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When Walmart and OpenAI announced that the retailer would integrate with ChatGPT, the question became how quickly OpenAI could deliver on the promise of agents buying things for people. In the battle of AI-enabled commerce, getting agents to securely complete transactions is one of the biggest hurdles. More and more, chat platforms like ChatGPT are replacing browsers and getting very good at surfacing information people search for. Users will ask ChatGPT for the best humidifiers on the market, and when the.
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Netflix is poised to purchase Warner Bros.’ studio and streaming business after being selected as the winner of the bidding war for the media giant. The two companies will now move forward into exclusive deal talks, TheWrap reports, likely including a $5 billion break-up fee in case regulators block the buyout. Netflix reportedly offered $30 […] Read more ›
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yuv, a British beauty technology company developing a smart hair colour lab system for salons and freelancers, today announced the close of its €10 million ($12 million) Series A funding round. The round was led by Nineyards Equity, with participation from yuv’s Founder Francisco Gimenez, existing investor VNV Global, and a network of strategic angels. ... Read more ›
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Netflix is in exclusive talks to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's film and TV studios and HBO Max streaming service, according to sources from Bloomberg and CNN. That suggests Netflix submitted a superior offer to rivals including Paramount Skydance Corp (owned by billionaire Larry Ellison) and Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal. The deal could be consummated within days and, if approved, would change the landscape of Hollywood and the streaming market. Warner... Read more ›
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CEO Steve Huffman said Reddit would scrap its r/popular default feed because it "gives the false impression of a singular Reddit culture." Read more ›
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At WIRED’s Big Interview event, the activist and organizer said he doesn’t “think the Chuck Schumers of the world understand” what’s coming for the party. Read more ›
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LinkedIn is ending its associate product manager program. Now, it will train new hires to code, design, and ship products as "full-stack builders." Read more ›
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Unlock up to 50% off, 40% off packages, and 25% off with top Groupon coupon codes. Explore coupons to save extra on travel getaways, holiday gifts, spa days, and event tickets. Read more ›
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It appears Meta's Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all. Read more ›
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Bullish forecasts come despite recent investor jitters over tech spending and potential bubble in AI sector Read more ›
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Episode 6 of "Pluribus" reveals the horrifying secret that Carol uncovered in the Agri-Jet warehouse. It's certainly not pretty. Read more ›
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The Galaxy S26 series could have integrated magnets, but there might not be a shortage of official Qi2 chargers. Read more ›
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Full Self-Driving now allows drivers to text and drive in certain traffic conditions. Police advise against it. Read more ›
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For me, agriculture has never just been about yields; it has been about resilience. In my family, this meant keeping a horticultural business alive in wartime, or building one of the first tissue culture labs in Europe. Today, for me, it means asking: How can we take the most fragile, manual steps of plant propagation ... Read more ›
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Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all. Read more ›
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The United States Inspector General report reviewing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's text messaging mess recommends a single change to keep classified material secure. Read more ›
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Fei-Fei Li said that this "extreme rhetoric" is filling tech discourse and misinforming people outside Silicon Valley. Read more ›
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New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year. Read more ›
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Sahil Lavingia, previously a DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs, is now a career employee at the IRS. He said at WIRED's Big Interview event that he expects to work there 10 years. Read more ›
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Spot XRP ETFs have now attracted nearly $850 million in inflows since launching in mid-November — one of the strongest altcoin ETF starts on record — suggesting long-horizon capital continues to accumulate exposure. Read more ›
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Discord's first personalised end-of-year wrap up offers stats on your chatting and gaming habits. Here's how to view yours. Read more ›
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Model providers want to prove the security and robustness of their models, releasing system cards and conducting red-team exercises with each new release. But it can be difficult for enterprises to parse through the results, which vary widely and can be misleading. Anthropic's 153-page system card for Claude Opus 4.5 versus OpenAI's 60-page GPT-5 system card reveals a fundamental split in how these labs approach security validation. Anthropic discloses in... Read more ›
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With some needed infrastructure now being developed for agentic commerce, enterprises will want to figure out how to participate in this new form of buying and selling. But it remains a fragmented Wild West with competing payment protocols, and it's unclear what enterprises need to do to prepare. More cloud providers and AI model companies will start providing enterprises with the tools needed to begin building systems that enable agentic... Read more ›
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For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou.Chinese research labs including Alibaba's Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Baidu have rapidly set the pace in developing large-scale, open Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models — often with permissive licenses and leading benchmark performance. While OpenAI fielded its own open source, general purpose LLM this summer as well... Read more ›
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Hello, dear readers. Happy belated Thanksgiving and Black Friday!This year has felt like living inside a permanent DevDay. Every week, some lab drops a new model, a new agent framework, or a new “this changes everything” demo. It’s overwhelming. But it’s also the first year I’ve felt like AI is finally diversifying — not just one or two frontier models in the cloud, but a whole ecosystem: open and closed,... Read more ›
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AWS is leveraging automated reasoning, which uses math-based verification, to build out new capabilities in its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform as the company digs deeper into the agentic AI ecosystem. Announced during its annual re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS is adding three new capabilities to AgentCore: "policy," "evaluations" and "episodic memory." The new features aim to give enterprises more control over agent behavior and performance. AWS also revealed... Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a new class of artificial intelligence systems called "frontier agents" that can work autonomously for hours or even days without human intervention, representing one of the most ambitious attempts yet to automate the full software development lifecycle.The announcement, made during AWS CEO Matt Garman's keynote address at the company's annual re:Invent conference, introduces three specialized AI agents designed to act as virtual team members:... Read more ›
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Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released two powerful new AI models on Sunday that the company claims match or exceed the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini-3.0-Pro — a development that could reshape the competitive landscape between American tech giants and their Chinese challengers.The Hangzhou-based company launched DeepSeek-V3.2, designed as an everyday reasoning assistant, alongside DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, a high-powered variant that achieved gold-medal performance in f Read more ›
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While artificial intelligence has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the global consulting industry—a $250 billion behemoth—has remained stubbornly analog. A London-based startup founded by former McKinsey consultants is betting $2 million that it can crack open this resistant market, one Excel spreadsheet at a time.Ascentra Labs announced Monday that it has closed a $2 million seed round led by NAP,... Read more ›
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As AI systems enter production, reliability and governance can’t depend on wishful thinking. Here’s how observability turns large language models (LLMs) into auditable, trustworthy enterprise systems.Why observability secures the future of enterprise AIThe enterprise race to deploy LLM systems mirrors the early days of cloud adoption. Executives love the promise; compliance demands accountability; engineers just want a paved road.Yet, beneath the excitement, most leaders admit they can’t trace how AI... Read more ›
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As AI, cloud, and other technology investments soar, organizations have to make investment decisions with increased speed and clarity. Practices like FinOps, IT financial management (ITFM), and strategic portfolio management (SPM) help stakeholders evaluate opportunities and trade-offs for maximum value. But they depend on unified, reliable data. And that’s often where the challenge begins.AI can surface insights from data within specific domains, but important decisions rarely rely on a single... Read more ›
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