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OpenAI said Friday it will begin testing ads in ChatGPT in the coming weeks. The ads will show up for nonpaying users as well as for users of ChatGPT Go, priced at $8 per month. U.S. users will now have access to ChatGPT Go, a low-cost subscription tier first launched in India and now available ...
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Hunter's new 'Star Trek' captain is taking the Riker maneuver to a whole new level of chair-clambering. Read more âș
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A new study from Cornell and University of Toronto researchers has found that polyester microfibers shed from synthetic clothing during laundry can interfere with cherry tomato plant development [non-paywalled source] when these particles accumulate in agricultural soil. Plants grown in contaminated soil were 11% less likely to emerge, grew smaller and took several days longer to flower and ripen. Household laundry is a leading source of this contamination. Treated sewage... Read more âș
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Is help really âon its wayâ for Iranâs protesters? Thatâs what President Donald Trump promised in a Truth Social post earlier this week, adding that âIranians Patriotsâ should âKEEP PROTESTING â TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!â Trump first threatened that the US was âlocked and loadedâ to launch strikes on Iran if it continued killing protesters [âŠ] Read more âș
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Here come another influx of refugees to competing sites like Threads and Bluesky. Read more âș
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Canada has agreed to drastically reduce its tariffs on imported Chinese EVs from 100 percent to 6.1 percent as part of a new deal between the two countries. In return, China will be reducing tariffs on Canadian canola seeds from 84 percent to about 15 percent. The move is a break from the United States, which maintains a 100 percent tariff on EVs from China, effectively banning them in the... Read more âș
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Apple once set the bar for suppliers including TSMC. Now it's being unseated by Nvidia and AI cloud giants. Read more âș
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Commentary: Supernatural is now a zombie workout app on the Quest, and the metaverse just lost its best reason to join. Read more âș
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Netflix made streaming movies at home a big part of its pitch. Now, as it tries to buy Warner Bros. and its giant movie business, things are changing. Read more âș
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Apple's Sainte-Catherine store in MontrĂ©al, Canada has a new home at the northeast corner of Rue Saint-Catherine and Rue de la Montagne. The location officially opened to the public today, and the first customers who visited received a complimentary tote bag and toque (the Canadian term for what Americans call a beanie), the latter of which will come in handy given MontrĂ©al's temperature is currently hovering around -15ÂșC (5ÂșF). The... Read more âș
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Although X removed Grokâs ability to create nonconsensual digitally undressed images on the social platform, the standalone Grok app is another story. It reportedly continues to produce ânudifiedâ deepfakes of real people. And now, Ashley St. Clair, a conservative political strategist and mother of one of Elon Muskâs 14 children, has sued xAI for nonconsensual sexualized images of her that Grok allegedly produced.In the court filing, St. Clair accused xAIâs... Read more âș
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CyberGhost is the middle child of the Kape Technologies VPN portfolio, but in quality, it's much closer to ExpressVPN than Private Internet Access. I mainly put it on my best VPN list because it's so cheap, but I wouldn't have done that if it didn't earn its place in other ways â affordable crap is still crap, after all. My universal impression of CyberGhost is a VPN that's not perfect... Read more âș
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TikTok rolled out a new app, PineDrama, dedicated to micro dramas as it looks to break into a fast-growing category. Read more âș
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Reports indicate Apple's OLED MacBook Pro displays may already be in production, signaling that the company's most significant laptop display upgrade yet is nearing completion. Read more âș
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Larry Page, Google cofounder, moves major assets and residence from California to Florida as the Billionaire Tax Act targets ultrawealthy residents. Read more âș
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There is no war on protein. But pretending there is goes hand-in-hand with the Trump administrationâs appeal to traditional masculinity. Read more âș
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Google has filed its appeal to the Department of Justiceâs antitrust case that ended with a federal judge ruling that the company was maintaining a monopoly with its search business. While the company goes through the appeals process, itâs also asking that implementation of the remedies from the case, which include a requirement that Google share search data with its competitors, also be paused.âAs we have long said, the Courtâs... Read more âș
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Speaking as she departs as Lucasfilm president, Kennedy didn't outright confirm Johnson's potential trilogy of films was truly deadâbut suggested the 'Last Jedi' backlash pushed the director away for the forseeable future. Read more âș
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OpenAI and SoftBank will each invest $500 million in SB Energy, a SoftBank-backed data center developer thatâs building a site for the Stargate project. As part of the investment, the companies have agreed to work together on data centers using designs developed by OpenAI, according to a Friday ... Read more âș
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Last summer, a manager at startup Motive Technologies sent an urgent Slack message to 400 employees based in Pakistan. âWE HAVE A PROBLEM,â it said in all caps. Motive sells AI-powered dashcams that allow trucking companies to monitor drivers and send alerts about crashes and other safety issues. In August, the dashcams recorded a string of collisions, but customers never received the alerts. Read more âș
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OpenAI is Microsoftâs most important AI provider and its biggest cloud server customer. But as OpenAI does more business with Microsoftâs cloud rivals, Microsoft is doing more business with Anthropic, OpenAIâs archrival. Microsoft has quietly become one of Anthropicâs top customers and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500 million a year for Anthropic AI to power Microsoft products, according to a person with direct knowledge. At the same... Read more âș
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One month before Google paid $4.8 billion for Intersect Power, the tech giant had a message for federal energy regulators: They should fast-track approvals for data centers that supply some of their own power. Intersect does just that, producing power for data centers to allow them to operate without relying entirely on the grid. Googleâs purchase of Intersect is the first step by a major tech company to acquire a... Read more âș
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Robinhood and Coinbase are two of the most popular trading apps, historically concentrating on equities and crypto, respectively. But more and more, theyâre competing head to head. Coinbase is launching stock trading, while Robinhood is expanding in crypto. Both are also betting big on prediction markets. Yet as far as stock performance goes, the two companies couldnât look more different. Robinhoodâs shares rose 186% last year, while Coinbaseâs fell 12%.... Read more âș
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Last November, during one of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huangâs five visits to Taiwan last year, he and CC Wei, CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., met with reporters. Wei told the assembled media that Huang had come to ask for more chips, to which Huang, standing next to him, replied: âYes!â Huang wasnât the only U.S. tech executive making such requests. In recent months, Broadcom, which places manufacturing orders with... Read more âș
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday announced a record capital expenditure between $52 billion and $56 billion for 2026, as it tries to ease the capacity constraint on its production facilities. About 70% to 80% of the spending will go to manufacturing equipment for ... Read more âș
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BitGo, a crypto custody firm, said Monday itâs launching its initial public offering, seeking to raise as much as $201 million at a valuation of up to $1.96 billion. The company began pitching the shares to investors today, meaning they will likely start trading within the next two weeks. BitGo ... Read more âș
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In a new research paper published this week, DeepSeekâs founder and researchers proposed a new technique that makes AI models more efficient by allowing them to retrieve simple factual information without relying on a compute-intensive process. The technique, called Engram, enables AI models to ... Read more âș
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The revenue picture for AI startups is brightening, a bit. In just seven months, annualized revenue at âAI nativeâ companies selling AI models or apps has doubled, from $15 billion to more than $30 billion, according to an analysis of 32 companies from The Informationâs Generative AI Database.One problem: OpenAI and Anthropic make up nearly 85% of that revenue, while the top 10 companies by revenueâOpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Cognition, ElevenLabs,... Read more âș
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