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Jack Dorsey’s AI Gamble at Block Is Unraveling — And Taking the Company With It
When Jack Dorsey announced in late 2024 that Block, Inc. — the fintech company formerly known as Square — would replace a significant portion of its human workforce with arti...
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AMC Theatres Pulls the Plug on AI-Generated Short Film After Fierce Backlash From Filmmakers and Audiences
AMC Theatres, the world's largest movie theater chain, reversed course this week and announced it would not screen a controversial AI-generated short film before its feature...
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OpenAI’s $200 Smart Speaker Gamble: Why Sam Altman Is Betting Big on Voice-Powered Hardware
OpenAI is developing a standalone AI-powered speaker that would retail for between $200 and $300, a move that signals the artificial intelligence company's growing ambition t...
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PayPal’s Credential Stuffing Breach Exposed Nearly 35,000 Accounts — And the Fallout Is Still Unfolding
In early January 2023, PayPal Holdings Inc. disclosed that a credential stuffing attack had compromised the personal information of nearly 35,000 users, sending shockwaves th...
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Inside F-Droid’s Quiet War for Open-Source Android: A Weekly Intelligence Report Reveals the State of Free Software on Mobile
The open-source Android app repository F-Droid published its latest "This Week in F-Droid" bulletin on February 20, 2026, offering a granular look at the state of free and op...
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The $100 Million Bet on Vibe Coding: How Code Metal Is Turning AI-Generated Software Into a Billion-Dollar Business
A startup that most people outside Silicon Valley have never heard of just raised $100 million to bet on an idea that would have seemed absurd two years ago: that the future...
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Google Brings AI-Powered Writing Feedback to Classrooms, Giving Educators a New Tool to Personalize Student Guidance at Scale
Google has quietly rolled out a feature that could reshape how teachers interact with student writing across thousands of school districts: an AI-assisted tool within Google...
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Texas Fires First Shot: Paxton’s Lawsuit Against TP-Link Signals a Broader Crackdown on Chinese-Made Networking Equipment
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched what he describes as the first in a series of lawsuits targeting TP-Link Technologies Co. Ltd., the world's largest seller of W...
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Your AI-Generated Password Could Be Cracked in Hours: Why ChatGPT and LLMs Make Terrible Random Number Generators
When users ask ChatGPT, Llama, or DeepSeek to generate a secure password, they expect something truly random — a string of characters that would take centuries to brute-force...
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Samsung’s $1,999 Galaxy Z Fold6 Special Edition Trifold Ambitions Hit a Wall: Early Users Report Dead Screens and Hardware Failures
Samsung Electronics, long the dominant force in foldable smartphones, is facing an uncomfortable reality as it pushes the boundaries of multi-fold display technology. Reports...
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Amazon Quietly Kills Blue Jay: The Rise and Fall of a Warehouse Robot That Couldn’t Keep Up
Amazon has pulled the plug on Blue Jay, its experimental warehouse robot designed to handle the grueling task of sorting and moving inventory through fulfillment centers. The...
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Sundar Pichai’s AI Playbook: Google’s CEO Lays Out a Vision Where Artificial Intelligence Reshapes Everything From Search to National Security
When Sundar Pichai took the stage at the AI Impact Summit in Washington, D.C., in late June 2025, he wasn't just delivering another keynote about Google's product roadmap. He...
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The AI Notetaker Wars Heat Up: How Read AI and Lucidya Are Redrawing the Lines Between Meeting Intelligence and Customer Support
At Web Summit Qatar this February, two companies operating in adjacent but increasingly overlapping territories made their ambitions clear. Read AI, the Seattle-based meeting...
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Google’s AI-Powered Gatekeepers: How Machine Learning Blocked 2.36 Million Malicious Apps From the Play Store in 2025
Google disclosed this week that its artificial intelligence systems played a central role in preventing 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from reaching the Play Stor...
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Windows 11 27H2: Microsoft’s Next Major Update Could Define the Future of Its Flagship Operating System
Microsoft appears to have quietly begun development on Windows 11 version 27H2, a release that could arrive in the second half of 2027 and carry enormous weight for the compa...
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