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- ‘ARC Raiders’ Frozen Trail Patch Notes: New Map, Guns, Enemies And So Much More
The massive ARC Raiders Frozen Trail update is here with a new map, weapons, enemies, Outposts, Amplified Weapons and more. Here are the full patch notes.
- Elon Musk just lost his trillionaire status again after three days—but he says ‘it’s not like it’s sitting in a bank account’ anyway
SpaceX founder Elon Musk lost $63 billion in the span of days, falling out of the trillionaire club for the second time.
- Jeff Bezos says a 3-day workweek and more single-income households are on the way thanks to AI: ‘It’s going to be difficult to hire people’
Even after Amazon cut 30,000 jobs, Jeff Bezos predicts AI will boost productivity so much that fewer people will need to work, creating a labor shortage.
- A$AP Ferg Partners With SoundOn To Reach TikTok Creator Communities
SoundOn is tapping fitness, dance and fashion creators to introduce A$AP Ferg’s new single, “Cycle,” to new listeners and explore how TikTok engagement can drive streaming growth.
- Anthropic Pauses Free Claude Startup Perks Days After Launch
Anthropic paused free Claude Team and API credit offers for startups just days after launching the expanded program, triggering backlash from users.
Technology
- Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency
The US says Microsoft abused immigration rules; the company disputes the claim.
- The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. If you ask your chatbot how to poison…
- Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine?
"I can say we’re weeks away from launching on Vulcan."
- Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here
The new EV’s digital cockpit can mimic instrument displays from VWs of old.
- We’re still figuring out the side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs
This week my colleague Antonio Regalado had an interesting update on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. According to research presented at an aging meeting in Boston, these drugs seem to affect at least some measures of biological age. Overweight and diabetic people who take GLP-1s have a biological age around two to three years younger than similar…
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