"Our digital lives, and a lot of our life that extends from that, falls under the jurisdiction of American companies, and therefore American law."

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Chinese researchers have successfully established a two-way high-speed laser communication link between Earth and the Moon, spanning more than 400,000 kilometers.

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Unlike communications with a doctor or attorney, conversations with an AI chatbot carry no recognized legal privilege, meaning they can be subpoenaed and used as evidence without the protections many people might expect.

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The phone you can actually repair yourself is finally coming to the US. The Dutch company, known across Europe for building devices you can crack open and fix yourself, just launched the Fairphone 6+ stateside, and it arrives with credentials no major brand can match.

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The ChatGPT maker has lost a string of senior leaders in 2026, including former operating chief Brad Lightcap, applications CEO Fidji Simo, chief revenue officer Denise Dresser, and executives overseeing marketing, enterprise products, science, and ethics.

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Computer science enrollment declined during the 2025-26 academic year for the first time in roughly two decades, according to new research by Jacob Light, an economist at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

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Anthropic has reached a $1.5 billion copyright settlement with thousands of authors over the use of their protected work to train its Claude AI chatbots, with Bloomsbury Publishing set to receive roughly $19 million of that total.

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The government of French Polynesia plans to challenge an American startup’s proposal to explore the waters just beyond its maritime borders for seabed mining.

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The hackers managed to infiltrate the wallets despite clients having a physical hardware key associated with their accounts, which was supposed to provide nearly impenetrable security.

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OpenAI’s attempt to boost its image by hiring influencers collided against a harsh reality: that it’s already become a fundamentally uncool company.

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The U.S. and Canada fail to reach a deal to stave off 50% tariffs. Meanwhile, Trump Steaks are back!

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US sales growth inched up just 2.6%, the company’s slowest growth in almost six years in what was otherwise a positive earnings report. With Walmart often seen as a bellwether for the broader US economy, economists worry that consumer spending may finally be starting to dwindle.

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Netflix is considering adding live channels and bundles to boost sagging engagement, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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The SpaceRISE consortium and the European Commission have now joined forces, signing an implementation agreement for IRIS².

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While American pioneers like OpenAI and Anthropic favor a closed-source approach — keeping their proprietary model code locked behind a commercial interface — Chinese AI labs are aggressively releasing open-source models.

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The US Court of International Trade upheld President Trump’s closure of the “de minimis loophole,” which had allowed shipments worth $800 or less to be imported to the US tax-free.

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Amazon is scaling back the ambitions of most of its Nova AI models and reorganizing its AI development teams as part of an effort to narrow its focus on “highest priority” goals, after its power-hungry large language models turned out to be a bust.

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OpenAI’s attempt to boost its image by hiring influencers collided against a harsh reality: that it’s already become a fundamentally uncool company.

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It’s like if your uncle who insists on holding on to his 1970s suits agreed to a garage sale. The company Strategy, whose business model is buying Bitcoin with money raised from investors and vowing to never sell it…sold $216 million of the cryptocurrency at a loss recently.

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Instagram is reportedly banning videos filmed on Meta smart glasses that feature harassment of strangers in public places.

Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have long raised privacy concerns because they allow people to record others clandestinely and harass strangers in public.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping's advocacy for a people-centred approach to artificial intelligence (AI) – emphasizing that AI should be a trusted, human-controlled tool for the positive, for good and for all – has won broad international support and acclaim.

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If you need a little help paying for four years of beer pong higher education, getting it could be more challenging. New rules that began yesterday will cap the amount you can borrow and increase some monthly repayments.

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