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The European Commission has ordered Meta to restore free WhatsApp access for competing AI chatbots, resorting to an emergency interim measure it has used only once before in more than 20 years. The decision escalates a confrontation that could eventually cost Meta up to 10 percent of its annual revenue. The order, announced Tuesday, requires […]

Starlink has abandoned its longtime practice of selling hardware to customers for a one-time charge, replacing it with a $10 monthly rental fee for the satellite dish and router. The move brings SpaceX’s internet service in line with the rental model cable and telecom companies have used for decades. The change appears on Starlink’s residential […]

A Boston-based biotechnology company has dosed the first patient in a Phase 1 clinical trial of a drug designed to reverse age-related vision loss by resetting the epigenetic code of damaged cells. The therapy, called ER-100, is the first cellular rejuvenation treatment using epigenetic reprogramming to reach human trials. Life Biosciences announced the milestone Monday. […]

Google just made its budget AI subscription plan significantly cheaper, cutting the monthly price of Google AI Plus from $7.99 to $4.99 while doubling the included storage from 200 to 400 gigabytes. The move signals that the price war that has been reshaping AI markets in developing countries is now arriving in the United States […]

Building a mid-range gaming PC once cost around $1,000. Today, that same budget barely covers a graphics card. Over the past nine months, a convergence of tariffs, AI-driven component demand, and memory shortages has pushed retail electronics prices to levels that would have been unthinkable in early 2025. The numbers tell a stark story. A […]

FCC proposal would force telecoms to collect government IDs, effectively ending burner phones The Federal Communications Commission is pushing forward with a proposal that would require every telecommunications provider in the United States to collect a government-issued ID number and physical address from all new and renewing customers. Privacy advocates say the measure would effectively […]

Microsoft AI chief calls out Anthropic for ‘dangerous’ speculation about Claude’s consciousness Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has publicly criticized Anthropic for building speculation about Claude’s possible consciousness into the model’s governing constitution, calling the practice “really, really dangerous” and a “philosophical failing” during an interview on The Verge’s Decoder podcast. The sharp rebuke from […]

NASA names Artemis III crew in aggressive push toward Moon landing NASA has named the four astronauts who will fly the Artemis III mission, a high-stakes orbital test flight designed to bridge the gap between last April’s lunar flyby and the first crewed Moon landing since Apollo. The crew announcement came Tuesday at Johnson Space […]

Meta relaxed its content moderation rules in the name of free speech. New research shows the consequences were swift and measurable: violent threats against Members of Congress on Facebook quadrupled in the six months that followed. A report published June 9 by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), titled “Safety Off,” analyzed nearly 8 […]

OpenAI is rebuilding ChatGPT from the ground up. The product that defined the consumer AI boom in 2022 is being redesigned as an AI “superapp” that puts autonomous agents and coding tools ahead of conversation. The overhaul, internally codenamed Aria, was reported Sunday by the Financial Times. On Monday, the company filed confidentially for an […]