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Startup Varda Space Industries snags former Mattel plant in El Segundo
[ad_1] In an expansion of its business of processing pharmaceuticals in Earth’s orbit, Varda Space Industries is renting a large El Segundo plant where toy manufacturer Mattel used to design...
Surveillance company Flock generates controversy — and a roster of L.A. clients
[ad_1] Santa Cruz tried out the surveillance company Flock Safety for a little over a year before deciding it was time to move on.Cambridge, Mass., also had enough and tore...
Instagram to alert parents if their teens search for suicide or self-harm terms
[ad_1] Instagram, a social media platform popular among young people, said Thursday it will alert parents if their teens repeatedly search for suicide or self harm-related terms.“Our goal is to...
Battle of the AI brands: What’s behind the bad blood between OpenAI and Anthropic
[ad_1] As more than 100 million people watched the Super Bowl, the battle for the future of artificial intelligence spilled out into a massive public arena.In a series of viral...
Influencers want to adopt the ‘analog lifestyle’ for 2026. Here’s how to join them
[ad_1] At the dawn of 2026, social media influencers at home and abroad proclaimed it the year of the “analog lifestyle,” a call to reduce digital connectivity as smart tech...
Billionaires Spielberg, Zuckerberg eyeing East Coast, stirring concerns about California’s wealth-tax proposal
[ad_1] California may be losing two of the state’s most famed residents and generous political donors. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg recently moved to New York and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is...
Netflix and Warner Bros join Disney and Paramount in calling out ByteDance’s latest AI platform
[ad_1] After a fake video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting went viral, a surge of AI-generated content from Seedance 2.0 flooded the internet.Some fans were using the new...
OpenAI blocked from using Cameo name for its AI video features
[ad_1] OpenAI has been temporarily blocked from using the word “Cameo” in a product that allows people to generate videos based on prompts amid a trademark dispute.Last year, the celebrity...
US homebuilder sentiment dips to five-month low on affordability
[ad_1] Mortgage rates are near the lowest in more than a year, but still double the level that prevailed throughout much of 2021Published Wed, Feb 18, 2026 · 04:39 PMUS...
Commentary: The Pentagon is demanding to use Claude AI as it pleases. Claude told me that’s ‘dangerous’