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Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut 100,000 jobs Jun 29, 2026

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The workers' union plans to fight the cuts.

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Rocket Lab bought a satellite company to go up against Starlink and Leo, Google capped Meta's use of Gemini AI for coding and another reminder that you don't own digital content Jun 29, 2026

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-Rocket Lab announced it's buying Iridium Communications in a deal worth $8 billion to compete with SpaceX's ever-growing Starlink network

-According to the Financial Times, Google was forced to cap Meta's use of its Gemini AI model after Mark Zuckerberg's company exceeded its computing capacity.

-Sony has notified customers in a handful of European countries that they'll soon lose access to some movies that they've purchased through the PlayStation Store due to the upcoming expiration of a licensing deal with Studio Canal.

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IBM says it has created the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip Jun 26, 2026

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The company's new "nanostack" architecture could lead to far more efficient chips.

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OpenAI will initially only release ChatGPT 5.6 to government-approved customers, California launched a tracker for AI-related job losses, and the most popular Grok feature is exactly what you think Jun 26, 2026

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-OpenAI plans to stagger the release of its new AI model, and the first users will only be parties that are approved by the federal government.

-According to the office of California Governor Gavin Newsom, it's meant to serve as an "early warning system" for widespread job cuts due to artificial intelligence, allowing the government to proactively determine where interventions may be needed the most.

-NSFW activities account for "well over half" of Grok's traffic. That includes using Grok to generate actual porn, as well as "adult role-play chats" and "huge volumes of requests for erotica."

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Google says it'll soon be easier to use TSA PreCheck Touchless ID via Wallet Jun 25, 2026

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You'll no longer need to manually add your ID details for each airline.

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After successfully selling over 15 cars, Faraday Future would now like you to buy its robots Jun 25, 2026

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-As part of its latest revamp, Faraday Future, the embattled electric car company, is now pitching a lineup of robots, including humanoids, quadrupeds and a robotic arm.

-OpenAI has updated GPT-5.5 Instant, the model you interact with the most when you use ChatGPT, to be better at understanding context and adapting to queries as you alter them to add more conditions or clarifications.

-And do you really need AI to check your spelling and grammar?

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Netflix's new horror game taps into your phone for deeper immersion Jun 24, 2026

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Unhinged, which is from Oxenfree developer Night School, stars Zoë Kravitz, Sadie Sink and Troy Baker.

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Superhuman acquired AI authenticity service GPTZero, Meta reportedly dipping its toes into the prediction market space, and Sorry, Slackbot. Claude is taking your job Jun 24, 2026

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-Superhuman offers services such as hallucination and plagiarism detection as well as a nifty little tool that displays how much of the internet is artificial intelligence.

-Mark Zuckerberg has directed Meta to create a prediction markets app, that reportedly goes by the name "Arena" and could eventually compete with platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.

-Anthropic has announced Claude Tag, which is currently in research preview, and could eventually take over Slackbot's job.

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OpenAI signs deal to show Getty's images in ChatGPT results Jun 23, 2026

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Getty already struck a similar deal with Perplexity AI.

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OpenAI's Daybreak⁠ initiative will help open-source projects fend off bugs, China took back top spot in latest supercomputer ranking, and the Oversight Board says Meta needs to do more to protect regular people from sexualized deepfakes Jun 23, 2026

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-OpenAI has launched Patch the Planet, a new initiative part of its Daybreak cybersecurity program, which was designed to serve the open-source community.

-China's LineShine from the nation's National Supercomputer Center hit 2.198 Exaflops of performance, beating the previous champ El Capitan

-Meta's Oversight Board has called on the social media company to strengthen its protection for ordinary people targeted by sexualized deepfakes.

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