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A Trump appointee emailed Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy employees last week with a long list of banned words.

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The new safety features come after numerous incidents of ChatGPT validating users' delusional thinking instead of redirecting harmful conversations -- including the death of a teenage boy by suicide.

The social media giant announced that free access to the feature will be limited to 5GB.

Users in Ohio will have to verify their age to use Bluesky's social network as of Monday.

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The startup uses an LLM tailored to helping people arrive at a consensus. Is it enough to help bridge our differences?

The Indian-owned carmaking giant will be bailed out after a cyberattack stalled car production and its downstream supply chain. Critics argue that the bailout sends the wrong message to hackers and crime groups.

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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is closing the doors on her consumer software startup Sunshine, and is selling the company's assets to her new AI startup, Dazzle, Wired reported, citing an email sent to Sunshine's shareholders.

Polars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project by the same name, has raised an €18 million Series A led by Accel.

Honda is partnering with Astrobotic to study whether their tech could provide continuous power on the moon.

Instagram is testing a new Reels-first UI in India and South Korea to give short videos more prominence in the app.

X said last week's Indian court ruling allows millions of police officers to issue "arbitrary" content takedown orders.

Maximor has come out of stealth with a human-in-the-loop agentic platform that does the finance team's grunt work.

Paid offers an interesting contribution to the AI agentic world: a platform for so-called "results-based" billing.

Early warning signs suggest this whole services-industry metamorphosis may be more complicated than VCs anticipate.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Oura Health CEO Tom Hale didn’t discuss reports that the company is raising new funding that would value the health-tracking ring maker at nearly $11 billion, but he did talk about whether he has ambitions to take Oura public.

A federal judge has rejected drone maker DJI’s efforts to get off a Department of Defense list of Chinese military companies.

Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

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