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Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, said he no longer believed that National Guard troops were needed in the city. Source link

The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O., once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump. Source link

Could this be a blueprint for the nation? Source link

Instagram is introducing parental controls and limits to conversations on topics like self-harm as concerns grow over how A.I. chatbots affect mental health. Source link

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a high-speed data connection. Source link

The Facebook page was taken down for “violating our policies against coordinated harm,” according to Meta. Source link

Mason Peck, an aerospace engineer at Cornell, was trying to test innovative designs in spacecraft when a stop-work order hit. Source link

The restrictions also apply to conversations between teenage users and artificial intelligence chatbots. Source link

With federal subsidies ending or becoming hard to claim, companies are racing ahead with solar, wind and battery projects. Source link

After signing multibillion-dollar agreements to use chips from Nvidia and AMD, OpenAI plans to deploy its own designs next year. Source link