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AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators
https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20250629-ai-is-learning-to-lie-scheme-and-threaten-its-creators

AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators
The world's most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviors - lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals.

Michael Moritz's The San Francisco Standard buys Charter, a digital outlet focused on the future of work; Charter founder Kevin Delaney will be EIC of both pubs (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/busines

He Made Billions on Google and PayPal. Now, He’s Betting on News.
Michael Moritz co-founded The San Francisco Standard, a local news organization. It is acquiring Charter, a start-up focused on the future of work.

Sincerely, Carter by Whitney G. My rating: 1 of 5 stars Oh, wow, this was ridiculously bad. Carter and Arizona have been friends since fourth grade. They are the closest of platonic friends – until they, as is most convenient for the plot, both suddenly at the same time realise how insanely hot they are for each other. With all the language skills of a teenager and the sensitivity of a butcher, Whitne...

Scientists discover a whole new type of ecosystem 30,000 feet deep
For decades, scientists have studied organisms that thrive around hydrothermal vents, fissures spewing superheated fluids.
But the creatures that live around cold seeps
— places where gases such as methane and hydrogen sulfide ooze from the seafloor at near-freezing temperatures,
often where tectonic plates meet
— have been understudied.

So, to investigate, an expedition to the northwest P…

Scientists discover a whole new type of ecosystem 30,000 feet deep
In Pacific Ocean trenches, scientists found creatures that expand the limits of where we know life can live on Earth.

A week into training camp, the Giants are already wowed by Abdul Carter https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45852765/new-york-giants-already-wowed-abdul-carter-2025-training-camp

Tesla's Europe sales cratered 40% in July while overall EV sales were up 34% compared to a year ago. Tesla sales in the Netherlands were down 62%!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teslas-europe-sales-crater-40-in-july-as…

Tesla's Europe sales crater 40% in July as BYD, competitors gain
Tesla's troubles across the pond in Europe are worsening. Per the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association, Tesla EV registrations (a proxy for sales) ...

A trans woman was among the first people to publicly accuse Jeffrey Epstein – and was mocked for it
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/31/jeffrey-epstein-trans-accuser-mocked-ava-cordero/

TikTok adds new safety features, including enhanced parental controls, and publicly launches Footnotes, its Community Notes-like feature, in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/tiktok-adds-new-parental-controls-tools-for-c…

TikTok adds new parental controls, tools for creators | TechCrunch
The social network is bringing new parental controls to Family Pairing, its feature that allows parents to link their accounts with their teen's account to customize safety settings.

So many people are scared of underwater sea creatures. Only place with good chances to house alien life in our solar system is the moon Europa, under countless of layers of ice in an entirely underwater world awaits.
We are absolutely not ready.

Ziff Davis is laying off 15% of its unionized workforce, or 23 people, 19 of which work for CNET; Ziff Davis has bought five companies in 2025 (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/715220/ziff-davis-creators-guild-cnet-layoffs

Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree
Media company Ziff Davis is laying off 15 percent of its unionized workforce, with the majority being from tech outlet CNET.