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A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official (theverge.com)

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The New Kindle Scribes Are Great, but Not Great Enough (wired.com)

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AI slop ad backfires for McDonald's (latimes.com)

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AI Browsers Aren't Smart Enough yet to Take over the Internet (bloomberg.com)

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Embracing the Improbable (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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Paramount gatecrashes Warner Bros-Netflix deal with $108B hostile bid (ft.com)

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Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design (hallofshame.design)

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AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone (wired.com)

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Trustpilot accused of running a "mafia-style extortion" scheme (reuters.com)

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Is OpenAI Today's Netscape? Or Is It AOL? (battellemedia.com)

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Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name (macrumors.com)

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Why we can’t quit Excel (bloomberg.com)

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Proton Launches Proton Sheets (proton.me)

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Wikipedia seeks more AI licensing deals similar to Google tie-up, Wales says (reuters.com)

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People Are Uploading Their Medical Records to A.I. Chatbots (nytimes.com)

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The Metaverse Only Has 900 Users [video] (youtube.com)

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YouTube Creators Find a New Consumer for AI Slop: Babies (bloomberg.com)

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Lost generation of news consumers – Survey shows how teens dislike news media (apnews.com)

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Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document (lesswrong.com)

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I love AI. Why doesn't everyone? (noahpinion.blog)

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Amazon Offers Test of 'Ultrafast' Delivery in Two US Cities (bloomberg.com)

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AWS and Google Cloud Collaborate on Multicloud Networking (cloud.google.com)

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Top Gun Traders: Stock Bets and Crypto Culture Take over the Military (wsj.com)

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Top consultancies freeze starting salaries as AI threatens 'pyramid' model (ft.com)

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More of Silicon Valley is building on free Chinese AI (nbcnews.com)

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OpenAI's lead under pressure as rivals start to close the gap (ft.com)

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Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail (the-decoder.com)

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Underground AI models promise to be hackers 'cyber pentesting waifu' (cyberscoop.com)

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Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation (wsj.com)

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Traders Are Flooding Markets with Risky Bets. Robinhood's CEO Is Their Cult Hero (wsj.com)

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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking over the Internet – and Thanksgiving Dinner (bloomberg.com)

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The Fracturing of the World Economy (ft.com)

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Klarna to launch dollar-backed stablecoin (reuters.com)

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In Conversation: Sam Altman and Jony Ive with Laurene Powell Jobs [video] (youtube.com)

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Animation Hasn't Been the Same Since 'Toy Story' (nytimes.com)

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Amazon Satellite Internet Service Begins Previews for Businesses (bloomberg.com)

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Amazon Data Center Tally Tops 900 Amid AI Frenzy, Documents Show (bloomberg.com)

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Americans' Social Media Use 2025 (pewresearch.org)

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Google begins showing ads in AI Mode (AI answers) (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Adobe to Acquire Semrush for $1.9B (adobe.com)

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Cracks are appearing in OpenAI's dominant facade (economist.com)

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The Most Joyless Tech Revolution Ever: AI Is Making Us Rich and Unhappy (wsj.com)

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Workplace Surveillance Is Here, Counting Your Mouse Clicks and Bathroom Breaks (thewalrus.ca)

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The Algorithm Failed Music (theverge.com)

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What the Internet Was Like in 2001 (cybercultural.com)

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The man who keeps predicting the web's death (tedium.co)

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The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble Vol. 2 (wheresyoured.at)

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Google must pay German price comparison platform 465M euros in damages (reuters.com)

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When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts (wsj.com)

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Hey, There's a Bubble (spyglass.org)

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How to Make a Living as an Artist (fnnch.com)

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The AI Bubble Is Ignoring Michael Burry's Fears (bloomberg.com)

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Apple Debuts iPhone Pocket, a Limited Edition iPod Sock-Style Accessory (macrumors.com)

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Coinbase Launches Platform for Digital Token Offerings (wsj.com)

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Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom (politico.eu)

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Sequoia's 'imperial' Roelof Botha pushed out by top lieutenants (ft.com)

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Polymarket Volume Inflated by 'Artificial' Activity, Study Finds (bloomberg.com)

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Robotaxi runs over and kills popular cat that greeted people in a corner shop (metro.co.uk)

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Apple Nears $1B-A Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri (bloomberg.com)

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Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney dies aged 84 (bbc.com)

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What Happened When Small-Town America Became Data-Center, U.S.A. (wsj.com)

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OpenAI Made a $12B Loss Last Quarter, Microsoft Results Indicate (wsj.com)

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Apple Launches App Store for the Web (apps.apple.com)

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New Version of Siri to 'Lean' on Google Gemini (macrumors.com)

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URLs are state containers (alfy.blog)

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How AI browsers sneak past blockers and paywalls (cjr.org)

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AI still fails at completing real-life work tasks, study finds (semafor.com)

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Outta Time: The DeLorean [video] (youtube.com)

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Danish Presidency backs away from 'Chat Control' (euractiv.com)

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I Read All 59 of Warren Buffett's Annual Letters. These Are the Best Parts (wsj.com)

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Binance Boosted Trump Family's Crypto Company Ahead of Pardon for Its Founder (wsj.com)

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Patron-Supported Journalism Can't Be the Future of News (talkingpointsmemo.com)

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OpenAI sued for trademark infringement over Sora's 'Cameo' feature (reuters.com)

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The global boom in solar – with or without the US (ft.com)

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Slovakia adopts speed limit for pedestrians (bluewin.ch)

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See How the Average U.S. Worker Has Changed over 250 Years (wsj.com)

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Real Estate Is Entering Its AI Slop Era (wired.com)

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'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud (ft.com)

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Move over, Zuck. Sam Altman is the new minister of thought (businessinsider.com)

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Russia Tested 'Burevestnik' Nuclear-Powered Missile (themoscowtimes.com)

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Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine in WordPress lawsuit (techcrunch.com)

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Trump pardons convicted Binance crypto exec Changpeng Zhao (qz.com)

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Alibaba launches AI chatbot service in renewed consumer push (reuters.com)

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Airbus, Leonardo, Thales to Launch Space Tie-Up to Compete with Musk's SpaceX (wsj.com)

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Amazon unveils AI-powered augmented reality glasses for delivery drivers (geekwire.com)

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Reddit Accuses 'Data Scraper' Companies of Theft (nytimes.com)

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YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts (theverge.com)

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Inside Amazon's Plans to Replace Workers with Robots (nytimes.com)

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Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines (restofworld.org)

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X Launches Handle Marketplace (x.com)

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Louvre robbery shuts down Paris museum for a day, French culture minister says (france24.com)

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Inside the Web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews (arstechnica.com)

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I Test Drove a Flying Car. Get Ready, They're Here (wsj.com)

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Head of Apple's AI Search Project Leaves to Join Meta (macrumors.com)

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Titan submersible imploded due to poor engineering, say US officials (bbc.com)

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Hybrid War Threat Looms over Sweden's Cashless Society (bloomberg.com)

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Paxos mistakenly mints $300T PYUSD on Ethereum, citing tech error (theblock.co)

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WTF: Ad Context Protocol? (digiday.com)

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Japanese Government Calls on OpenAI to Refrain from Copyright Infringement (ign.com)

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OpenAI forms expert council to bolster safety measures after FTC inquiry (cnbc.com)