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Ant Group launches Zhixiaobao, a standalone AI app to let users facilitate daily tasks such as ordering meals and hailing taxis, and access third-party services (Xinmei Shen/South China Morning Post)

Ant Group launches Zhixiaobao, a standalone AI app...

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A San Francisco federal judge rules that X must face a class action age bias suit by around 150 older workers who were laid off by the company in 2022 (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

A San Francisco federal judge rules that X must fa...

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Verizon agrees to buy rival telecom operator Frontier Communications for an enterprise value of $20B; Frontier had a revenue of $5.8B in 2023 (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)

Verizon agrees to buy rival telecom operator Front...

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Meta's Oversight Board rules that users should be allowed to post "aspirational" statements for Venezuelan state-supported paramilitary groups to be killed (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

Meta's Oversight Board rules that users should be ...

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Leaked Disney files include personal data of some staff and customers, and show that Disney+ had $2.4B+ revenue in March quarter, or 43% of Disney's DTC revenue (Wall Street Journal)

Leaked Disney files include personal data of some ...

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An adviser to CJEU sides with Italy's antitrust authority that Google's refusal to provide third-party access to Android Auto may breach EU competition rules (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

An adviser to CJEU sides with Italy's antitrust au...

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Germany-based Aleph Alpha, which raised $500M+ in 2023, is pivoting to focus on helping clients use AI tools, instead of trying to outperform OpenAI and others (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Germany-based Aleph Alpha, which raised $500M+ in ...

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India and Singapore sign a series of deals to ramp up collaboration in semiconductors and digital technologies, including cybersecurity, 5G, AI, and more (Bloomberg)

India and Singapore sign a series of deals to ramp...

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YouTube begins restricting repeated video recommendations to teens about fitness levels, body weights, or physical features globally, expanding beyond the US (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

YouTube begins restricting repeated video recommen...

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Inside Amazon Zoox's command center in Foster City, California, which holds about 36 human technicians who oversee and provide remote assistance to robot taxis (New York Times)

Inside Amazon Zoox's command center in Foster City...

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Some tech and crypto firms, and Wyoming rush to launch their own stablecoins to profit from a recovering crypto market, as experts say tokens are of little use (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

Some tech and crypto firms, and Wyoming rush to la...

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Intel cancels plans for using its 20A process node for its Arrow Lake processors for the consumer market and will use external nodes instead, likely from TSMC (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)

Intel cancels plans for using its 20A process node...

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Cybersecurity company Pango Group is acquiring all of Kaspersky's US customers, or ~1M users, after Commerce Department banned Kaspersky's software in the US (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Cybersecurity company Pango Group is acquiring all...

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A look at the economics of Waymo's robot taxi business as its dominance has grown since Cruise pulled its fleet off the road (Eli Tan/New York Times)

A look at the economics of Waymo's robot taxi busi...

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YouTube expands its existing parental controls to let parents link their account to their teens' account and gain insight into the teens' activity (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

YouTube expands its existing parental controls to ...

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An analysis of OpenAI's GPT Store finds 100+ custom GPTs that appear to violate OpenAI's policies regarding sexual content, legal and medical advice, and more (Todd Feathers/Gizmodo)

An analysis of OpenAI's GPT Store finds 100+ custo...

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The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to cultivate AI technologists "equipped with deep philosophical thinking", with plans for an AI lab, a VC arm, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to cultiva...

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Indian bike taxi startup Rapido raised $200M at a $1.1B valuation led by WestBridge and plans to expand its newly launched cab-hailing service (The Economic Times)

Indian bike taxi startup Rapido raised $200M at a ...

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