Meta is paying contractors up to $55 an hour to build AI chatbot characters

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Anthropic agrees to pay authors over $1.5 billion for using their work to train AI, totaling around $3,000 a book

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Anthropic settled a class-action lawsuit with a group of authors in a deal that could change the terms for how LLMs train on creative work.

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The Amazon executive overseeing its upcoming AI agent service is stepping down

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Amazon physical stores VP Dilip Kumar
Amazon physical stores VP Dilip Kumar

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Donald Trump summoned Big Tech CEOs to a White House dinner. We decided to zoom in on the seating chart.

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David Sachs, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald and Melania Trump, Bill Gates, Safra Catz, and her husband Gal Tirosh.

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We asked Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini about Elon Musk's chances of unlocking the full $1 trillion in his pay proposal

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Grok gave Elon Musk a 15% chance of scoring his $1 trillion payout. Gemini said the likelihood were "effectively zero."

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Klarna dials back remote work and says it's losing top talent to companies with stronger in-office culture as IPO nears

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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Klarna will make its stock market debut next week.

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Elon Musk's go-to lawyer is heading a Dogecoin treasury

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Elon Musk's attorney, Alex Spiro, was hit by a potential sanction on Tuesday.
Elon Musk's attorney, Alex Spiro, was hit by a potential sanction on Tuesday.

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Trump v. YouTube settlement talks quietly drag on, and a judge demands a public update

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Donald Trump and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, parent company to Google and YouTube
Donald Trump sued Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube.

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It's time to call it: The Big Tech backlash is formally over.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai, at the Sun Valley conference, July 2025
For years, we were told American regulators were going to rein in Google CEO Sundar Pichai and his fellow big tech bosses. That didn't happen.

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Googlers post memes to celebrate how the company doesn't have to sell Chrome

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Sundar Pichai wears a grey jacket over a white t-shirt and smiles on stage.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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