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As Anthropic, OpenAI, and industry giants race to outpace each other, data centers and supply chains are straining, while job markets and open-source communities feel the heat. Listen in for a roundtable on whether AI is fueling innovation, burnout, or just the next tech bubble.
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos
- Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found
- You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them.
- Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI
- AI anxiety is turning volatile
- Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
- Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.
- Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI's Soul
- The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
- Sam Altman's project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
- Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules
- Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One
- Live Nation and Ticketmaster lose monopoly case
- Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping
- Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada
- Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights
- What's the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users?
- TotalRecall Reloaded tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database
- Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
- It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
- Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is leaving the company
- Venture capitalist Ron Conway says he is starting treatment for a 'rare' cancer
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