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The ruling drew support from founders, while lawyers said it could force platforms to revisit how they handle trademarked keywords.

The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a new business model that the tech industry is ready to embrace.

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Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation. Plus: Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans, and more.

SpaceX already generated one-fifth of its 2025 revenue from government contracts, the company revealed in its IPO filing.

From the perspective of Cognition CEO Scott Wu, “we are shifting to a world of self-driving software development.” Does that mean AI coding agents should start replacing programmers? As other CEOs tout the replacement, Wu distanced himself from that in an interview with Julie Bort, even as Cognition’s own coding agent Devin gains popularity. “We’ve never thought about it as replacing humans. I know it’s like a scenario, folks have said these things. It has never been our view.”

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The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of "AI psychosis.”

Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios.