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It wouldn’t be the eve of our AI Agenda Live conference without a midnight scoop! In case you missed it, check out last night’s story from Amir, Cory and me on OpenAI’s financials for the first half of 2025.I might be slightly sleep-deprived, but I’m thrilled to be seeing many of you in just a few hours at our AI Agenda Live: The Next Wave event in New York!It’s our job as reporters to make sense of seemingly conflicting news stories about the technology. One day an AI CEO says we’re in sight of AI that can
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Last week, it was announced that the Department of Homeland Security is buying new planes — and they're not your usual private jets. Read more ›
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A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved. Read more ›
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A huge AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage has taken out multiple internet services including Alexa, Ring, Snapchat and more –here's what we know so far. Read more ›
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Kohler is expanding its line of bathroom products with Dekoda, an iPhone-connected device that's designed to be attached to a toilet rim (via The Verge). The device's included "sensors" point into the toilet bowl, allowing it to analyze what goes on in the bathroom. According to Kohler, Dekoda is a health tracker that can monitor gut health and hydration, as well as detect the presence of blood in the toilet.... Read more ›
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Investigators recovered the OceanGate Titan sub's underwater camera nearly intact, discovering a SanDisk SD card that survived the 2023 implosion and still contained 12 images and 9 videos. TechSpot reports: Scott Manley, the science communication YouTuber, gamer, astrophysicist, and programmer, posted about the latest find: a hardened SubC-branded Rayfin Mk2 Benthic Camera containing the undamaged SD card. The titanium and synthetic sapphire crystal camera is rated to withstand depths of... Read more ›
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We had the chance to handle the vivo X300 Pro at the launch of the X300 series in China, but the phone is now at the office and in for a proper review. We can also put it side by side with its predecessor, which reveals a few differences. Most notably, the new phone is smaller in all dimensions. The vivo X300 Pro, right, and the X200 Pro on the... Read more ›
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Actors, studios, agents, and the actors union SAG-AFTRA have all expressed their concerns about appearing in Sora 2’s AI-generated videos ever since the deepfake machine was released last month. Now a joint statement from actor Bryan Cranston, OpenAI, the union, and others says that after videos of him appeared on Sora — one even showed […] Read more ›
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Just how serious of an antisemitism problem does the American right have — and what, if anything, should they do about it? For well over a year, some conservative elites have quietly worried about the trends they were seeing among influencers and young rightists who seem increasingly enamored of conspiracy theories involving Jews — the […] Read more ›
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With the fourth betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1, Apple has introduced a new setting that's designed to allow users to customize the look of Liquid Glass. The toggle lets users select from a clear look for Liquid Glass, or a tinted look. Clear is the current Liquid Glass design, which is more transparent and shows the background underneath buttons, bars, and menus, while tinted increases the... Read more ›
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A massive internet outage occurred Monday morning, impacting Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox, and more. Read more ›
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"The district court erred by placing too much weight on statements the President made on social media." Read more ›
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Foreign hackers breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC) by exploiting unpatched Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities. The intrusion happened in August and is possibly linked to either Chinese state actors or Russian cybercriminals. CSO Online notes that "roughly 80% of the non-nuclear parts in the nation's nuclear stockpile originate from KCNSC," making it "one of the most sensitive facilities in the federal weapons complex." From the... Read more ›
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Two days from today, October 22nd, was Google’s deadline to begin opening up its app store, stop forcing developers to use Google Play Billing, let them set their own prices, and more, following Epic’s repeated wins win in Epic v. Google. But both Epic and Google have just successfully and mysteriously argued for one final […] Read more ›
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Apple’s latest iOS 26.1 beta has a new option that lets you tint Liquid Glass elements of iOS 26 so that they are more opaque. Since announcing Liquid Glass at WWDC this year, Apple has tweaked exactly how glassy Liquid Glass is — early on, there were some legibility issues — but this new setting […] Read more ›
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The Breaking Bad actor apparently likes OpenAI's "guardrails" so much he's touting them publicly. Read more ›
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U.S. Grandmaster and beloved chess commentator Daniel Naroditsky has tragically passed away at the age of 29. "The news has sent shockwaves around the chess community, which is grieving the loss of one of the most beloved and influential voices," reports Chess.com. From the report: The devastating news was first shared by Naroditsky's club, Charlotte Chess Center, on Monday, and confirmed by Chess.com with multiple sources: "It is with great... Read more ›
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The legacy sequel starring Jared Leto and Greta Lee could be quite costly for the studio. Read more ›
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Joseph Sanberg, cofounder of green banking startup Aspiration, has been accused of defrauding investors out of $248 million. Read more ›
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OpenAI has spent roughly $6.4 billion in stock to buy three startups over the last 16 months, while its smaller rival Anthropic has done barely any deals. But Anthropic, recently valued at $170 billion in a funding round, told investment bankers in recent weeks that it is getting ready to move off the sidelines and do more acquisitions, according to people who have spoken to its executives. It is considering... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast last week that he wanted ChatGPT to become “people’s personal AI subscription.” The company last week made moves toward that goal with “apps in ChatGPT,” which lets people use the chatbot to search for homes on Zillow or make Spotify playlists, for instance.In another example, OpenAI has pitched companies on allowing visitors to sign into their websites using their ChatGPT credentials, just... Read more ›
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If you’ve ever uploaded a picture of a receipt to an expense report or read a PDF of a book online, you’ve likely used optical character recognition, a decades-old technique that converts images of typed, handwritten or printed text into text that’s editable on a computer.OCR might not sound like the sexiest market. But it’s interesting enough for Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most prolific backers of young AI startups... Read more ›
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At Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce event for customers last year, CEO Marc Benioff told roughly 45,000 attendees that using artificial intelligence to automate everything from customer service to sales functions was an easy and quick process. At this year’s event, now underway in San Francisco, Benioff toned down the rhetoric. He said Tuesday at the event that it “takes time” for companies to make good use of available AI, whose capabilities... Read more ›
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Microsoft aims to produce the majority of its new products including laptops and servers outside China as early as next year, Nikkei Asia reported. The move is part of the U.S. tech giant’s ongoing effort to reduce its dependence on China’s domestic supply chain amid geopolitical tensions ... Read more ›
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An entity being used to fund Meta Platforms’ large-scale data center in Louisiana sold more than $27 billion in debt with an interest rate about 2.25 percentage points above the U.S. Treasury yield. Meta is raising the debt, maturing in 2049, for a roughly $30 billion special-purpose vehicle the ... Read more ›
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The deals keep coming for semiconductor firms and OpenAI. In the past month, Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom have each reached very different agreements to supply chips to OpenAI. The arrangements open up all three to the risk that OpenAI, which expects to burn $115 billion through 2029, can’t afford to keep its commitments. The deals pose different risks to each company’s business, but AMD faces the biggest downside... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s xAI is aiming to build and control the world’s most powerful data center and a massive natural gas plant to power it. The scale of the project and xAI’s precarious finances are forcing the company into unusual financial arrangements that rely on outsiders to raise funding and shoulder much of the risk. XAI wants to have as much control as possible over Colossus 2, its second supersize data... Read more ›
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Walmart said Tuesday that it would soon start selling products through ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout feature, marking the first major retailer to strike an e-commerce partnership with the AI firm. Shoppers will be able to buy most Walmart and Sam’s Club products directly in ChatGPT conversations, ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Arena: Call it moneyball for minors—inside the booming business of youth sports apps• The Top 5: Best new places for a tech holiday party • Plus, our Recommendations: “The Big Short” with “Against the Rules: The Big Short Companion,” “Murderland,” and “John Candy: I Like Me”Two months ago, Cleo Abram, a former Vox journalist turned YouTuber, posed an intriguing question to OpenAI CEO Sam... Read more ›
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