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OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger claims he spent $10,000,000 on AI tokens in a single month this September. That'd be enough to pay an office with hundreds of workers for an entire month.
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An estimated 130,000,000 people were removed from India's voter rolls this year. It's the largest amount of people who have had voting rights revoked in human history, with many claiming it's government censorship.
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Scientists are preparing to launch the first true interstellar space mission. The Fermi Explorer will launch by 2030 and is set to reach the Alpha Centauri star system around 80,000 years from now.
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Trump has demanded the UK remove the wind turbines behind one of his Trump-branded golf courses in Scotland. He claims they ruin the ocean view and that oil drilling a better source of energy.
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Two gas stations in Georgia caused a massive traffic jam due to a company policy price war. One gas station had a policy to keep gas 5¢ lower than their competitor, but their competitor kept lowering the price out of pure spite. Gas at both locations got as low as 97¢ a gallon.
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A man lost his wedding ring while on vacation in Italy and feared it was lost forever. 3 Italian men found it at the bottom of a river, messaged the husband, called him "Smeagol", dressed up like Hobbits, and flew to Ireland to hand-deliver the ring back to him.
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Pope Leo XIV is confirmed to be cancer-free and won't need any further treatment after successful lung cancer surgery.
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YouTuber Tim Pan folded an iPhone Duo 10,000 times to see what the screen crease would look like after years of use. Here's the before and after:
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Former former trillionaire Elon Musk is now a trillionaire again after making $88 billion in a single day today.
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YouTube is testing UI changes that completely remove the dislike button from the main UI. The dislike button is buried in a menu and much harder to find.
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Airbnb just updated their TOS to no longer require guests to do chores like doing the dishes, taking out the trash, and making the beds. Airbnb hosts are furious, with them now having to clean up their own houses when guests leave.
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EA has shut down BioWare, the studio that created iconic games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age. The new Mass Effect game they were working on has been cancelled.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has endorsed California's potential new billionaire tax laws, even if it will cost him $8 billion. "I don't mind paying taxes. The more you make, the more taxes you pay. I'm okay with that. I am the ultimate American Dream."
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A village in England created a cat retirement community to prevent elderly cats from getting euthanized. The Shropshire Cat Rescue wanted senior cats to be able to live a good life even if they were "too old" to get adopted.
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The US is the only major economy in the world that has seen a drastic increase in greenhouse emissions according to a UN report. They're putting in much less effort than other countries to try and save the environment and prevent climate change.
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Italy has introduced new measures targeting minors that take part in protests. Police will now be able to detain them for 12 hours, even if they haven't committed a crime, and also fine their parents if they are charged with vandalism.
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Marco Rubio says the US won't interfere in India's handling of anti-Election Commission protests, calling it a "domestic political matter" that should be decided by Indians.
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A recent study found that adults now struggle to differentiate between AI-generated stories and those written by humans. Although participants had a preference for fiction labeled as human, they found the simple GenAI writing to be more engaging.
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Angelina Jolie's foundation has protected more than 150,000 acres of Cambodian forest for 20 years. Thanks to their efforts, endangered wildlife such as elephants can roam safely, clear of illegal hunters.
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