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Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $800 million, raising $100 million every year since 2022

The big picture: Star Citizen and its single-player component, Squadron 42, have faced repeated delays since Cloud Imperium Games first announced the ambitious space sandbox project nearly 13 years ago. Despite ongoing skepticism and accusations that the company's crowdfunding campaign is a scam, recent years have marked its most financially successful period. While many continue to question whether the games will ever reach version 1.0, others have started to place bets on whether Cloud Imperium will surpass $1 billion in funding first.
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New research shows your AI chatbot might be lying to you - convincingly

A study by Anthropic finds that chain-of-thought AI can be deceptive
In context: These days, plenty of AI chatbots walk you through their reasoning step by step, laying out their "thought process" before delivering an answer, as if showing their homework. It's all about making that final response feel earned rather than pulled out of thin air, instilling a sense of transparency and even reassurance – until you realize those explanations are fake.
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Software engineers offer $10,000 reward to anyone who helps them land six-figure jobs

Desperate times call for desperate measures
WTF?! Finding a well-paid coding job is a lot harder today than it was a few years ago, thanks in no small part to AI. Securing one that comes with a six-figure salary is even more difficult, but a couple of software engineers believe they have the answer: offering $10,000 to anyone who can get them a software developer role that pays no less than $100,000 per year.
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