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On Monday, a new online “encyclopedia” sputtered to life. Grokipedia is the brainchild of Elon Musk and his startup xAI, and the billionaire is promoting it as a supposedly less woke and less biased version of Wikipedia. Musk’s goal? “The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” In both format and style, Grokipedia […] Read more ›
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Ukraine's defense industry has grown substantially, but it's yet to reach its potential. Exports could clear the way. Read more ›
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Escape from Duckov isn't what I was expecting at all. Soaring concurrent player-counts and extraordinary sales are usually reserved for Steam games with multiplayer. Those are the games that tend to catch hold and burn hot, then burn out, some months later. But Duckov is a single-player game, or at least it is in its standard form (there are co-operative mods). It's a single-player extraction shooter, which even to write... Read more ›
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My husband and I's families are spread across three continents. We feel pressured to use our PTO and budget to visit everyone, but I crave balance. Read more ›
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schwit1 writes: China has enacted a new law regulating social media influencers, requiring them to hold verified professional qualifications before posting content on sensitive topics such as medicine, law, education, and finance, IOL reported. The new law went into effect on Saturday. The regulation was introduced by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) as part of its broader effort to curb misinformation online. Under the new rules, influencers must prove... Read more ›
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Nvidia just hit $5 trillion market cap. CEO Jensen Huang is doing quite well himself, too. Read more ›
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GTC announcements drive Nvidia's market capitalization by over $200 billion in one day, making the company the world's first firm to reach a market capitalization of over $5 trillion. Read more ›
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Apple is about to drop iOS 26.1, the first major point release since iOS 26 was rolled out in September, and there are at least six notable changes and improvements to look forward to. We've rounded them up below. Apple has already provided developers and public beta testers with the release candidate version of iOS 26.1, which means Apple will likely roll out the update to all compatible iPhones on... Read more ›
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Ukraine has ramped up its strikes on Russian military and energy targets far beyond the front lines in recent months. Read more ›
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It's been nearly two weeks since Microsoft, a multi-trillion dollar company, shipped a $600 handheld "Xbox" that can't be relied on to sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep in my tests. Neither Microsoft nor Asus would admit there's a problem with the white Xbox Ally or offer a timeline to fix it after […] Read more ›
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According to etiquette experts, wedding guests should never arrive late to the ceremony, ignore the dress code, or bring an uninvited plus one. Read more ›
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Apple researchers have released Pico-Banana-400K, a comprehensive dataset of 400,000 curated images that's been specifically designed to improve how AI systems edit photos based on text prompts. The massive dataset aims to address what Apple describes as a gap in current AI image editing training. While systems like GPT-4o can make impressive edits, the researchers say progress has been limited by inadequate training data built from real photographs. Apple's new... Read more ›
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Anti-DEI requirements pose ‘enormous, open-ended financial risks’, Python Software Foundation argues. Read more ›
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How do AI videos end up on Donald Trump’s social media accounts? WIRED investigates. Read more ›
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The Democratic Party has spent most of the past decade deciding to lose. Or so argues a new report from Welcome PAC, an organization that backs center-left candidates, so as to build “a big-tent Democratic Party.” It is no secret that the Democrats are in a sorry state. They’ve lost to an exceptionally unpopular Republican […] Read more ›
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Nike's new system helps runners and walkers move with less effort, which Nike compares with electric bikes. Read more ›
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Reports have been swirling that The Wachowski sisters, creators of The Matrix series of films, once approached Konami to have decorated Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima make a Matrix game. Read more Read more ›
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Stephen Cognetti hopes the horror franchise will continue with another director—but 'Lineage,' which hits Shudder October 30, is his final entry. Read more ›
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Adobe in recent months held talks with Synthesia, a London-based maker of artificial intelligence software that generates video avatars of people, to buy the startup for about $3 billion, a premium from the startup’s $2.1 billion valuation in a January financing, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. Synthesia and Adobe walked away without reaching a deal after disagreeing about the price, this person and two others said.... Read more ›
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Over the last few days our reporters have broken news about two merger discussions that fizzled: Adobe, which was interested in buying video startup Synthesia, and SoftBank, which talked with humanoid robotics maker Agility about a takeover. In both cases, the startups ended up pursuing more venture capital funding at higher valuations.These are just the latest instances of aborted acquisition talks involving artificial intelligence startups that we’ve broken over the... Read more ›
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This summer, Fidji Simo wasted no time addressing a concern among many at OpenAI. Leading her first all-hands meeting as the startup’s new CEO of applications, she acknowledged that she and many others at OpenAI shared the same background: They’d previously worked at Meta Platforms. And then Simo, who’d risen to be head of Facebook over a decade at Meta, offered reassurance—she wasn’t interested in redoing her tenure at Meta... Read more ›
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Amazon launched a new artificial intelligence-powered product recommendation feature Thursday, the e-commerce giant’s latest move to incorporate more AI features into both its consumer-facing shopping experience as well as the systems that power its search and recommendation features. The new ... Read more ›
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that President Donald Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, could this week “consummate” a long-anticipated deal to keep TikTok operating in the U.S., as the leaders prepare to meet Thursday in South Korea. President Trump recently ... Read more ›
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SoftBank is set to complete its $30 billion investment in OpenAI, after its board approved a $22.5 billion second installment on the deal, The Information reported. The remainder of its investment is contingent on OpenAI’s corporate restructuring, which would pave the way for a public offering ... Read more ›
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Defense tech company Anduril expects to burn through $800 million to $900 million in cash this year in an aggressive bid to win giant Pentagon contracts. Investors big and small are unperturbed, lining up to back the fast-growing seller of drones, missiles and border surveillance towers. The company appears to be the most coveted stock in the private markets, with small investors on the secondary market willing to pay nearly... Read more ›
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A few years ago, Elon Musk pitched Apple unsuccessfully on the idea of his company, SpaceX, providing satellite connectivity to iPhones. There are tantalizing hints that such a deal could be back on the table. In recent months, in anticipation of a possible future arrangement with Apple, SpaceX has added support in its new satellite designs for the same radio spectrum Apple uses for the iPhone’s current satellite features, which... Read more ›
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Netflix’s quarterly earnings reports have lately lacked the drama that once made the updates a must-watch for investors and reporters. For the past eight quarters, the video streamer has routinely posted quarterly revenue growth averaging around 15%—hardly hypergrowth but a big improvement on the 2% to 4% growth rate it recorded between late 2022 and late 2023. Nowadays the results are so predictable that it would be easy to tune... Read more ›
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Anthropic on Thursday said it plans to use up to 1 million Google Tensor processing units to power its artificial intelligence, implying the startup would spend tens of billions of dollars renting TPU servers. The announcement is a show of confidence in Google’s chip as an alternative to Nvidia’ ... Read more ›
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