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“They let go of the bird” Saying X is “formerly Twitter” in App Store lets Musk block use of Twitter name. On Thursday, Elon Musk’s X won a court order blocking Operation Bluebird from launching a new app taking over the Twitter name. In his opinion, Chief Judge Colm
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In recent years, there has been a broader trend in Silicon Valley of tech companies diverging from conventional governance norms, making it harder for shareholders and the public to hold them to account. Anthropic and OpenAI, the two major AI labs, have both designed unusual company structures, with self-appointed “guardians”
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Making a connection Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice. On Friday, researchers announced the completion of a map of every neuron in the brain of a male fruit fly. The “connectome” provides a tool that can accelerate neurobiology research. But it also
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Back in 2009, Ars wrote about what was being reported as a leaked trailer for the then-upcoming Left 4 Dead 2, saying the footage “looks like it’s straight from a high-gloss action movie.” Today, we need to offer an important update to this crucial, 17-year-old story: The trailer “leak”
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TL;DR G42 executives have held exploratory talks about selling a majority stake to American companies to secure chip access past April 2027, Bloomberg reports. The company already stripped out Huawei equipment for Microsoft’s $1.5bn in 2024 and built US-specified monitoring into its own data centres this February.
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TL;DR John Ternus runs his first Apple event on 9 September, days after replacing Tim Cook. Bloomberg reports it opens the biggest run of device releases in Apple’s history, from a foldable iPhone to a touch-screen MacBook. The argument here is that a hardware engineer is answering a
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TL;DR Moonshot AI is weighing a Hong Kong listing of up to $5bn as soon as this year, Bloomberg reports, having filed confidentially and added Bank of America alongside CICC, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. Zhipu and MiniMax already listed in Hong Kong in January, ahead of OpenAI and
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TL;DR Uber and Wayve began carrying paying passengers in London on 3 September with a licensed driver in every car. The reason is the legal route they chose: TfL licensed the vehicles as private hire vehicles, which legally requires a human in the driver’s seat, rather than through
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ChargePoint shares rose more than 70% after second-quarter revenue of $116.1M beat the $105.2M expected and losses came in far below forecast. Its Level 3 rollout targets Europe, where AFIR mandates a 150kW charging point every 60km on the trans-European core network. ChargePoint’s shares rose more than
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This week, Nvidia released a free tool called Personal AI Router (PAIR) that connects unused computers on your home network to create a personal AI data center. The software is currently in public beta and is for users who run local AI agents and LLMs. PAIR finds compatible devices using
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Labor Day signals the end of summer and the start of a new season - fall. As we prepare for colder temps, football games, and Halloween,Amazon's Labor Day sale has everything you need while saving you money at the same time. • Shop Amazon's full Labor
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
