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In March, at a Microsoft all-hands meeting, one of the company’s newest executives, Jay Parikh, laid out a rough vision for Microsoft’s path forward in artificial intelligence.
AI models made by OpenAI and others were quickly becoming commoditized by more efficient models from DeepSeek and Microsoft’s own research arm that performed nearly as well for a fraction of the cost, Parikh said, sitting alongside chief executive officer Satya Nadella and chief technology officer Kevin Scott. That meant it would s
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GREÏ, a Kaunas-based DeepTech startup, has raised €650k in pre-Seed to expand its AI-powered operational intelligence platform, which helps businesses with large physical sites detect risks and inefficiencies in real time. The funds, invested by the Baltic VC fund FIRSTPICK, will be used for product development, team expansion, and further rollout across European markets. Marking ... Read more ›
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AOL will officially discontinue its dial-up internet service on September 30, pulling the plug on an era that defined early internet access for millions of Americans. The Yahoo-owned company announced the shutdown on its support website, stating: "AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet." The termination includes the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, both of which were optimized for older operating... Read more ›
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We get yet another round of clean, unwatermarked renders across the flagship lineup. Read more ›
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A trilogy remaster of the first three Dragon Age games was pitched by BioWare to EA, but the publisher is "against remasters" and "basically seem to be against free money". Read more Read more ›
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Apple's rumored new more affordable MacBook could have a starting price as low as $599 and launch as soon as this year, according to a new report out of Asia. We first learned of Apple's low-cost MacBook plans in late June, when analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the company was developing a "more affordable" 13-inch laptop (the analyst did not mention a price) that would with compete with Chromebooks and drive... Read more ›
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Consumers could be paying for 67% of the cost of tariffs by October — ahead of the holiday shopping season. Read more ›
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We’re just over a week away from the big Pixel launch event on August 20, but the leaks keep going. A couple of days ago, a detailed leak showed the Google Pixel Buds 2a specs, now even more details have surfaced. The more affordable 2a buds – rumored to cost €150 – borrow design cues from the flagship Pixel Buds Pro 2. This includes smaller wingtips compared to the original... Read more ›
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AOL's dial-up internet, a service that has been running this whole time since the '90s, will be shut down next month. Read more ›
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Samsung's lock screen widget can display win probability info alongside sports fixtures. Read more ›
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"The thing that I did do was date a lot. And so when Barack showed up, I had experiences to compare him against," Michelle Obama said. Read more ›
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Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it. Read more ›
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Stephen Condon, a former tech marketing professional, shares his journey of pivoting careers at 61 to become an EMT. Read more ›
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Gaming cheats are the bane of the video game industry—and a hot commodity. A recent study found that cheat creators are making a fortune from gamers looking to gain a quick edge. Read more ›
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Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration Read more ›
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A Starbucks representative told Business Insider that the chain wants its customers to "have a pleasant and accessible store experience." Read more ›
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For more than a century, armies of office workers were a necessary cost of doing business in corporate America. Not anymore.. Not anymore. Read more ›
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If you haven't heard, OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT-5 on August 7 has caused a furor among a contingent of paying ChatGPT subscribers who find the new frontier model's communication style too clinical compared to legacy model GPT-4o's warmer, more conversational approach. Keep reading to make the old model available to select again in the ChatGPT app for Mac. After just a few days of trying GPT-5, many Plus subscribers have... Read more ›
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A high-resolution CT scan of Intel’s legendary 386 processor reveals its hidden inner world without breaking it open. See the complete 3D map of gold bond wires, detailed pin connections, and the layered power planes that powered one of computing’s most influential CPUs. Read more ›
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Today, we have with us the new Realme P4 Pro. The P4 Pro continues Realme's breakneck speed of launching devices, with the P3 Pro just being announced earlier this year in February. The P4 Pro's claim to fame is the dual chip design. The company is using the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 that we saw on the Realme 15 Pro and pairing it with what it calls Hyper... Read more ›
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OpenAI unveiled its new flagship AI model, GPT-5, on Thursday. And with the launch, OpenAI seems to be moving more towards offering an entire AI system to its customers versus giving them the choice between models. The company said during a live-streamed presentation that it would be withdrawing user access to its older models, meaning that customers won’t be able to choose between models depending on how much they want... Read more ›
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Here’s a question: Which of Elon Musk’s companies is his most AI-focused business? The answer might seem obvious: xAI, developer of Grok. But it’s not that simple, as a letter from two Tesla directors to company shareholders on Monday demonstrates. The letter, explaining the board’s decision to grant Musk a new stock award valued at $23.7 billion to make up for the much bigger option nullified by the Delaware court,... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s X is using parent company xAI’s Grok artificial intelligence tools to handle more of the social media site’s advertising business, Musk and other xAI executives said Wednesday. X is using Grok to improve targeting based on user data, Musk and xAI’s head of ads engineering Roman ... Read more ›
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Cognition, an artificial intelligence coding startup, has offered voluntary buyouts to the roughly 200 employees it acquired in a takeover of rival Windsurf three weeks ago, saying they will receive nine months of salary in return, according to an e-mail seen by The Information. The development comes after Cognition cut 30 staffers from the Windsurf team on Friday and shows how employees at AI startups can face wildly different outcomes... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a small startup working on artificial intelligence capable of understanding emotion and mimicking it in audio form, according to a person with direct knowledge. The acquisition comes as Meta continues to overhaul its efforts in AI, after stumbles earlier this year. In June, the social media giant hired Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang as its chief AI officer and agreed to invest $14.3 billion... Read more ›
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Tesla is disbanding its Dojo supercomputer team as its leader leaves the company, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The team had been building supercomputers powered by in-house chips that help train its vehicles’ self-driving software. Tesla plans to rely more heavily on chips from companies ... Read more ›
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Apple’s next iPhone unveiling is a month away, but OpenAI may have just sucked all the new tech product excitement out of the room with today’s GPT-5 unveiling. The livestream, featuring a parade of staffers highlighting the new flagship AI model’s range of impressive capabilities, was eerily reminiscent of an Apple iPhone event—slickly produced and tightly scripted. OpenAI’s speakers even used classic Apple phrases such as “We can’t wait for... Read more ›
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Cracks are beginning to show in the booming market for stocks of companies—like Michael Saylor’s Strategy—that do little other than hold cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. These stocks became a wildly popular way for investors to speculate on bitcoin and recently on more exotic cryptocurrencies. Valuations for Strategy, and for others including bitcoin holder Semler Scientific and solana holder Upexi, have come down a bit, while companies that own more speculative tokens... Read more ›
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In the M&A industry, bankers’ most important asset has historically been their rolodex. But the proliferation of AI chatbots appears to be changing that.When the boards of companies look to sell the business, they turn to M&A advisors to scope out suitable buyers. In the past, junior bankers assembling lists of potential buyers would have to spend hours researching and consolidating information, before checking in with senior bankers whose institutional... Read more ›
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Last Friday, the day after Figma went public with a 250% pop, former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan tweeted that Figma’s success was “a great reminder that letting startups grow into independently successful businesses, rather than be bought by existing giants, can generate enormous value.” Good point. But for every Figma, there’s a Snap, whose CEO Evan Spiegel famously turned down a $6 billion buyout offer from Facebook, the... Read more ›
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