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Campus hacks bring final exams to a standstill, a blockbuster study on AI in education gets pulled, and the world's biggest technology companies face government crackdowns with barely a dent to their bottom lines. Plus, Apple returns to Intel as chip wars reshape US tech!

  • Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter
  • Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide
  • The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
  • Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica
  • Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong
  • Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI
  • Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems
  • Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
  • Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October
  • Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money
  • Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards
  • NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests;
  • Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
  • Here is Yarbo's promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over
  • Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites
  • Pinterest crosses $1 billion quarterly revenue as AI-powered visual search drives advertising growth that social platforms cannot match
  • Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day
  • Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot
  • The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
  • Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
  • FCC to allow banned drones and routers to receive critical updates until 2029

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    Guests: Berber Jin, Iain Thomson, and Paris Martineau

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