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Almost half of U.S. singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says

1 hour 26 min ago
About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating -- but, many dating app users are open to AI helping with profile punch-ups and conversation starters.
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Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips

1 hour 55 min ago
AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.
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Rivian owners sue over false promises on self-driving features

2 hours 17 min ago
Plaintiffs in the class action complaint allege Rivian falsely promised for years it would bring hands-free driving to its first-generation R1 vehicles.
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Mivo’s new app takes a mindful approach to managing screen time

2 hours 18 min ago
Doomscrolling on social media is a very common problem and can feel like an endless loop of constantly losing track of time. Instead of tackling this issue with strict limits, a new mindful screen time app called Mivo Scrolling is trying to shake things up. Launched last month, Mivo doesn’t look super different from other […]
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AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid

2 hours 28 min ago
FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.
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Texas government data breach allowed hackers to steal 3 million driver’s licenses and passports

3 hours 5 min ago
A data breach involving government-issued ID documents affects over three million people in Texas.
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‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone

3 hours 22 min ago
Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth—Brown wants to help others do the same.  Kē offers […]
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Apple opens up App Store to new competition in Brazil

4 hours 29 min ago
Apple’s grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.
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MapTap, a daily geography game, is my new Wordle

4 hours 30 min ago
MapTap is a phone game that will make you feel smarter after you play it.
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General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation

4 hours 57 min ago
General Intuition is in talks to raise around $300 million at a roughly $2 billion valuation from backers including Jeff Bezos. The startup trains AI agents on spatial-temporal reasoning.
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A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight 

5 hours 4 min ago
Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.
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Spotify’s reserved ticket sales to music superfans are now going live

6 hours 18 min ago
Spotify is launching "Reserved," a new system that will hold two concert tickets for an artist's superfans before they're on sale to the public.
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Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign

7 hours 18 min ago
Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io.
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Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences

8 hours 18 min ago
Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR).
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Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones

8 hours 18 min ago
The company has identified at least 13 instances where its robotaxis drove into highway sections closed for construction.
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NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

Wed, 06/17/2026 - 23:26
Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars.
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How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

Wed, 06/17/2026 - 18:23
Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.
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AI is hurting Apple in more ways than one: it may force iPhone price increases

Wed, 06/17/2026 - 16:28
CEO Tim Cook said in a recent interview that the situation is "unsustainable."
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Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming; now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI

Wed, 06/17/2026 - 14:30
Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist.
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Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

Wed, 06/17/2026 - 13:32
The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.
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