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OpenAI flooded the zone yesterday with a long-awaited announcement regarding its revised agreement with Microsoft and corporate restructuring, and an hour-long livestream in which CEO Sam Altman and Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki answered questions from the public. (For more on the restructuring, check out this story from my colleagues.)On the livestream, the two men covered a range of topics, from OpenAI’s decision to allow more NSFW content like erotica on ChatGPT to the deprecation of popular old models.
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If you've been unhappy with the direction Microsoft has taken Windows, offering no meaningful improvements beyond AI and aesthetics, then, well, not much can be done about that. But, at least you can disable all the AI features that seem to have populated every corner of the OS, with a simple script from GitHub. Read more ›
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Walmart's outgoing CEO Doug McMillon reflects on a career leading over 2 million employees and the thrill of an upcoming break. Read more ›
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Trump announced a proposed settlement to end the SAVE student-loan repayment plan. Borrowers would resume payments "in the coming weeks." Read more ›
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Video game workers from multiple unions across Europe have released a joint statement pledging a "united front" against industry exploitation. Read more Read more ›
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Amazon's "thank my driver" program is back. Thank your latest Amazon delivery driver with a free $5 on Amazon. Read more ›
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced a raft of leadership changes on Monday, and close watchers of the company say more are coming. Read more ›
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As AI tools continue to rise in popularity, it's easy to forget the satisfaction of using something that doesn't need an update or a prompt to help you get things done. I'm talking about tools. They're simple and rugged, and they don't make things needlessly complicated. And now that the holidays are approaching, these tools […] Read more ›
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These British slang words will leave anyone outside the UK scratching their heads. Learn quirky British phrases and how to use them like a local. Read more ›
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The auto conglomerate, which owns Jeep and Ram, confirmed that it would bring the Fiat Topolino — a 2.5-meter-long electric tiny car — to the US. Read more ›
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The 'Star Wars' star loves how a desire to see the Adam Driver, Steven Soderbergh film united the fandom. Read more ›
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Ubisoft's long-rumoured Black Flag remake is seemingly even closer to reality after a listing for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was spotted on the Pan European Game Information (PEGI) ratings board website. Read more Read more ›
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Staff at an Ohio school were shocked to discover dozens of dead vultures on its campus. Even more shocking was the response from the state's wildlife officials. Read more ›
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The U.S. will allow Nvidia to export its H200 data center accelerators to “approved customers” in China, President Donald Trump announced on Monday. Read more ›
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The DayFi protocol aims to turn electricity cash flows into a crypto-native yield product, bridging capital to new solar power installations. Read more ›
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Spotify is launching its beta music videos feature to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada today, over a year after it rolled out to Premium users in other regions. If you have a Spotify Premium subscription, you should now begin seeing an option to "Switch to video" on some tracks on the iOS, Android, […] Read more ›
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A collaborative report from Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union has uncovered pricing experiments within the Instacart app that yielded higher or lower prices for different users on the exact same items from the same store location. The organizations partnered to enroll 437 shoppers in an experiment across four cities, where each shopper added the same items to their carts within Instacart from the exact same store. Almost... Read more ›
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The new FixBot app uses iFixit’s massive library to walk users through repair projects step-by-step. Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has told investors and financial institution representatives that it is aiming for an initial public offering in the second half of next year, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The talks come as SpaceX considers holding a sale of shares held by investors and employees that would value the company at $800 billion, double its valuation in a sale this summer, in what would make... Read more ›
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Executives at Microsoft and other enterprise software firms heralded 2025 as the year artificial intelligence would be capable of automating tasks that involve multiple steps, such as generating dashboards based on company sales data. But as the year comes to a close, Microsoft has lowered expectations for how quickly it can get customers to spend money on these newer products, known as agents. Multiple Microsoft divisions, for instance, have lowered... Read more ›
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A small but growing number of artificial intelligence developers at OpenAI, Google and other companies say they’re skeptical that today’s technical approaches to AI will achieve major breakthroughs in biology, medicine and other fields while also managing to avoid making silly mistakes. That was the buzz last week among numerous researchers at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference, a key meetup for people in the field. Some of them believe... Read more ›
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Anthropic is in advanced discussions to buy Bun, a maker of software used to run and manage code more efficiently, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The artificial intelligence company is in talks to pay in the low hundreds of millions of dollars for the startup, which would be Anthropic’s first acquisition, according to the person. The acquisition would give Anthropic, which already has been using Bun... Read more ›
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Meta is hiring one of Apple’s top designers, Alan Dye, who ran the company’s user interface design team, Bloomberg reported. Longtime designer Stephen Lemay will take his spot at Apple, the news outlet reported. Apple’s design team has suffered from regular bouts of turnover since the company’s ... Read more ›
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Last week, Gap Inc. launched a chatbot to field product-related questions from Gap.com visitors, but the chatbot ended up discussing topics that fell outside the scope of questions it was supposed to handle, including intimacy products, sex toys, and Nazi Germany, according to a person with ... Read more ›
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Step aside, young folks of tech. This week we hear from the industry’s, ah, elder statesmen—specifically Larry Ellison at Oracle and Hock Tan from Broadcom, whose combined age is about 150. Oracle and Broadcom are each reporting their latest quarterly earnings this week, when the status of their newish AI businesses will be in the spotlight. In the case of Oracle, we’ll be looking for an update on its AI-related... Read more ›
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Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell, another maker of custom chips, according to one person involved in the discussions. Those discussions come amid intense demand for such chips as companies like ... Read more ›
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For all the venture capitalist–inspired hype around tech startups, it’s always good to remember that many are too niche to ever amount to anything—and should never go public. We got a reminder of that on Tuesday when Italian conglomerate Bending Spoons said it would buy ticketing firm Eventbrite for $500 million in cash. That’s a stunning comedown for a company that went public in 2018 with a market value of... Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are arch-rivals in the cloud computing market, so it was surprising to hear them announce Monday that they’re working to make it easier for their joint customers to move data and develop applications that run on both clouds. Tech companies are constantly issuing announcements about working together, but this one is different. For years, AWS executives dismissed the trend of companies using multiple cloud... Read more ›
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