EU Commission Approves $4.8 Billion Prosus’ Takeover of Just Eat Takeaway Summary Prosus has gained conditional approval from the European Commission for its $4.8 billion (about €4.1 billion) acquisition of…
GM Plans Renewed Push On Driverless Cars After Cruise Debacle Summary General Motors is reviving its autonomous driving efforts, recruiting former Cruise staff and appointing Sterling Anderson (ex‑Tesla Autopilot lead)…
Trump Calls Intel CEO a ‘Success’ After Demanding Resignation Summary Just days after publicly demanding Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign over past ties to China, President Trump met with Tan…
The Dead Need Right To Delete Their Data So They Can’t Be AI-ified, Lawyer Says Summary Legal scholar Victoria Haneman argues US law should grant estates a time-limited right to…
Jellyfish Swarm Forces French Nuclear Plant To Shut Summary On 11 August 2025 the Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France temporarily shut four reactor units after a large swarm…
LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Summary Researchers from the University of Arizona (preprint on arXiv) examine whether chain‑of‑thought (CoT) large language models truly perform logical…
The New York Times piece (shared on Slashdot) profiles new computer‑science graduates who are struggling to land the high‑paying entry‑level tech roles once promised to them. Students like Manasi Mishra…
At the Defcon security conference former NSA and US Cyber Command director Paul Nakasone, now an OpenAI board member, warned that technology companies will find it “very, very difficult” to…
Reddit Will Block the Internet Archive Summary Reddit says it has discovered AI companies scraping its content via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and will block the Archive from indexing…
America’s Clean Hydrogen Dreams Are Fading, Again Summary Companies across the United States are cancelling planned “clean” hydrogen projects after Congress shortened the qualification window for a Biden‑era tax credit,…
