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- ChatGPT And Claude Score Below 51% Accuracy On Streaming Availability
According to a new study, asking an AI assistant where you can stream a popular TV show or movie will provide an answer that is wrong nearly half of the time.
- After Leaving NCT, Mark Lee Launches His Own Label
Two months after ending a decade-long relationship with SM Entertainment, former NCT mainstay Mark Lee has taken the next step.
- Fox's Two World Cup Streaming Bets—And Why Only One Is Proven
Fox is using the 2026 World Cup to test two streaming plays: Tubi’s free reach and Fox One’s paid subscriber bet.
- ‘If not now, when?’: Melinda French Gates on acting without fear as a philanthropist in the Trump era
She's putting a fresh $215 million into women's health—and wants to send a signal to other billionaires.
- Masayoshi Son’s Net Worth Down $13 Billion As SoftBank Shares Slide—Loses Asia’s Richest Title To Ambani
The Japanese investment giant recently surpassed Toyota as Japan’s largest firm.
Technology
- The Download: AI-generated lawsuits and virtual power plants for data centers
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by…
- Used Waymo robotaxi batteries become backup storage for power grids
Used Waymo batteries will bolster California and Texas energy storage projects.
- How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits
Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by people without a lawyer. Many of them can’t afford to hire a lawyer, and others have cases too weak or too small to interest one. She reads each one carefully, mindful of how daunting…
- Flesh-eating screwworm infection confirmed in South Texas, USDA says
With the case confirmed, it is the fly's first breach of the US-Mexico border.
- Microsoft, Atom Computing, EeroQ update their quantum computing progress
Some quantum computing companies we've covered have done recent progress updates.
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