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Meta is quietly walking back language in its terms of service that had raised red flags around web scraping and AI training data. A company spokesperson insists the changes don't reflect any shift in how Meta actually crawls the web, but the fact that the language appeared at all has researchers and privacy advocates asking harder questions about transparency.
On a related note, a new Economist report is casting a skeptical eye on the wave of so-called AI neolabs that have been pulling in enormous funding rounds. The finding is straightforward and a little sobering: most of these companies have very little to show for the money raised, raising familiar questions about whether the investment frenzy has outpaced anything resembling real-world results.
And here's a story that feels almost quaint by comparison, but matters quite a bit to everyday users. Amazon's full lineup of two thousand twenty-six Kindle devices will ship with user-replaceable batteries, a design choice that bucks years of sealed-device trends and speaks directly to right-to-repair advocates who've been pushing the industry toward longer-lasting, more sustainable hardware.
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