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Hackers From China, Iran and Russia Use ChatGPT to Boost Cyberattacks, Microsoft and OpenAI Warn
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Jeff Bezos Sells $4 Billion in Amazon Stock Ahead of Florida Relocation
"Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is continuing his divestment from the e-commerce giant, recent regulatory filings indicating the sale of more than $4 billion in stock over the past week. This follows earlier reporting of Bezos' 50-million share sell-off plan to be completed by 2025, through Morgan Stanley as his brokerage firm. -
Elon Musk Maps Out Strategy for Million-Person Mars Settlement
"Elon Musk, the visionary behind SpaceX, has once again captured public imagination with his audacious blueprint for interplanetary colonization. Musk's latest pronouncements outline a staggering ambition: to transport one million humans to Mars, a goal he shared in a succinct response on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
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Hong Kong Police Warn Downloading Taiwan-Linked Game May Violate National Security Law
Authorities in Hong Kong warned on Tuesday that downloading or promoting a mobile game developed in Taiwan could lead to prosecution under the city's national security law, accusing it of advocating "armed revolution" and supporting secessionist ideologies hostile to Beijing. 
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Huawei Unveils $1,390 Pura 80 Ultra With Dual Telephoto Innovation, Pressures Apple in China
Huawei Technologies on Wednesday launched its Pura 80 smartphone series, including a flagship model with a dual-lens periscope camera, marking the latest step in its effort to reestablish dominance in China's premium smartphone market after years of U.S. sanctions. 
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ChatGPT Outage Hits Thousands of Users as OpenAI Investigates ‘Elevated Error Rates’
ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, experienced a significant outage on Tuesday, with users reporting error messages and performance slowdowns across multiple regions, including New York. OpenAI acknowledged the disruption, attributing it to "elevated error rates" that persisted for several hours. 
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Meta to Launch New AI Lab With Scale AI CEO as Zuckerberg Chases Superintelligence
Meta Platforms is forming a new artificial intelligence lab with the help of Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally accelerates efforts to build "superintelligence"-an AI system capable of surpassing human cognition, according to reports from The New York Times and Bloomberg. 
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Chinese-Led Team Discovers Super-Earth in Habitable Zone Using New Detection Method
An international team of astronomers led by China's Yunnan Observatories has identified a potentially habitable super-Earth using a novel detection method, marking a major breakthrough in exoplanet research. The newly discovered planet, Kepler-725c, has a mass approximately 10 times that of Earth and lies within the habitable zone of a Sun-like star, according to findings published in Nature Astronomy on June 3. 
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Apple to Skip iOS 19, Jump to iOS 26 in Major Rebranding Shift
Apple is preparing to overhaul the naming of its software platforms by shifting to a year-based numbering system, with sources indicating that the next iOS update will be branded "iOS 26" instead of iOS 19. The change, reported by Bloomberg, would align iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS under a unified naming convention beginning in 2025. 
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Synopsys Halts China Sales as U.S. Export Crackdown Forces Immediate Freeze
U.S. semiconductor design software leader Synopsys has abruptly suspended sales and services in China and withdrawn its financial guidance for the third quarter and full fiscal year, following a directive from the U.S. Department of Commerce imposing new export restrictions targeting the Chinese chip industry. 
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U.S. Restricts Semiconductor Design Software Exports to China, Targeting Key Tech Firms Amid Rising Trade Tensions
The U.S. Commerce Department has revoked export licenses and imposed new restrictions on a wide range of goods bound for China, hitting chip design software providers such as Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA. The move threatens to disrupt the global semiconductor supply chain and inflames already tense U.S.-China trade relations. 
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China’s DeepSeek Releases Quiet R1 Upgrade, Pressures OpenAI as AI Benchmark Rankings Shift
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has quietly rolled out an upgraded version of its R1 reasoning model, escalating competition with U.S. leaders like OpenAI and Meta. The updated model, R1-0528, appeared without formal announcement on developer platform Hugging Face this week, where it quickly ranked among the top-performing models on LiveCodeBench, a benchmark designed by researchers from UC Berkeley, MIT, and Cornell. 
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SpaceX Starship Flight 9 Ends in Failure as Fuel Leak Disrupts Reentry Test and Satellite Deployment
SpaceX's ninth test flight of its Starship rocket ended in failure Tuesday evening after the spacecraft lost attitude control due to a propellant leak, disrupting its planned landing and satellite deployment. The launch, conducted from the company's Boca Chica facility in Texas, marked the latest setback for the program championed by Elon Musk to make space travel fully reusable and eventually enable human missions to Mars. 
