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Huge New Development in Case of Black Daycare Owner Who Shot Husband After Discovering Abuse

Supporters say Daycare Owner shouldn't have spent a single day behind bars.

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Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to diversify and build an AI productivity suite; Superhuman was valued at $825M in August 2021 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Krystal Hu / Reuters:
Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to diversify and build an AI productivity suite; Superhuman was valued at $825M in August 2021  —  Grammarly has acquired email efficiency tool Superhuman as part of the company's push to build an artificial intelligence-powered productivity suite …

Edgar Wright’s remake of The Running Man looks like a blast in first trailer

Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright’s new movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man got its first explosive trailer on Tuesday, showing Glen Powell (Hit Man, Top Gun: Maverick) as titular man on the run Ben Richards. Wright’s version of The Running Man — which was very loosely adapted for […]

Senate drops plan to ban state AI laws

The US Senate has voted overwhelmingly to remove a moratorium on states regulating AI systems from the Republican “big, beautiful bill.” Legislators agreed by a margin of 99 to 1 to drop the controversial proposal during a protracted fight over the omnibus budget bill, which is still under debate. The vote followed failed attempts to […]

Genesis AI, which generates synthetic data for training an AI model meant to power robots, emerges from stealth with a $105M seed co-led by Eclipse and Khosla (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Genesis AI, which generates synthetic data for training an AI model meant to power robots, emerges from stealth with a $105M seed co-led by Eclipse and Khosla  —  Genesis AI, a startup that aims to build a foundational model for powering all kinds of robots, has emerged from stealth …