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In this week’s newsletter: Silicon Valley billionaires have a hotline to the US president. Plus, the head of Firefox talks AI-integrated browsers, and moreHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, confounded by the ending of Bugonia and looking forward to seeing Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.In this week’s newsletter: the head of Firefox talks AI-integrated browsers; the tech billionaires’ support of Trump and their successful request to defer national guard deployment to San Francisco; and the growing prevalence of face-scanning in online dating. Thank you for reading.‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gunAI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chiefLabor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AIDonors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and PalantirTrump pardons founder of Binance, world’s largest crypto exchangeMelania Trump’s meme coin architects accused of pump-and-dump fraud in lawsuitUS and China reach ‘final deal’ on TikTok sale, treasury secretary says Continue reading...

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