Poor old Tesla's having a terrible time of it. Its global sales are down 10% globally in 2025 β€” as much as 40% in Europe β€” and while it's maintaining sales in the U.S., that's not expected to last, and its domestic market share is just 38%. Here's more from Electrek.
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Tesla (TSLA) sees US market share of electric car sales drop to new lows
Tesla (TSLA) is seeing its US market share of the electric vehicle market drop to new lows in August, according...
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Is Google speaking out of both sides of its mouth? In May, CEO Sundar Pichai said that web publishing is not dying and VP of search Nick Fox said that the web is thriving, but in a court document filed by Google on Friday, lawyers wrote "the open web is already in rapid decline." What gives? For Search Engine Round Table, Barry Schwartz looks into what's going on.
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Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline
Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thri...
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AI shakes up the call center industry, but some tasks are still better left to the humans. [@AssociatedPress](
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AI shakes up the call center industry, but some tasks are still better left to the humans
Artificial intelligence is transforming call centers by streamlining tasks and improving customer service.
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[@Techcrunch](
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Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations? | TechCrunch
A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate and whether anything can be ...
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Want to keep students from staring at their phones during class? More schools across the U.S. are banning phones from the classroom, and a school district in New Jersey found a way to lock them up (The phones, not the students). Read more from [@CBSNews](
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Schools across U.S. turn to a locked magnetic pouch as a cellphone ban solution. Here
At least 2.5 million students across the country are using Yondr pouches, as 35 states have laws or rules limiting cellphones in schools.
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Another day, another hot mic oopsie. This time it's the turn of Mark Zuckerberg, who, at a dinner with tech leaders and Donald Trump, announced plans to invest at least $600 billion in the U.S. in the next three years. Shortly after, he was caught muttering to Trump: "sorry, I wasn't ready …I wasn't sure what number you wanted to go with." Here's more from [@Engadget](
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Zuckerberg caught on hot mic telling Trump 'I wasn't sure' how much to promise to spend on AI in the US
Mark Zuckerberg has certainly come a long way in his relationship with President Donald Trump.
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Anthropic has agreed to pay a minimum of $1.5 billion to settle the lawsuit brought by a group of authors who sued the AI company for illegally using pirated copies of their books to train large-language models. This covers 500,000 works, but judge William Alsup says if the list exceeds that number, Anthropic must pay an addition $3,000 per work. This is the largest settlement in U.S. history. John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult are part of a group of nearly 20 bestselling authors who have sued OpenAI, alleging β€œsystematic theft on a mass scale,” and this ruling could indicate the likely outcome of that case.
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AI company Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with authors
If approved, the settlement would be the largest in the history of American copyright cases, according to a lawyer for the authors behind the lawsuit.
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The iPhone 17, Apple Watch, AirPods Pro and everything to expect at Tuesday's launch. [@TechRadar](
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Apple event 2025 live as it happened - all the iPhone Air, Apple Watch Ultra 3, AirPods 3 and iPhone 17 Pro news direct from Cupertino
Our play-by-play coverage of the Apple iPhone live stream event as it happened, with photos from the show floor
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Last year, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation" was released. The book about how smartphones and overprotective parenting damage children's mental health has sold over two million copies. Jon Severs writes for the TES about academics' problems with the book: Shaky methodology, misunderstood studies, conclusions that go far beyond the data, and proposed solutions that start with parents, not tech companies. β€œWhy are parents even having to figure threats out?” asks Andrew Przybylski, professor of human behaviour and technology at the University of Oxford. β€œParents don’t have to pick between really safe and really dangerous trampolines β€” we have things in place to make sure it is very difficult to buy even a fairly dangerous trampoline." https://flip.it/9K.qEV #Technology #Tech #SocialMedia #JonathanHaidt #AnxiousGeneration #Academia #Parenting #Children #Bookstodon @bookstodon group
Portable power stations, a device to help your Roomba climb the stairs, and headphones with (gasp) wires. Here are some of the announcements coming out of Europe's largest consumer tech show, IFA.
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The best stuff announced at IFA
A ball-catching robot tennis coach, cuddly AI robots, and a laptop with a rotating screen for optimal doomscrolling.
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