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Tesla will wind down production of its Cybertruck at its Austin plant next year, CEO Elon Musk announced on Friday. Musk says the facility will now be focused on its Cybercab robotaxi. While the Cybertruck was long touted as a futuristic alternative to legacy pickups, the math never mathed: sales totaled 23,798 units in 2024, 25,771 units in 2025, and 13,800 units through the first nine months of 2026, according to Tesla Cybertruck Sales Figures. bit.ly/3WYokZc
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Famed British architect Norman Foster has designed his first-ever wristwatch in collaboration with the watch brand Lebond. “We wanted to look again at something very familiar and reconsider it as a complete object, with the case, the strap, the dial and the movement all part of a system,” he says. bit.ly/4iCzREY
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Re-thinking technology-fueled learning in a post-pandemic world. Parents are leading the conversation: Schools Beyond Screens is a grassroots movement with thousands of members and roughly 230 chapters in school districts across 40 states. schoolsbeyondscreens.com/
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AI agents are “roaming around consumers’ bank accounts.” The unauthorized access is becoming a “nightmare for America’s banks,” according to a report by Axios. bit.ly/4yIFAyP
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In other news, Anthropic also disclosed that its Claude model accessed voter data in Georgia, bypassing a paid firewall. theguardian.com/technology/2…?
Meta hits the streets, looking to raise some $95 billion to help fund its AI expansion. reuters.com/legal/transactio…
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All the Apple sauce: the iPad mini gets a facelift, the secret behind the Duo’s unfortunate screen cracks revealed, and soon you’ll be able to touch your MacBook Pro! theverge.com/tech/1017801/ip…
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Sit up straight when you speak her name. A new show at the Met remembers that Jackson Pollack was married to one helluva painter. Lee Krasner’s full range is on display, including tantalizing glimpses into their shared lives — as some of his rejected material finds its way into her collages. “Krasner is finally getting her due — and on her own terms,” says NPR.
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What’s in a stripe? About $500 million, conservatively. Adidas has sued Australian fashion brand White Fox Boutique for selling clothes featuring a four-stripe design that Adidas says is “deceptively similar to its own three-stripe trademark.” The court injunction would ask White Fox to surrender profits earned from the products. The Guardian has the numbers involved and buried the lede: the justice hearing the case is Ian Jackman, brother of Hugh. bit.ly/4B4c5tA
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Where are they now? Speaking of that 2021 letter, the signatories, under the name “Business for Voting Rights,” sounded so serious at the time. “While each of our companies is unique, we are united in the belief that every American deserves a voice in our democracy.” bit.ly/36CoUyw
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A recent report from the nonpartisan Center for Political Accountability (CPA) found that more than a dozen US corporations that signed a 2021 letter lobbying Congress to keep the Voting Rights Act are now donating to groups that undermine voting access. Nice! Looking at you, Airbnb, DoorDash, Target, and Zillow. nyti.ms/4B40haM
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MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning is open, and it’s spectacular. The 1894 brick storage facility is now a light-filled vision. “The project speaks volumes about where the design profession is heading these days,” notes Bloomberg’s Kriston Capps. bloom.bg/4jBYJPl
Hurricane Isaias is the first Atlantic hurricane of the year and the first to hit the mainland US in two seasons. Here’s what you may have missed. nyti.ms/4B40haM
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Midcentury modern design has gone from cool to cringey, says the WSJ. (Spoiler alert: it’s the millennials’ fault.) on.wsj.com/4dlrg7E
Can ChatGPT help you prepare for the midterm elections? As busy voters increasingly use LLMs to research their ballots, experts are making their concerned faces. “It might select some things that would reinforce and persuade you even more towards the way that you were leaning already,” says Rafael Batista, a research fellow who studies how AI shapes the way people experience the world. “So you leave more confident, without necessarily learning more about the world.” n.pr/4i4jCkM
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There will be some casualties, and that’s okay, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Politico. Bad things may happen with AI in the hands of mere mortals, but that’s a small price to pay. politi.co/4jzwRLu
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Plot twist: the Plague is back. theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
Wanted: teen treehuggers. The Earth Prize is a global environmental sustainability competition that challenges teenage students to develop and submit solutions intended to accelerate positive change for environmental sustainability. Up to $104,000 in prizes, submissions by Jan 31, 2027. bit.ly/4AHdN3V
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The mad, mad world of film title design. At least, it is in Teddy Blanks’ hands. One of film’s leading title designers dishes on his work with Lena Dunham, the influences behind his Barbie lettering, and how elements from medieval manuscripts make it to the silver screen. itsnicethat.com/features/ted…
The poetry in a user interface. Ralph Earle, a retired IBM engineer, has devoted his next phase to writing poetry. “My job is to translate / dry and unrelenting code,” he begins. And yet, “My dream is to translate/ the visions of the holy ones.” Take that, Claude. bit.ly/4yrUv1b
