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Jeremy Allaire, CEO and co-founder of Circle Internet Group, the issuer of one of the world’s biggest stablecoins, and Circle Internet Group co-founder Sean Neville react as they ring the opening bell, on the day of the company’s IPO, in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. NYSEStablecoin issuer Circle surged after the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or OCC, granted it approval Friday to operate as a trust bank, the company said.Shares of the company gained more than 12% in early trading.The approval gives the company the ability to manage reserves directly for its regulated stablecoins,…

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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says Labour under an Andy Burnham government will be “faster and bolder”.She was speaking after 322 Labour MPs nominated Burnham as their next leader, leaving him one short of it being mathematically impossible for anyone else to challenge him.However, Housing Secretary Steve Reed and Home Office Minister Mike Tapp have now confirmed they will be backing Burnham on Monday, so he is expected to reach the threshold to be announced as the new Labour leader next week.Nandy, whose Wigan constituency is next to Burnham’s Makerfield seat, told BBC Radio 4 she did not believe a leadership…

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This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.A new addiction is quietly taking hold among teenagers.They’re not just doom-scrolling social media anymore. They’re increasingly locked into conversations with AI chatbots that seem endlessly knowledgeable, supportive and ever-validating. And they’re struggling to break up with it.Roughly half of U.S. teens now use chatbots like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Character.AI for schoolwork, information, or just for fun, according to Pew Research Center. Meanwhile, a growing body of evidence shows that teens are using chatbots as a substitute for real-life friendships and relationships and are showing patterns related…

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Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: WD-40 Company — Shares of the maker of household and industrial lubricants rallied more than 15% after it posted third-quarter earnings of $2.33 per share, on an adjusted basis, which topped the $1.56 earnings per share expected by analysts polled by FactSet. The company also hiked its full-year guidance. Delta Air Lines — The stock slipped more than 3% despite the company beating top- and bottom-line estimates in its second-quarter earnings report . CEO Ed Bastin told CNBC in an interview that he expects pricing power from the surge in jet fuel…

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“Either OpenAI unintentionally produced the dataset and it was so hidden in the training inspection data that even OpenAI did not realize it, or OpenAI knew it buried the dataset in a previous production, but hid that fact from the Court and News Plaintiffs for nearly two years—all the while vigorously arguing that turning over these logs would violate user privacy,” NYT argued. Additionally, news plaintiffs accused OpenAI of other misconduct to obstruct access to evidence. Although the exact amount is redacted, OpenAI randomly deleted some parts of that limited 20 million sample, they alleged. And that’s on top of…

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Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed speaks at Senator Bernie Sanders ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ rally. Jim West | UCG | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesAbdul El-Sayed, the progressive running for the Democratic nomination in the the Aug. 4 Michigan Senate primary, sees a foundational risk in the rise of artificial intelligence. And he’s betting that fears related to the emerging technology and the data centers that power it could play a pivotal role in the race. “There’s literally not a conversation that I have, not a stop that I make, where data centers are AI don’t come up,” El-Sayed…

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A worker stands inside the Meta Lab in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 20, 2026. Daniel Cole | ReutersInstagram and Facebook’s “addictive” designs have put Meta in breach of the European Union’s digital laws, the EU concluded Friday in a preliminary report.The tech giant violated the EU’s Digital Services Act by failing to adequately consider the risks associated with design features that affected the physical well-being of its users, including minors and vulnerable adults, the European Commission said.These features include infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and highly personalized recommendation systems. Meta is facing fines up to 6% of its total…

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Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the carrier’s original profit goal is in reach this year as the airline passes higher fuel bills along to customers and expects that pricing power to last even as oil prices drop from multi-year highs.”I think it’s sustainable,” Bastian told CNBC in an interview. He said fares will likely stay strong thanks to robust demand, more diverse seat options and a more disciplined airline industry that’s learned from the past and isn’t likely to expand capacity as soon oil falls.Delta on Friday forecast third-quarter earnings of between $2.00 per share to $2.50 per…

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