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Small Crowd Pays to Watch a Boxing Match Between 80-Pound Chinese Robots(2026-02-14 20:00:12)

Recently a small crowd paid to watch robots boxing, reports Rest of World. (Almost 3,000 people have now watched the match's 83-minute webcast.) The match was organized by Rek, a San Francisco-based company, and drew hundreds of spectators who had paid about $60-$80 for a ticket to watch modifie...
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ByteDance's Seedance 2 Criticized Over AI-Generated Video of Tom Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt(2026-02-14 15:00:09)

1.5 million people have now viewed a slick 15-second video imagining Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt that was generated by ByteDance's new AI video generation tool Seedance 2.0. But while ByteDance gushes their tool "delivers cinematic output aligned with industry standards," the cinema industry isn'...
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Israeli Soldiers Accused of Using Polymarket To Bet on Strikes(2026-02-14 10:00:07)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Israel has arrested several people, including army reservists, for allegedly using classified information to place bets on Israeli military operations on Polymarket. Shin Bet, the country's internal security agency, said Thursday the suspects used information the...
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Autonomous AI Agent Apparently Tries to Blackmail Maintainer Who Rejected Its Code(2026-02-14 05:00:03)

"I've had an extremely weird few days..." writes commercial space entrepreneur/engineer Scott Shambaugh on LinkedIn. (He's the volunteer maintainer for the Python visualization library Matplotlib, which he describes as "some of the most widely used software in the world" with 130 million downloads e...
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Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback(2026-02-14 00:00:06)

Anna's Archive, the shadow library that announced last December it had scraped Spotify's entire catalog, has quietly begun distributing the actual music files despite a federal preliminary injunction signed by Judge Jed Rakoff on January 16 that explicitly barred the site from hosting or distributin...
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