Stories By Ronil Thakkar
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News
/ 3 months agoSpotify now lets you showcase your favourite music and stories behind it
Spotify will show you which songs were sampled, who has covered the track, and what other projects the contributors have been...
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Microsoft
/ 3 months agoMicrosoft wants to party with Anthropic with a gigawatt of AI brainpower
This whole arrangement is possible because Microsoft finally untangled some exclusivity knots with OpenAI.
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News
/ 3 months agoJudge rules Meta isn’t a monopoly
The second big antitrust loss for the FTC against Meta after failed attempt to block the purchase of VR fitness startup...
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News
/ 3 months agoTikTok gives you the power to turn down the AI (or drown in it)
Congratulations: you now regulate the algorithm that regulates you.
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Google
/ 3 months agoGoogle launches Gemini 3 with major improvements
Google says the model needs a bit more safety testing before it’s allowed out of the lab, presumably so it doesn’t...
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AI
/ 3 months agoGrokipedia goes off the rails (again)
Grokipedia is stuffed with citations from wildly unreliable sources, some so bad that Wikipedia banned them years ago.
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Google
/ 3 months agoGoogle’s AI wants to be your new travel agent
You simply tell it where, when, and how you want to travel, and it conjures up budget-friendly options instantly.
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AI
/ 3 months agoAI toy pulled for having inappropriate chats with children
Kumma was too eager to teach kids where to find dangerous household objects, casually pointing them to drawers, countertops, and cabinets.
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News
/ 3 months agoMeta’s new tool helps reels creators protect their IP
If Meta spots your reel moonlighting on someone else’s page, you’ll get a heads-up.
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Amazon
/ 4 months agoAmazon’s satellite project gets a makeover
Leo, as in low-Earth orbit, the cosmic neighborhood where the satellites actually live.
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Apple
/ 4 months agoApple owes $634 million to Masimo for blood-oxygen tech
Apple pointed out that Masimo doesn’t even sell consumer gadgets, has sued Apple for a patent that expired back in 2022.
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AI
/ 4 months agoOpenAI reportedly shares 20% of its revenue with Microsoft
Microsoft pocketed $865.8 million from OpenAI in the first three quarters of 2025.
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Apple
/ 4 months agoWho’s next in Apple’s CEO hot seat after Tim Cook?
The frontrunner is John Ternus, the 50-year-old SVP of hardware engineering who has been quietly reshaping Apple’s device lineup.
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News
/ 4 months agoNintendo Switch 2 update breaks cheap docks
Switch 2 owners are reporting that their off-brand docks have gone from “perfectly fine” to “very expensive paperweights.”
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AI
/ 4 months agoHackers (with a little help from Claude) launch one-click cyberattacks
Anthropic says it’s continuing to build guardrails to prevent this kind of misuse.
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AI
/ 4 months agoAnthropic’s Claude is trying to stay neutral in a partisan world
Anthropic tuned Claude’s political behavior with a carefully crafted system prompt, basically a list of rules the model must follow.
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AI
/ 4 months agoSam Altman-backed Exowatt wants to power AI with hot rocks
What’s in the box: sunlight, rocks, heat, and a physics party.
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ChatGPT
/ 4 months agoMunich court rules ChatGPT broke copyright law by training on lyrics
GEMA accused OpenAI of feeding ChatGPT protected lyrics so it could soak up language patterns, something they say crossed a very...
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AI
/ 4 months agoAnthropic drops $50B to supercharge US datacenters in the AI gold rush
The datacenter gold rush is on, and Anthropic is digging hard.
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AI
/ 4 months agoOpenAI promises more warmth and personality with its new GPT-5.1
Good luck resisting the urge to click Cynical personality.
