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Walmart and Wing expand drone delivery to five more U.S. cities Jun 10, 2025

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Walmart and Wing are expanding their partnership and rolling out drone delivery to dozens of more stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.

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Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control Jun 09, 2025

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Bonfire's mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google.

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Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data Jun 09, 2025

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Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly using the site’s data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement, according to a complaint filed in a Northern California court on Wednesday. Reddit claims in the complaint that Anthropic’s unauthorized use of the site’s data for commercial purposes was unlawful.

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Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook Jun 06, 2025

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It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. AI dev platform Hugging Face released earlier this week an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments, Hugging Face claims.

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Reddit now lets you hide content, like posts and comments, from your user profile Jun 06, 2025

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Reddit announced a new feature that will offer its users more privacy when it comes to what’s shared on their user profiles.

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Anthropic’s AI is writing its own blog — with human oversight Jun 05, 2025

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Anthropic has given its AI a blog. A week ago, Anthropic quietly launched Claude Explains, a new page on its website that’s generated mostly by the company’s AI model family, Claude.

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Health giant Kettering still facing disruption weeks after ransomware attack Jun 05, 2025

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A healthcare giant with dozens of facilities across Ohio is still recovering after shutting down nearly all its operations following a ransomware attack.

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TikTok launches ‘TikTok for Artists,’ a new music insights platform Jun 04, 2025

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TikTok announced on Tuesday that it’s officially launching TikTok for Artists, a new music insights platform that is designed to help artists build their careers. The official launch comes two months after TikTok was spotted testing the platform in select countries.

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Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups Jun 04, 2025

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Elad Gil started betting on AI before most of the world took notice. By the time investors began grasping the implications of ChatGPT, Gil had already written seed checks to startups like Perplexity, Character.AI, and Harvey.

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For the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-worker Jun 03, 2025

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Generative AI comes in many forms. Increasingly, though, it’s marketed the same way: with human names and personas that make it feel less like code and more like a co-worker. A growing number of startups are anthropomorphizing AI to build trust fast — and soften its threat to human jobs. It’s dehumanizing, and it’s accelerating.

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