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-The lawsuit says that on May 31, 2025, "ChatGPT actively coached a 19-year old to mix Kratom and Xanax." Despite presenting itself as an expert in dosing and interactions, and despite acknowledging his state of being high, ChatGPT did not tell him that this recommended combination would likely kill him.”

-Santa Clara County has become the latest entity to sue Meta over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram, alleging that the company has profited from "a vast ecosystem of scam ads" that have defrauded senior citizens and other vulnerable people.

-Google is in negotiations with SpaceX to secure the company's help in its own nascent effort to put orbital data centers in space.

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NBC has greenlit a primetime game show based on Wordle, set to be produced by Jimmy Fallon's Electric Hot Dog, Universal Television Alternative Studio and The New York Times.
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-OpenAI has just launched Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative that's clearly the company's competitor to Anthropic's Project Glasswing.

- Digg CEO Kevin Rose said, "the internet has more noise than ever, and the people who can sort signal from it have never been more valuable. Digg's job is to find that signal and bring it to you."

-GameStop may take the offer directly to eBay's shareholders or replace eBay's board with one favorable to its offer via proxy fight.
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Plus - Boox announces Tappy, a wireless page-turning remote; Sony wants TSMC's help to make image sensors
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-TikTok announced that an ad-free option will roll out to UK users over the coming months, available to anyone with an account who is 18 or older. The monthly subscription will cost £4 ($5.40) per month.

-The big change is that Samsung is adding support for Google Gemini, which has several important implications. By combining Samsung's existing on-device object recognition with Google's cloud-based models, the total number of identifiable foods is increasing from just over 100 items to more than 2,000.

-Lime, which is officially known as Neutron Holdings, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, after teasing ambitions of going public back in 2021.
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