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OpenAI and Anthropic claim in a pair of reports released today and earlier in the month that the use of enterprise AI tools increase productivity and corporate ROI. These studies may be damage control to counter those released by MIT and Harvard in August claiming the opposite.
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The AFL-CIO, which represents some 15 million workers across the US, is backing a planned Minnesota economic blackout to protest ICE. Read more âș
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President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on Denmark and other European nations over Greenland annexation, citing national security concerns. Read more âș
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AMDâs 2026 PC strategy focuses on incremental CPU updates, price-to-performance GPUs, and cautious AI upscaling. Read more âș
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Visits to the US by international travelers declined for the eighth straight month in December, in a continued blow to the tourism industry. Read more âș
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=[ "More than half of all cryptocurrencies ever launched are now defunct," reports CoinDesk, citing a new analysis by cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGecko. And most of those failures occurred in 2025: The study looked at token listings on GeckoTerminal between mid-2021 and the end of 2025. Of the nearly 20.2 million tokens that entered the market during that period, 53.2% are no longer actively traded. A staggering 11.6 million of... Read more âș
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Actor Matt Damon said Netflix wants action movies to reiterate plot lines multiple times because people are on their phones while watching a movie. Read more âș
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Watch Australian Open for free. Live stream Yuan vs. Swiatek in the 2026 Australian Open online for free from anywhere in the world. Read more âș
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Since the United States announced it would ârunâ Venezuela and captured President NicolĂĄs Maduro, the Trump administration has openly floated similar interventions elsewhere in Latin America. But the country Donald Trump has fixated on most isnât an adversary â itâs an ally. Greenland, a NATO member and longtime partner of the United States has repeatedly [âŠ] Read more âș
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See the Moon phase expected for January 18, 2025 as well as when the next Full Moon is expected. Read more âș
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Increasing DDR5 prices are leading buyers to buy "ancient" desktop platforms going as far back as the DDR3 era. YouTuber discovers 4790K powered system with an RTX 2060 Super and $40 worth of 32GB DDR3 memory can run games modern AAA games at 60FPS. Read more âș
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Watch Australian Open for free. Live stream Berrettini vs. de Minaur in the 2026 Australian Open online for free from anywhere in the world. Read more âș
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"Share a Disney quote that sums up how you're feeling right now!" That's what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty pointedly anti-fascist and clearly aimed at the [âŠ] Read more âș
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We now have some idea of what's at stake in the longstanding feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI. As first reported by Bloomberg, the latest filing, as part of a lawsuit that accuses the AI giant of abandoning its non-profit status, claims that Musk is owed anywhere between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages from the "wrongful gains" of OpenAI and Microsoft. Musk claimed in the filing that he's... Read more âș
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Turns out people might like to circumvent centralized financial infrastructure in times of political upheaval. Read more âș
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I began choosing grocery cashiers over self-checkout and was surprised by how much small human interactions helped combat loneliness. Read more âș
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The U.S. Department of Transportation brought an automated bus to D.C. this week to showcase its work on self-driving vehicles, taking officials from around the country on a ride between agency headquarters at Navy Yard and Union Station. One of those trips was interrupted Sunday when the bus got rear-ended. The bus, produced by the company Beep, was following its... Read more âș
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As 2026 begins, MIT Technology Review publishes "educated guesses" on emerging technologies that will define the future, advances "we think will drive progress or incite the most change â for better or worse â in the years ahead." This year's list includes next-gen nuclear, gene-editing drugs (as well as the "resurrection" of ancient genes from extinct creatures), and three AI-related developments: AI companions, AI coding tools, and "mechanistic interpretability" for... Read more âș
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AMD will try to keep graphics card prices as low as possible for gamers during the DRAM shortage. Read more âș
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NY State Governor Kathy Hochul wants 3D printer manufacturers to make it impossible to 3D print guns. Read more âș
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DIY DDR5 is no longer just a concept, but a reality, as modder VIK-on has built his first 32GB stick from scavenged parts. The memory chips came from laptop SODIMMs, while a new PCB and cooler were acquired from China. After flashing custom firmware enabling 6400 MT/s XMP, the entire build put together cost $218. Read more âș
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The U.S. President says that his team will work with various AI tech companies, starting with Microsoft, to ensure that their power demands will stop affecting the power prices that ordinary Americans pay for. Read more âș
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang says negative narratives around AI are "extremely hurtful," and that science fiction speculation isn't connected to reality. Read more âș
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Micron has responded to criticism over its decision to exit the consumer memory business and warns that shortages may last until 2028. Read more âș
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Microsoft has quietly removed âfind album informationâ and âupdate album info onlineâ tools from the Media Player apps supplied with Windows 11. Read more âș
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Amid widespread anti-government protests, Iran shut down all methods of internet access, including Starlink. Read more âș
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Hardware leaker MEGAsizeGPU claims Nvidia has reportedly slashed graphics card supply to its AIC partners by 15% to 20%, and there won't be any new GeForce graphics cards until 2027. Read more âș
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A new emulator makes running classic Apple Macintosh 68K software a breeze on a cheap, portable, IoT development kit. Read more âș
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The UK is making it a crime to generate or request AI-made explicit content from this week, following the ban on sharing deepfakes. The region's communications regulator, Ofcom, is also looking into Grok, investigating the service formally to see if it "has complied with its duties to protect people." Read more âș
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