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OpenAI and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank will each commit $19 billion to fund a joint venture to develop data centers for artificial intelligence in the U.S., OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told some colleagues Wednesday.
The ChatGPT developer would effectively hold a 40% interest in the venture, Stargate, and it would act as a kind of extension of OpenAI, he said. Stargate stems from Altman’s longtime concern about his company’s access to servers as it faces rising competition from Elon Musk and others. Altman’s.
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The Hughes Fire in Castaic, north of Los Angeles, prompted evacuations and shut down a vital part of California's freeway system. Read more ›
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These Hollywood stars have opened up about gender identity. Some have come out as nonbinary or fluid, while others prefer to ditch the labels. Read more ›
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'Circle to Search' on a Galaxy S25 Ultra can now identify a song you sing, hum, or play. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Department of Homeland Security has terminated all members of advisory committees, including one that has been investigating a major Chinese hack of large US telecom firms. "The Cyber Safety Review Board -- a Department of Homeland Security investigatory body stood up under a Biden-era cybersecurity executive order to probe major cybersecurity incidents -- has been cleared of non-government members as... Read more ›
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Extremely OK Games - the studio behind beloved 2018 platformer Celeste - has announced the cancellation of its "2D explor-action" project Earthblade, calling the news a "huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure". Read more Read more ›
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Dozens of subreddits have opted to block links to X in their communities over the last 24 hours in a movement that appears to be gaining momentum across Reddit. Hundreds more appear to be actively discussing or considering a similar move with their members. Engadget counted more than two dozen subreddits, which collectively have millions of members, that have already restricted their communities’ ability to post content from X in... Read more ›
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The guy who brought you a bunch of dumb online videos wants to buy the site that distributes dumb online videos. Read more ›
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Trump promised during his campaign that upon his return to the White House, he would swiftly end Russia's brutal invasion in Ukraine. Read more ›
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Watch Duty CEO John Mills said his app, which has provided updates during the LA wildfires, is powered by volunteers who want to do "social good." Read more ›
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Nintendo has been nominated at this year's GLAAD award for trans representation in last year's Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake on Switch. Read more Read more ›
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Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images Dozens of popular subreddits are banning links to X after Elon Musk made a gesture that historians and human rights groups have described as a Nazi salute. Communities that have instituted a ban on links to X include r/formula1, r/military, r/nursing, r/TwoXChromosomes, and r/nintendo. The shift is spreading across Reddit after neo-Nazis celebrated Musk’s speech at a rally on Monday for Donald Trump’s... Read more ›
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The Pixel 9 Pro XL is the best alternative to the Galaxy S25 Ultra in my book. Here's why. Read more ›
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Amazon is laying off about 200 employees in its North America stores division, the company said Thursday. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the cuts to the division, which includes a wide variety of teams working on everything from fashion and fitness products to private brands under senior vice ... Read more ›
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A pending ban of TikTok in the U.S. is prompting a flood of TikTok users to try out Chinese social media app RedNote. Chinese regulators aren’t happy. The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s Internet watchdog, is concerned that English-language content showing up on RedNote may contain politically sensitive posts that aren’t otherwise allowed on Chinese social media, according to three people with knowledge of the communications between Chinese officials... Read more ›
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As I wrote last month, there’s been a flurry of excitement about applying generative artificial intelligence techniques to robotics, a field that’s generated much hope and plenty of disappointment over the last two decades. Like chatbot makers, robotics companies have relied on humans to manually label data, for example identifying packages in images to train robots to sort boxes. Many have used Scale AI, the data-labelling startup valued at $14... Read more ›
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President-elect Donald Trump on Friday evening announced on social media the launch of his “official” meme token, a solana-based asset whose price jumped to $26 per token within a day, giving it a market value of $5 billion on paper. The token, called $TRUMP, is intended to be an expression ... Read more ›
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Shield AI, a maker of drones and software whose customers include the Ukrainian and U.S. governments, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from investors including Palantir and Lockheed Martin, three people familiar with the matter said. The round would likely value the San Diego-based startup at about $5 billion, before the investment, roughly double its valuation from its last funding round in 2023, the people said. Read more ›
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It’s not just Meta Platforms, Snap and Google’s YouTube that stand to benefit if TikTok shutters in the U.S. as a result of Friday’s Supreme Court decision upholding the ban-or-sell law against the Chinese-owned app. Several small social and video apps, including Flip, Clapper and Whatnot, could also come out ahead. Meanwhile, losers include logistics startups which work with TikTok Shop sellers, such as ShipBob and ShipHero, along with advertisers... Read more ›
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For the last two years, enterprise software companies have been trying to convince customers to fork over more money for new artificial intelligence features, such as generating notes from conference calls and ginning up images for slide presentations.Now, the software firms are no longer asking. Google said Wednesday it would automatically include generative AI features with Workspace productivity apps like Gmail, and charge basic tier customers an additional $2 per... Read more ›
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President Trump on Monday revoked dozens of executive orders issued by the Biden administration including a key directive related to artificial intelligence. Biden’s executive order on AI was issued in October 2023 and required companies developing advanced AI models to share information with ... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump is preparing to announce that OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle are planning a joint venture to invest in building data centers for artificial intelligence in the U.S., according to a CBS News report. The report said Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Oracle ... Read more ›
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U.S. authorities took a key step on Friday toward heavily restricting a trade rule used by e-commerce companies like Temu, Amazon and Shein to import products into the U.S. from China without paying tariffs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection proposed rules on Friday that would bar companies ... Read more ›
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