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Start Up No.2687: examining the UK’s social media ban for under-16s, will Siri AI kill chatbots?, the paid saboteurs, and more

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Start Up No.2686: Pinboard forgot to renew the domain.. so there are no links today.

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Start Up No.2685: Amazon caused Anthropic Fable ban, the deepfake expert, the GLP-1 scammers, solar beats US coal, and more

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Start Up No.2684: the trouble with smartphones, three questions about AI and jobs, SpaceX’s valuation questions, and more

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Start Up No.2683: search results are being slopified, German court rules against AI Overviews, NSO keeps spying, and more

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Start Up No.2682: Anthropic releases Mythos (sort of), Meta pulls smart glass recognition, deepfake ad scams spread on X, and more

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Start Up No.2681: Starmer challenges Apple and Google on nudes, iOS 27 makes itself exclusive, will chatbots kill sex?, and more

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Start Up No.2680: Apple to relaunch Siri *again*, jet fuel shortage hits Brazil, astrophysicists see LLM future, and more

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Start Up No.2679: Meta loads facial recognition into smart glasses, the AI tell, let us filter slop!, Bluesky dreams of Reddit, and more

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Start Up No.2678: Ted Chiang on AI consciousness, ChatGPT hits a billion MAUs, Windows laptops v Apple Neo, and more

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Start Up No.2677: Microsoft shows OS for AI devices, lawyers try to evade AI exams, Norse Atlantic’s flawed service, and more

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Start Up No.2676: the superintelligence problem, Instagram AI helps hackers take over accounts, trouble in the solar business, and more

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Start Up No.2675: Google engineer charged with insider prediction betting, solving maths in dreams, Nvidia PCs?, and more

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Start Up No.2674: the AI boosters looking to replace humanity, the casino economy, an anti-snatch iPhone feature?, and more

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Start Up No.2673: Iran’s internet comes back slowly, Claude Code’s creator on programming’s future, killing the bitcoin ATMs, and more

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Start Up No.2672: the Filipinos writing those LinkedIn CEO posts, biomedicine’s fake citation problem, Uber mulls AI, and more

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Start Up No.2671: RAM shortage chokes cheap smartphones, Pope Leo warns on AI, LA’s hapless robots, big solar!, and more

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Start Up No.2670: the new Luddites, where LLMs get their writing, can AI fly the plane?, Ebola outbreak spreads further, and more

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Start Up No.2669: Waymo’s cars hit flood problem, Ofcom chief talks tough on tech bros, Meta begins layoffs for AI, and more

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Start Up No.2668: Google Search goes AI-first, Samsung boss sees end to RAM drought, the coming oil shock, EV sales leap, and more

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