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Apple’s iOS 26 public beta is here. Here are the 4 biggest changes. washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Apple’s iOS 26 public beta is here. These are the 4 biggest changes.

Apple’s first iOS 26 public beta offers an early taste of a major software overhaul. Here are the biggest changes and features we tested.

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See images of faraway galaxies and nearby asteroids from the new Vera Rubin telescope and world’s largest digital camera washingtonpost.com/science/i…

See images from the Rubin telescope and world’s largest digital camera

The Rubin telescope, featuring a 3,200-megapixel camera, promises to see more galaxies than ever before.

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Small-time Trump meme coin buyers have seen their investments collapse washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Small-time Trump coin buyers have seen their investments collapse

Nearly 67,000 crypto novices have pulled out their debit cards to bet on Trump’s crypto venture, a Post analysis found. So far it’s been a monumental bust.

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ChatGPT maker OpenAI scraps plan to restructure into a for-profit company after pressure from Elon Musk washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Sam Altman hands Elon Musk a win, scrapping OpenAI’s for-profit plan

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said it will no longer seek to restructure into a for-profit company separate from its nonprofit board, a move Elon Musk had sought to block.

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Elon Musk’s DOGE team is feeding sensitive federal data into AI via Microsoft's cloud to target spending cuts washingtonpost.com/nation/20…

Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts

U.S. DOGE Service workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.

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Google drops its pledge not to develop AI for weapons, surveillance or in ways ‘likely to cause overall harm’ washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions that it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.

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Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to a TikTok ban in the U.S., scheduling oral arguments for January washingtonpost.com/politics/…

Supreme Court to hear challenge to banning TikTok in U.S.

The justices will quickly take up the constitutionality of a federal law that would shutter TikTok next month unless the company divests from Chinese ownership.

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Justice Dept. seeks to force Google to sell its Chrome browser, along with other big changes, in monopoly case washingtonpost.com/technolog…

DOJ says Google should have to sell Chrome to end its search monopoly

The Justice Department recommendation is one of the final moves of Biden’s aggressive antitrust enforcers before Trump takes the reins.

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More than a dozen states sue TikTok, alleging its addictive features hook and harm children washingtonpost.com/technolog…

States sue TikTok, saying its addictive features hook children

States accuse TikTok of using addictive features that harm children.

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OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, receives new funding that values the company at $157 billion washingtonpost.com/technolog…

OpenAI gets $6.6 billion in new funding, valuing company at $157 billion

The maker of ChatGPT announced it received $6.6 billion in new funding, valuing the company at $157 billion — one of the most valuable start-ups ever.

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Here’s everything Apple unveiled at its September product event, from the iPhone 16 to AirPods with a hearing aid washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Everything Apple’s event unveiled from the iPhone 16 to new AirPods

AI-forward iPhones, sleeker Apple Watches and AirPods that double as hearing aids will go on sale soon, Apple says.

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Tesla shareholders re-approve Elon Musk’s 2018 pay package, Musk says washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s massive compensation package

Investors and Musk’s supporters, including X CEO Linda Yaccarino, applauded the results. The tally will be finalized at a shareholder meeting later Thursday.

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Apple announces a deal with OpenAI as it aims to play catchup in a race against Google and Microsoft washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Apple jumps into the AI arms race with OpenAI deal

The iPhone maker has mostly stayed on the sidelines as the tech industry goes wild for AI. Not anymore.

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AI firm employees write open letter warning of the technology’s grave risks to humanity washingtonpost.com/technolog…

AI employees warn of technology’s dangers, call for sweeping company changes

A letter, signed by current and former OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind workers, called on AI companies to provide transparency and whistleblower protections.

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OpenAI finds Russian and Chinese groups used its tech for political propaganda campaigns as 2024 U.S. elections near washingtonpost.com/technolog…

OpenAI finds Russian and Chinese groups used its tech for propaganda campaigns

Covert propagandists have already begun using generative artificial intelligence to boost their influence operations.

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Schumer’s long-awaited ‘road map’ for regulating AI is coming this week. It will cost billions. washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Schumer’s long-awaited AI ‘road map’ is coming this week. It will cost billions.

Crafted by a bipartisan group of Senators, the “road map” reviews AI’s impact on the military, health care and workers and could be released as soon as Tuesday.

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FCC restores net neutrality regulations that were repealed during the Trump administration washingtonpost.com/technolog…

FCC reinstates net neutrality, but it’s not as easy as it once was

5G’s ability to offer different speeds for different purposes upends the traditional concept of net neutrality.

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Facebook and Instagram are back up, Meta says, after a widespread outage affected thousands of users washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Facebook and Instagram back up after outage briefly blocked log-ins

The interruption had affected more than 570,000 Facebook users and more than 90,000 Instagram users by 10:30 a.m. Eastern, according to Downdetector.com.

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Senate poised to pass biggest piece of tech regulation in decades, securing enough backers after months of negotiations washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Senate poised to pass biggest piece of tech regulation in decades

With more than 60 backers, an updated Kids Online Safety Act finally has a path to passage in the Senate but faces uncertainty in the House.

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Can an essay written by ChatGPT fool college admissions counselors? We put it to the test. washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Can ChatGPT get into Harvard? We tested its admissions essay.

Can an AI generated college essay fool an Ivy League admissions counselor? We put ChatGPT to the test.

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