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Over the past week, a handful of accounts on Polymarket, the predictions site, bet OpenAI would release a new large language model by December 13. On Thursday December 11, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, and four of these accounts together made over $13,000, according to the trades displayed on their accounts.
The payout is adding fuel to suspicions that a handful of accounts on prediction sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi aren’t just lucky—they’ve got access to private information about tech companies includin
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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we talk through Apple's plans to refresh the Studio Display and Pro Display XDR. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos Apple's next-generation Studio Display is widely expected to feature the same 27-inch screen size as the current model, but with mini-LED technology instead of LCD. This upgrade would result in increased brightness and a higher contrast ratio compared... Read more ›
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The firms have obtained conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to convert into national trust banks. Read more ›
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TCL has been a solid competitor in the midrange TV market for years, going head-to-head with Hisense. Not only are TVs from both manufacturers competitive on features, they even use similar nomenclature to categorize their TV lines - the TCL QM8 and Hisense U8, QM7 and U7, and QM6 and U6. But with TCL's new […] Read more ›
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Dell is increasing its prices on December 17 amid a global memory chip supply crisis. Business Insider obtained a list of price changes. Read more ›
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A New Zealand McDonald's is located inside a decommissioned plane, and multiple restaurants have been built inside historic homes. Read more ›
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Kara Tsuboi covers today's top stories. CNET editors recommend top gifts for a smarter home. Artificial intelligence is shaping the way consumers buy gifts this holiday season. Best tech toys to give your kids. Read more ›
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Employees at Doom studio id Software have voted in favour of union representation with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), which has been recognised by Microsoft. Read more Read more ›
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Amazon is continuing to celebrate The Game Awards, which took place on December 11th, with a big sale on titles that were nominated in their respective categories. The deals include a discount that brings the PC version of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which ended up taking home nine awards (including game of the year), back […] Read more ›
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The Washington Post's top standards editor Thursday decried "frustrating" errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists. From a report: Earlier this week, the Post announced that it was rolling out personalized AI-generated podcasts for users of the paper's mobile app. In a release, the paper said users will be able to choose preferred topics and AI hosts, and could "shape... Read more ›
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Chipmaker Broadcom's 10% slide weighs on the market as Chicago Fed's Goolsbee signals more cuts than the median for 2026. Read more ›
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We're already in the middle of December, and holiday deals are abundant this time of year. This week, you can find best-ever discounts on AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch SE 3, and M5 iPad Pro. Below, you'll also find an exclusive sitewide deal at Burton Goods and an ongoing holiday sale at Samsung with big discounts on storage accessories and more. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate... Read more ›
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Microsoft is reshaping how Windows 11 users personalize their PCs by adding a dedicated Themes department to the Microsoft Store. Read more ›
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Resident Evil Requiem's dual protagonists will represent two styles of gameplay, which its developers describe as like "jumping into a cold bath after a hot sauna". Read more Read more ›
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The OnePlus 15R releases on Dec. 17. Here's an early unboxing of the phone in Mint Breeze and an overview of some of its key features. 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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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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Nvidia has developed a new software feature with a location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, Reuters reported. The feature, which hasn’t been released yet, could make it possible for Nvidia to crack down on the smuggling of its artificial ... Read more ›
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Lately, Maura Keller—a Democrat running in Georgia’s 3rd Congressional district in next year’s midterm elections—has been going to community meetings where one topic comes up again and again “almost on a weekly basis”: data centers. It’s not hard to understand why the subject has surged to the fore. Keller has seen the state transform over the past few years into a hub for data centers, as AI companies buy up... 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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China on Wednesday gathered its biggest tech giants to discuss whether to allow them to buy Nvidia’s advanced H200 chips, as President Donald Trump’s recent decision to allow the export of the powerful hardware to the country suddenly complicated Beijing’s goal to become technologically self-sufficient. Officials convened a series of emergency meetings with representatives from companies including Alibaba Group, ByteDance and Tencent Holdings, and asked them to assess their demand... Read more ›
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MGX, a United Arab Emirates–backed fund, is only a year old but has already become one of the biggest data center financiers in the world, leading the largest data center sale negotiated so far and quietly scooping up a stake in another provider with ties to OpenAI. MGX will be the biggest shareholder in Aligned Data Centers, one of the largest data center operators in the U.S., following its $40... Read more ›
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For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running the enterprise apps those agents use will need to agree on technical standards for how these technologies connect to each other.Some leading companies are preparing to do just that. As soon as this week, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and a slate of other tech companies are set to announce a new... 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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Google expects to launch its first AI glasses, including an audio-focused model and one with a built-in display screen, in 2026, the company said in a blog post on Monday. Google is collaborating with Samsung and the glasses companies Warby Parker and Gentle Monster on the hardware. Google will ... Read more ›
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