AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.
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Friday, June 26, 2026
TikTok’s road to becoming a super app
TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.
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Tesla settles FSD crash lawsuit as federal investigations continue
The lawsuit was connected to a fatal 2023 crash involving a vehicle using the company's advanced driver assistance system known as Full Self-Driving.
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Xprize founder says ‘humans behave better when they’re being watched’
Peter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry Ellison's comments in 2024.
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Thursday, June 25, 2026
The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns
penAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of to the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.
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Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents
Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.
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Xbox follows Apple with price increases
The company says the increases are being driven by rising memory and console storage prices, with costs more than 2.5x higher than previous levels.
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Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds
The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third party breach.
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Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover
The company said it is discontinuing its email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering as users are increasingly handing over the reins of their email to the agents.
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Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT
Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.
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a16z-backed Base Power is offering cheaper electricity to the power grid that needs it most
Base Power is skipping the PJM's troubled interconnection queue by placing its batteries at people's homes, offering backup services in exchange.
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General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world
General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.
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Hacked Klue says criminals are deleting stolen customer data, but now other hackers are making threats
Market research company Klue told customers that it believes the hacking group that stole their data is now deleting it. The company, however, warned about a second group of hackers wanting ransom.
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Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x
Un0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.
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Parker Conrad knows which employees are worth their AI spend and says Rippling can help you, too
"There were employees doing things like, 'Claude is so helpful for me — it analyzes my calendar and my email and puts together a plan for me,'" he says. "That person was spending at a run rate of $30,000 a year for this."
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