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Anthropic tested Claude's ability to manage a physical "storefront" to mixed results, as the AI struggled with pricing strategy and inventory management (Ryan Daws/AI News)

Techmeme

How vulnerable is critical infrastructure to cyberattack in the US?

The Verge - All Posts

How to raise Porter Grade stats in Death Stranding 2

Polygon - All

On the a16z podcast, Bryan Kim said a16z backed Cluely because speed in marketing and building beats crafting a perfect "artisan" product due to AI competition (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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A group of 17 GOP governors write to Senate majority leader and House speaker urging for the state AI bill moratorium to be removed from the reconciliation bill (Ashley Gold/Axios)

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Tesla recently lost two key execs

The Verge - All Posts

The hilarious implications of the Supreme Court’s new porn decision

Vox - All

Logitech says all its webcams work with Nintendo Switch 2, save one

The Verge - All Posts

The Nothing Phone 3 might have the weirdest camera design out there

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Sources: OpenAI is not releasing an internal paper on AI stages as it may complicate OpenAI's ability to declare AGI and block Microsoft from its tech (Kylie Robison/Wired)

Techmeme

Source: OpenAI recently began renting Google's TPUs to power ChatGPT, marking its first significant use of non-Nvidia chips; Meta also considered using TPUs (The Information)

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What the “12-day war” teaches us about Trump’s foreign policy

Vox - All

I tested a bunch of gaming laptops and these are the best

The Verge - All Posts

Here are 13 of our favorite deals from Amazon’s early Prime Day sale

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Sources: Meta is looking to raise $3B in equity and $26B in debt, from private capital firms, including Apollo Global and KKR, to fund its data center build out (Financial Times)

Techmeme

Runway is going to let people generate video games with AI

The Verge - All Posts

How to fast travel in Death Stranding 2

Polygon - All

He Fled Death Threats for Being Gay, Applied for Asylum and Married a U.S. Citizen. ICE Arrested Him Anyway.

THE CITY - All

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ could mean slower Wi-Fi for you

The Verge - All Posts

Driving Surges In Popularity Thanks To ‘F1’ Film

The Onion