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Hark, the AI lab that Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock recently founded, has hired over 30 engineers, including Head of Design Abidur Chowdhury, who previously designed phones and laptops for Apple, according to a copy of a memo Adcock sent to senior Figure employees and investors on Tuesday seen by ...
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A federal officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, shortly after the Trump administration deployed thousands of immigration agents to the city. Although the full circumstances of the killing remain unclear, video of the shooting shows an officer opening fire on the woman as she drove away. Realistically, there’s virtually no chance […] Read more ›
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Get the latest Litter-Robot Discounts on Litter-Robot self-cleaning litter boxes, accessories, and more. Read more ›
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The NC-13 strike company's commander told Business Insider that the drone's primary objective was to suppress Russian troops from advancing for weeks. Read more ›
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"I did that whole movie at 167 pounds. And I haven't been that light since high school," Matt Damon said. Read more ›
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Galaxy users can now add AI-generated weather effects to their lock screen wallpaper. Read more ›
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OpenAI has been dropping hints this week about AI's role as a "healthcare ally" - and today, the company is announcing a product to go along with that idea: ChatGPT Health. ChatGPT Health is a sandboxed tab within ChatGPT that's designed for users to ask their health-related questions in a more secure and personalized environment, […] Read more ›
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Mashable checked out Sony's AFEELA 1 EV again at CES 2026, and found it focused more on refinement than flashy new features. Read more ›
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A Ukrainian F-16 pilot said the initial tactics taught by NATO were based on wars that were "fundamentally different" from Ukraine's fight. Read more ›
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Deal extricates the lender from one of the last businesses related to its ill-fated push into retail banking Read more ›
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A woman was fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis on Wednesday, just days after the Trump administration deployed thousands of new immigration agents to the city. What happened? This is a breaking news story, and more details will almost certainly continue to emerge. What we do know is based on local reporting collecting video […] Read more ›
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Dell has revealed that consumers aren't buying PCs for AI features right now. In an interview with PC Gamer ahead of CES, Dell has made it clear its 2026 products aren't all about being AI-first, and it's moving beyond being "all about" AI PCs. "We're very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a […] Read more ›
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Reid Hoffman, a prominent Democratic donor, said the proposed tax is "badly designed" and contains "massive flaws." Read more ›
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Google and Character.AI have agreed to settle multiple lawsuits over chatbot-linked teen suicides. Read more ›
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Election deniers are sure that the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is proof that the Venezuelan government rigged the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor. Read more ›
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Apple's annual "Back to School" or "Back to Uni" promotion has returned this week in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and South Korea. From January 6 through March 11, qualifying higher-education students and staff in these countries can receive a free or discounted accessory with the purchase of select Mac and iPad models, similar to previous promotions that launched in the United States and a number of other countries last June... Read more ›
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Disney Plus will be getting a vertical video feed later this year, Disney announced as part of its Global Tech & Data Showcase for advertisers at CES, Deadline reports. According to a Disney announcement cited by Deadline, the company's goal is to "explore its use in a variety of ways across categories, and content types, […] Read more ›
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Joining the ranks of a growing number of smaller, powerful reasoning models is MiroThinker 1.5 from MiroMind, with just 30 billion parameters, compared to the hundreds of billions or trillions used by leading foundation large language models (LLMs).But MiroThinker 1.5 stands out among these smaller reasoners for one major reason: it offers agentic research capabilities rivaling trillion-parameter competitors like Kimi K2 and DeepSeek, at a fraction of the inference cost.The... Read more ›
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The Pixel 9 series is next in line to support AirDrop-style sharing between Android and iPhone. Read more ›
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As almost everyone in Silicon Valley has found out lately, creating AI is a money drain, and many of the biggest startups eager to do so aren’t profitable. That’s true even for the AI business run by the world’s richest man, and that’s why I expect Elon Musk will take a drastic step next year to keep the money flowing to xAI: by selling to the profitable part of his... Read more ›
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LMArena, a startup that operates a widely cited ranking of AI models based on their performance, has raised $150 million at a valuation of $1.7 billion, including the new money, according to the company. That’s nearly triple the valuation of its seed funding round, announced in May 2025. The funding round, co-led by existing investors Felicis and the University of California’s investment arm, will help the company pay for computing... Read more ›
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For Christmas this holiday season, I bought my mom a navy blue 1980 Lake Placid Olympics sweater. It has special significance for her because, as a college student in upstate New York at the time, she got to attend the famous “Miracle on Ice” hockey game between the U.S. and Soviet Union in person. Now, almost half a century later, my mom finally has some merchandise to commemorate it. The... Read more ›
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Venezuela-focused stablecoin startup Kontigo said it will repay the $340,000 that was stolen from more than 1,000 of its customers in a hack, according to a statement the company issued on Monday. In a statement published to X, Kontigo said it detected unauthorized access that affected some ... Read more ›
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Happy New Year! It’s the perfect time for a refresh on what’s been top of mind for The Information’s readers—and the early trends and open questions worth keeping tabs on in 2026. In 2025, our most popular stories revealed growing cracks in the artificial intelligence boom and pinpointed challenges facing the most dominant AI companies. The top story was also one of our most recent, about a “code red” inside... Read more ›
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No one in Silicon Valley gets wealthy or powerful by dwelling on the past. Rather, the brightest minds within tech often outshine the competition by obsessing about the future. We like to get in on the game too. In keeping with annual tradition, we’re publishing below our best educated guesses on what’ll happen in 2026: what Microsoft buys, what Amazon discards, what robot goes mainstream, and 12 other pieces of... Read more ›
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Shares of Chinese AI chip developer Shanghai Biren Technology surged on their debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Friday after the firm’s successful initial public offering. The stock’s rise is the latest indication of investors’ strong interest in China’s domestic semiconductor sector. On ... Read more ›
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What’s that smell? It’s the whiff of humble pie being eaten by The Information’s prognosticators. A year ago, we made a series of predictions about tech deals that would get done, executives who would leave their companies and other events that we thought might happen in 2025. Many of those predictions did not come to pass. In our defense, when you have a policy of making bold and specific predictions,... Read more ›
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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... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• Predictions 2026: Sutskever’s fate, OpenAI’s next acquisition, the next hit robot—and 12 more things we think will happen in 2026• The Arena: Sportswear brands face an inflection point• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man,” “The Breath of the Gods” and “Wake Up Dead Man”Ah, another new year has arrived. What possibly could the future hold—what staggering unexpectedness will befall us... Read more ›
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