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Anthropic warns in its IPO prospectus that it is close to AI that improves itself: it admits it once noticed an acceleration in its own development only after it had happened

Deeper in its IPO prospectus, in the risk section, Anthropic wrote that the development of the company's models may soon...

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Germany warns MPs their iPhones may have been hacked with spyware: Apple sent warnings in 99 countries, and nobody knows who is behind the attacks

The Bundestag is counting potentially hacked phones, and Berlin won't say whether Merz was a target. The irony: German police...

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xAI Claimed the Gas Turbines at Colossus Are "Mobile" and Need No Permit: Federal Judge Denies the Motion, NAACP Lawsuit Goes Ahead

The SpaceX-owned company also argued citizens have no right to sue over the air they breathe. The court disagreed, and...

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TikTok Picks Your Restaurant and Hotel, and It's Working on Sending Money by Message: The Video Was Just the Way In to the Everything App

The model of China's WeChat is now being built by an app in mostly American hands. Whoever decides where you...

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Four Giants Announced Over 740 Billion Dollars in Investment This Year, and Wall Street Started Asking If the Money Will Come Back: Alphabet Lost 500 Billion Dollars in Value in a Day

Google is paying for AI that eats its search earnings, Amazon burned through 42 billion dollars more cash than it...

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Applebee's Left Its Customer Database Password in Its App: Names, Phone Numbers and Birth Dates Were Open to Anyone, and the Company Won't Say Whether There Are Traces of Who Got In

The researcher who found the hole had nowhere to report it, so he turned to journalists. The company now says...

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Intel Shares Plunge 28 Percent in a Day: The US Government's Stake Is Worth 12 Billion Dollars Less, and the Problem Is Called Artificial Intelligence

Washington bought 10 percent of Intel and is now learning what being a shareholder means. Its data centres are up...

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Toyota Will Build Waymo's Robotaxis: Tests Start Next Year in Japan, and Britain Is Also the Target

What was a fog of words 18 months ago is now a car purchase. Waymo's robotaxi is headed for Japan...

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Reddit Moves Behind a Login: Search Engines Are Sending It Fewer and Fewer People, and It Won't Give Its Data to AI Bots for Free

Reddit is losing readers from search, yet its revenue jumped 53 percent. The login shields its data from AI bots...

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GM Pays 220 Million Dollars to 36 US States: Data on How You Drive Was Ending Up With Insurers

A free feature scored how you drive, and according to the lawsuit, the data went to brokers and insurers. Now...

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Microsoft made 10 billion dollars from OpenAI in three months: a partner that is increasingly a rival now brings in almost 11 percent of its revenue

Almost one in every nine dollars Microsoft earned last quarter came from the company it's fighting for the same customers....

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Apple finally releases a touchscreen MacBook Pro, the idea Jobs called ergonomically terrible: the most expensive configuration costs 14,549 dollars

For years Apple rejected the idea of a touch Mac. Now it's selling one, and with every upgrade the laptop...

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