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How to Use ChatGPT and Gemini Prompts to Find Out What They Know About You (Thu, 23 Jul 2026)
It can be unsettling what Gemini and ChatGPT have figured out about you and how easily your privacy can be punctured. Here’s how to find out.
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China Rewrites the ‘Soft Power’ Playbook for the A.I. Age (Thu, 23 Jul 2026)
China is seeking global influence and good will with its open, low-cost artificial intelligence software.
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Google Hit With $1 Billion Fine By EU Over Search Engine Practices (Thu, 23 Jul 2026)
At a tense moment for trans-Atlantic trade, the European Union accused Google of anti-competitive business practices.
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Clarity Act Mired In Debate Over Whether to Bar President From Selling Crypto (Wed, 22 Jul 2026)
Democrats and Republicans are haggling about the Clarity Act, a major bill pushed by the crypto industry, as it moves closer to a Senate vote.
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Ford Will Use Apple Maps in New Self-Driving System (Thu, 23 Jul 2026)
In a first, Apple software will influence the way a new line of electric vehicles made by Ford Motor operates, and other automakers may follow.
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Nuclear Energy Revival Puts Westinghouse in Prime Position (Thu, 23 Jul 2026)
The company, which filed for bankruptcy protection in 2017, stands to benefit from growing support for nuclear power and President Trump’s deal with Saudi Arabia.
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Alphabet Quadruples Profit to $112 Billion, Fueled by A.I. Investments (Wed, 22 Jul 2026)
Google’s parent company, which has spent heavily on artificial intelligence, also showed growth across its businesses, particularly in cloud computing.
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Tesla Profit Falls Even as Car Sales Rebound (Thu, 23 Jul 2026)
The company is selling more cars, but the company’s profit was down because of price cuts and higher expenses.
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Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped (Thu, 23 Jul 2026)
For Meta, the move was a reprieve after it and YouTube were found liable in another case in March of negligence and personal injury for their platforms’ addictive features.
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OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Hacked Into Hugging Face, a Digital Library (Wed, 22 Jul 2026)
The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAI was testing the systems.
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What Happened When Meta Used A.I. to Ban Accounts on Facebook and Instagram (Tue, 21 Jul 2026)
Users said the technology mistakenly deleted their accounts. To resolve the issue, they still had to rely on A.I.
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Google Releases Three New Gemini A.I. Models (Tue, 21 Jul 2026)
The models include one that is the company’s most powerful and another that is fine-tuned for cybersecurity, as Google competes with rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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When Listening to Music Was a Team Sport (Tue, 21 Jul 2026)
An exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt celebrates the glorious machines that gave us the soundtracks of our lives before streaming sites shoved them toward obsolescence.
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Judge Temporarily Pauses Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal (Mon, 20 Jul 2026)
The delay is intended to give the court time to consider a lawsuit that argues the $111 billion merger violates antitrust laws.
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How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web (Mon, 20 Jul 2026)
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.
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A.I. ‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding Apple’s App Store (Mon, 20 Jul 2026)
Mobile apps are easy to make with artificial intelligence. That doesn’t mean people are excited to use them.
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Why Silicon Valley Can’t Stop Looking Over Its Shoulder at China (Mon, 20 Jul 2026)
Chinese companies are offering artificial intelligence that is nearly as good as the leading U.S. technologies, but it’s still America’s race to lose.
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Politicians Are Trying to Change What Chatbots Say About Them (Wed, 22 Jul 2026)
Political campaigns have something new to worry about these days: unflattering or incomplete information produced by A.I. programs when voters ask questions about candidates.
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The ‘Bad Blood’ Between Polymarket’s Shayne Coplan and Kalshi’s Tarek Mansour (Sun, 19 Jul 2026)
Shayne Coplan of Polymarket and Tarek Mansour of Kalshi are young billionaires intent on dominating prediction markets. It’s more than a battle. It’s “bad blood.”
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Your ‘Live’ World Cup Broadcast Is Not Really Live (Sat, 18 Jul 2026)
Everyone is watching the goals after they happen, and some get them significantly faster.
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Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal (Fri, 17 Jul 2026)
A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.
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Roger Summit, Who Invented an Early Online Search Service, Dies at 95 (Sat, 18 Jul 2026)
A research scientist at Lockheed, he came up with the idea for a computer system that would search scientific and technical literature almost instantaneously.
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The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT (Fri, 17 Jul 2026)
“I don’t know if the public understands this, but these companies hate each other.”
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