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Nearly Half of US Children Are Breathing Dangerous Levels of Air Pollution – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump's expansive rollback of protections...
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Tesla just increased its capex to $25B. Here’s where the money is going. | TechCrunch
Tesla CEO Elon Musk kicked off the company’s first-quarter earnings call with a monetary heads-up — or depending on the mindset of the investor, a warning. Tesla’s capital expenditures will skyrocket to $25 billion in 2026, far outpacing its...
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ChatGPT workspace agents turn AI into a team member
OpenAI is pushing ChatGPT beyond just answering questions, and this latest update makes that shift pretty obvious. With workspace agents, ChatGPT is starting to look less like a chatbot and more like a full-blown work assistant.What are workspace agents...
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Trump Media replaces CEO Devin Nunes as its losses top $1 billion
Trump Media & Technology Group is replacing CEO Devin Nunes, who led the company through its public debut and a subsequent surge — and swoon — in its market value.Trump Media, which trades under the...
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Meta failed to protect social media users from scam ads, lawsuit alleges
A new lawsuit alleges that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, misled users about the company's efforts to prevent scams on its platforms.The Consumer Federation of America (CFA), a nonprofit advocacy group that...
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SpaceX Strikes Deal With Coding Startup Cursor For $60 Billion – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company, said on Tuesday that it had struck a deal with the artificial intelligence start-up Cursor that could result in its...
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ChatGPT Images 2.0 is here, and it’s way more than an upgrade
OpenAI is back with another upgrade to ChatGPT’s image capabilities, and this one feels less like a gimmick and more like a serious step toward making AI visuals actually useful. OpenAI has officially introduced ChatGPT Images 2.0, a new...
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AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans | TechCrunch
Investors are aggressively courting AI researchers to build startups that can make AI more reliable and efficient.Yu Su, an Ohio State professor leading an AI agent lab, said he initially resisted the pressure from VCs to commercialize his work....
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How we discovered the speed limit of arithmetic – and broke it
Did you hear the one about the man who invented chess and got himself executed? Legend has it that...
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Game theory explains why the US’s goals in Iran keep changing
“Mission Accomplished.” This phrase has haunted US foreign policy ever since George W. Bush stood on the deck of...