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"Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: agency, atkins, health

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Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized passenger records (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Jowi Morales | tags: airline, court, especially

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TechCrunch Mobility: Zoox prepares for launch and Uber’s AV empire (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-09 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: autonomous, billion, million

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Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined — all-in-one chip manufacturing facility visualized to show the project’s massive footprint (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: chip, million, million sq

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Terafab could become the largest factory on the planet—or Elon Musk’s biggest failure (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: building, factory, million

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Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: bureau, census, children

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Whatnot valued at $20 billion as live shopping continues to boom (cnbc.com)

2026-08-07 | by Ian Thomas | tags: billion, million, million series

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Elon Musk's massive Terafab chip-making facility starts to take shape — 100 million square feet of manufacturing space and $16.8B initial capital investment (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Anton Shilov | tags: feet, million, million square

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The ‘Manosphere’ Isn’t a Movement. It’s a Multibillion-Dollar Grievance Industry (wired.com)

2026-08-07 | by Miles Klee | tags: million, online, real

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Meta's child-safety failures will cost it another $567 million (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Rob Thubron | tags: facebook, instagram, meta

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Meta's child-safety failures will cost it another $567 million as total bill reaches almost $1 billion (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Rob Thubron | tags: facebook, instagram, meta

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Meta ordered to pay an additional $567 million in public nuisance ruling (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jess Weatherbed | tags: case, meta, mexico

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Meta ordered to pay $567 million into abatement fund as remedy to child harms case in New Mexico (cnbc.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jonathan Vanian | tags: case, meta, mexico

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Meta Ordered to Pay $567M in New Mexico Child Exploitation Lawsuit (cnet.com)

2026-08-07 | by Steven Musil | tags: children, instagram, meta

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Google's $15 Billion India Data Center Project Battles Water, Wildlife Concerns (slashdot.org)

2026-08-06 | tags: google, million, project

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Grindr's AI spend is paying off and its pricey new tier has had some surprises, CEO says (cnbc.com)

2026-08-06 | by Brandon Gomez | tags: approximately, approximately million, arison

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Nintendo's Switch 2 sells over 23 million units in its first year, outpacing the original's 17 million (techspot.com)

2026-08-06 | by Daniel Sims | tags: billion, million, nintendo

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Hacker pleads guilty to stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-06 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | tags: accomplices, hacking, million

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DeepSeek is preparing users for a big price hike (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: deepseek, input, input tokens

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SpaceX stock could face further pressure as first batch of shares unlock since IPO (cnbc.com)

2026-08-06 | by Lora Kolodny | tags: bates, bates said, billion

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Nintendo's Switch 2 console sales just dropped significantly (engadget.com)

2026-08-06 | by Steve Dent | tags: drop, mario, million

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Kentucky family snubs $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center — 'they call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,' says landowner (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: ai company, family, huddleston

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Nintendo beats earnings thanks to US tariff refunds it won’t share with gamers (theverge.com)

2026-08-06 | by Jess Weatherbed | tags: console, million, nintendo

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Scientists up in arms about cuts to UK physics and astronomy (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-06 | by Gibney | tags: cuts, funding, million

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No one can afford to make Myst games anymore (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by Adam Morgan | tags: anglerfish, cyan, game

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Meta introduces Muse Code, its take on a coding agent (engadget.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: code, meta, million

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AI startup Hark unveils first product: an affordable, fast computer use agent Hark Handoff (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: adcock, handoff, hark

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Elon Musk Allegedly Stiffing Contractors on Huge Bills (futurism.com)

2026-08-05 | by Frank Landymore | tags: filed, filed liens, liens

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Hugging Face Doesn’t Want to Sue OpenAI. It Does Want $100 Million (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: hugging face, openai, cyberattack

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How AI Is Helping One-Person Companies Scale to $1 Million—and Beyond (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-30 | tags: iran war, american pow, one-person companies