President Trump is pressing Apple to rename Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ on its Maps app, days after Google made a similar change for US-based users.
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Singapore plans legislation requiring social media platforms to add daily time limits and stronger safeguards for teens, or raise the minimum access age to 18 if they don’t comply.
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Shanghai has unveiled a new space-computing hub and hosted its first industry forum, as China races to build an orbital data ecosystem and compete with the US in commercial space.
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Google Maps has updated its platform to show Lake Ontario as Lake America for US users, sparking widespread curiosity amid regional trade tensions.
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NASA has launched a powerful new space telescope on a multi-year mission to map the universe and investigate dark matter and dark energy.
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A federal judge ruled the Defense Department unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic after it declined a contract that would have loosened restrictions on Claude’s use.
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Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source AI hub Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, deepening its grip on the AI supply chain.
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Meta has agreed to a settlement worth up to $16.68 billion over claims it designed Instagram and Facebook to be addictive for teenagers.
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Regulators have cleared the way for thousands of autonomous robotaxis to operate on Las Vegas streets, one of the largest such rollouts in the US.
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OpenAI plans to stop providing AI models to Cursor after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the coding tool, citing contract violations and setting a November 12 shutoff date.