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Trump Says Vandals Destroyed Reflecting Pool With Box Cutter, Despite Saying You Couldn’t Cut it With Knife Last Month

Trump Says Vandals Destroyed Reflecting Pool With Box Cutter, Despite Saying You Couldn’t Cut it With Knife Last Month: In a Monday evening tweet, The Bulwark reposted a clip of Trump telling reporters in May that the new coating was actually strong enough to withstand the exact thing he’s accusing vandals of doing. “This will… Continue reading Trump Says Vandals Destroyed Reflecting Pool With Box Cutter, Despite Saying You Couldn’t Cut it With Knife Last Month

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Bye-Bye Bibi – Newsweek

Bye-Bye Bibi – Newsweek: For a leader who vowed dismantlement, the operative verbs are discuss, down-blend and maintain. The economics point the same way. Treasury waivers let Iran export crude oil the moment it signs; Washington undertakes to free Iran’s frozen funds for any beneficiary its central bank names; a final deal dangles at least… Continue reading Bye-Bye Bibi – Newsweek

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Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon | WIRED

Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon | WIRED: The hackathon was one of several initiatives Zuckerberg laid out on Friday to reenergize his workforce and address internal criticism about the recent layoffs and other concerns. He said budgets for team offsites would increase and that the concept of hot… Continue reading Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon | WIRED

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President Trump brushes off affordability concerns despite May price hikes

President Trump brushes off affordability concerns despite May price hikes: President Trump told reporters Wednesday that he loved “inflation,” after he was asked about inflation spiking in May. “No, I love it. The numbers were great,” Trump said when asked if he was concerned about the latest data, which showed the consumer price index rising… Continue reading President Trump brushes off affordability concerns despite May price hikes

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Trump rules out Pulte as permanent director of national intelligence | AP News

Trump rules out Pulte as permanent director of national intelligence | AP News: “He’s not going to be permanent because, you know, I don’t think he’d want to be permanent,” Trump said while taking questions in the Oval Office after an event on coal. He called Pulte a “very smart guy” and said he may… Continue reading Trump rules out Pulte as permanent director of national intelligence | AP News

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Shark Tank Star Shrinks Data Center Footprint After Backlash

Shark Tank Star Shrinks Data Center Footprint After Backlash: “Much of the alarm surrounding this project has been based on incorrect assumptions and facts about land use, water use, heat dispersion, air quality, and project timeline that does not reflect reality,” wrote O’Leary, chairman of O’Leary Digital. The project “has not broken ground, has not… Continue reading Shark Tank Star Shrinks Data Center Footprint After Backlash

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Unfortunate Company Accidentally Blows Half a Billion Dollars on Claude in One Month

Unfortunate Company Accidentally Blows Half a Billion Dollars on Claude in One Month: Regarding the unnamed and deeply unfortunate company, an AI consultant told the outlet that it blew a staggering $500 million in a month after the small oversight of “failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees.”

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Artificial intelligence: Why Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary wants to build a massive data center in Utah.

Artificial intelligence: Why Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary wants to build a massive data center in Utah.: some of the water taken to cool the hot-running, desert-sited servers would become part of a “closed-loop” system that flushes out used water back into the Great Salt Lake. That line has also been pushed by Cox, the governor,… Continue reading Artificial intelligence: Why Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary wants to build a massive data center in Utah.

Meta’s AI chatbot reportedly helped hackers steal Instagram accounts — all they had to do was ask

Meta’s AI chatbot reportedly helped hackers steal Instagram accounts — all they had to do was ask: The hacking method reportedly relied on exploiting Meta’s AI chatbot. Hackers would use a VPN to set their location to be near their target. They would then allegedly ask the support bot to add a new email address… Continue reading Meta’s AI chatbot reportedly helped hackers steal Instagram accounts — all they had to do was ask

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Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code – Ars Technica

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code – Ars Technica: On Wednesday, Ramon Batllet, a Java developer who used jqwik, spotted the prompt injection and took to GitHub to discuss it with Link. Batllet said they had no objection to developers excluding their apps from being used by AI… Continue reading Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code – Ars Technica

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Is the Trump phone finally here? Here are six things we’ve learned about Trump Mobile

Is the Trump phone finally here? Here are six things we’ve learned about Trump Mobile: The box says “proudly assembled in the USA”. There’s also the original claim that the Trump phone would be made in America. At some point, Trump Mobile changed its website to remove that language, replacing it with “American-proud design.” (That… Continue reading Is the Trump phone finally here? Here are six things we’ve learned about Trump Mobile

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Ted Cruz says GOP senators were ‘screaming’ at Todd Blanche during ‘anti-weaponization’ fund briefing

Ted Cruz says GOP senators were ‘screaming’ at Todd Blanche during ‘anti-weaponization’ fund briefing: Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., called the fund a “payout pot for punks,” referencing the fact that the Trump administration had not ruled out the possibility that people convicted of participating in the Jan. 6 riot could be compensated by the fund.

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CEO Walks Back Comment About Replacing ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’ With AI

CEO Walks Back Comment About Replacing ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’ With AI: Speaking to journalists before the presentation on Tuesday, Winters said: “It’s not cost cutting. It’s replacing in some cases lower-value human capital with the financial capital and the investment capital we’re putting in.”

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Meta cuts 8,000 jobs in sweeping global layoffs | Technology News | Al Jazeera

Meta cuts 8,000 jobs in sweeping global layoffs | Technology News | Al Jazeera: “The way to think about the investment is that we’re making a bet [on] the individual things that people care about, and that people are going to be more important in the future,” Zuckerberg said in an earnings call in April.

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Musk’s failed court attack on OpenAI could leave lasting scars on Altman’s reputation

Musk’s failed court attack on OpenAI could leave lasting scars on Altman’s reputation: “This verdict removes the single largest legal threat to a public offering,” said James Rubinowitz, a trial lawyer and AI specialist. “That said, even in victory, OpenAI walks away with the worst documentary evidence about its governance now permanently in the public… Continue reading Musk’s failed court attack on OpenAI could leave lasting scars on Altman’s reputation

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