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- Lakers Want To Keep Luka Dončić, Austin Reaves And LeBron James
Lakers coach JJ Redick on Luka Dončić, Austin Reaves And LeBron James: “Of course, we want that core to be back together."
- Elon Musk, Tim Cook and Larry Fink expected to join Trump’s entourage to Beijing this week
Trump leaves on Tuesday for Beijing to meet with President Xi Jinping, where they are expected to discuss trade and artificial intelligence.
- Sam Altman defends himself as a ‘honest and trustworthy businessperson’ in trial testimony detailing his past dealings with Elon Musk
The OpenAI CEO took the witness stand Tuesday to defend his business record in a trial that has invited further scrutiny of Altman’s leadership after testimony from former board members last week.
- ‘That doesn’t sound very healthy’: Amazon’s reported tokenmaxxing might gamify AI usage, analyst warns
Amazon employees are reportedly gaming internal AI leaderboards to inflate their token counts.
- ‘Neither credible or attractive’: eBay slaps down GameStop’s $56 billion takeover bid
Ryan Cohen’s GameStop disclosed earlier this month that it was pursuing a takeover of eBay, seeing it as a vehicle to compete with Amazon.
Technology
- FDA chief resigns after Trump admin forced approval of fruity e-cigs
Makary reportedly spent his year bucking Trump admin and making industry enemies.
- Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired
A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.
- “Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says
Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him “safely” experiment with drugs, logs show.
- Microsoft will lean on your CPU to speed up Windows 11's apps and animations
"All modern operating systems do this, including macOS and Linux."
- eBay rejects GameStop's $56B offer: "Your proposal is neither credible nor attractive"
eBay board doubts GameStop's ability to buy and operate the much larger firm.
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