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JPMorgan bets on defense tech, Gemini agents slay the Ender Dragon, and Musk and Anthropic both pledge shares to the public.
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Musk promises SpaceX shares to every child in America next year, though he did not say how the giveaway would work. The pledge came after Anthropic said it would set aside a portion of its shares for the public benefit.
Why it matters The pledge has no stated mechanism yet, so how a share would reach each child, and what it would be worth, remains unanswered.
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Uber beats black cab suit as a judge threw out a £250 million ($333 million) claim on behalf of thousands of London drivers, ruling it was filed too late.(paywalled)
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Nudify apps slip past controls as test accounts posing as 13-year-olds downloaded 135 apps with features for generating nonconsensual nude imagery, despite the parental controls of Apple and Google, the Tech Transparency Project found, in its new report.
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Apple eyes a bigger HomeView with a 9-inch screen that swivels a full 360 degrees on a robotic arm, and a launch could come in 2027 or 2028, with names like HomeView Max floated so far.
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Arm claims a rack advantage as its AGI CPU delivers nearly twice the modeled rack performance of AMD's EPYC 9755 across seven agentic AI workloads, using a method developed with Fujitsu, Meta and OpenAI.
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