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Tesla's ad spend on X has shrunk to almost nothing: Tesla spent a fraction on X in early 2025 compared to 2024. It also paid $300,000 to Kimbal Musk's drone company. Read More

Google Gemini dubbed 'high risk' for kids and teens in new safety assessment: Google's Gemini comes up short on kids' safety, says Common Sense Media. Read More

A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025: From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot has happened already. Read More

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Scale AI's former CTO launches AI agent that could solve big data's biggest problem: Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI. Read More

Tesla proposes new pay package for Elon Musk worth up to $1T: Tesla has proposed a new 10-year compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth as much as $1 trillion even as the EV maker's car business stumbles and it sets its sights on humanoid robotics and AI. Read More

Tesla shareholders to vote on investing in Musk's AI startup xAI: A shareholder proposal would allow Tesla to invest in Elon Musk's rival AI firm, xAI if approved. Tesla's board didn't recommend one way or another. Read More

Screw the money -- Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers: Writers aren't getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI -- this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them. Read More

Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down: Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down. Read More

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Last but Not Least

OpenAI hires the team behind Xcode coding assistant Alex: The team behind Alex, which built a popular tool that let devs use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI. Read More