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How the Deep Sea Cables That Power the World Are Made (Mon, 14 Jul 2025)
The conduits, which are spooled in big stacks on a boat before being buried in an underwater trench, are a crucial part of the grid as demand for electricity increases.
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Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users’ ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says (Sat, 12 Jul 2025)
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week.
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Google Hires Top A.I. Leaders From Windsurf, Which OpenAI Was Courting (Fri, 11 Jul 2025)
In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to buy, as the battle to dominate artificial intelligence escalates.
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Is A.I. the Future of Web Browsing? (Fri, 11 Jul 2025)
A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use.
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Meta Built a Data Center Next Door. The Neighbors’ Water Taps Went Dry. (Mon, 14 Jul 2025)
In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby.
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Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Precision to GPS, Dies at 92 (Sat, 12 Jul 2025)
He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of matter predicted by Albert Einstein.
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Trump’s Purge of Foreign Workers Arrives at Amazon’s Warehouses (Fri, 11 Jul 2025)
The tech giant has quietly shed warehouse employees whose work authorizations were revoked after the Trump administration ended a Biden-era immigration program.
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Strava Fitness App Revealed Locations of Swedish Leaders (Fri, 11 Jul 2025)
Secret meetings and private holidays of the royal family and prime minister were inadvertently made public on Strava, which has raised security concerns in other instances.
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Interesting Times: A Mind-Bending Conversation with Peter Thiel (Fri, 11 Jul 2025)
The original tech right power player on A.I., Mars and immortality.
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Nvidia Becomes First Public Company Worth $4 Trillion (Thu, 10 Jul 2025)
The A.I. chip maker reached the landmark before Apple and Microsoft, as its value rose more than tenfold after ChatGPT’s release in late 2022.
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Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows (Thu, 10 Jul 2025)
An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs.
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European Union Unveils Rules for Powerful A.I. Systems (Thu, 10 Jul 2025)
Makers of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems face obligations for transparency, copyright protection and public safety. The rules are not enforceable until next year.
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A.I.-Generated Images of Child Sexual Abuse Are Flooding the Internet (Fri, 11 Jul 2025)
Organizations that track the material are reporting a surge in A.I. images and videos, which are threatening to overwhelm law enforcement.
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X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says She Is Leaving Elon Musk’s Platform (Wed, 09 Jul 2025)
Linda Yaccarino, whom Elon Musk hired to run X in 2023, grappled with the challenges the company faced after Mr. Musk took over.
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How Crypto Lobbying Won Over Trump (Wed, 09 Jul 2025)
The industry’s courtship of Donald J. Trump resulted in one of the great lobbying free-for-alls in recent Washington history.
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Grok, Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot, Shares Antisemitic Posts on X (Tue, 08 Jul 2025)
The artificial intelligence chatbot, which has a dedicated account on X, praised Hitler after fielding a query about a user’s comments on the Texas flood.
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Jeff Williams, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Is Retiring After 27 Years (Tue, 08 Jul 2025)
Mr. Williams was long considered a leading candidate to replace Tim Cook as the company’s next chief executive.
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Marco Rubio Impersonation Under State Dept. Investigation (Tue, 08 Jul 2025)
A person or people imitating the secretary of state used artificial intelligence to send text and voice messages to foreign diplomats and U.S. officials, the department said in a cable to employees.
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OpenAI and Microsoft Bankroll New A.I. Training for Teachers (Wed, 09 Jul 2025)
The American Federation of Teachers said it would use the $23 million, including $500,000 from the A.I. start-up Anthropic, to create a national training center.
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Will A.I. Replace New Hires or Middle Managers? (Mon, 07 Jul 2025)
Amid layoffs at Microsoft and other large tech companies, experts are debating whose jobs are most likely to be spared.
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