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A week after the release of emails detailing his communications with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is stepping down from the board at OpenAI. Summers, who also served as president of Harvard University, had indicated on Monday that he would be withdrawing from public engagements over his Epstein connections. He released a statement saying he was "grateful for the opportunity to have served, excited about the potential of the company, and look forward to following their progress.”

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Blue Origin's towering New Glenn rocket, owned by Jeff Bezos, successfully completed its first major test flight on Thursday. Launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station just before 4 p.m. ET, the mission carried a pair of satellites that are now beginning their long, winding trip to Mars.

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Meta secured a major victory in its five-year legal battle against the US government on Tuesday when a federal judge dismissed the antitrust lawsuit. The ruling concluded that the tech giant's prior acquisitions of Instagram (2012) and WhatsApp (2014) did not constitute an illegal monopoly in the social media market, refuting the government's claim that Meta bought the platforms to eliminate competitive threats.

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Cloudflare, a key internet infrastructure firm, apologized to its customers and the wider internet for a "significant outage" on Tuesday that impacted numerous high-profile websites, such as X and Chat. The company stated the disruption occurred when a configuration file meant for threat traffic failed to function as intended, "triggering a crash" in its core service traffic handling software. "We apologise to our customers and the Internet in general for letting you down today," it said in a statement.

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Anthropic has unveiled plans to pour $50 billion into building advanced artificial intelligence infrastructure across the United States, beginning with large-scale data centers in Texas and New York.

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A widespread outage at Cloudflare early Tuesday sent shockwaves across the internet and exposed just how dependent many websites and digital services are on a handful of infrastructure providers. The disruption affected thousands of users and briefly took down or slowed platforms including ChatGPT, X, League of Legends, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase and even public transit systems.

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Roblox is facing a scathing lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accuses the online video gaming platform of "flagrantly ignoring" safety laws and "deceiving parents" about the significant dangers it poses to young users. Paxton, in a social media post, branded Roblox a "breeding ground for predators," asserting the company places "pixel paedophiles and corporate profit" above the safety of Texas children. The lawsuit intensifies existing legal scrutiny over online safety and internet predators for the gaming giant, which boasts tens of millions of daily active users.