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Email: Ron Conway, a close friend of Marc Benioff for 25+ years, stepped down from the Salesforce Foundation board, citing Benioff's comments supporting Trump (Heather Knight/New York Times)

Techmeme

Fujifilm’s bringing instant cameras into the selfie age

The Verge - All Posts

Pinterest’s ‘tuner’ lets you dial down the amount of AI content — but not entirely

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Apple and NBCUniversal announce an Apple TV and Peacock Premium bundle for $14.99 per month, a 30% discount over the individual subscriptions (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Techmeme

Apple TV and Peacock announce a discounted $15 monthly subscription bundle

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The best fitness trackers and watches we’ve tested

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Coinbase launches Coinbase Business, a stablecoin payment platform to let businesses send and receive USDC; Coinbase shares USDC yield revenue 50/50 with Circle (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

Techmeme

Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams

The Onion

JD Vance Defends Erosion Of Democracy As ‘Happening’

The Onion

Pokémon Legends: Z-A fans are sad to keep finding shiny Pidgey

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Sources: OpenAI is proposing a "sign in with ChatGPT" feature for websites, letting startups charge OpenAI model usage costs to users' ChatGPT capacity limits (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Techmeme

How soybeans took over America — and the world

Vox - All

The Boys: Diabolical season 2 news isn't good news

Polygon - All

Pokémon Go 'Pokémon Legends: Z-A Celebration Event' guide

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Battlefield 6 sells 7M copies in 3 days, rivaling Call of Duty

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Anthropic announces Skills for Claude, a tool with folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load to improve performance on some tasks (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Techmeme

Anno 117: Pax Romana stuns in first impressions, and clicks right away

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a16z Crypto invests $50M in Solana infrastructure provider Jito through a private token sale, likely one of a16z's largest crypto investments in recent years (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

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Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work

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All Destiny 2 expansions on sale for just $35

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