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- ‘Toy Story 5’—Did Pixar Pull It Off Again?
‘Toy Story 5’ is the latest adventure for Buzz, Woody and Jessie, faced with the threat of modern technology—but did Pixar manage to make another winning sequel?
- Insilico Medicine, SK Biopharmaceuticals strike $2.5B AI drug discovery deal targeting neuroimmune therapies
“We want to be the SpaceX of the pharmaceutical industry,” Alex Zhavoronkov, co-CEO of Insilico Medicine tells Fortune.
- A Year After Trading Rafael Devers Boston Still Needs A Third Baseman
The Boston Red Sox still need a third baseman after trading Rafael Devers to the Giants last season, and they may be looking to San Francisco for his replacement.
- Tesla Driver Says He Used Autopilot In Fatal Crash — Sparking Federal Probe
A driver in Texas claimed he was using his Tesla’s autopilot feature when it crashed into a home at a high speed.
- Steve Jobs became a billionaire thanks to a Pixar gamble. Now ‘Toy Story 5’ is breaking box office records thanks to that bet
Before Jobs made Apple the most valuable company on Earth, he helped bring Pixar to life.
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- Man used massage gun on his tired eyeballs. It went as well as you'd expect.
He had retinal tears and bruises from squishing his eyeballs with the gun.
- Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake
"Winning" bets were made on cloned website and would have lost money, WSJ finds.
- Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs
Critics saw the move as an underhanded way to steer them toward more costly chips.
- Valve's Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won't be able to buy one yet
Valve says it's using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience "less frustrating and more fair."
- Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s latest feud with the US government, here’s a recap: In April the company said it had built an AI model called Mythos…
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