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  • Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck

    Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is the faulty design of a truck Elon Musk calls ‘apocalypse-proof’ When sheriff deputies arrived at the scene of a late-night crash off a desolate Texas road in August 2024, they could see a giant pyre…

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  • Meta and Google trial: are infinite scroll and autoplay creating addicts?

    Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work? It was as “easy as ABC”, claimed the lawyer prosecuting a landmark social media harm case against Meta and Google which heard closing arguments this week. The defendants were guilty, said Mark Lanier,…

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  • Meta reportedly plans sweeping layoffs as AI costs increase

    Sources tell Reuters layoffs could affect 20% or more of company as plans reflect broader tensions within big tech Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater…

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  • Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war

    Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how The standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon has forced the tech industry to once again grapple with the question of how its products are used for war – and what…

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  • ‘IG is a drug’: jury to deliberate as US trial over social media addiction wraps up

    Meta and YouTube accused of creating harmful products in trial seen as a bellwether for attitudes towards social media The first-ever jury trial over the potential harms of social media wrapped up on Thursday. Lawyers for Meta and YouTube have argued their platforms are safe for the vast majority of young people, while lawyers for…

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  • Elon Musk’s Tesla given go-ahead to supply electricity in Great Britain

    Ofgem licence means firm can replicate Texas setup of powering homes, businesses and EVs Elon Musk’s Tesla has won approval to supply electricity to households and businesses across Great Britain, as the tech billionaire expands his energy ambitions. The energy regulator, Ofgem, has formally granted Tesla an electricity supply licence, enabling it to provide electricity…

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  • Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash

    Billionaire’s artificial intelligence company gets approval to run 41 methane gas turbines at its ‘Colossus 2’ in Mississippi Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI won approval on Tuesday to run 41 methane gas turbines at its “Colossus 2” datacenter in northern Mississippi. That’s nearly double the amount it has been operating. The turbines will help…

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  • Should we be boycotting ChatGPT? – podcast

    Rutger Bregman on why he thinks consumers should cancel their ChatGPT accounts The historian Rutger Bregman argues that consumers should boycott OpenAI’s ChatGPT after the company’s deal with the Pentagon. “A lot of people don’t know that their friendly chatbot, ChatGPT, has embedded itself into the authoritarian infrastructure of the Trump administration,” Bregman tells Helen…

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  • How AI firm Anthropic wound up in the Pentagon’s crosshairs

    Standoff with DoD over Claude chatbot reignites debate over how AI will be used in war – and who will be held accountable Until recently, Anthropic was one of the quieter names in the artificial intelligence boom. Despite being valued at about $350bn, it rarely generated the flashy headlines or public backlash associated with Sam…

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  • Tech oligarchs reshape humanity while billionaires of old seem quaint

    From Gates to Musk and Altman, today’s ultra-rich steer AI and tech, raising questions about who decides the future When Bill Gates became the first modern IT mogul to reach the apex of wealth and power in 1992, the world was a very different place. Gates joined the top 10 on Forbes magazine’s billionaires list…

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