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Elon Musk and Tesla's chair have denied a report that the company's board had launched a search process for a new CEO. The report said that Tesla's board had reached out to several executive search firms to work on a process for finding Tesla's next chief executive. Musk criticized the Wall Street Journal for publishing the article, saying that Tesla's board of directors had unequivocally denied its claims beforehand. The outlet had reported that Musk had not responded to requests for comment.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during court proceedings that he hopes that Google Gemini will be added as a built-in option for iPhones this year. Pichai has held a series of conversations with Apple CEO Tim Cook and hopes to have a deal completed by the middle of this year. Apple's annual developer conference will be held on the week of June 9 - if a deal is agreed to, it will likely be announced then.

Tools for Humanity, the startup behind the World human verification project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has unveiled a mobile device designed to help people determine the difference between humans and AI agents. The Orb Mini looks like a smartphone, but it has two large sensors on the front to scan users' eyeballs. The data is used to create a unique identifier on the blockchain to verify that users are human. It is still unclear what the ultimate functionality of the Orb Mini will be, but its current main purpose is to verify more people.

Chinese tech company Leapting's AI-controlled robot successfully helped install 10,000 solar modules at its first commercial deployment in Australia. The 2.5-meter-high robotic arm sits on a crawler that can adapt to different terrain and environmental conditions. Its use increased efficiency by three to five times compared to manual operations. The robot will be deployed to another Australian solar farm to start work in May to install around 500,000 panels.

Dataframely is a Python package for validating the schema and content of 'polars' data frames. It is aimed at making data pipelines more robust, by ensuring that data meets expectations, and more readable, by adding schema information to data frame type hints. It can be used to declaratively define schemas as classes with arbitrary inheritance structures, specify column-specific validation rules, validate data frames, integrate schemas with external tools, and much more.

This thread contains a list of best practices for using Cursor, an AI-powered code editor. It contains advice such as using .cursorrules to tell broad rules, encouraging chain of thought in prompts, using git to version control frequently, and more. The list is designed to ensure developers are not overwhelmed by complexity.

A US federal judge has ruled that Apple must loosen its grip on its App Store and stop collecting a commission on some app sales. Apple was previously ordered to allow apps to provide users with external links to pay developers directly for services to avoid the 30% commission Apple charges. The company instead created a new system that forced apps with external sales to pay a 27% commission to the company and also created pop-up screens that discouraged customers from paying elsewhere. Apple is now restricted from taking commissions from sales outside the App Store and from displaying messages discouraging users from making external purchases. It is being investigated for criminal contempt.

Labor conditions for recent college graduates have deteriorated noticeably in the past few months. Unemployment now stands at an unusually high 5.8%. This could be the signal of short-term economic drag, medium-term changes to the value of a college degree, or long-term changes to the relationship between people and AI. Today's graduates are entering into an uncertain economy where some businesses are so focused on tomorrow's profit margin that they're less willing to hire workers who will take time to learn on the job.

AdSense for Search is now available for companies that want to show relevant ads in their conversational AI experiences.

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The internet enables individuals to meet like-minded people around the world, creating a new means of connection.

Private Processing lets users offload tasks to privacy-preserving cloud servers to utilize advanced AI features.

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The shell is responsible for searching for executables in PATH, not the Linux kernel.