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AI law firm Crosby bids for assets of Weil Gotshal

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Crosby, a two-year-old law firm built around AI, has bid for some assets of Weil Gotshal, including its trademark, its brand and some internal data. It is also working to hire some of the firm's 1,200 lawyers.

Google's first data-centre satellite is online and talking to the ground

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The Suncatcher prototype carries four Google TPU chips and generates up to 1 kW of electricity. That is enough to run only one chip at a time, for about 20 minutes.

Zest launches an AI agent that books restaurants by text

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The restaurant discovery app's new concierge answers text messages with suggestions and can check availability. It books tables through OpenTable, Resy and SevenRooms.

Satlyt tests software that shares computing work among satellites

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The test, run with the University of Houston on a NASA-funded project, simulated a network of four computers. Only one was a real computer on a spacecraft in orbit; the other three were simulated.

Rivian puts self-driving at the centre of its plans as the R2 ramps up

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CEO RJ Scaringe spent nearly half of the earnings call on autonomy, and less on the production ramp of the R2 SUV. The R2 recently became Rivian's best-selling vehicle by volume.

Binance hack: issuers freeze about half of the stolen funds

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Binance says it has secured about US$3 billion of the US$6.3 billion stolen, while many assets are still with unidentified hackers. The US Secret Service says it is working "around the clock" to trace and recover the funds.

DoorDash has received only several hundred orders from AI agents

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Agents have placed several hundred orders in total, against an average of 3 million deliveries a day, and users still mostly order through DoorDash's own app.

Fake PS5 emulators on GitHub are used to steal gamers' passwords

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Malicious GitHub repositories posing as two popular PS5 emulation tools, AnyPS5 and Kyttyps5, spread malware that steals passwords, according to NordVPN's threat researchers.