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  • Donald Trump said Friday he plans to testify in his hush-money trial, set to start Monday.
  • Trump previously backed out of testifying in his civil fraud trial. 
  • The former president could open himself up to risky cross-examination if he testifies. 

Former President Donald Trump on Friday said he will "absolutely" testify in his upcoming Manhattan hush-money trial, which is set to


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Tesla Model 3 and Model Y on display at the Everything Electric London 2024 show.
  • Tesla slashed the price of its assisted driver software, FSD Supervised, from $199 to $99 a month.
  • Elon Musk once said the cost of Tesla's FSD would only increase as it improves.
  • The discount comes after Tesla missed earnings expectations for its first quarter.

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg won his latest pretrial victory Friday over Donald Trump
  • Trump's hush money trial remains on track for Monday jury selection after a decision Friday night.
  • Judge Juan Merchan denied Trump's bid to delay the trial due to "pretrial publicity."
  • The judge has yet to rule on one last pretrial delay bid, a

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On Friday, people around the web noticed a new addition to their Instagram: Meta AI, the company’s general-purpose, AI-powered chatbot that can answer questions, write poetry and generate images with a simple text prompt. The move isn’t surprising. Meta revealed Meta AI in September 2023 and has spent the last few months adding the chatbot to products like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, so



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Elon Musk has long warned of the dangers of AI. However, it doesn't seem that he's all that concerned over X's own flawed AI chatbot, Grok, which recently created and promoted dangerous fake stories.

Musk is reportedly so unconcerned with Grok's issues that he is now apparently looking to further push it throughout X by tasking the social media platform's engineers with integrating the AI chatbot



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The price of a monthly subscription to Tesla's (kind-of) self-driving software has just been cut in half. Tesla's Full Self Driving (Supervised) subscription now costs $99 per month, a reduction from the previous standard of $199. 

Tesla instituted the $199 monthly upgrade fee in 2021, back when its self-driving system was still in beta. It costs $12,000 to add Full Self Driving (Supervised) —



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As Threads has grown to more than 130 million users, one of the major remaining “missing” features users often complain about is the lack of direct messaging abilities. But those missing out on DMs may soon have a new option to message other Threads users.

Meta is starting to test messaging features that rely on Instagram’s inbox but allow new messages to be initiated from the Threads app. The