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The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.

After critics called the bill a “get-out-of-jail-free card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.

After a poaching frenzy that’s brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.

The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.

Some Venetians are concerned about the impact the three-day event—which includes 80 private jets and more than 30 private water taxis—will have on their city.

Launched in April, the Meta AI platform offers a “discover” feed that includes user queries containing medical, legal, and other seemingly sensitive information.

Waymo driverless taxis capture troves of video footage in order to operate, but the company reveals very little about how much data is stored—and for how long.

Silicon Valley software engineer Tony Tan says his battle against Google and the Trump administration is about upholding the rule of law.

While star reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue is only getting worse.

The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.

Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined a detachment intended to make the US Armed Forces "leaner, smarter, and more lethal."

Need to make a dinner reservation or change your flight? Now AI agents can do that for you. This episode of Uncanny Valley looks into what Sam Altman calls “the next giant breakthrough.”

Meta says loosening its enforcement policies earlier this year led to fewer erroneous takedowns on Facebook and Instagram—and didn’t broadly expose users to more harmful content.

All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.

Amber Scorah and Psst are building a “digital safe” to help people shine a light on the bad things their bosses are doing, without getting found out.

In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.

Sales of the workout supplement are skyrocketing. But some of the most popular gummies available online contain little to no creatine at all.

Since Trump took office, ICE arrests have more than doubled. Businesses throughout the US economy are sounding the alarm on the potential impact.

President Trump’s rapid maneuvering on tariffs led to some businesses narrowly missing out on lower bills. A refund on the difference could spare consumers from price hikes.

As Paramount considers settling a lawsuit with Donald Trump, the Freedom of the Press Foundation warns that it will sue over a deal that allegedly “could amount to a bribe.”

Donald Trump pledged to cement the US as the bitcoin mining capital of the planet. The president’s sweeping tariffs stand to simultaneously undermine and advance that ambition in one swoop.

Trump’s inner circle has taken over one of the biggest crypto conferences in the world—drowning out protests from diehard bitcoiners who believe their “nerd money” shouldn’t be political.

The President's sons are feuding with the organization behind the Trump memecoin, as both parties claim to be involved in launching Trump-affiliated crypto wallets.

Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company to Truth Social, has announced plans to buy up billions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin.

In the US state's coal country, crypto mining was supposed to bring renewal. Now mines are powering down, and investors are hoping AI-powered data centers will fill the void.

Concocted by sicko programmers, esolangs are the high comedy of the coding world. They test my patience.

In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.

The verbose programming language felt like a universal form of communication—until it didn’t.

The ecommerce platforms argue that duties shouldn’t apply to secondhand items being given a new life.

As importers find creative ways to avoid paying Donald Trump’s tariffs, a flood of tipsters is coming forward to keep alleged troublemakers in check.

Most of the apple juice Americans drink is imported, with a large share coming from China. Experts say families should expect to start paying higher prices for the beloved beverage.

The American version of Temu abruptly began to show only “local” products days before the Trump administration was set to end a tariff loophole for small packages from China.

For years, in-flight internet has been fine for email, not great for Zoom meetings. That’s all changing fast.

Once a slightly fancy middle ground between first class and coach, business-class seats are getting serious upgrades. Caviar, anyone?

Airlines are wooing first-class passengers with elaborate complementary products sourced from the most luxe companies—and getting influencers’ attention in the process.

In just three minutes Xiaomi took 200,000 preorders for only its second ever EV—four times what Cybertruck has sold in its 18-month lifetime. But at $35,000, it’s really gunning for Elon’s family SUV.

A new crowd-trained way to develop LLMs over the internet could shake up the AI industry with a giant 100 billion-parameter model later this year.

A sprawling Minnesota refinery wants to make low-carbon aviation fuel mainstream—but without government support experts believe the project could be “dead in the water.”

Silicon Valley A-listers are funding Pacific Fusion, a startup that founding CEO Eric Lander says will have a full-scale demonstration system within a decade.

A new document shows the Department of Homeland Security is concerned that Chinese investment in lithium batteries to power energy grids will make them a threat to US supply chain security.