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Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect

Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct clai...

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensiti...

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Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website

Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on thi...

With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States...

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President Trump awards Big Tech donors with nation’s highest science prizes

President Trump awards Big Tech donors with nation’s hi...

Together, the awardees have donated nearly $6 billion to efforts tied to Trump a...

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Xona’s commercial GPS alternative is about to go live

Xona’s commercial GPS alternative is about to go live

Xona's precision timing and navigation service will enter beta testing after Spa...

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Surveillance company Flock cuts staff as privacy backlash grows

Surveillance company Flock cuts staff as privacy backla...

Flock would not say if CEO Garrett Langley would take a pay cut following the re...

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Vessev built an electric ferry that almost flies

Vessev built an electric ferry that almost flies

Vessev hopes its electric hydrofoil ferry will change the way people and cities ...

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Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat disappears from app stores in India after government order

Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat disappears from app stores in Ind...

Bitchat has become largely unavailable in India as a result of the restrictions.

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OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’

OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ...

By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at ...

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Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs

Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no lon...

The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion o...

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Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’

Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveill...

A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendmen...

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Airbnb adds AI search, more social features

Airbnb adds AI search, more social features

Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in selec...

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Charter Space raises $5M to bring insurance to the stars

Charter Space raises $5M to bring insurance to the stars

As Charter explains on its website, a common experience for space companies is t...

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Tinder adapts to a social, IRL dating future with ‘Group Hangouts’ feature

Tinder adapts to a social, IRL dating future with ‘Grou...

As younger users grow increasingly tired of the endless scroll, dating apps are ...

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Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick 4K comes with an actually good remote

Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick 4K comes with an actually go...

Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick 4K is slimmer and faster, but its biggest upgrade may...

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WhatsApp adds new parental controls for teen accounts

WhatsApp adds new parental controls for teen accounts

Parents can limit how teens use channels, whose Status they can see, who can see...

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Meta opens early access program for new Muse features

Meta opens early access program for new Muse features

Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.