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An Apple-backed study finds combining Apple Watch's heart rate sensor with a new Wearable Behavior Model gives 92% accuracy for pregnancy detection, and more (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

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How AI is being used by patients and doctors alike to recommend diagnoses and treatments, as experts warn of answers that seem confident but lack nuance (Ryan Flinn/Wired)

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The best Apple deals available for Amazon Prime Day 2025

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The best Prime Day 2025 deals you can still get

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The best Prime Day deals on charging accessories

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Krafton slams ex-Subnautica 2 execs — who now say they’re suing

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Tel Aviv- and NYC-based Datafy, which offers an autonomous cloud storage optimization service, raised a $20M seed led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Bilt Rewards, which offers rewards points for rent payments, raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation, up from $3.1B in January 2024 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

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The 40 best Prime Day deals you can get for under $25

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Here are 60 Prime Day deals you can still nab for $50 or less

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Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming the companies' AI chatbots are discriminating against President Trump (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

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Asked "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.", Grok 4 first consults Musk's views, but only when the word "you" is used (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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The Verge’s guide to Amazon Prime Day 2025

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Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end. ZA 54 of 64 citations are about Elon. [video] (Jeremy Howard/@jeremyphoward)

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Conspiracy theorists are blaming flash floods on cloud seeding — it has to stop

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A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump

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Sources: AWS is launching a marketplace for AI agents, with Anthropic as one of its partners, at the AWS Summit in NYC next week (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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I love this Hoto mini electric screwdriver, and it’s cheaper than ever for Prime Day

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Dbrand says its new Switch 2 Joy-Con grips fix the detachment issue

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