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OpenAI is taking steps to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its eventual release of an AI-powered personal device, said a person with knowledge of the effort. The device is expected to be largely audio-based, said three people with knowledge of it.
When people speak to ChatGPT, the chatbot can talk back but the large language model that powers the audio version is a different one to the model that powers ChatGPTâs text-based responses. Researchers within the company believe the current audio.
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Chirp wellness, founded by Tate Stock, grew from $450 and a barn to $250 million in sales, pivoting from yoga wheels to pain relief tools. Read more âș
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Jeff Bezos owns more than $200 million of real estate in Miami. A vacant plot next to him just sold for $105 million. Read more âș
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A new year means new Marvel shows to watch, and the first to come in 2026 is 'Wonder Man.' Read more âș
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Only the government could spend 20 years creating a national ID that no one wanted and that apparently doesn't even work as a national ID. But that's what the federal government has accomplished with the REAL ID, which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) now considers unreliable, even though getting one requires providing proof of citizenship or lawful status in the country. In a... Read more âș
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Some years ago, I was writing a science fiction short story in which I wanted to incorporate verses from a 1928 song, "Button Up Your Overcoat." However, when I sold the story, my editor told me that since the song was still copyrighted, it was safer not to include the verses. If I had written [âŠ] Read more âș
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Foldables are fun, but theyâre usually priced like a luxury. Thatâs why a straight-up discount matters. The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 256GB (unlocked) is down to $899.99 (was $1,099.99), saving you $200. If youâve been curious about flipping to a foldable for the first time, this kind of price cut makes it much easier to ... Read more âș
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Smart glasses are finally at the point where they donât scream âtech gadget,â and thatâs why a discount like this is worth noticing. The Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer with clear lenses is down to $224.25 (was $299.00), saving you $74.75. If youâve been curious about hands-free photos, quick videos, and audio you can hear without wearing ... Read more âș
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The billionaire gifted Tesla shares worth nearly $100 million to charities in connection with "year-end tax planning," according to an SEC filing. Read more âș
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A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and possibly diamonds at its core. Its extreme gravity stretches it into a lemon shape, and it completes a full orbit in under eight hours. Scientists are stunned â no known theory explains how such a planet could exist. Read more âș
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Private-equity firm Brookfield is starting its own cloud business, going up against tech giants like Amazon by arguing it can bring down the costs of developing AI. The firm, which has long invested in infrastructure and energy, is becoming the first major investment firm to try to lease chips inside data centers directly to developers, rather than just owning or developing the physical structures that surround them. The cloud business... Read more âș
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For an eventful year, 2025 is ending the same way it started. A year ago, Nvidia, OpenAI and others made it clear they would do everything necessary to win the race for artificial intelligence.The year ended with the same companies doing the same thing. Nvidia capped off a year of dealmakingâmostly to cement its lead in AI chips by agreeing to pay $20 billion to license technology from Groq, one... Read more âș
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Meta Platformâs announcement on Monday that it has acquired Chinese agent startup Manus represents a big win for Manusâ backers, including Benchmark, ZhenFund and HongShan, who last invested in Manus in an April funding round that valued it at $500 million. Meta is paying more than $2 billion, my colleague Juro Osawa has reported (as have other outlets).Thatâs a huge gain on an eight month old investment. The deal also... Read more âș
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Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence dominated another year in tech. As AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic raced to release smarter models, the largest tech firms mapped out massive data centers that would guzzle up more energy than tens of millions of American households to power them. âAgentâ became the industryâs favorite buzzword for tools promising to eliminate human work. The popularity of coding assistant Cursor made its... Read more âș
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Trump Media and Technology Group, the company that operates President Donald Trumpâs social media platform Truth Social, said it will issue a new cryptocurrency to shareholders, according to a statement on Wednesday. The planned crypto coin, which the company said will likely be issued in ... Read more âș
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SoftBank said Monday it would buy data center investment firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion, or $16 per share, a 15% premium to Fridayâs closing price, its latest step to increase investment in infrastructure for data centers. DigitalBridge owns several data center subsidiaries that are involved ... Read more âș
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âSuspense is an artform,â said Bruce Holsinger, the author of âCulpability,â a tense family drama about the ramifications of a horrific car accident. Oh, yes, I should add: The mini-van was driving itself. âI think a lot about suspenseâat the level of the chapter, the sentence, the sequence of chapters,â said Holsinger, an author of four previous novels. âI like a sense of momentum, so that the characters are kind... Read more âș
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Meta Platform is acquiring Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark, in the U.S. tech giantâs latest move to expand its AI offerings. The deal will give Manus, operated by a Singapore-based startup called Butterfly Effect, ... Read more âș
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As AI has completely consumed the tech industry, Apple has held back from the colossal investments in the technology its peers have been making. Wall Street, pundits and media outlets have criticized and chronicled Appleâs stumbles and seeming lack of urgency in the AI arms race. That includes us. But I would like to propose another possibility: that 2026 could vindicate Appleâs decision to stay out of the fray. Read more âș
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Wall Streetâs latest push into private markets may give individual investors and their 401(k) accounts access to shares of unicorns like SpaceX and OpenAI. It may also allow them to add billions of additional dollars to the liquidity trap currently plaguing more sophisticated investors. Private markets have suffered from illiquidity, not lack of capital. Money goes in but rarely comes out. There is $3.7 trillion locked in venture-backed unicorns alone.... Read more âș
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