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Score one for OpenAI? Before we get to today’s column, we should flag Aaron’s scoop yesterday about OpenAI hiring one of Microsoft’s most prominent artificial intelligence researchers. It must be a welcome relief for OpenAI to be on the receiving end of such a move for a change.Onto today’s issue…Between headlines about OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar financing and executive drama, you might have forgotten it’s also reworking its convoluted structure so that its for-profit business can get out from underneath.
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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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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Solar generated more U.S. electricity than coal for the first month on record in May 2026, according to new analysis from global energy think tank Ember. Solar supplied 12.8% of U.S. electricity during the month, while coal dropped to 12.2%. That's a dramatic shift in the U.S. power mix. Just five years ago, coal generated 19.7% of U.S. electricity in May, while... Read more ›
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Is now the time to buy a laptop, before bigger price hikes kick in? I'm becoming more convinced about that theory. Read more ›
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The company changed course after researchers spoke out against the policy, which would have covertly limited Claude’s ability to develop competing AI models. Read more ›
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X recently sunsetted a similar feature, but Bluesky might be a more promising ecosystem for this idea. Read more ›
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We've already seen the upcoming Honor Win 2's specs leaked not once, but twice, and today the prolific leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station on Weibo is back again with details about the device. According to him, the Win 2 is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 SoC (though it's unclear if it's the 'vanilla' option or the Pro), and has a 10,000 mAh battery with support... Read more ›
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Coupang fined $409mn for hack that exposed personal information of nearly two-thirds of country’s population Read more ›
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ZEE5’s FIFA Litmus Test After months of uncertainty, Zee recently locked both TV and digital rights for the 2026 FIFA… Read more ›
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India’s smartphone market may no longer be growing rapidly in unit terms (as per IDC’s May 2026 report), but consumers… Read more ›
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The trailer also confirmed KH4 is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, PC and the Nintendo Switch 2. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1818 on June 11 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle. Read more ›
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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
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Meta Business Agent is now available globally, putting AI that can recommend products and close sales inside WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. A Shopee integration and the region’s entrenched chat-commerce habits make Southeast Asia the real proving ground for the launch. Meta Business Agent went global on June 3, and the pitch is blunt: an AI ... Read more ›
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The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck. Read more ›
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На сегодняшний день сфера ИТ в России — это огромная индустрия, где работают сотни тысяч специалистов. Официально государство признало значимость этой профессии еще в 2009 году, когда был учрежден День программиста (Указ Президента РФ № 1034).Но даже тогда эта формулировка сужала всю индустрию до одной специальности. Ведь работа ИТ-систем — это заслуга не только программистов. Здесь одинаково важны системное администрирование, администрирование сетей, информационная безопасность техподдержка, и другие спец Read more ›
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Helion Energy, a nuclear fusion startup backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, still has to prove it can produce electricity to serve data centers and other customers. But investors seem confident it can deliver. The Everett, Wash.–based company said it has raised $465 million in a funding round led by Thrive Capital, the investment firm founded by Josh Kushner, a big backer of OpenAI. Helion’s valuation after the investment was $15.5... Read more ›
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The billionaire co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, Andy Konwinski, is singularly focused on plugging the years-long drain of talent from academia to Big Tech.He wants to encourage academics to focus on publishing more openly available research, a reaction to the move by frontier AI companies to reduce the amount of AI research they publish as they race against one another to develop the best models and AI tools. While... Read more ›
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Pinterest said it would spend $4 billion on Amazon Web Services infrastructure through 2031, the largest infrastructure commitment in the company’s history. As part of the deal, Pinterest will use AWS’ Trainium chips for AI workloads and expand its use of Amazon’s CPU Graviton. Pinterest has ... Read more ›
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Two members of Congress released a sweeping discussion draft for an AI regulatory framework on Thursday, proposing a bipartisan federal approach ahead of November’s midterm elections. Led by Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass.), the bill represents the latest Congressional ... Read more ›
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Tech firms ranging from Block to Meta Platforms have announced mass layoffs in the past year, frequently citing AI as allowing them to do more with less people. In a variation on that approach Snowflake says it used layoffs to force software engineers to use AI tools and become more productive.“At the time, my team hated me, but I thought it was a provocative way” to get them to use... Read more ›
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SpaceX, planning the largest initial public offering of all time next week, will already need to raise more cash by next year if private forecasts from analysts at Goldman Sachs come to fruition. SpaceX’s lead bank on the IPO, in aggressive forecasts shared with prospective investors this week, expects the company to burn $120 billion this year and next year combined, and another $230 billion through 2030, as it significantly... Read more ›
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Cybersecurity stocks CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks have risen 50% or more this year based on the perception that an AI-driven increase in cyberthreats will make their services all the more important. Yet Rubrik, which also stands to benefit from that trend, is up only 1% so far this year. That lag likely results from investors’ narrow view of what constitutes a cybersecurity firm, and partly because its AI business... Read more ›
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday rebuked an internal memo that another company executive had written advocating to “make people addicted” to its new AI agent product called Scout. “This is absolutely a non goal! If anything we are doing the exact opposite. We want to make sure AI empowers ... Read more ›
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Cybersecurity and data recovery firm Rubrik reported 39% higher revenue of $387 million for the April quarter, far exceeding what Rubrik had projected for the quarter. Rubrik, which in February released a new software tool to help companies manage intelligence agents, also upped its revenue ... Read more ›
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Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky is in early stage talks to fund a new AI lab, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. The lab will aim to develop models with a possible design focus, according to a Bloomberg report. In recent months, Airbnb has made strides to become a more ... Read more ›
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