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- Tate McRae Distances Herself From MAGA Association—But Doesn’t Outright Deny
Her relationship with U.S. hockey star Jack Hughes, and a recent musical collaboration with Morgan Wallen, has branded her a MAGA supporter by association.
- How AI turned your best work into the bare minimum
Efficiency gains from AI are not being returned to employees as breathing room, but being immediately converted into higher output expectations instead.
- Global shares rally, oil rebounds as Iran war de-escalation, yen intervention worries ease
European and Asian indexes rose Tuesday and oil rebounded as investors weighed the U.S.-Japan yen intervention and Trump's Iran strike delay.
- Cloudflare just launched a permanent ID tool and wallet for AI shopping
The new service makes it easier for consumers to equip AI agents with tools that let them spend and to identity themselves to merchants' agents.
- SpaceX stock has lost half its value. Time for Elon Musk to face investors
SpaceX's first public earnings arrive as losses outpace all of 2025 and a share lockup expiration looms.
Technology
- OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal"
“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.
- The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE’s DNA grab
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. Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics —James O’Donnell Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, kick children, and despite advances are still worse at using their hands than my toddler. It’s…
- US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own
$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
- Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
Also: Cyborg diving suits for cockroaches, why sleepy sperm whales blow bubbles, Betelgeuse's companion star.
- Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model
The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.
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