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- Phillies’ Aaron Nola Sends ‘Great’ Johan Rojas Message After Suspension Update
The Philadelphia Phillies star pitcher offered a clear response about his teammate’s value after news of an MLB suspension battle.
- These Companies Stand To Benefit From Trump’s Iran War—Exxon, Raytheon And More
The defense and energy sectors have the most to gain from a lengthy conflict.
- ‘Usually everybody loves money’: Trump’s FDA chief to start giving bonuses for faster drug reviews
The FDA lost about 20% of its workforce after Trump took office last year. Now it wants to shrink approvals from as long as 29 months to as low as six.
- Netflix’s ‘Peaky Blinders’ Movie Grabs A Great Rotten Tomatoes Score
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man is on its way to theaters before it heads to Netflix, and it has a great Rotten Tomatoes score so far.
- Palantir CEO’s rant about the Anthropic-Pentagon feud threatening his company was about a lot more than a dirty word
Although he could have used other language, Palantir CEO Alex Karp's comments reflected a growing concern of who can dictate the terms of use for AI.
Technology
- Musk testifies tweet that led to $44 billion lawsuit "may not have been my wisest"
Elon Musk takes the stand in a San Francisco courtroom.
- The Download: an AI agent’s hit piece, and preventing lightning
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. Online harassment is entering its AI era Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library he helps manage. Then things…
- macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will "upgrade" your M5's CPU to new "super" cores
In otherwise minor software update, macOS now uses M5's new nomenclature.
- How much wildfire prevention is too much?
The race to prevent the worst wildfires has been an increasingly high-tech one. Companies are proposing AI fire detection systems and drones that can stamp out early blazes. And now, one Canadian startup says it’s going after lightning. Lightning-sparked fires can be a big deal: The Canadian wildfires of 2023 generated nearly 500 million metric…
- Online harassment is entering its AI era
Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library that he helps manage. Like many open-source projects, matplotlib has been overwhelmed by a glut of AI code contributions, and so Shambaugh and his fellow maintainers have instituted a policy that all AI-written code must be…
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