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TikTok now wants to be the place you book the trip you just saw on TikTok; plus, AI is turning connected cars into pothole-finding machines

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Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record high; plus, Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI can have real effect

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