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California AG sends Musk’s xAI a cease-and-desist order over sexual deepfakes
Earlier this week, the California attorney general’s office announced that it was investigating xAI over reports that the…
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AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post
Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue…
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Snowflake, Databricks challenger ClickHouse hits $15B valuation
Database provider ClickHouse secured $400 million at a $15 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, representing about a 2.5x increase…
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TikTok quietly launches a microdrama app called ‘PineDrama’
TikTok has quietly released a new stand-alone short drama app called PineDrama in the U.S. and Brazil. The…
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EPA rules that xAI’s natural gas generators were illegally used
Elon Musk’s xAI has been illegally operating dozens of natural gas turbines to power its Colossus data centers…
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Supreme Court hacker posted stolen government data on Instagram
A hacker posted the personal data of several of his hacking victims on his Instagram account named @ihackthegovernment,…
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The AI healthcare gold rush is here
AI companies are clustering around healthcare and fast. In just the past week, OpenAI bought health startup Torch, Anthropic…
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How a hacking campaign targeted high-profile Gmail and WhatsApp users across the Middle East
On Tuesday, U.K.-based Iranian activist Nariman Gharib tweeted redacted screenshots of a phishing link sent to him via…
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X is down for the second time this week
Elon Musk’s X is experiencing its second large-scale outage this week. The site and app, formerly known as…
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YouTube relaxes monetization guidelines for some controversial topics
YouTube is updating its advertiser-friendly content guidelines to allow more videos on controversial issues to earn full ad…