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Just when I thought the OpenAI saga couldn’t get any crazier, I learned last night that OpenAI’s board had approached Dario Amodei, the co-founder and CEO of its biggest startup rival Anthropic, about a potential merger of the two companies as part of an effort to persuade him to replace Sam Altman as CEO.The idea didn’t get very far. In fact, if you’re counting, you’ll see we’re up to four different executives (that we know of) that OpenAI’s board has approached about the CEO position, including former Git
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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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From holidays to cheerleading, these cultural traditions have been carried out in the United States for centuries. Read more ›
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The launch reflects a broader push to make stablecoins more useful beyond trading and transfers. Read more ›
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Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, and Abubakar Salim talk about what their characters face in 'Queen's Landing.' Read more ›
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The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) is consulting on new conduct requirements for Apple and Google under the UK digital markets competition regime. The proposed requirements would remove restrictions currently preventing UK app developers from ‘steering’ their customers away from Apple and Google’s platforms for payment. ‘Steering’ – the ability for developers to engage with ... Read more ›
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Samsung's newest monitors have been further discounted this week, with big savings on the Odyssey G8, ViewFinity S8, and Movingstyle Essential. All of these have discounts that have been applied automatically, plus an additional $50 on-page coupon that you can clip to add to your cart. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Samsung. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which... Read more ›
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Why many AI initiatives improve efficiency but fail to transform organizations. Read more ›
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New research has found that companies spending the most on AI aren't slashing jobs; they're actually hiring faster than their peers. Read more ›
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Videos purporting to show the iPhone 18 Pro undergoing a drop test were removed from X shortly after they surfaced, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. An account imitating leaker Evleaks was suspended from X after sharing the clips, while the post was removed as well, with X saying it "violated" the platform's rules. Another leaker, […] Read more ›
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Build, a British and U.S.-based AI-native infrastructure company helping governments, developers and investors accelerate critical projects, has raised €7.4. million ($8.5 million) in Seed funding to expand its engineering and infrastructure teams, accelerate R&D and deepen its presence across North America and Europe. The round was led by Index Ventures. Pebblebed, Puzzle Ventures and Tiny.vc ... Read more ›
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Dell PC deal combines combines an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor, Nvidia RTX 3050 graphics, 16GB of DDR5, and a fast 1TB SSD — and in our rave review we were blown away by its powerhouse performance. Read more ›
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It’s Tuesday, June 30, 2026, and today’s biggest tech stories show the industry entering a harder, more physical phase of the AI boom. Companies are watching token costs like cloud bills. Governments are tracking AI servers as if they were ... Read more ›
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Социальная инженерия — это набор психологических приемов, с помощью которых злоумышленник убеждает человека добровольно выполнить нужные ему действия. Вместо того чтобы искать сложные технические уязвимости, атакующий воздействует на самое слабое звено любой системы — человека. Читать далее Read more ›
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Valve's Steam Deck and Steam Machine offer two different paths into PC gaming, but each comes with trade-offs worth considering before you decide which to buy. Read more ›
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The Tianwen-2 probe will attempt to collect samples from Kamo’oalewa and bring them back to Earth. Read more ›
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The Museum of the American Revolution is hosting a special exhibit, "The Declaration's Journey," for America's 250th anniversary. Read more ›
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Researchers at Nanyang Technological University and Waseda University have published a new Nature Communications study, dated June 29, 2026, showing that a Madagascar hissing cockroach fitted with a wearable oxygen-supplying suit can keep moving in water, or in oxygen-poor spaces, for up to three hours in controlled tests. That is the real advance here. Cyborg cockroaches are not new, and NTU’s lab has already shown how insect-based platforms could be... Read more ›
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Occupancy may have missed the mark, but hotels are benefitting from a spike in room rates — particularly in certain host markets. Read more ›
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Huawei can still nail hardware and display tech, but in the MatePad Pro Max, the brand’s software restrictions continue to blight what is an otherwise great tablet. Read more ›
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If you’ve been on the AI side of X or Reddit recently, you’ve probably seen the phrase “agent loops” popping up more than usual. That term refers to a new way to run models and AI agents to improve their performance on longer-running or more vaguely-defined tasks, and it’s been gaining traction with developers in recent months.The basic idea boils down to this: rather than giving an AI model a... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms unveiled a new line of smart glasses on Tuesday, pricing one of the devices $80 below its previous entry-level model despite adding no new major capabilities—a move that underscores the company’s desire to expand market share ahead of expected rival entries from Apple and Google. ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is building a prediction market app that could rival offerings from Polymarket and Kalshi, The New York Times reported. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has instructed a small team to develop the app, internally known as Arena, through which users could potentially wager on events using either ... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s ad chief Dave Dugan said at Cannes this week that around 20% of ChatGPT queries have a “direct commercial intent,” demonstrating that a user is looking to buy a specific product. A greater proportion of queries, he said, extend beyond requests for specific products and signal that the ... Read more ›
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Anthropic and OpenAI are booming, but so are providers of open-source AI models and other cheaper alternatives, thanks to businesses using open-source to control their costs, we reported in detail this morning. But there’s more.Together AI, the neocloud which rents out Nvidia cloud servers and access to open source models, raised its annual revenue projections at least three times in the past few months due to the growing usage of... Read more ›
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Walmart’s $1.4 billion purchase of New York–based advertising technology startup Vibe on Tuesday is a reminder of how serious the retail giant is about building its ad business.Walmart is paying a big price for Vibe, which helps small businesses buy ads on streaming platforms and will allow Walmart to reach more advertisers looking to buy spots on its site. The $1.4 billion price, which includes a $180 million executive retention... Read more ›
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XLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for semiconductor manufacturing, is in talks to raise $350 million in funding from a pair of investment firms just weeks after receiving substantial investment from the U.S. Department of Commerce, according to the company’s verbal and written pitch to prospective investors. The company wants to reduce the cost and time needed to make the most advanced AI server chips by developing an alternative approach... Read more ›
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Here’s a suggestion for Mark Zuckerberg: Maybe you should ditch AI model development and spend even more on smart glasses! Meta Platforms on Tuesday unveiled its latest selection of smart glasses, devised with eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica, and it’s hard not to be impressed with the way they look. Meta would seem to have more chance of succeeding with smart glasses than beating the leading AI labs in developing state-of-the-art models.... Read more ›
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Alibaba Group has sued the U.S. Department of Defense, seeking to be removed from the Pentagon’s blacklist of Chinese companies with alleged military ties. In a federal complaint filed in California, Alibaba said the Pentagon’s label has “no basis in fact or law” and was imposed “without notice ... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s xAI is doubling down on video- and image-generating tools, people familiar with the project said. That’s seizing on an opening left by OpenAI and Anthropic, which offer fewer visual capabilities. XAI launched an upgraded video model last week, highlighting how it’s pushing ahead with its own visual efforts even as it brings in outside help to compete with rivals in areas like coding. SpaceX also touted the popularity of... Read more ›
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