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Rivian expands joint venture with VW to include AI assistant

KIRSTEN KOROSEC

Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.

As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it’s shifting to a logged-in experience

SARAH PEREZ

As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.

Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine

JON BRODKIN

Inspector general rejected request from Democratic and Republican senators.

Trump declares robot imports a national security threat

JEREMY HSU

President orders trade talks on foreign-made factory robots, threatens tariffs.

Windows 11 gets right-click menu improvements as PC revenue slides

NICK INDGE

The latest update also brings a cloud recovery option for PCs that won't boot.

Fan fiction site Archive of Our Own could be offline for up to 4 weeks

AMANDA SILBERLING

Archive of Our Own, the popular online home of fan fiction readers and writers, has bad news for its community.

What to Know About China’s Top-Secret Spaceplane

STEPHEN CLARK, ARS TECHNICA

This week, the Pentagon released a full-resolution image of the vehicle, the capabilities of which remain rather mysterious.

GM reaches $220M settlement over selling drivers’ private data

KIRSTEN KOROSEC

As part of the settlement, GM must get drivers’ express consent before it collects or shares their driving and location data.

Amazon reported booming cloud revenue but otherwise missed expectations

JULIE BORT

The biggest ouch of the report was its negative free cash flow of $2.4 billion.

Elon Musk is ‘truly a genius,’ says Vladimir Putin

AMANDA SILBERLING

Putin said that he and Musk are in "close contact" about Rassvet, Russia's Starlink-like satellite connectivity project.

Binance pauses withdrawals as hackers suspected of stealing billions in crypto

ZACK WHITTAKER

Some estimates say hackers stole billions in crypto from Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, during a cyberattack on Thursday.

Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says

SCHARON HARDING

Reddit's search traffic "was down meaningfully" last quarter.

AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.

LUCAS ROPEK

Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.

Andy Jassy says Prime Video is on track to earn ‘tens of billions of dollars’

JULIE BORT

The success of blockbuster hits like Project Hail Mary and Verity is only part of the story, Amazon's CEO says.

You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work

AMANDA SILBERLING

David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace.