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Why the new rulings on AI copyright might actually be good news for publishers

The AI copyright courtroom is heating up.

In back-to-back rulings last week, the ongoing legal war between AI companies and content creators has significantly shifted, ostensibly favoring the former. First, Anthropic got the

‘The /r/overemployed king’: A serial moonlighter was exposed for holding 19 jobs at Silicon Valley startups

A software engineer became X’s main character last week after being outed as a serial moonlighter at multiple Silicon Valley startups.

“PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3–4 startups at the same time,” wrote Suhail Doshi, the founder of AI design company Playground, on

Texas flood recovery efforts face an unexpected obstacle: drones

The flash floods that have devastated Texas are already a difficult crisis to manage. More than 100 people are confirmed dead after the July 4 deluge, and many more remain missing. But while recovery efforts are underway, Texas authorities are grappling with a compounding challenge: civilian drone operators inte

Amazon is extending Prime Day deals in 2025, here’s why

Amazon is extending its annual Prime Day sales and offering new membership perks to Gen Z shoppers amid tariff-related price worries and possibly some consumer boredom with an event marking its 11th year.

The e-commerce giant’s promised blitz

The internet is trying—and failing—to spend Elon Musk’s $342 billion

How would you spend $342 billion?

A number of games called “Spend Elon Musk’s Money” have been popping up online, inviting users to imagine how they’d blow through the wealth of the world’s richest man.

“If Elon cashed out all of his stocks & assets today he would have approximately $354,000,000,000 (US Dollars) in his bank account (Forbes 2025),” reads one such website. “What would you spend it

Moonvalley releases its ‘power tool’ for AI filmmaking

On Tuesday, AI lab Moonvalley announced the public release of Marey, a video model designed as a production-grade tool for professional filmmakers.

Marey—pronounced “Mary” and named after early film pioneer Étienne-Jules Marey—was trained exclusively on expl

What happened at Wimbledon? ‘Human error’ blamed for ball-tracking tech mishap

The All England Club, somewhat ironically, is blaming “human error” for a glaring mistake by the electronic system that replaced human line judges this year at Wimbledon.

The CEO of the club, Sally Bolton, said Monday that the

Elon Musk has ‘fixed’ Grok—to be more like him than ever

As Elon Musk announced plans over the Fourth of July weekend to establish a third political party, his AI chatbot, Grok, gave a sneak preview of the information ecosystem in that party.

It’s pretty much indistinguishable from Musk’s personal feed on X.

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Dr. Becky is the parenting guru for the social media era. Now she’s an AI chatbot, too

Dolores Ballesteros, a Mexico-based mother of two, was getting desperate. Her 6-year-old son kept hitting his brother, age 3, and seemed angry at her all the time. No matter what she did, she couldn’t get through to him. At her lowest moments, she says, “I really thought he was acting like a psychopath.” Last Mother’s Day, she asked her husband for outside help: a subscription to the Good Inside parenting app and its

Five truths about being a female founder in 2025

Rarely has Silicon Valley experienced a more profound period of transformation than it has in the past handful of years. The big VC boom of 2020–2021. The great VC hangover starting in 2022. The global pandemic and its massive impact on tech adoption. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. And more recently the advent of


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