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Leading artificial intelligence companies including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are facing "diminishing returns" from their costly efforts to build newer AI models, according to a new Bloomberg report. The stumbling blocks appear to be growing in size as Apple continues a phased rollout of its own AI features through Apple Intelligence.
OpenAI's latest model, known internally as Orion, has reportedly fallen short of the company's performance expectations, particularly in handling coding tasks. The mo
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It's not a joke: The Onion, the satirical news outlet, has purchased Alex Jones's Infowars at auction. The sale has the support of Sandy Hook victims. Read more ›
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When reality becomes stranger than satire, maybe the satirists can teach us something. The Onion confirmed on Thursday that its parent company bought Infowars, the disgraced purveyor of Sandy Hook misinformation and vendor of pseudoscience supplements. The Onion posted on Bluesky that it plans to transform the rebooted Infowars into “a very funny, very stupid website.” The Onion says it received the blessing of the families of the victims of... Read more ›
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Alex Jones in 2022. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images The satirical news outlet The Onion has acquired Infowars, the conspiracy theory-riddled site run by Alex Jones, in a bankruptcy auction. In a press release posted to X Thursday, The Onion announced that it plans to “end Infowars’ relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onion’s relentless barrage of humor for good”... Read more ›
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The fringe right-wing website run by Alex Jones is expected to shut down imminently. Read more ›
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The ChatGPT app for Mac is now able to integrate with coding apps like Xcode, VS Code, TextEdit, and Terminal, simplifying workflows where developers copy and paste their code from a coding app into ChatGPT. When ChatGPT is given permission to interact with an app like Xcode through a new Work with Apps feature, a selection of code can be sent directly to ChatGPT alongside a prompt. TechCrunch had a... Read more ›
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Called Daisy, or "dAIsy," the voice-based AI mimics a senior citizen to hold meandering conversations with phone scammers. Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Bluesky is growing quickly in popularity, but if you’re trying to use it today, the site might be acting up. As I was writing this article, my feeds and notifications were very slow to load on the web and mobile while logged in, and that has similarly been the case for a few of my Verge colleagues. Things seem to be working now, but... Read more ›
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Making fried chicken the old-fashioned way is a messy affair that results in a decidedly unhealthy meal. I tried a cleaner, healthier method to see how it compares. Read more ›
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Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump's polarizing pick to be the next Attorney General, has long been at the center of controversy. Read more ›
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After Donald Trump’s second electoral win, what comes next for the Democratic Party? Vox is launching a pop-up newsletter, called The Rebuild, aimed at answering that question. Every Friday between now and the inauguration, Vox senior correspondent Eric Levitz will interrogate the lessons that liberals and progressives should draw from their loss in the November […] Read more ›
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On Friday night, two boxers will take to the ring at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. One is among the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, the “baddest man on the planet,” “Iron” Mike Tyson. The other is Jake Paul, a zillennial influencer who built his career on prank videos, making bad music, and terrorizing […] Read more ›
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Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency seeks "Top 1%" talent to tackle government waste, demanding 80+hour weeks and high IQ from applicants. Read more ›
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Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is seeking to put Google under federal supervision, a move that could impose the same kinds of monitoring and inspections used on banks, The Washington Post reports. The CFPB’s concerns are not totally clear and the order may still change, according to the Post, citing two unnamed sources. Both the agency and Google declined to comment on... Read more ›
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A retro tech enthusiast has revitalized a classic Apple iMac G4 ‘lampshade’ computer with a state-of-the-art M4 injection. Read more ›
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WIRED global editorial director Katie Drummond joins this week to discuss what the fragmented internet did for the Trump campaign, and what the incoming Trump administration means for the internet. Read more ›
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I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis which I treat by suppressing by immune system. Working from home is key for me to avoid getting really sick. Read more ›
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A couple of days ago a wild leak surfaced showing some evidence for Samsung starting pre-orders for the upcoming Galaxy S25 family on January 5. We assumed the launch event could thus be scheduled for the same day and it wouldn't be that out of the ordinary given Samsung's recent tendency to push unveilings forward compared to previous years. Today two different sources on X are claiming something else, however.... Read more ›
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By setting up automated transfers into a high-yield savings account, I watched compound interest do its magic. Read more ›
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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro models will feature a main rear camera with a variable aperture for the first time, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a new post on Medium, Kuo outlined how upcoming products such as the iPhone 17 "Slim," M5 MacBook Pro, and iPhone 18 will affect Apple supplier Sunny Optical. One of the main upgrades for the high-end iPhone 18 models will apparently be variable aperture... Read more ›
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When Image Playground was first introduced in June as one of the key Apple Intelligence features, Apple said that it would generate images in three styles: animation, illustration, and sketch. The version of Image Playground available in the iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 betas only offers animation and illustration as style options, leaving us wondering if sketch might be added a later time. It looks like the... Read more ›
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Apple launched the new Mac mini, iMac, and MacBook Pro models with M4 chips today, and because the Mac mini is the only one of the machines that got a design update, we thought we'd check it out to see how it compares to the prior version. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. The 2024 version of the Mac mini is much smaller than the previous M2... Read more ›
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Next year's iPhone 17 "Air" model may not be as thin as Apple planned, according to a rumor originating in Korea. According to the news aggregator account "yeux1122" on Naver, citing industry sources, Apple has run into problems making the new iPhone 17 model sufficiently thin. The device's reduced thickness is apparently dependent on manufacturing a battery with a thinner substrate, but Apple is now facing technical compromises. One of... Read more ›
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Popular repair site iFixit today disassembled one of Apple's new M4 Mac mini machines for a teardown video that gives us a more complete look at the inside of the device. Compared to the prior version of the Mac mini, the M4 model is densely packed with little space between components, which is how Apple slimmed down the size so much. The M4 Mac mini measures in at 5x5 inches,... Read more ›
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Leading artificial intelligence companies including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are facing "diminishing returns" from their costly efforts to build newer AI models, according to a new Bloomberg report. The stumbling blocks appear to be growing in size as Apple continues a phased rollout of its own AI features through Apple Intelligence. OpenAI's latest model, known internally as Orion, has reportedly fallen short of the company's performance expectations, particularly in handling... Read more ›
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A trio of Apple customers this month filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, accusing the Cupertino company of violating California consumer protection laws and false advertising for continuing to sell AirPods Pro models that had ongoing issues with crackling or static sounds. A few months after the AirPods Pro came out in October 2019, buyers began to complain about crackling, rattling, popping, and static-like noises affecting the AirPods Pro.... Read more ›
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Apple has returned to using two 128GB storage chips in the new Mac mini with 256GB of storage, according to a partial teardown video shared on social media today. This means the base-model Mac mini with the M4 chip will not have significantly slower SSD speeds compared to higher-end configurations of the computer with 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB of storage, as multiple NAND chips allows for faster SSD read and... Read more ›
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Law enforcement officials in Detroit, Michigan are warning other police officers about an alleged iPhone change that causes Apple devices stored for forensic examination to spontaneously restart, reports 404 Media. iPhones that are undergoing examination have apparently been rebooting, which makes them harder to unlock with brute force methods, and Michigan police think that it's due to a security feature that Apple added in iOS 18. A document found by... Read more ›
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Apple today released a new Gold Link Bracelet, which is available for $349. The band was first shown off when Apple introduced new Apple Watch Series 10 models, but it was not available for purchase in September. The gold version of the Link Bracelet is identical to the natural and slate options, but it is designed to match the stainless steel Apple Watch Series 10 that comes in the same... Read more ›
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