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Here Are the Tell-Tale Signs a Startup Founder Used AI to Apply to Y Combinator: ‘It Feels Like Being Lied to’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: applications, founders, post

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‘Unlawful On Its Face’: FCC Eliminates Cap on TV Ownership Rule (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: audience, audience reach, cap unlawful

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Unlawful On Its Face’: FCC Eliminates Cap on TV Ownership Rule (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: audience, audience reach, cap unlawful

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Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: bier, bier wrote, head

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Waymo Takes Revenge, Dropping Drunk Teens Directly Into Squad of Cops (futurism.com)

2026-07-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: department, department wrote, police

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Microsoft 'resets' Xbox by cutting 3,200 jobs this year, divesting five game studios — firm cites 'margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses' (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-06 | by Andrew E. Freedman | get Xbox Wireless Controller → | tags: game, games, sharma

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Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs, as Xbox unit downsizes and plans to spin off four gaming studios (cnbc.com)

2026-07-06 | by Jordan Novet | get Xbox Wireless Controller → | tags: employees, microsoft, sharma

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Closer to Rude Than Snide: An Interview with Leo Robson (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | by Leonard Benardo | tags: critic, criticism, writing

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What Happens If AI Causes 25% Unemployment? Anthropic Has a Concept of a Plan (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-11 | get AI Unemployment Mitigation Kit → | tags: anthropic, anthropic wrote, displacement

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Hunter Biden’s Crypto Tweets Should Give Everyone a Moment of Pause (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-10 | get Crypto Security Ledger → | tags: actually, actually engaging, biden

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Microsoft says today’s Xbox shakeup doesn’t mean game studio layoffs (theverge.com)

2026-02-20 | by Sean Hollister | get Xbox Series X → | tags: booty, booty wrote, boss

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Get Ready to Become Obsessed With the New Horror Film ‘Obsession’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-12 | get Film → | tags: barker, barker wrote, curry

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AI Is a Burnout Machine (futurism.com)

2026-02-12 | by Frank Landymore | get Neural Network → | tags: employees, khare, problems

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Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-11 | by Rebecca Bellan | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: february, left, musk

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OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-11 | get Chatbot → | tags: chatgpt, hitzig, openai

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Senior engineers, including co-founders, exit xAI amid controversy (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-11 | by Rebecca Bellan | get Neural Network → | tags: february, founder, left

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It Turns Out ‘Social Media for AI Agents’ Is a Security Nightmare (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-02 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: fake, fake fake, fake meaning

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Zoom's 'hidden gem' investment in Anthropic could be worth $2 billion to $4 billion, analysts say (cnbc.com)

2026-01-26 | by Ashley Capoot | get Neuralink → | tags: analysts, analysts wrote, anthropic

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Substack now has a TV app (engadget.com)

2026-01-22 | get Podcast → | tags: media, substack, tv app

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OpenAI acquires health-care technology startup Torch for $60 million, source says (cnbc.com)

2026-01-12 | by Ashley Capoot | get Chatbot → | tags: abyzov, abyzov wrote, acquired

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OpenAI acquires health-care technology startup Torch (cnbc.com)

2026-01-12 | by Ashley Capoot | get Torch AI → | tags: abyzov, abyzov wrote, acquired

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Anthropic wants you to use Claude to ‘Cowork’ in latest AI agent push (theverge.com)

2026-01-12 | by Hayden Field | get Cloud → | tags: anthropic, anthropic wrote, claude

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Baldur’s Gate 3 studio says it won’t use AI for concept art or writing (theverge.com)

2026-01-09 | by Ash Parrish | get Game engine → | tags: assets, larian, text

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A viral Reddit post alleging fraud from a food delivery app turned out to be AI-generated (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-06 | by Amanda Silberling | get Food Delivery App → | tags: newton, reddit, viral

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Starlink is lowering thousands of satellites' orbits to reduce risk of collisions (engadget.com)

2026-01-02 | get Starlink Satellites → | tags: lowering, minimum, nicolls

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Even LinkedIn has hopped on the Spotify Wrapped train (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-19 | get Spotify Wrapped → | tags: came, came snapchat, crew

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Meta Is Planning to Raise Prices on a Popular Product, According to a Leaked Memo (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-11 | get Facebook → | tags: cairns wrote, memo, meta

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OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-02 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: altman, chatgpt, gemini

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The Go-Between (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-22 | by Brooke Kroeger | get The Product Name is: Facebook Messenger → | tags: daily, helen, later

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Verizon confirms plans to lay off 13,000 employees (engadget.com)

2025-11-20 | get Network → | tags: close, fund, schulman