Google launches Fitbit Air in India, though its high price might deter the masses
Fitbit Air costs around $146 in India, roughly $47 more than its U.S. pricing.
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Lena Ortiz
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The Ugly Economics of Consumer AI
There's a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it's not because the tech isn't good enough.
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Pentagon Taps Musk and Luckey to Help Shape the Military's Future
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, co-led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich. Critics could note that Musk's and Luckey's companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to recommend.
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Flow Engineering Raises $50M Series B at $750M Valuation, Backed by Valor, Atreides, Sequoia
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
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Hackers Stole Millions of US Military Personnel Records in Months-Long Breach
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
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