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Kalshi is probing a series of shady bets about the new White House press secretary, according to a report published hours after Katie Zacharia was named to the high-profile job.
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Meta bans social media TikTok ads across the US
Meta has banned advertisements from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance on Facebook and Instagram in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Anthropic to users: be nice to Claude AI — new policy bars ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ to tech
Anthropic on Thursday updated its usage policy to bar people from “abusive or cruel behavior” behavior toward its Claude AI – even though it’s not, ya know, actually alive.
Tech bro blasted as ‘horrible’ dad for using bot to read to his newborn baby: ‘Bleak’
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Trump admin cuts off Microsoft from major visa program, accuses tech giant of fraud and abuse
“If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants,” Vice President JD Vance said Thursday.
Frustrating study reveals male AI agents got paid more than women — proving office sexism withstands virtual reality
AI is replacing everything except workplace bias.
Jeff Bezos reveals AI vision that could transform the American workweek
“They think I’m crazy,” Bezos said. “But I’ve seen crazy things before come true.”
Watchdogs slam OpenAI’s claim that teens use ChatGPT less than 15 minutes per day
The company’s blog post did not contain specifics about those data points or how they were determined.
Massive church cyberattack may have exposed data for 850,000 members
Cyberattacks on two South Korean megachurches, including Yoido Full Gospel, may have exposed personal data for 850,000 members.
Mark Zuckerberg’s sister’s secret passion caught on camera at San Francisco tech week
The tech billionaire’s sister, who serves as a general partner at Long Journey Ventures, often plays techno and electronic sets.
California tech exec blasts unhinged girlboss’ cringe dating demands — as she launches her own wild search
“Post-economic? Is that a euphemism for a wealthy man?”
Amazon has an ‘About You’ section that is creeping out customers — it even knows if you have a ‘flat buttocks’
Amazon’s newest feature is judging you harder than your mother ever could.
Nurses are taking on TikTok’s viral health myths — here’s how they’re fighting back
With wild wellness trends and medical misinformation flooding social media, nurses are being trained to take on bogus information.
Digital advertising giant allegedly served ‘obscene’ ads to kids, ‘graphic depictions of sex’: lawsuit
Digital advertising giant AppLovin has allegedly been serving sexually explicit and violent ads in games played by kids – all while bypassing parental controls meant to shield them.
Anthropic’s ‘ridiculous … earnest’ belief AI may suffer makes it all the more dangerous: expert
“I think it’s sincere, unfortunately,” said computer science professor Pedro Domingos.
Here’s how much Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his sister made last year
Dario Amodei’s pay last year puts him above CEOs at Alphabet and Amazon, but behind those at Oracle and Nvidia.
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