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Hands-on with Gemini Spark beta rolling out to AI Ultra subs: planned a birthday party from emails and calendar, but called a live-in boyfriend a "close friend" (Reece Rogers/Wired)

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US Space Force says SpaceX won a $4.16B contract to build a space-based tracking network as part of President Trump's Golden Dome defensive shield (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)

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What to expect at Computex 2026: AI chips, budget PCs competing with the MacBook Neo, Nvidia entering laptop SoC market with the rumored N1X chip, and more (PCMag)

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Sources: Microsoft is working on an app that will include GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic workflow tool called Autopilot (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)

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ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages while staying synced to content (ElevenLabs)

ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says pres...

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Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays...

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After hitting their annual AI budget in months or seeing their AI bills double or triple due to "tokenmaxxing", some companies are rationing or tracking AI use (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)

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Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be "the first company in American history to offer" them, to be "fully regulated" by the CFTC (Nathan Bomey/Axios)

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A BBC Question Time episode featured a panel with AI-generated historical figures like Churchill, intended to show AI images' "hyper-real and persuasive" nature (Holly Bishop/The Independent)

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Sources: ByteDance has partnered with chipmaker InnoStar to develop an AI inference chip modeled after Groq's LPUs, which are built to run AI models at low cost (The Information)

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AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (Robert Hart/The Verge)

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Xcena, whose MX1 chip performs data orchestration and KV cache management directly within memory modules, raised a $135M Series B at a $570M valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

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Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology (Reuters)

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Allegations that China is behind US data center protests draw criticism from allies of the AI industry, who say the industry and politicians are in denial (Evan Halper/Washington Post)

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MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

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OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools (Maria Curi/Axios)

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London-based Inherent, which aims to combine human scientific research with AI to produce innovations, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index Ventures (Martin Coulter/Sifted)

London-based Inherent, which aims to combine human...

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Paxos says the US SEC has approved its registration as a clearing agency, allowing it to provide clearing and settlement services for eligible transactions (Danny Park/The Block)

Paxos says the US SEC has approved its registratio...

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