TikTok settles DOJ children’s privacy lawsuit for $400 million
TikTok and ByteDance settle the DOJ’s COPPA lawsuit for $400 million: $300 million now and $100 million once the Musical.ly consent decree is vacated.
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Starcloud raises $250M at a $2.3B valuation for orbital data centers
Starcloud added $250 million to its Series A at a $2.3 billion valuation, with Nvidia and Cisco joining as it races to book rocket launches before Falcon 9 winds down.
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Tesla recalls 3 million vehicles in China’s record door handle crackdown
Tesla is recalling about 3 million vehicles in China over door handles and driver monitoring, the biggest slice of a record recall of nearly 4.3 million cars from 11 automakers.
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AI blog tools: $5.27 an article, 9 stats with no outside source
Four AI blog subscriptions priced from their own pages, and one published post from each run through our house checks. The prose passes. Nine statistics between them, and not one points at a source outside the industry.
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AI cost per employee: $11.95 at the median, $7,400 at the top 1%
Ramp’s July 2026 spend data puts the median firm at $11.95 per employee a month and the top 1% at $7,400. We priced both halves of that bill from vendor pages: seat licences, token rates, and the surcharges that never reach the headline number.
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AI email tools priced against a real inbox: 144 threads, 1 human
One inbox, eight days, 144 threads and exactly one message from a person. We priced Gemini, Copilot, Shortwave, Fyxer and Missive against what was actually there.
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The history of AI in 6 documents: from Dartmouth 1955 to $581.7B
Seventy-one years of AI traced through the primary documents that mark each era: the 1955 Dartmouth proposal, the 1972 Lighthill review, the 1980s US funding tables, the 2012 ImageNet scores and the scaling papers that corrected each other. Four lessons survive all of it.
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The future of AI at work is a hiring story, not a firing story
Two confident stories about AI and jobs, and one dataset at a time. The payroll records show a 19% entry-level gap. The national series shows nothing. Both readings can be true.
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Spanish school study: self-reflection beats a multi-agent AI pipeline
A Rust multi-agent system built to turn LLM hallucination into testable hypotheses lost to plain self-reflection across 180 runs and six ablation conditions.
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The best AI podcasts, sorted by who each show is actually for
Ten AI podcasts measured against their own RSS feeds: how often each one publishes, how long the episodes actually run, and which job each show is built to do.
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The benefits of AI are real. Nine in ten executives don’t see them
Randomised trials measure real benefits of AI, from 34% for novice support agents to a 44% cut in radiologist workload. Nine in ten executives report nothing at all. Where the gap comes from, and what would close it.
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Best AI for coding: 97% on one benchmark, 61.5% on a harder one
Seven models sit above 95% on SWE-bench Verified. On repositories picked so they were unlikely to have trained on them, the best score is 61.5%. We read four leaderboards, one controlled trial and three vendor pricing pages.
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