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Social media companies paid a school district more than its annual budget to avoid trial

Financial details of the Breathitt County settlement reveal the price of averting the first school addiction trial. 1,300 more districts are waiting.
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HeartFocus Link adds AI cardiac imaging to any hospital ultrasound machine with a tablet and an HDMI cable

French medtech DESKi launches HeartFocus Link, adding AI-guided cardiac imaging to any cart-based ultrasound via a tablet and HDMI, targeting the global sonographer shortage.
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Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking

London AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth with Index Ventures and Radical Ventures co-leading. Nvidia Ventures participated. Matt Clifford advises.
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Developers won’t work without AI anymore. The research says it might be making them worse.

METR couldn't repeat its AI coding study because devs refused to work without AI. Amazon shut down its token leaderboard. Uber blew its AI budget in four months.
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Meta is building an AI pendant. It also plans a business subscription called Wearables for Work.

A leaked Meta memo confirms an AI pendant entering testing next year. The company also plans “Wearables for Work” and expanded AI glasses. Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to ...
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SpaceX just won a second Golden Dome contract. This one is $4.16 billion.

The Space Force awarded SpaceX the AMTI satellite deal two days after a $2.29B backbone contract. SpaceX now holds $6.45B in Golden Dome work.
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Microsoft threatened a security researcher with criminal prosecution. The cybersecurity community is furious.

A researcher published unpatched bugs in Defender and BitLocker after Microsoft allegedly revoked their account. Microsoft invoked its Digital Crimes Unit.
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Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Berlin-founded Parloa expands AI agent platform through strategic partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9, and Epic after raising $350M at a $3B valuation.
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Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.

Anthropic cut its unauthorized share platform list from eight to four after causing panic among investors. It raised $65B at $965B the same week. Anthropic updated its warning about unauthorized ...
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A startup with Eric Trump as adviser is testing humanoid robots in Ukraine. It wants them on US front lines within 18 months.

Foundation sent humanoid robots to Ukraine and has $24M in Pentagon contracts. Eric Trump is its chief strategy adviser. Warren calls it “corruption.” Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco ...
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Ferrari’s former chairman called the Luce a disgrace. Italy’s transport minister piled on. The stock dropped 8%.

CEO Vigna defended the €550,000 EV's price as fair for innovation. His predecessor said the prancing horse logo should be removed from the car.
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AI is killing the summer internship. The entry-level pipeline that built careers is breaking.

Tech internship postings fell 30% since 2023. AI now handles the tasks companies used to give interns. The entry-level pipeline is breaking. Katelyn Watterson owes her career to a summer internship.