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My AI agent got me banned from Resy. Another agent got me reinstated.

Brian Distelburger set up an AI agent to land a reservation at New York's 4 Charles. He was quickly banned from Resy after his account got flagged.

Stripe president says checkout pages ‘will go away’ as AI commerce expands

Stripe president Will Gaybrick isn't sure what full agentic commerce looks like, but even the least ambitious future doesn't have checkout pages.

The author of 'Sapiens' says 'now is the time' to resist giving AI rights

Yuval Noah Harari said AI companions could deploy personal knowledge of users and emotional influence to sway them on its legal and moral status.

Exclusive: Amazon quietly hiked prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero overnight to offset ‘significant increases’ in memory costs

Amazon has raised prices for several of its first-party devices, including its Echo smart speakers and Fire TV line, making it the latest big tech company to increase consumer costs as memory chip shortages pressure several industries.

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

Alex Jones no longer on-the-hook for $50 million owed to Sandy Hook families—but he still has $1.25 billion looming over his head

A Texas court on Friday slashed a $50 million judgment that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre over his false claims that one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history was a hoax.

Republicans say let them eat overpriced burgers, turning on Trump for 'flooding the market with foreign beef'

President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration will allow more beef to be temporarily imported into the U.S. without triggering higher tariffs, which drew swift pushback from cattle producers and conservative rural-state Republicans.

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

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The job application got faster. The job search got worse.

AI interviews, auto-rejections and ghost jobs are eroding trust in the job hunt.

The AI boom is lifting economies across Asia. But for Southeast Asia, it might just be a ‘short-term blip’

The numbers in Asia just keep getting bigger and bigger.

Chief Justice John Roberts Allows Trump’s Ballroom Crews to Keep Working 20-Hour Days

Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday allowed the White House to continue construction on President Donald Trump’s $400 million ballroom project for now, as the Supreme Court considers the Trump administration’s emergency request to intervene in lawsuits over the project.