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Besides ChatGPT, relatively few AI consumer apps have become breakout hits. But one app maker’s experience suggests there are plenty of lucrative consumer niches to be served.Seoul-based Wrtn Technologies says it’s generating more than $8 million in revenue a month from operating AI storytelling apps for hardcore anime and game fans in South Korea and Japan. Wrtn (pronounced “written”) is about to expand to the U.S. with a similar app called OOC, or “out of character,” a common term in the Dungeons & Dragon
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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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In honor of Earth Day, I rounded up every gadget I own to sort out what I actually use from what needs selling, trading in, or recycling. Read more ›
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Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from the BBC: The Trump family's World Liberty crypto venture is being sued by one of its billionaire backers over allegations of extortion. Justin Sun has accused World Liberty of an "illegal scheme" to seize his WLFI tokens, a cryptocurrency issued by the company. Sun alleges the firm, co-founded by U.S. President Donald Trump and his son Eric Trump, has "frozen" all... Read more ›
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When a Harvard study tracking people for over 80 years revealed that the quality of our relationships—not our bank accounts or achievements—determines our happiness and success, it challenged everything we thought we knew about what it means to "make it" in life. Read more ›
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OpenAI is in discussions to invest up to $1.5 billion in a private equity joint venture called DeployCo, according to a person with knowledge of the effort. The ChatGPT maker is in talks to invest $500 million initially in DeployCo, which is expected to be valued at $10 billion. OpenAI has the ... Read more ›
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Ultrahuman’s new Les Mills integration uses smart ring data to recommend daily workouts. Read more ›
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You might be missing out by always using your own car. These particular scenarios reveal when renting is the better move - and why. Read more ›
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Partnering with Cursor could be a crucial step for Elon Musk to get ahead of AI rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic. Read more ›
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Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are expected to have a new 'hero' color - the one that gets marketed the most, like Cosmic Orange was for the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max. A few days ago we heard that the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max would come in Light Blue, Dark Cherry, Dark Gray, and Silver, and these colors... Read more ›
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Catch the top moments from the Google Cloud Next keynote presentation, featuring CEO Thomas Kurian on AI breakthroughs, along with key announcements and real-world applications. Read more ›
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Tesla vehicles with the company's Hardware 3 (HW3) computer actually won't receive unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD), CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday's Q1 2026 earnings call. Approximately 4 million Tesla vehicles operate on the HW3 platform, meaning that a significant chunk of Tesla owners - including customers that paid for the feature when they bought […] Read more ›
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Our poll results show the latest YouTube Premium price bump is proving hard to swallow for a lot of you. Read more ›
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Prediction market Kalshi has taken action against three political candidates, alleging that each was engaged with insider trading of information about their campaigns. The company implemented new rules last month aimed at preventing politicians and athletes from placing bets on events they can control, and it said those guardrails helped to flag this trio of cases. The three candidates are Mark Moran of Virginia, Matt Klein of Minnesota and Ezekiel... Read more ›
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Venture firm Accel said Wednesday it had raised $5 billion in new funds for late stage investing. The new money will give it more firepower to invest in AI startups and double down on companies it has already backed. “AI has collapsed the distance between having an idea and scaling it, ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has told some advertisers that it will allow them to run ChatGPT ad campaigns that charge advertisers based on the number of clicks their ads get within the coming days, The Information reported Wednesday. The company would offer that new pricing model alongside its existing ads that ... Read more ›
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AI really is transforming the world! The latest example: Dying shoemaker Allbirds is turning itself into an AI chip firm called NewBird AI. Its stock rocketed 600% in response. But before we dig into that bizarre story, we should highlight what may be today’s more meaningful news: Anthropic executive Mike Krieger’s departure from the board of Figma.This might be what you’d call Figma’s Apple moment. For young folks, we’re talking... Read more ›
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday expects revenue to grow by more than 30% this year, raising its outlook from the forecast it gave in January, as demand for AI chips continues to surge and outruns supply. TSMC, which manufactures the majority of the world’s most advanced ... Read more ›
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday expects revenue to grow by more than 30% this year, raising its outlook from the forecast it gave in January, as demand for AI chips continues to surge and outruns supply. TSMC, which manufactures the majority of the world’s most advanced ... Read more ›
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Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy Google’s Gemini AI models in classified settings, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. If the two parties come to an agreement, it would expand Google’s connection to the Pentagon as a tech contractor and represent a significant reversal from the company’s past stance on working with the military. The... Read more ›
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Earlier this week, Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics-ER-1.6, a new vision and language model to help robots make sense of their surroundings. To show off its capabilities, Boston Dynamics—which has an agreement to use Gemini in its humanoid robots—published a video of its robot dogs using the model to read a thermometer during an inspection of an industrial facility.Despite the eye-catching demos, Google’s new robotics model only notched incremental gains... Read more ›
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SpaceX subsidiary xAI will rent computing power from its data centers to the coding startup Cursor, Business Insider reported. Cursor plans to use tens of thousands of xAI’s chips to train its latest AI coding model, according to the report. The arrangement could help SpaceX, which acquired xAI ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is raising prices for its virtual reality headsets by $50 to $100 each, citing rising global memory chip costs. The company said Thursday in a blog post that its Meta Quest 3S, first released in 2024, will now cost $349.99 for the 128GB model and $449.99 for the 256GB model—both ... Read more ›
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Microsoft has so far seen mixed results in its efforts to sell AI-powered products to businesses, with only around 3% of its Office 365 users paying to use 365 Copilot as of the end of last year. But a seemingly niche AI product released last fall by its subsidiary LinkedIn has taken off as a surprise hit. And I’m told that leaders elsewhere at Microsoft are now taking note. Read more ›
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