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Amazon, Yelp, and Pizza Hut are blocking OpenAI's and Meta's new shopping agents, and a web optimized for bots could squeeze out the humans who built it.

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Amazon, Yelp, and Pizza Hut are blocking OpenAI's and Meta's new shopping agents, and a web optimized for bots could squeeze out the humans who built it.
The 2026 runway marked the Fantasy Bra's return after an eight-year hiatus, with Jenner wearing the priciest version ever. Here's how it stacks up against the $15 million record.
New global analysis finds 25% of data centers already face water stress for at least one month a year - and climate change could push that to one-third.
The e-commerce giant is backing a 960-megawatt SMR fleet with X-energy and AEP, a high-stakes test for the AI data center power crunch.
Musk's plan to hand every American child a SpaceX share worth $10.5B raises questions about wealth, AI, and whether money will even matter.
The bank is moving off its balance sheet to back robot factories, hypersonic missiles, and supply chains, signaling a new era of bank-backed military innovation.
Researcher Quentin Kaiser says Broadcom knew since 2018, but a partial fix left 1.56 million Belgian gateways exposed and likely many more worldwide.
The AI buildout is running on borrowed money, and the question of who's on the hook is getting louder. Here's what a crash would mean for companies, lenders, and taxpayers.
Official data shows Beijing's Treasury holdings at an 18-year low, but custodial shifts suggest the real number is far higher - and Canada is the tell.
The chatbot startup's collapse hands Disney a ready-made AI team, with ex-CEO Karandeep Anand already installed as the entertainment giant's first CTO.
Félicette's 1963 flight made France a space-race player, but her euthanasia and a crowdfunded statue reveal how high-risk programs are remembered.
A new quantum state challenges decades of theory and hints at 'super-Fermions,' with real stakes for quantum computing and materials science.