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SpaceX's AI division has reportedly held internal discussions about purchasing customer data from defunct startups to feed its Grok AI system. Because these companies no longer exist, there is effectively no one left to enforce the privacy agreements users once signed — raising serious questions about what happens to your personal information when a startup dies.
Shifting to a story with broader implications for the open web, a developer has launched an AI crawler honeypot — a publicly accessible page designed to silently log every automated agent that visits it. It is a small but pointed experiment, shining light on just how aggressively AI systems are scraping the internet, often without permission or transparency.
And in display technology, Samsung has unveiled its next-generation M sixteen OLED panel capable of reaching ten thousand nits of peak brightness. The headline number is striking, but the more meaningful development is a thirty percent improvement in power efficiency over the previous generation — which means phones that are both brighter and longer-lasting on a single charge.
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