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A look at Babel Audio, which pairs anonymous strangers to record their conversations, starting at $17/hour, and bundles those recordings into AI training data (Issie Lapowsky/Bloomberg)

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Disney's AI Olaf Animatronic Malfunctions at Disneyland Paris Debut

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AI coding agents will drastically alter both the practice and the economics of exploit development, automating the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities (Thomas H. Ptacek/sockpuppet.org)

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

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150 million users later, Roblox competitor Rec Room is shutting down

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Social gaming startup Rec Room is shutting down on June 1, saying it could not find a path to profitability; Rec Room had a $3.5B valuation in December 2021 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

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Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda; US officials say Sriram Krishnan is taking on a position at the National Economic Council to focus on AI (Axios)

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Here are our favorite spring cleaning deals from Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

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Micron shares closed down 10% on Monday and are now down 30% since Micron's earnings report on March 18; Sandisk fell 7% and Western Digital dropped 9% (Lola Murti/CNBC)

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OpenAI introduces a Codex plugin for Claude Code, letting users invoke Codex from inside Claude Code to review code or delegate tasks (Vaibhav Srivastav/@reach_vb)

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Midnight brings a new level of faction cooperation to WoW

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Leaked January presentation: Coatue estimated that Anthropic would lose $14B in EBITDA on $18B in revenue in 2026 and reach a $1.995T valuation in 2030 (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

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Alibaba releases its Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM with support for 10+ hours of audio input, saying the Plus variant surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio benchmarks (Qwen)

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Pokémon Champions preview shows streamlined battles that sacrifice personality

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Levels.fyi: median base-salary offers for US software engineers at VC-backed startups have risen 25% to $200K since 2022; total compensation has risen just 18% (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

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Good luck finding a new PS5 Pro before the price hike

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Flipsnack and the shift toward motion-first business content with living visuals

The Next Web

The first Apple Home Key-ready smart lock with UWB is cheaper during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

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Formula 1 drivers are complaining about the Mario Kart ‘mushroom’ effect

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