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Tesla temporarily paused Cybertruck deliveries over an issue involving the vehicle’s large windshield wiper, according to several posters on the Cybertruck Owner’s Club forum.

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Apple says it’s shutting down Apple Pay Later, the tech giant’s “buy now, pay later” loan service, less than a year after launching the product to United States users in October 2023.

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Kimberly Gasuras doesn’t use AI. “I don’t need it,” she said. “I’ve been a news reporter for 24 years. How do you think I did all that work?” That logic wasn’t enough to save her job.

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When Disney shut down Club Penguin in 2017, millions of disgruntled fans were left without a virtual, penguin-based world to call home.

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OpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday.

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Chuck E. Cheese is pulling the plug on Munch’s Make Believe Band, the animatronic robots that terrified children and their begrudging parents with musical performances for decades.

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What started as a 24-hour hackathon project last weekend could empower the open-source community to upend the smart glasses industry. Five team members built a $20 pair of smart glasses, dubbed Open Glass, that connects what you see and hear to an AI chatbot, such as Meta’s Llama 3.

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Jack Dorsey reemerged on Elon Musk’s X recently, calling it a “freedom technology” last week as he stepped down from Bluesky’s board. In an interview with Pirate Wires Thursday, the founder of Twitter says he never really left the platform, he just was posting less.

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The mysterious AI chatbot, “gpt2-chatbot,” returned to the major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org, on Monday night roughly a week after it abruptly disappeared.

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Bluesky confirmed Jack Dorsey’s departure from the decentralized social media company’s board of directors on Sunday.