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OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details.
Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to prioritize sponsored information in ChatGPT’s responses when users ask relevant queries, a person familiar with the discussions said. For instance, a Sephora-sponsored beauty product ad could appear when a user is sear
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Red Lobster CEO Damola Adamolekun described the first few days joining the company after its bankruptcy. "People are beat down," he said. Read more ›
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Nvidia has stopped testing an Intel process to manufacture its chips, Reuters reported, driving Intel’s shares down. Nvidia was recently testing an Intel production process known as 18A but decided to stop moving forward with the efforts, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the ... Read more ›
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The Trump administration targeted EU figures over platform regulation, triggering backlash from Macron and digital regulators. Read more ›
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Samsung has delayed the end of its DDR4 production line due to increased demand, and is expected to earmark output for a client signing an NCNR contract with the company. Read more ›
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Timothée Chalamet took the full force of Kevin O'Leary's paddle whacks during a spanking scene in "Marty Supreme" and refused to use a stand-in. Read more ›
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A reported attempt by a covert Chinese lab to reverse-engineer an EUV lithography scanner underscores that, despite access to scattered components, replicating ASML's EUV tools is effectively impossible without recreating the company's entire global supply chain, optics ecosystem, and proprietary software built over decades. Read more ›
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ROG Swift 4K 240 Hz display with a QD-OLED panel and BlackShield coating breaks cover Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2024, 25.2% of gross final energy consumption in the EU came from renewable sources, up by 0.7 percentage points compared with 2023. This share is 17.3 pp short of meeting the 2030 target (42.5%), which would require an annual average increase of 2.9 pp from 2025 to 2030. Among the EU countries, Sweden recorded the highest share of its gross final energy consumption... Read more ›
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From Yorkshire puddings to pantomimes, these British Christmas traditions might surprise you. Read more ›
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Someone in the UK has just pulled off a heist — only, that it was completely legal and at a Costco. A prebuilt PC worth $4,863 was bought for just $2,431, featuring flagship parts all around like an RTX 5090, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 64 GB of DDR5 6000 MT/s RAM that costs at least $700 just on its own. Read more ›
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Ukraine uses ground robots to fire at Russian targets and attack positions while its own soldiers stay at a safer distance. Read more ›
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The only known complete copy of Unix v4 has been recovered from a tape found at the University of Utah. Read more ›
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Apple's next-generation iPhone Air could still launch in the fall of 2026, according to the Weibo leaker known as "Fixed Focus Digital." The leaker claims to have been told by sources that the second-generation ‌iPhone Air‌ will launch in the fall. Meanwhile, the iPhone 17e is said to already be in mass production ahead of unveiling at a spring product launch event. The rumor comes in contrast to an array... Read more ›
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OLED screens, while the pinnacle of display tech today, still aren't perfect, and one area where OLED monitors in specific have struggled is text clarity. Either due to the unorthodox subpixel layout of these panels or the addition of a white subpixel, fringing around text has been a persistent issue, but LG has seemingly solved both at one go. Read more ›
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France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’ Read more ›
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Recent US weapons packages to Taiwan have largely been asymmetric capabilities, but Taiwan needs more advanced systems as well, an official said. Read more ›
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Ahead of CES 2026, Samsung has unveiled a number of impressive gaming monitors that flaunt 3D and very high refresh rates. The headliner is the 32-inch Odyssey 3D, "the world's first 6K display with glasses free 3D," according to Samsung. Along with the high resolution, it offers a 165Hz refresh rate (boosted to 330Hz through Dual Mode), along with a 1ms GtG response time. Optimized 3D effects that enhance terrain,... Read more ›
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HP delivers reference-quality color and speedy gameplay with the Omen 27qs G2. It’s a 27-inch QHD IPS panel with 280 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, MPRT, HDR400 and wide gamut color. It also brings superb video processing for super smooth motion. Read more ›
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Logan Paul bought a $5.3 million Pokémon card. He said young people should consider investing in nontraditional assets over the stock market. Read more ›
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The United States has slapped a fresh set of tariffs on Chinese electronic components, but their implementation has been delayed until 2027. Read more ›
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Recently, Nick Noone, co-founder and CEO of Peregrine, was introduced to Candace Parker, sports broadcaster and retired WNBA star, by mutual friends. They hit it off. The two share a passion for athletics. (Noone was a Stanford gymnast.) And both have an interest in startups. (Parker is an active angel investor.) After Noone described how his startup sells Palantir-esque data analytics software to local police and public safety departments, Parker... Read more ›
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As OpenAI discusses raising an unprecedented investment round of up to $100 billion, it can crow about some key improvements to how it runs its business. While its total computing costs are still high as a percentage of revenue, it is wringing more revenue out of every dollar it spends to run the servers that power ChatGPT’s subscription business and selling access to models to corporate customers. The company’s compute... Read more ›
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Over the past this year, some OpenAI staffers noticed a concerning change in the way people who used ChatGPT were reacting to improvements in the chatbot. In prior years, every time OpenAI made a big upgrade to the artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, usage surged as people easily found ways to get useful responses out of it, one employee said. But even as ChatGPT attracted more users this year,... Read more ›
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TikTok employees working for the company’s U.S. Data Security division will be moved under a U.S. joint venture ownership company in January and will no longer be able to receive Restricted Stock Units from TikTik’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, staff were told on Friday. The U.S. Data ... Read more ›
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Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket have gained popularity in the U.S. by letting people bet on everything from elections to Oscar winners to weather trends. But over the past year, a substantial portion of their wagers—and in Kalshi’s case the vast majority—have come from sports betting. And now traditional sportsbooks and crypto exchanges are crashing the prediction market party. DraftKings, one of the two largest online sportsbooks in the... Read more ›
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A few weeks ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent an email to engineering leaders at the company who were working on a consumer version of Copilot, the AI-powered assistant inside several Microsoft products. A Microsoft manager on the email thread noted that Google’s Gemini chatbot had recently gotten better at connecting with Google Drive for tasks like summarizing the contents of photos stored in folders. Nadella, meanwhile, wasn’t pleased with... Read more ›
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Amazon reorganized its AI development team, it said on Wednesday, by expanding it to also include quantum computing and silicon development, which includes development of Trainium chips. Those organizations were previously part of Amazon Web Services. Amazon’s AI team, which developed its Nova ... Read more ›
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Over the past year, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and many of Silicon Valley’s other top venture capital firms have funneled at least $1.2 billion in funding to startups selling technology to city police departments and local public safety agencies. Those companies illustrate the ... Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab, the AI lab co-founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is planning to release its own in-house models next year, co-founder and Chief Scientist John Schulman said on a podcast. So far, Thinking Machines has released Tinker, an application programming ... Read more ›
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Brett Adcock, the CEO of robotics startup Figure AI, has started a new AI lab called Hark, which will be funded by $100 million of his personal capital, according to a copy of a memo Adcock sent to Figure employees and investors on Thursday seen by The Information. The AI lab will be focused on ... Read more ›
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