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Analysis: candidates backing a data center moratorium could win up to 15 of 36 US governors' races on Tuesday, including in Texas, Ohio, Michigan, and New York (Shane Burke/The Information)

Analysis: candidates backing a data center morator...

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A look at VC-backed glossy magazine Colossus, whose glowing profiles of Zuckerberg and other tech titans win industry praise, as Kara Swisher says it is PR (Andrew Fedorov/The San Francisco Standard)

A look at VC-backed glossy magazine Colossus, whos...

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Binance says net outflows were $3.64B, or 2.1% of assets, in the 9.5 hours after it began restoring withdrawals; DefiLlama puts 24-hour net outflows at $4.05B (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Binance says net outflows were $3.64B, or 2.1% of ...

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Google's data center energy head says space data centers cost up to 100x more than Earth-based ones, and US power supply is sufficient but permits are slow (Amir Efrati/The Information)

Google's data center energy head says space data c...

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A profile of White House OSTP Director Michael Kra...

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Solve: the cost of insuring against debt defaults at hyperscalers Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle has hit its highest level since 2021 (Gunjan Banerji/Wall Street Journal)

Solve: the cost of insuring against debt defaults ...

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A look at a crude campaign of cyberattacks by Russia-linked hacktivist groups that have caused physical damage in NATO-aligned countries over the past two years (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

A look at a crude campaign of cyberattacks by Russ...

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Lumaril, which develops AI software for optimizing industrial production by connecting to existing control systems, raised a $66M Series A at a $400M valuation (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)

Lumaril, which develops AI software for optimizing...

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Binance says it plans to resume withdrawals in phases starting Sunday, after covering 95% of the ~$6.3B in tokens stolen in the hack, including BTC and ETH (Reuters)

Binance says it plans to resume withdrawals in pha...

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Shanghai-based NeuroXess, which is developing BCI technology for movement support, speech decoding, and control of external devices, raised a ~$105M Series B (TechNode)

Shanghai-based NeuroXess, which is developing BCI ...

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Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M+ and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquir...

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DeepSeek open sources Super-Agent as a research prototype, a proactive coding agent it says can monitor group chats for coding issues and suggest solutions (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

DeepSeek open sources Super-Agent as a research pr...

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Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyperexponential, which makes AI-powered insurance underwriting and pricing software, for $1.7B in cash (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)

Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acqui...

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The FBI attributes the $6B+ Binance hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor hacking group, which the agency also previously blamed for the Bybit hack (Kevin Whitelaw/Bloomberg)

The FBI attributes the $6B+ Binance hack to North ...

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Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers; Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22% (Washington Post)

Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built vot...

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Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link (Swati Khandelwal/The Hacker News)

Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to Op...

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Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell these units (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot wit...

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Binance says it has covered 90% of its hack losses, having set aside $6.34B+ of company funds; the remaining 10% is in less liquid tokens (Angela Christy/Reuters)

Binance says it has covered 90% of its hack losses...

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