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Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks — We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, PCMag, WinBuzzer, and Perplexity
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT now offers “gentle reminders” to take breaks during long sessions, and it is building tools to better detect signs of emotional distress — OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will now remind users to take breaks if they're in a particularly long chat with AI.| Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it is closing its Wondery podcast studio and will break up its operations as part of a broad reorganization; a source says ~110 will lose their jobs — As podcasting becomes video-oriented, Amazon is shuffling Wondery into Audible and a new “creator services” team while cutting approximately 110 staff members| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new “hard tech”, AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base — In a scene in HBO's “Silicon Valley” in 2014, a character who had just sold his idea to a fictional tech company …
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| Natallie Rocha / New York Times: |
How 20-something CEOs like Cognition AI's Scott Wu, Cursor's Michael Truell, Cluely's Roy Lee, and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang are swarming San Francisco's AI boom — Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford …
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Lyft partners with Baidu to launch autonomous vehicles in Germany and the UK in 2026, pending regulatory approval; Lyft will deploy Baidu's sixth-gen robotaxis — Lyft Inc. said it's partnering with China's Baidu Inc. to launch autonomous vehicles in Europe starting next year … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
OpenAI says it will hit 700M weekly active users for ChatGPT this week, up from 500M in March and up 4x YoY, and has 5M paying business users, up from June's 3M — OpenAI is set to hit 700 million weekly active users for ChatGPT this week, up from 500 million in March … | Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Spotify says it is updating prices across South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific; an example email had a €1/month rise — Spotify Technology SA shares gained in premarket trading after the company announced it's raising premium subscription prices across many markets outside the US.
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| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Transcripts from the trial over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash: Tesla withheld crash‑snapshot data and took years to admit it existed or was relevant to the case — Tesla was caught withholding data, lying about it, and misdirecting authorities in the wrongful death case involving Autopilot that it lost this week.
More: Bloomberg, InsideEVs, and The Autopian
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| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
CrowdStrike's 2025 Threat Hunting Report: 320+ investigations into North Korean operatives in remote IT jobs in the US, Europe, and elsewhere in the past year — Threat hunters saw North Korean operatives almost daily, reflecting a 220% year-over-year increase in activity, CrowdStrike said in a new report.
More: CrowdStrike, CSO, Tom's Hardware, PCMag, Fortune, Solomon on Cybersecurity, TechCrunch, SlashGear, and SiliconANGLE. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children safe online has become a rallying point for the right in the UK and the US over alleged censorship — Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims — The UK's Online Safety Act has been greatly anticipated.
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| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
How the AI data center building boom could cause a financial crisis akin to 2008, including the rising use of short-term debt financing via private credit funds — This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens. — The U.S. economic data for the last few months is looking decidedly meh.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says Vine's video archive is being brought back, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine, available to X Premium+ subscribers, is “AI Vine” — Elon Musk says he's bringing back Vine — sort of. The X owner announced over the weekend that the company discovered … | Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Connecticut-based Amphenol plans to acquire North Carolina-based CommScope's broadband connectivity and cable unit for ~$10.5B, including debt, amid the AI boom — Maker of interconnect products is buying CommScope's broadband connectivity and cable unit — Amphenol said it would buy … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google unveils Kaggle Game Arena, a benchmarking platform where AI models compete head-to-head in strategic games, starting with a chess tournament this week — The world's top performing artificial intelligence models, including OpenAI's o3 and 04-mini, Google LLC's Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash …
More: The Keyword, WinBuzzer, and Chess.com
| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Google, OpenAI, Meta, and VCs are increasingly embracing the US military industrial complex, a major Silicon Valley cultural shift supported by President Trump — In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.
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