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OpenAI has more than 200 people working on a family of AI-powered devices that will include a smart speaker and possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp, according to a person with knowledge of the plans. New details are starting to emerge about the group and its development strategy.
The smart speakerâthe first device OpenAI will releaseâis likely to be priced between $200 and $300, according to two people with knowledge of it. The speaker will have a camera, enabling it to take in information about its us
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The landmark 6-3 ruling knocks down a load-bearing beam of Trump's economic agenda. Read more âș
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The Supreme Court said its rationale for overturning most of Trump's tariffs was the same one it used to strike down Biden's student-loan forgiveness. Read more âș
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The Artemis 2 launch is edging closer as NASA has now set a target date for the 10-day mission to get underway. The agency is aiming to launch as soon as March 6 following a successful wet dress rehearsal on Thursday. The first attempt, which took place in early February, failed due to a hydrogen leak.During Thursday's rehearsal, NASA was able to fuel the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with... Read more âș
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The Supreme Court fast-tracked a case over whether President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs. Read more âș
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With a wet dress rehearsal successfully concluded, the Artemis 2 mission could launch in a matter of weeks. Read more âș
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In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration's signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds. Read more âș
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said that the "whole supply chain" for memory chips is constrained, which also impacts AI research. Read more âș
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Amazon suffered from a couple of small outages driven by actions of AI agents. The company insists that these are user errors because it accidentally gave the AI permission to execute actions without approval from another user. Read more âș
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California 3D printer control bill would restrict sale to DOJ-approved models Read more âș
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The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies, rejecting one of his most contentious assertions of his authority in a ruling with major implications for the global economy. From a report: The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld a lower court's decision that the Republican president's... Read more âș
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The Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in Learning Resources v. Trump on Friday, with a total of six justices concluding that a wide range of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump are illegal. Chief Justice John Roberts, a Republican, wrote the opinion. At least some of his opinion was joined by five other [âŠ] Read more âș
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My daughter had a whole day free, while I had to be in New York City for a work conference. I felt guilty, but I decided to play hooky. Read more âș
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Famous people from Elon Musk to Glen Powell have moved to Texas recently, many from the comparatively more expensive state of California. Here's why. Read more âș
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The Gray Area is now publishing twice a week on audio and video. Subscribe to Voxâs YouTube channel or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Tyler Austin Harper didnât set out to become a culture warrior. He trained as a scholar. His PhD was in comparative literature. He has written widely about the history of [âŠ] Read more âș
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My wife and I moved from New York City to Versailles, France, for her career. I expected my life to change here, but it looks largely the same. Read more âș
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schwit1 writes: An IT blunder has revealed an apparent smuggling ring that has moved at least $90bn of Russian oil and is playing a central role in funding the Kremlin's war in Ukraine. Financial Times has identified 48 seemingly independent companies working from different physical addresses that appear to be operating together to disguise the origin of Russian oil, particularly from Kremlin-controlled Rosneft. The network was discovered because they all... Read more âș
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What up, Verge-heads! Wait. "Vergesters?" "Verge-igans?" Nope, that ain't it⊠GREETINGS, DEAREST VERGE SUBSCRIBERS! Antonio here. Ă°ÂÂÂð» I'm your friendly neighborhood laptop reviewer, and I'm hosting an exclusive subscriber "AMA" today at 11AM PT / 2PM ET. I review laptops ranging from MacBooks and Chromebooks to weird-but-awesome tablets and a $6,000 gaming laptop. So I [âŠ] Read more âș
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The Ratel Robotics' robot launches fiber-optic drones close to the front lines in Ukraine so operators can stay farther back and safer. Read more âș
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"America's Next Top Model" has come under fire for photo shoots involving blackface and other offensive moments. Read more âș
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Meta Platforms plans to release its first smartwatch in 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter. Metaâs plans come as other big tech companies, including Apple, OpenAI and Google, are stepping up their plans for new consumer devices. The company has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and intends to release it later this year with health-tracking features and a built-in Meta AI assistant.... Read more âș
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Alibaba Group on Monday unveiled Qwen3.5, the new generation of its large language models, adding to the recent flood of new AI model releases from Chinese companies ahead of the Lunar New Year, Chinaâs biggest holiday. Alibaba, a major global competitor in open-source AI models, said ... Read more âș
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Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google and Microsoft at least $80 billion to run its Claude AI on their cloud servers through 2029, according to the startupâs most optimistic recent forecasts. Thatâs not the only way the tech giants can make money from Anthropic: They get a cut of the revenue Anthropic generates if their customers buy its AI. And thatâs a fast-growing source of revenue. Anthropic paid only about... Read more âș
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Perplexity is no longer offering ads, an executive told The Financial Times. The AI search startup is pulling back from this line of business as rival OpenAI started showing its users ads in ChatGPT conversations earlier this month. The company said it was worried ads would undermine usersâ ... Read more âș
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Etsy saw its profit dip in the fourth quarter, even as revenue grew slightly, the company said Thursday, a day after the online marketplace said it would sell the Gen Z-focused clothing resale app Depop to rival eBay for $1.2 billion. Etsy reported revenue of $881.6 million, a 6.6% increase from ... Read more âș
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A new holy grail has emerged in the AI industry in recent months: continual learning, or the promise of AI thatâs able to learn from real-world experience the way humans do, without having to undergo long formal training processes that require tons of computational power and data.And as youâd might expect with the rise of an ill-defined, buzzy term in the tech sector, investors are already telling me that theyâre... Read more âș
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The Department of Homeland Security has begun ramping up its use of administrative subpoenas to obtain identifying information from major tech companies on anonymous social-media accounts that criticize or track Immigration and Customs Enforcement or post about ICE agentsâ locations. The New ... Read more âș
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Over the last two years, investors and researchers have flocked to startups helping bring AI into the physical world, from developing robot hands to the AI models that train robots to software to train self-driving cars. Now one startup says it can solve a perennial problem for robots and other AI-powered systems: getting precise location data that helps the bots detect other people and things.ZaiNar, a Belmont, Calif.-based startup that... Read more âș
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Defense tech startup Anduril is in talks to raise billions in new funding at a valuation of at least $60 billion including the new investment, according to a person with knowledge of the plans. The valuation would be roughly double the figure from its last private funding round in June. The funding would give the company more leeway to fund its first major weapons manufacturing facility and the development of... Read more âș
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The U.S. Department of War is considering ending its partnership with Anthropic over a dispute about how the startupâs AI model, Claude, can be used by the U.S. military, according to an Axios report. Defense officials have been pushing leading AI firms to allow military use of their tools for â ... Read more âș
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