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The Department of Defense has awarded OpenAI a $200 million contract to develop AI that addresses “national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains,” the agency said in a press release. This is OpenAI’s first defense technology contract and the latest sign of deepening ...
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The White House's play at bandwagoning on the 'Superman' hype highlights just how fast the right-wing grift machine runs. Read more ›
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You might have to be extra careful who you buy your used Nintendo Switch game cards from if you don't want to get mistakenly banned. A Nintendo Switch 2 owner posted on Reddit that they got banned after downloading patches for a few Switch game cards that were bought off Facebook Marketplace. Reddit user dmanthey said they inserted each game into their Switch 2 to patch, but found out that... Read more ›
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The studio behind the 'Dune' movies will partner up with the 'Hunger Games' studio before potentially buying it entirely. Read more ›
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The Commodore 64 Ultimate will be the first new hardware released under the auspices of the new management, and pricing starts at $299. Read more ›
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In a weird twist, Intel's Core Ultra 5 245HX is allegedly faster than the desktop Core Ultra 5 245 in PassMark, featuring better single-core and multi-core scores. Read more ›
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Raynor Winn's "The Salt Path" was marketed as an inspiring true story. People close to the situation claimed part of the story were fabricated. Read more ›
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Monica Virga Alborno moved to Norway for work and now is raising her 4 and 2 year olds. She had nine months of parental leave and her husband had four. Read more ›
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Toonami and Shonen Jump have caught 'Dan Da Dan' fever and want to get audiences in on the high. Read more ›
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As everyone knows, the RTX 5090 was not expensive enough as is, so Asus decided to finally help out poor Nvidia by making one out of pure gold. It's comprised of half a million dollars' worth of gold, so you can enjoy your games knowing you didn't pay over MSRP for a 5090. Read more ›
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Some in Congress are warning that making the DOGE cuts would undermine the bipartisan government funding process. Read more ›
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The team behind Grok has issued a rare apology and explanation of what went wrong after X's chatbot began spewing antisemitic and pro-Nazi rhetoric earlier this week, at one point even calling itself "MechaHitler." In a statement posted on Grok's X account late Friday night, the xAI team said "we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced" and attributed the chatbot's vile responses to a recent update that... Read more ›
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Despite how it's always seemed to 'Star Wars' fans, Johnson has no bad blood about what went down in 'Rise of Skywalker.' Read more ›
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Compact, energy-efficient microreactors could soon help generate electricity for remote locations. Read more ›
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Resident Evil Survival Unit was only unveiled last week, but already franchise owner Capcom is pulling back the curtain to give us our first look at the mobile strategy game. Read more Read more ›
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More leaks from Bambu Lab reveal that a new single-nozzle sister to the H2D is coming soon. Read more ›
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Rivian says its Gen 2 Quad has more than 1,000 horsepower and 1,198 pound-feet of torque. That made scaling up a rocky mound in Lake Tahoe a breeze. Read more ›
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This seizure will definitely make it harder to find pirated ROMs for the average user, but one can expect a few more to appear in the coming days. Read more ›
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Team Group's new M.2 2280 SSD comes with a big red button. Hold it one second too long, and it destroys your NAND instead of just erasing the data. Read more ›
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The main Department of Justice building, across from the National Archives in Washington, was the kind of brooding edifice Dylan Field had walked through a lot in 2023 as he tried to convince governments around the world to let him sell Figma, the design software startup that had been his life, to Adobe for $20 billion. He made a final attempt to win over the Justice Department in a December... Read more ›
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The most important cryptocurrency bill in history could become law next week, but its immediate effect on everyday Americans will be negligible. Instead, the biggest impact will occur overseas, where it will boost both crypto and the dollar in the global economy. The law will bolster confidence in stablecoins, cryptocurrencies pegged to a traditional asset, generally the U.S. dollar. Individuals and businesses across the world—from Argentina to Turkey—have embraced stablecoins... Read more ›
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The term “agent” or “agentic” has become so ubiquitous in the business world that it can now seem to mean everything or nothing at all. In its simplest form, an agent is artificial intelligence that handles multistep tasks without requiring a human to steer it the whole time. In other words, an agent goes beyond what the basic version of ChatGPT can do. In the past year, AI firms have... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said late Friday that the U.S. was close to a deal for the American operations of TikTok and his administration would start talking to the Chinese government on Monday or Tuesday about the plan. “I think the deal is good for China, and it’s good for us,” he told reporters ... Read more ›
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Over the past month, Meta Platforms has overhauled its stumbling efforts in artificial intelligence by making a head-spinning series of hires of leaders and researchers from outside the company. But a key question has lingered: Why has Meta struggled so badly in AI that it’s injecting so much fresh blood into the company to lead a turnaround? One outgoing research scientist from Meta’s generative AI group has come up with... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok 4, the latest generation of its AI models, intensifying its competition with rivals OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. In an hourlong livestream Wednesday night, Musk said Grok 4 is the “smartest AI in the world” and “smarter than almost all graduate students in all ... Read more ›
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Cybersecurity startups are busy touting their next big opportunity: safeguarding companies from the threats generated by artificial intelligence. That’s led to surging revenue for some of them. But previously unreported financial details for others—particularly young startups focused on safeguarding AI models—show corporate IT buyers have been slow to pay for this protection. Three-year-old HiddenLayer, which sells software to protect AI models from attacks that hurt their performance or accuracy, is... Read more ›
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Several startups offering computing power for artificial intelligence are embracing the “borrow big to grow fast” strategy pioneered by CoreWeave, loading up on debt backed by their stocks of high-powered chips. For instance, London-based cloud startup Fluidstack has gotten approval from Macquarie and other lenders to borrow more than $10 billion leveraging its holdings of Nvidia AI chips, or graphics processing units, as collateral, said people familiar with the company’s... Read more ›
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Tesla shares closed down 6.8% at $293.94 on Monday after CEO Elon Musk said over the weekend that he was forming a new political party and continued to spar with President Donald Trump. Musk said in a Saturday X post that he would launch the “America Party” that would support congressional ... Read more ›
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China’s Huawei Technologies is plotting a fundamental redesign of its next artificial intelligence chip in a bid to seize market share from Nvidia. The Chinese tech giant is working on a new AI chip design that would allow its chips to be used for a wider array of AI development work than its current ones can handle, according to two people with knowledge of the plan. That would bring Huawei’s... Read more ›
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