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Costco Rejects Lululemon Trademark Claims Over Alleged Dupe Sales

Costco Wholesale Corp. has denied accusations from Lululemon Athletica Inc. that it infringed on the athleticwear company’s intellectual property by selling alleged knockoffs of its popular clothing. Costco’s Defense In…

Trump Pushes Europe to Impose 100% Tariffs on India, China, Stirring Concern

Reports that U.S. President Donald Trump asked the European Union to impose tariffs of up to 100% on China and India for purchasing Russian oil have stirred concern on both…

California Bill to Regulate AI Companion Chatbots Nears Final Approval

California has moved one step closer to becoming the first state to regulate AI companion chatbots. SB 243, a bill aimed at protecting minors and vulnerable users, passed both the…

Perplexity Said to Raise $200M at $20B Valuation

Perplexity, the AI-powered search startup challenging Google, has secured $200 million in fresh funding at a $20 billion valuation, according to The Information. The deal comes just two months after…

OpenAI Introduces Parental Controls After Lawsuit Tied to Teen’s Suicide

OpenAI announced new parental controls to be rolled out this month, following a lawsuit tied to the suicide of a California teenager who had been engaged in conversations with ChatGPT.…

YouTube Expands Multi-Language Audio Dubbing to All Creators

YouTube announced Wednesday that its multi-language audio feature is officially rolling out to millions of creators, following a two-year pilot program. The update will allow creators to dub their videos…

Anthropic Outages Disrupt Claude and Console Services

Anthropic reported a temporary service outage Wednesday that affected its APIs, Console, and Claude AI. Timeline of the Disruption Issues were first spotted by users on GitHub and Hacker News…

Meta Expands Community Notes With Alerts for Corrected Posts

Meta is rolling out updates to its Community Notes fact-checking system, which it launched in the U.S. earlier this year. Users on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will now be notified…

Reddit Replaces Subreddit Member Totals With Active User Stats

Reddit has begun phasing out the long-standing Member Count feature on communities, replacing it with two new statistics: Visitors and Contributions. Visitors uses a 28-day rolling average to display how…

Appeals Court Deals Blow to Trump in Separation of Powers Dispute

A federal appeals court on Wednesday halted President Donald Trump’s attempt to remove Shira Perlmutter, the U.S. register of copyrights, in a ruling that underscores the limits of executive power…

Reddit and Ziff Davis Support Effort to Keep AI From Breaking the Internet

Artificial intelligence may be reshaping the internet, but it is also straining its foundation: information. Chatbots consume vast amounts of web content, yet there is still no consistent way to…

Harris Calls Biden’s Reelection Decision ‘Reckless,’ While Praising His Capabilities

Former Vice President Kamala Harris says Democrats made a mistake by leaving it solely to President Joe Biden to decide on pursuing another term, though she continues to defend his…

OpenAI, Oracle Strike Landmark Cloud Partnership

Oracle shares soared after hours following news that the company signed several multi-billion-dollar contracts. One of those customers appears to be OpenAI. OpenAI’s $300 Billion Compute Deal According to the…

Elon Musk Considers Turning Starlink Into a Global Carrier After EchoStar Agreement

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hinted that Starlink could evolve into a full-fledged mobile carrier following a $17 billion agreement to acquire radio spectrum from EchoStar, parent company of Boost Mobile.…

Reddit Debuts New Tools to Help Publishers Track and Share Stories

Reddit announced Wednesday that it is launching new tools for publishers to better track and distribute their stories on the platform. The features are part of Reddit Pro, a suite…

Jaguar Land Rover Confirms Data Theft in Major Cyberattack

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) said Wednesday that an unspecified amount of company data was stolen in a cyberattack that has halted vehicle assembly lines. Data Theft and Notification Rules In…

Grammarly Expands With Spelling and Grammar Support for Five New Languages

Grammarly, best known for its English spelling and grammar tools, is expanding its reach. The company announced that its writing assistance features will now support Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and…

Thailand Elects Anutin Charnvirakul as Prime Minister After Turbulent Week

Thailand’s Anutin Charnvirakul secured the premiership on Friday after easily winning a parliamentary vote, defeating the candidate backed by the powerful Shinawatra family. His victory ended a week of political…

OpenAI Seeks to Move Canadian Publishers’ Lawsuit to U.S. Courts

OpenAI is set to argue in an Ontario courtroom that a copyright lawsuit filed by Canadian news publishers over its ChatGPT system should instead be heard in the United States.…

Google CEO Praises Trump After Antitrust Dispute Resolved

At a White House dinner with tech executives, President Donald Trump congratulated Google CEO Sundar Pichai and co-founder Sergey Brin on Alphabet’s recent win in a landmark antitrust case. “Well,…