: PsiQuantum, which is building a physical quantum computer, is in the process of raising $750M+; a source says Nvidia is in advanced talks to invest (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

Sources: PsiQuantum, which is building a physical quant...

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Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Sources: PsiQuantum, which is building a phy...

Experts blame Big Tech lawyers' culture of lawlessness for Amazon, Apple, and Google being accused of abusing legal privilege in antitrust and other court cases (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)

Experts blame Big Tech lawyers' culture of lawlessness ...

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Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: Experts blame Big Tech lawyers' culture of ...

Nvidia plans to build an AI supercomputer with Foxconn and Taiwan's government that will support local researchers and enterprises; TSMC plans to use the system (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)

Nvidia plans to build an AI supercomputer with Foxconn ...

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Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia plans to build an AI supercomputer...

Nvidia unveils NVLink Fusion, which lets clients use NVLink to couple non-Nvidia CPUs or accelerators with Nvidia's GPUs in their rack-scale setups to boost AI (Bloomberg)

Nvidia unveils NVLink Fusion, which lets clients use NV...

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Bloomberg: Nvidia unveils NVLink Fusion, which lets clients use NVLink to coup...

A profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who transforme...

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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: A profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who tran...

How the UK's Met Office, Google DeepMind, Nvidia, Microsoft, IBM, and startups leverage AI to make more accurate and detailed forecasts further into the future (Financial Times)

How the UK's Met Office, Google DeepMind, Nvidia, Micro...

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Financial Times: How the UK's Met Office, Google DeepMind, Nvidia, Microsoft, ...

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says on Weibo that Xiaomi invested ~$1.9B to build its Xring O1 chip and plans to invest $6.9B+ in chip design over at least the next decade (Reuters)

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says on Weibo that Xiaomi invested ~...

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Reuters: Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says on Weibo that Xiaomi invested ~$1.9B to build...

The UK plans to bring forward legislation to regulate BNPL services under the same rules as banks, four years after the previous government unveiled regulations (Akila Quinio/Financial Times)

The UK plans to bring forward legislation to regulate B...

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Akila Quinio / Financial Times: The UK plans to bring forward legislation to r...

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals says it will acquire 23andMe's assets, including its Personal Genome Service, for $256M, set to close in Q3, in the bankruptcy auction (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals says it will acquire 23andMe'...

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Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals says it will acquir...

A profile of nonprofit Psst, launched in September 2024...

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Victoria Turk / Wired: A profile of nonprofit Psst, launched in September 2024...

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