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-OpenAI has launched Patch the Planet, a new initiative part of its Daybreak cybersecurity program, which was designed to serve the open-source community. -China's LineShine from the nation's National Supercomputer Center hit 2.198 Exaflops of performance, beating the previous champ El Capitan -Meta's Oversight Board has called on the social media company to strengthen its protection for ordinary people targeted by sexualized deepfakes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-The Wall Street Journal has found that the company is paying social media creators to post misleading content promoting the prediction market. -Norway is imposing a strict ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school kids. -Octopus Energy, the UK's largest energy provider, has teamed up with CATL, the world's biggest EV battery maker, to bring Chinese-style battery swap stations to Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-Five members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice previously testified at Seattle city council meetings about AI data centers. Now, three of them are apparently under investigation by the company. -Richard Hermer, the Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland, has reportedly told his department to stop posting official updates on X. -Rivian has been sued on allegations that it made misleading statements about the self-driving capabilities of its R1T truck and R1S SUV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-Waymo told Engadget that it identified an area of improvement regarding performance around freeway construction zones, adding that the company voluntarily restricted freeway operations last month. -Relativity Space will provide spacecraft, rocket and cruise operations to deliver the agency's science instruments to Mars. -Apple's outgoing CEO Tim Cook all but confirmed that higher prices are on the way for the company's products, saying "price increases are unavoidable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The all-stock acquisition concludes an agreement the two announced in April. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The recently resurrected Commodore is getting back into phones, but rather than taking on the likes of Apple and Samsung at their own game, the Commodore Callback 8020 is a proudly non-conformant flip phone that wouldn't have looked out of place in the '90s. -WhatsApp is finally offering what most of its contemporaries already have: disappearing (view-once) texts. -The White House app is reportedly coming to all devices managed by the Department of Homeland Security, whether the user wants to download it or not. GovExec that it was a "cause for alarm," as any app installed on government-issued devices can "potentially create backdoor access to government networks behind the firewall."  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-The government recently annulled the results of a key medical school entrance test because it said that the answers were leaked ahead of time on Telegram. -The Atlantic has published four searchable databases of music that has been used to train AI models. The scope is pretty staggering, with 12 million tracks in one database, 9 million in another, and the two final ones each containing about 100,000 songs. -Google Earth has a flight sim mode of its own, and it can now be accessed by anyone globally via their browser. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company is also promoting legislation to fight the potential of AI to create 'massive' scams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The Fox Corporation announced it will be acquiring Roku, best known for its streaming device ecosystem for about $22 billion for Roku, or $160 per share. -Ahead of the G7 conference in France, Donald Trump is once again threatening massive tariffs on France if it doesn't remove its three percent digital tax on US tech companies. -The UK is banning young people under 16 from social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The astronaut wears Prada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Apple designed Siri to put up and maintain boundaries, so to speak. "Siri really wants to say, 'Listen, that's not what I'm here for, right? I'm here to help you. I can help you get things done.” -A special textile to create a jacket capable of atmospheric water harvesting used a special fabric designed to collect moisture from the air and gather it in detachable harvesting units rather than simply having the textile absorb the water. -A teardown of the Trump Mobile T1 revealed that it's basically the same as an HTC handset. iFixit concluded the T1 is "a phone designed in China, made in China, with the vast majority of parts sourced from China." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Maybe it wasn't a great idea to let 14-year-olds post videos to Spotlight in the first place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Anthropic is walking back a policy that discreetly hamstrung researchers using its new Claude Fable 5 LLM to create competing AI models. -Bluesky said that communities will be smaller spaces inside the one big space that Bluesky provides, where you can find and talk to people who are interested in the same topics you are. -Deezer made its AI-detection tool available to other streaming companies in an effort to stem the rise of AI slop and fraudulent streams.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first phase of the CMA's probe into the $110 billion deal could last for two months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Waymo's ReD is based on a neuroscientific concept called active inference, which posits that people are always trying to minimize surprise. -The Seattle City Council has unanimously approved a moratorium on the construction of new large AI data centers for one year. -Kalshi will require users to disclose where they work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Say hello to Siri AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Wired uncovered the dormant tool that contained algorithms which would have converted photos of faces into biometric identifiers stored on-device and cross referenced with each new facial scan. -Meta is once again asking a court to intervene in its long-running battle against spyware maker NSO Group. -The UK government is reviewing its National Health Service partnership with US data firm Palantir to decide if it will end the contract early. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The “super-antigen” could provide long-term protection against a wide range of diseases spread by humans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-A redesigned ChatGPT would encourage users beyond just chatting and towards using "coding tools, image generation and applications built by partners such as Canva and Booking.com." -NASA tasked Axiom Space and Prada to create new, high-tech spacesuits. -Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have measured the mass of a dormant black hole 10 billion light-years away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Valuing the company at $1.75 trillion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-OpenAI has said that it will comply with the order and allow regulators to assess its models' capabilities before they're released to the public. -Google seems to be mulling the idea of giving you the option to go straight to AI Mode when you do search queries. -Anthropic says AI is developing so fast, the trend points towards systems becoming capable of developing their own successor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Pokémon battle game debuted on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 back in April. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The board announced earlier this year that it would look into improving transparency around the process, which is often frustratingly opaque. -Apple announced that apps distributed in Texas will need to conform to the requirements set out under state law SB 2420. -NASA determined that Mars MAVEN is no longer able to perform science missions and to relay data back to Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Not even Alphabet has enough cash to meet its AI goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-A team from the University of Toronto used publicly accessible AI models to power a prototype worm capable of exploiting any known computer flaw. -Meta worked with the DOJ, along with Microsoft, Coinbase, Starlink and international law enforcement agencies to bust online scams and identify the criminal syndicates behind them. -Google is expanding its water stewardship commitments, including investments in replenishment projects, to provide more water than it consumes at its data centers by 2030. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-Tepid US EV sales and the Trump administration's elimination of the $7,500 federal tax credit caused the company to rethink that plan -Meta says that it will now attempt to restrict "repeated" exposure to posts about anxiety, weightlifting, nutrition and other content that could be inappropriate for younger users to see en masse. -Blue Origin's CEO Dave Limp believes his company can repair it much, much sooner, saying, “we will fly again before the end of this year.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google's approach to digital car keys is designed to be secure and shareable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The company announced the new Isaac Gr00t reference design humanoid robot platform that combines a Unitree H2 Plus humanoid robot, Sharpa five-fingered hands and NVIDIA Jetson Thor onboard compute. -The X-59 is scheduled to take its first supersonic flight, hitting over 630 mph at an altitude of about 43,000 feet, then, in a followup "mission conditions" test, it will reach 925 mph (Mach 1.4) at about 55,000 feet. After that, it'll go for its max speed: Mach 1.6, or 1,218 mph, at an altitude of 60,000 feet -Apple is trying to stand out from the competition with four different styles and unique colors for its smart glasses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

ElevenLabs can now offer the late Marvel icon as part of its AI-generated voice portfolio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Owner Jeff Bezos said it was a "very rough day,” but the company will rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. As The New York Times reports, the explosion occurred on Blue Origin's only launchpad for New Glenn, and it could take several months for the company to repair it. -Uber shuttles to and from the stadium will only be available in Miami. In the other three locations, the company will only be offering shuttles to leave the venues.  In Miami, Dallas and Boston, fans will have to pay $45 for a ride, while it's $49 for the New York-New Jersey venue. -The crypto business, run by twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, agreed to a $5 million fine in early January 2025 after the CFTC sued it for making false or misleading statements regarding its bitcoin operation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Most of the reports so far came from Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The company explains that Wi-Fi 8 promises a less laggy, steadier connection and stronger coverage, even with more devices connected to it and even while you're moving around your home. However, the standard isn't expected to be finalized until March 2028. -Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo has been accused of using insider information from his employer to place bets on Polymarket about common Google search subjects -Nintendo has announced that cult favorite N64 platformer Donkey Kong 64 is finally joining its Nintendo Classics library on June 4. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-SpaceX executives reportedly met with Department of Defense officials to talk about pricing. The message from Elon Musk's company was essentially: You're paying about $5,000 per Starlink terminal monthly, but you're using it like a higher-tier aviation subscription that costs $25,000 per month. -DuckDuckGo has reported "a sustained surge" of installs in the US in the week that followed Google's I/O developer conference, where the bigger company announced more AI features for Search. -The new Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting website centers on a map showing major operational AI data centers and facilities under construction in the US, along with projects reported by the community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google's new AI features capitalize on the popularity of voice dictation, and a desire to leave the thinking to AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Blue Origin can now make more concrete plans for New Glenn's next flight after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has cleared the rocket for launch. -Love it or hate it, you can likewise attribute Luce's exterior styling to LoveFrom, the design house founded by Jony Ive in 2019. -Colossal Biosciences, the "de-extinction" biotech company best known for its claims of reviving the dire wolf, announced last week that it has hatched 26 healthy chicks from 3D-printed artificial eggshells. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google is trying to get more hardware partners to develop and release devices with Gemini for Home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google has a lot to prove, but its smart glasses will have a few big advantages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Anthropic expects to post $559 million in operating profit, making it the company's first profitable quarter since it was founded in 2021 if it hits that target. -Airbnb says it's featuring "hotels that feel like Airbnb," and it promises to price-match if you find them elsewhere for a lower price. -Kansas City Public Schools acquired more than 4,500 of the recently released MacBook Neos for students in 8th grade and up. Younger grades will use the district's existing stock of iPads and MacBook Airs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company is also expected to lay off 8,000 workers this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Gemini for Science includes three primary features: Hypothesis Generation, Computational Discovery and Literature Insights. -Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a bill that bans prediction markets operating within the state, but they are already facing challenges. -Kickstarter has retracted the new set of rules around mature content that it released last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Meta HR head Janelle Gale has notified employees that 7,000 of them will be moved to four new organizations focused on building new AI tools and apps. -LinkedIn has long been on the frontlines of the AI slopidemic. Now, the company is taking new steps to reduce the reach of posts that bear the hallmarks of AI-generated drivel. -Apple is previewing new accessibility features including Apple Intelligence-powered updates like natural language voice input, along with a new Vision Pro app that allows eye control for motorized wheelchairs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - xAI introduces its coding agent called Grok Build Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The suit was filed on Friday in Seattle and accused Amazon of profiting "hundreds of millions of dollars in unlawful tariff costs." -OpenAI announced a "world's first partnership" with the country of Malta. -A $3 Mac app that hit the App Store this weekend aims to solve a very specific, but very common problem: accidental inputs from cats walking, sitting and sprawling out on keyboards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Instagram is taking another stab at the ephemeral photo format with a new feature called Instants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Security researchers from a Palo Alto-based company called Calif claim they were able to breach macOS after designing a privilege escalation exploit with help from Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview. -Grok Build is still in its early beta version that's initially only available to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers paying $300 per month for the service. -Netflix has launched a new studio called INKubator that will specialize in creating generative AI content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices