Police in Florida say they arrested an 11-year-old who reported a fake school shooting because he 'wanted to go home early'

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Florida police arrested an 11-year-old accused of falsely reporting a school shooting.

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The billionaire founder behind China's AI giant SenseTime has died of an unknown illness at 55

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Tang Xiao'ou, professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, speaks during the opening ceremony of 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference at Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center on July 6, 2023 in Shanghai, China.

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What mice in VR goggles can tell us about our brains

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The view inside the VR goggles that the mice were wearing sometimes featured predators like owls.

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Epic Games CEO fears Google may still be able to stifle Play Store competitors

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney

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Former Amazon engineer pleads guilty to stealing $12.3 million of crypto in first ever hacking case involving smart contracts

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Representation of Bitcoin is seen with binary code displayed on a laptop screen

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Tesla's recall on its Autosteer technology could bolster lawsuits claiming the feature is dangerous: report

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Homelessness among American veterans increased this year by its largest margin since the US started tracking

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A man claiming to be an Iraq War veteran begs for money on a pedestrian walkway in Las Vegas, Nevada in July 2022.
A man who says he is an Iraq War veteran begs for money on a pedestrian walkway in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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TikTok's parent company cut corners when developing its AI chatbot by copying OpenAI's homework, report says

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Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, at a conference.

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Shredded Zuck's ACL recovery threatens his budding MMA career

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Mark Zuckerberg was appearing on the Lex Fridman podcast

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Elon Musk privately told bankers they won't lose money on the Twitter deal. But banks are already expected to lose at least $2 billion.

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Elon Musk has called the strike action from Swedish workers "insane."

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