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Shares of companies including Booking.com and Expedia rose nearly 8.5% and 13%, respectively, on Thursday, following a report from The Information that OpenAI would abandon plans to sell goods directly in ChatGPT in favor of putting checkouts inside apps that plug in to ChatGPT. The change ...
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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After decades of dismissing my parents' old-fashioned ways as outdated nonsense, I'm now discovering that their simple rules about family dinners, contentment, and hard work held truths my generation spent our whole lives chasing through self-help books and therapy sessions. Read more ›
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The first Geekbench 6 result for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip surfaced today, and Apple has achieved record-breaking performance. In this unconfirmed result, the M5 Max with an 18-core CPU achieved a score of 29,233 for multi-core CPU performance, which tops the 27,726 score achieved by the Mac Studio's M3 Ultra chip with a 32-core CPU. M5 Max is now the fastest Apple silicon chip ever,... Read more ›
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The WP500 Ultra merges thermal imaging, hardware privacy, extreme durability, massive storage, and flagship specifications into a rugged smartphone costing $529. Read more ›
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Demarre Johnson is one of four Wall Street juniors profiled in a now-viral, meme-ified article. He knew that "controversy sells." Read more ›
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"I saw my company discard half of my peers and double my pay," the former Block employee wrote. "That's not an honor. It feels shameful." Read more ›
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Growing neurons rely on chemical cues to find their targets, but new research shows that the brain’s physical properties help shape those signals. Scientists discovered that tissue stiffness can trigger the production of guidance molecules through a force-sensing protein called Piezo1. This protein not only detects mechanical forces but also helps maintain the structure of brain tissue. The discovery reveals a powerful link between the brain’s physical environment and how... Read more ›
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Huawei has announced a significant update to its smartwatch ecosystem by introducing a dedicated wheelchair mode for its Activity Rings functionality. Originally unveiled during the GITEX 2025 event, this feature was officially integrated into the Huawei Watch GT 6 series on November 29, 2025. Strategic Design and Functionality The wheelchair mode is not merely a software toggle but a comprehensive redesign of the Activity Rings system. According to Huawei, the... Read more ›
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Adm. Cooper also said Iranian ballistic missile strikes are down 90% from the first day of the war, and drone strikes are down 83%. Read more ›
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A package of child safety bills is headed to the House floor following an hours-long session that left Democrats and Republicans divided. On Thursday, lawmakers on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted to advance the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act; Sammy's Law; and the App Store Accountability Act, which would require […] Read more ›
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Roku has always had a strong selection of free live TV streams, but a March 2026 update has made it easier than ever for users to access them. Read more ›
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Read Jilly Dreadful's 'Eat, Prey, Love: A Modest Proposal for Ensuring Gender Equality Through Selective Dietary Practices; or, a Geriatric Millennial’s Guide to #GirlDinner' right here on io9. Read more ›
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Costco challenges the US government over IEEPA tariffs, with CEO Ron Vachris pledging to pass refund benefits to members. Read more ›
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After weeks of failed negotiations, public ultimatums, and lawsuit threats, the Defense Department has formally labeled Anthropic a "supply-chain risk", escalating its fight with the AI company over their acceptable use policies and potentially bringing their fight to court. The decision, first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, citing one source familiar, will […] Read more ›
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Apple has removed the 512GB RAM configuration for the Mac Studio, leaving 256GB as the new maximum. The remaining 256GB upgrade has also increased in price and now faces longer shipping delays as demand grows "due to consumers seeking machines suitable for running local AI agents," reports MacRumors. From the report: The Mac Studio starts with 36GB RAM, but there were upgrades ranging from 48GB to 512GB, with the higher... Read more ›
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It’s Thursday, March 5, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and venture funding news. Today’s rounds spotlight surging investor momentum across AI infrastructure, neurotech, space systems, and encrypted data orchestration. As capital concentrates around next-generation platforms in biotech, ... Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is out of a job. What happened? Noem was fired on Thursday in a social media post by President Donald […] Read more ›
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Anthropic is best known for selling its Claude AI models to app developers, but the company says it has seen a spike in usage of its consumer Claude chatbot, which competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Daily signups to Anthropic’s Claude chatbot have tripled since November, the company told The ... Read more ›
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Will OpenAI make more acquisitions? The ChatGPT maker is in the process of raising $100 billion in additional cash. I wouldn’t be surprised if it uses some of that money or its richly valued shares to buy startups or lure even more talent. After all, it’s done this before. It used its stock to buy hardware guru Jony Ive’s startup, Io Products, in a $6.5 billion deal, when OpenAI was... Read more ›
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Jack Dorsey has been many things in his career, including social media pioneer and crypto advocate. Now he’s the grim reaper of AI. Dorsey on Thursday revealed he will lay off 40% of the employees, or about 4,000 people, at his fintech firm, Block. The reason? AI. “The core thesis is simple,” he explained in a shareholder letter. “Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a... Read more ›
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Thursday said the company would refuse to allow Anthropic’s AI models to be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons in violation of the company’s policies, one day before his company faces a deadline to agree to the Pentagon’s demands or ... Read more ›
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Amazon confirmed it would invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI, in two stages, as part of a broad agreement with the ChatGPT maker that will also make OpenAI’s AI models available through Amazon’s cloud service AWS and will involve OpenAI using 2 gigawatts of Amazon’s Trainium AI chips ... Read more ›
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xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen has left the company just weeks after CEO Elon Musk said he’d expanded his responsibilities as part of a broad reorganization of the company. Pohlen, who announced his departure in a post on X, is the latest high level staffer to leave xAI in recent weeks, coinciding ... Read more ›
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OpenAI said Friday it had secured $110 billion in new investment at a valuation of $730 billion before the new money, largely from existing investor SoftBank as well as two tech companies— Amazon and Nvidia—with which it announced commercial partnerships. SoftBank and Nvidia will each invest $30 ... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s agreement with Amazon, announced on Friday, means that it will build applications that will be exclusively available on Amazon’s cloud platform after previously offering most of its products on Microsoft’s Azure cloud. OpenAI and Amazon will work together on new AI agent products, and ... Read more ›
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The conflict between Anthropic and the Department of Defense over how the Pentagon can use the startup’s AI has turned into a standoff. The agency has given the company a Friday evening deadline to give it unfettered access to its technology—or else be cut off from working with military contractors. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei continues to refuse to do so. “Threats do not change our position,” he wrote in a... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s wide-ranging partnership with Amazon, announced on Friday as part of a bigger series of funding agreements valuing the company at $730 billion before the investment, means the ChatGPT creator will soon have two of the three biggest cloud firms pitching its services. But can both Amazon and Microsoft get a big boost without encroaching on each other’s territory? Then there’s the impact on Nvidia, which is putting in $30... Read more ›
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