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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Finally! An explanation of what the Musk-Altman legal feud really means• The Arena: Can the metaverse and TikTok help tennis connect with young fans?• Plus, our Recommendations: “The Rise and Fall of Indie Sleaze,” “Anointed” and “Alien: Earth” Generally speaking, humans communicate with each other through words. As for artificial intelligence, we’re still figuring out exactly how it can communicate, and—well, it’s weird. One piece of new AI research r
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The footage appears to show a camera test filming cars driving at night on the Beihuan main road in Shenzhen, often called China's Silicon Valley. Read more ›
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Hemant Pandey and Vaashu Sharma, ex Meta and Google employees, say they moved back to India for personal and professional reasons. Read more ›
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The local sheriff's office said an adult man died in what appears to be "a singular crime." Read more ›
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Protesters disrupted the Labor Day weekend in the Hamptons as part of a nationwide action called "Workers Over Billionaires." Read more ›
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"Letting go of that need to be perfectly balanced all the time has been very freeing for me," Camilla Luddington said. Read more ›
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Apple is preparing to release iOS 18.7 for compatible iPhone models, according to evidence of the update in the MacRumors visitor logs. We expect iOS 18.7 to be released in September, alongside iOS 26. The update will likely include fixes for security vulnerabilities, but little else. iOS 18.7 will be one of the final updates ever released for the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR, as those devices... Read more ›
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Futurism reports: Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT's propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening. "When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our... Read more ›
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BF6 dev says that they won't add a ray tracing feature to focus on making the game run great 'for everyone else'. Read more ›
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"I have no musical talent at all," says Oliver McCann. "I can't sing, I can't play instruments, and I have no musical background at all!" But the Associated Press describes 37-year-old McCann as a British "AI music creator" — and last month McCann signed with an independent record label "after one of his tracks racked up 3 million streams, in what's billed as the first time a music label has... Read more ›
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Hyundai's upcoming IONIQ 3 electric vehicle will support Apple's CarPlay Ultra system, according to the BBC publication Top Gear. Here is what Top Gear's Paul Horrell reported last week:The Ioniq 3 will be digital-forward. For a start it can run Apple's CarPlay Ultra if the driver wants. Even without the Apple skin, the interface allows more configuration of the design, and links to new synthesised EV sound effects.The mention of... Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Sept. 1, No. 343. Read more ›
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Graphic designer Lisa Carstens "spends a good portion of her day working with startups and individual clients looking to fix their botched attempts at AI-generated logos," reports NBC News: Such gigs are part of a new category of work spawned by the generative AI boom that threatened to displace creative jobs across the board: Anyone can now write blog posts, produce a graphic or code an app with a few... Read more ›
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AI isn't changing everything. Spreadsheet whizzes are still competitive in the current job market. Read more ›
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Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 17 series on Tuesday, September 9, and last-minute rumors about the devices continue to surface. The latest info comes from a leaker known as Majin Bu, who has shared alleged images of Apple's Clear Case for the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, or at least replicas. Image Credit: @MajinBuOfficial The images show three alleged changes compared to Apple's iPhone 16 Pro Clear... Read more ›
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The exchange will open WLFI spot pairs against USDT and USDC, marking the token’s shift from a non-transferable presale to full tradability. Read more ›
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Over the past month, the Apple Pencil Pro has been rolling out in Apple's online refurbished store, for the first time since the accessory launched in May 2024. The certified refurbished Apple Pencil Pro is available at a roughly 15% discount compared to brand new, which is typical for Apple's refurbished products. At the time of writing this, refurbished Apple Pencil Pro inventory is available in Australia, Belgium, China, Germany,... Read more ›
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In his first term, President Donald Trump touted the “medical miracle” of the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine that he helped deliver to market through the unprecedented public-private partnership known as Operation Warp Speed. In its second term, the Trump administration is dismantling the signature health achievement of his first term by sowing doubt about the safety […] Read more ›
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Astronomers have taken a fresh look at the famous “Hand of God” pulsar, combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory with new radio observations from the Australia Telescope Compact Array. At the center is pulsar B1509-58, a rapidly spinning neutron star only about 12 miles wide that powers a nebula stretching 150 light-years across. The strange hand-shaped structure continues to surprise researchers, revealing puzzling filaments, patchy remnants, and boundaries that... Read more ›
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Another hint has surfaced that Apple is preparing to eliminate the physical SIM card tray from iPhones in more countries this year. In particular, a source familiar with the matter has informed MacRumors that retail employees at Apple Authorized Resellers in the EU are required to complete a training course related to iPhones with eSIM support by Friday, September 5. There are 27 countries in the EU, such as France,... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Finally! An explanation of what the Musk-Altman legal feud really means• The Arena: Can the metaverse and TikTok help tennis connect with young fans?• Plus, our Recommendations: “The Rise and Fall of Indie Sleaze,” “Anointed” and “Alien: Earth” Generally speaking, humans communicate with each other through words. As for artificial intelligence, we’re still figuring out exactly how it can communicate, and—well, it’s... Read more ›
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Even as StubHub makes a renewed push to go public, its business isn’t expanding as quickly as it had hoped. In the first half of this year, the ticketing app fell short of revenue and profit projections it shared with lenders earlier this year, in part due to new U.S. ticket pricing rules. The shortfall highlights the volatile nature of the ticketing industry, which is heavily dependent on the flow... Read more ›
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DeepSeek, one of China’s leading artificial intelligence developers, has decided to use Huawei Technologies’ AI chips to train some of its AI models, a sign it is reducing its reliance on Nvidia chips, according to three people with knowledge of the effort. The move follows pressure by the Chinese government on local tech companies to use locally made chips more. DeepSeek continues to use Nvidia chips for its largest and... Read more ›
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Nvidia on Wednesday posted solid revenue growth from the sale of artificial intelligence chips and networking equipment, including its flagship Blackwell chips, despite recent restrictions on its sale of its chips to China. Revenue rose 56% to $46.7 billion in the quarter that ended in July ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s xAI sued a former employee for allegedly stealing trade secrets when the engineer left to join OpenAI. The lawsuit accuses former xAI engineer Xuechen Li of downloading information about “cutting-edge AI technologies with features superior to those offered by ChatGPT” days before he ... Read more ›
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OpenEvidence, which operates a ChatGPT-like product for doctors to find health information, is considering multiple investment offers valuing the three-year-old startup at $6 billion, nearly double its private valuation from a financing just one month ago, according to three people involved in the potential deal. The funding conversations are still in their early stages. If a deal happens, the company is likely to raise more than $100 million, one of... Read more ›
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When the artificial intelligence boom began a few years ago, investors flocked to startups that helped businesses transform and store proprietary data in a format AI could understand, known as a vector database. The technology allowed businesses to use a customized AI chatbot to search or analyze their customer and sales information. Since then, though, AI providers such as Amazon Web Services, Anthropic and OpenAI have baked such technology into... Read more ›
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Much is known about the pastimes of the world’s wealthiest person, Elon Musk. They include playing videogames, fathering children and reading Douglas Adams novels. Over the past couple of years, Musk has picked up another hobby: waging war against Sam Altman, an ex-friend with whom he co-founded OpenAI a decade ago as a nonprofit. And Musk’s case in one critical lawsuit may not be as frivolous as it might appear... Read more ›
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Cybersecurity executives have long bemoaned how hard it is to hire staff, citing a dearth of talent with the necessary experience to fill roles that are notoriously high-pressure and can burn people out. But recently, some of those executives have found a solution: Instead of hiring new security professionals, they’re turning to AI to help them fill the open roles or cut back on existing staff. Read more ›
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Where does Snap go from here? The nearly fourteen-year-old company is struggling to grow its ad business, particularly compared to larger Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube. At the same time, CEO Evan Spiegel remains laser focused on his long-time, big bet: the company’s augmented reality glasses, Spectacles. To keep funding the AR project, Snapchat parent has begun to discuss ways to raise outside money and even has considered spinning it... Read more ›
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