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🛒 eBay rejects GameStop's takeover offer 🛡️ OpenAI launches Daybreak to rival Anthropic Mythos 💰 Meta accused of earning billions from scam ads 📦 Amazon launches 30-minute delivery in US 📝 Sutskever spent a year documenting Altman dishonesty 🤖 Amazon pushes employees to maximize AI token usage 🎁 + 15 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 3 trending papers & reports
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🛒 eBay rejects GameStop's takeover offer
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- eBay has turned down GameStop's unsolicited $56 billion takeover bid, with chairman Paul Pressler calling the offer "neither credible nor attractive" in a letter that pushes back on the smaller retailer's surprise approach.
- GameStop offered $125 a share, half cash and half stock, a 20 percent premium, and planned to borrow $20 billion, though CEO Ryan Cohen couldn't explain where extra capital would come from.
- Cohen stands to receive $35 billion in stock if GameStop's market value hits $100 billion, and the rejected bid for eBay, which has 136 million users, could trigger a proxy fight.
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🛡️ OpenAI launches Daybreak to rival Anthropic Mythos
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- OpenAI has rolled out Daybreak, a cybersecurity project built to compete with Anthropic's Mythos and Project Glasswing by helping organizations find and patch vulnerabilities while making software more secure from the earliest stages of development.
- Daybreak lets organizations apply OpenAI's Codex Security to their own repository through an agentic harness, which seeks out, analyzes, and patches attack paths, with high-priority vulnerabilities validated in a secure, isolated environment.
- The project ships with three models: GPT-5.5 for general-purpose work, GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber for defensive security workflows, and GPT-5.5-Cyber for specialized workflows including red teaming and pen testing.
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💰 Meta accused of earning billions from scam ads
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- Santa Clara County sued Meta on Monday, accusing the company of pocketing billions of dollars from scam ads on Facebook and Instagram while failing to stop fraudulent activity across its platforms at scale.
- The complaint, leaning on leaked internal documents reported by Reuters, claims Meta earned up to $7 billion a year from "high-risk" ads and built internal "guardrails" that limited enforcement when it threatened advertising revenue.
- The county also alleges Meta's systems pushed scam ads toward users who clicked suspicious promotions, let intermediaries sell protected ad accounts to bad actors, and could even adjust scam ad volumes to hit revenue targets.
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📦 Amazon launches 30-minute delivery in US
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- Amazon has rolled out "Amazon Now," a 30-minute delivery service now live in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, with plans to expand to Austin, Denver, Houston, Phoenix, and several other US cities soon.
- The service covers fresh groceries, household essentials, healthcare items, electronics, and alcohol where permitted, with eligible products marked by "30-minute delivery" banners on the Amazon app and website around the clock in most areas.
- Prime members pay $3.99 per order versus $13.99 for non-members, plus a small order fee of $1.99 or $3.99 on orders under $15, with smaller fulfillment hubs placed near homes and workplaces to shorten travel distances.
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📝 Sutskever spent a year documenting Altman dishonesty
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- Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever testified Monday in Elon Musk's trial against OpenAI and Microsoft that he spent a year gathering evidence of Sam Altman's alleged deception, even helping draft a memo to the board before Altman's brief 2023 firing.
- Sutskever revealed an ownership stake in OpenAI's for-profit arm worth roughly $7 billion, making him one of the largest known individual shareholders, while OpenAI president Greg Brockman acknowledged earlier in the trial that his shares are worth around $30 billion.
- Sutskever also helped OpenAI's defense by saying Musk never negotiated special promises when funding the nonprofit, explaining that becoming a for-profit was the consensus way forward because the lab needed "a lot of dollars" to build a computer as big as the human brain.
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🤖 Amazon pushes employees to maximize AI token usage
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- Amazon staff are gaming an internal AI tool called MeshClaw to rack up token usage, building agents that automate pointless tasks just to show managers they are leaning on the technology more often.
- The behavior follows Amazon setting a target for over 80 percent of developers to use AI each week, and the company started tracking AI token consumption on internal leader boards earlier this year.
- Amazon told employees the token statistics would not factor into performance evaluations, but several staff said they believed managers were watching the data, creating what one worker called perverse incentives.
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iOS, macOS, and iPadOS 26.5 updates arrive with encrypted RCS messaging and more
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Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says
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Trump invites Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Larry Fink and other CEOs to join China trip for Xi summit
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Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks
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Compromised Mistral AI and TanStack packages may have exposed GitHub, cloud and CI/CD credentials in 'mini Shai Hulud' malware infection
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Netflix sued by Texas for allegedly spying on children, addicting users
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Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis over risk of entering flooded roads
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GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
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Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
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Microsoft, Google, xAI security test details deleted from US government website
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OpenAI trial: Nadella says Musk never raised concerns to him about Microsoft investment
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Once again, SpaceX has set a new record for the tallest rocket ever built
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🧰 Trending tools
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Kelviq: handles payments, subscriptions, usage-based billing, tax compliance, and license key delivery for SaaS and digital products at 3.5% + 40¢ per transaction.
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Open Vibe: a guided learning tool that teaches professional coding concepts by walking you through building a real SaaS app with AI agents.
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Hyperswitch Prism: a single API layer that connects your app to multiple payment processors, cutting costs and improving transaction success rates.
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Jotform Claude App: lets you build and deploy custom online forms for data collection, payments, and surveys without writing any code.
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Free AI SEO Auditor: analyzes your URL and scores how visible your page is to AI search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, with actionable fix prompts included.
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HeyNews: an AI writing tool that drafts newsletters in your voice by learning from your archive, with native Beehiiv and Kit integration.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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Bringing AI to Finance: Your free guide to understanding how intelligent automation is transforming finance teams, improving accuracy, and accelerating day-to-day operations. Get the free AI guide.
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> AI hallucinations in science are polluting academic research at massive scale, with 146,932 fake citations detected in 2025 alone, disproportionately boosting already prominent male scholars while existing safeguards catch only a fraction.
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> CCL-Bench reveals that AI training performance claims are misleading without detailed execution traces, finding the best setup on one software framework can run up to 3× slower than a rival framework on identical hardware.
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> Kettle, a new build system, uses secure hardware enclaves to cryptographically prove that a software binary was built exactly from its claimed source code, removing the need to trust the build infrastructure or its operators.
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