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“We’re not competitor obsessed, we’re customer obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards,” Jeff Bezos, previously. | Laura Normand / The Verge

The fallout from the non-endorsement of Kamala Harris at The Washington Post is here: more than 200,000 canceled subscriptions, NPR reports. This is about 8 percent of the paid subscriber base, and the



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Fortnite is bigger than a battle royale now, and to help make progressing through the various available battle passes a little bit more streamlined, Epic Games is going to allow XP from any experience apply to any of those passes.

Currently, XP you earn across various modes in Fortnite doesn’t help you progress through the special passes for Lego Fortnite



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Donald Trump has seen an influx in billionaire backers, including from Silicon Valley.
  • As the 2024 race heats up, Trump has gained support from billionaires and wealthy business leaders.
  • Elon Musk and a handful of Silicon Valley elite are among those rallying around the former president.
  • Here are some of Trump's richest donors and how much they've contributed to the 2024 campaign.

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Meta is working on an AI-powered search engine to decrease its dependence on Google and Microsoft, according to a report from The Information. The search engine would reportedly provide AI-generated search summaries of current events within the Meta AI chatbot.

The Meta AI bot built into Instagram and Facebook currently uses Google —



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The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has released its official definition of “open” artificial intelligence, setting the stage for a clash with tech giants like Meta — whose models don’t fit the rules.

OSI has long set the industry standard for what constitutes open-source software, but AI systems include



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UMG and AI company Klay are forming their own foundational Music-generating AI model. | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Image

Universal Music Group (UMG) announced a new deal centered on creating an “ethical” foundational model for AI music generation. It’s partnered with a company called Klay Vision that’s creating a “Large Music Model” named KLayMM and plans



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Think about your digital footprint. How many accounts have you created online since you first started using the internet? How many of those use the same passwords, so you have an easier time logging in? It’s a habit we’ve all fallen into, but it greatly weakens our ability to stay secure online. Just one password leak can compromise dozens of accounts.

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Elon Musk on Sunday gave a brief speech at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in New York.
  • Elon Musk briefly spoke at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in New York on Sunday.
  • Musk said he'd save the US $2 trillion through a department of government efficiency.
  • Musk did not provide any details on policy changes or spending cuts he'd implement.

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Kathryn Gallagher as Charlie in "Woman of the Hour."
  • "Woman of the Hour" is based on the true story of serial killer Rodney Alcala's appearance on a game show.
  • In the movie, he murders a young stewardess named Charlie in New York City in 1971.
  • Her story is similar to that of Cornelia Crilley, a TWA flight attendant who Acala raped and murdered.

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Microsoft is accusing Google of funding a proxy campaign designed to discredit it in the eyes of regulatory authorities and policymakers in the European Union and beyond. In a blog post penned by Rima Alaily, the company’s deputy general counsel, Microsoft claims the search giant has gone to “great lengths to obfuscate its involvement, funding and control” of the Open Cloud Coalition, a group of