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Source: Accel, which owns 18.5% of Scale AI after investing a total of ~$350M, expects to gain over $2.5B from Meta's $14.3B investment in the startup (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

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Forsaken Fortress walkthrough in Zelda: The Wind Waker

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The best budget smartphone you can buy

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Yupp, which rewards users in crypto for comparing answers from multiple AI models and giving feedback, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed led by a16z crypto (James Hunt/The Block)

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All skill trainer locations in Dune: Awakening, including basic and advanced

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Mel Brooks is returning for Spaceballs 2

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The best AirPods to buy

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Google says it is testing Audio Overviews for certain Search queries, available for Labs users in English in the US (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Marathon isn’t going to be another Concord, Sony insists

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The Switch 2 gives Splatoon 3 a fantastically fresh coat of paint

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Belkin’s 3-in-1 Qi2 wireless charger is the cheapest it’s been in months

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Sources: Palmer Luckey's stablecoin startup Atticus raised ~$250M at a $2.25B valuation, and will merge into Erebor, formed by Luckey to get a banking license (Axios)

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MindsEye team deploys first hotfix as they scramble to make the dang thing work

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Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast

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Digital rights organizations urge the FTC to investigate Character.AI and Meta's "unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated" by therapy AI chatbots (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

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Get ready to trash your living room, A Minecraft Movie streams on Max next week

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Anbernic’s sliding screen handheld might be too chunky and heavy for your pockets

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Sony says it isn’t too worried about the Nintendo Switch 2

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Amazon reorganizes its healthcare business into six "pillars" to simplify its structure, following executive departures and its struggles in the market (CNBC)

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Seven years later, Nintendo fans beat Switch game even the devs didn’t

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