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• Some Amazon employees got a worrying calendar invitation on Tuesday.
• The invitation discussed upcoming job cuts and "Project Dawn," an Amazon efficiency initiative.
• Thousands of Amazon corporate staff are expected to lose their jobs in coming days.

Some Amazon employees got a worrying calendar invitation on Tuesday, stoking

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The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a wider range of choices on Android. Some Android phones even fold in half! Imagine.

On the flip side, all that choice can make for some hard decisions. Here’s where I’d like to help; I’ve tested a whole boatload of recent Android phones, and I

Over the last few months of 2025, Meta spent $6.4 million on an ad campaign running in cities across the country, from Sacramento to Washington, with a clear mission: win over viewers on the construction of new data centers. As the New York Times reports, the ad campaign is anchored by short, folksy video spotlights on Meta's data centers in Altoona, Iowa, and Los Lunas, New Mexico.

The

• Paramount+ brought in about 1 million new customers on the day of its first UFC event, an exec told staffers.
• The event was the second-most-streamed sporting event on Paramount+, this person said.
• Paramount previously announced that its UFC broadcast had just under 5 million

Meta has faced some serious questions about how it allows its underage users to interact with AI-powered chatbots. Most recently, internal communications obtained by the New Mexico Attorney General's Office revealed that although Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was opposed to the chatbots having "explicit" conversations with minors, he also rejected the idea of placing parental controls on the feature.

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• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman privately criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a message to employees.
• "What's happening with ICE is going too far," Altman wrote in an internal Slack message.
• He also praised Trump's leadership and said he hoped the president could "unite the country" going forward.

Being patriotic means you also need to call out

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An open-source AI agent that "actually does things" is taking off, with people across the web sharing how they're using the agent to do a whole bunch of things, like manage reminders, log health and fitness data, and even

Meta has started blocking links to ICE List, a website that compiles information about incidents involving Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents, and lists thousands of their employees' names. It seems that the latter detail is what caused Meta to take action in a move that was first reported by Wired. 

ICE List is a crowdsourced Wiki that describes itself as "an