AI & Culture

Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’

The judge also warned Musk and Sam Altman to curb their “propensity to use social media to make things worse outside the...

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AI & Culture

Sniffies’ Users Worry About a ‘Straightification’ of the Gay Hookup App

Tinder and Hinge parent company Match Group invested $100 million into the queer cruising app Sniffies. The move has lef...

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AI & Tech

Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS

A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, incl...

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AI & Culture

Some Musk v. Altman Jurors Don't Like Elon Musk

Musk’s lawsuit challenges OpenAI’s evolution under Sam Altman. But during jury selection, several potential jurors voice...

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AI Industry

Microsoft and OpenAI gut their exclusive deal, freeing OpenAI to sell on AWS and Google Cloud

Microsoft and OpenAI on Monday announced a sweeping overhaul of the partnership that has defined the commercial AI era, ...

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AI Industry

Open source Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 and V2.5-Pro are among the most efficient (and affordable) at agentic 'claw' tasks

Xiaomi, the Chinese firm best known for its smartphones and electric vehicles, has lately been shipping some incredibly ...

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AI & Tech

Letterboxd, the social platform for film buffs, reportedly looking for new owner

Potential buyers of Letterboxd include Versant, the parent company of CNBC and MS NOW, and Hollywood media company The A...

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AI & Culture

The M5 MacBook Air Has Never Been Cheaper

Despite launching less than two months ago, the M5 MacBook Air has dropped back down to its lowest price since launching...

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AI & Culture

Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins

The move comes as the trial for Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI kicks off in federal court in Oakland....

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AI & Tech

Investors back Skye’s AI home screen app for iPhone ahead of launch

Skye's new AI app attracted investors before it even launched — a sign of interest in a more AI-aware iPhone....

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AI & Culture

Elon Musk’s XChat App Is More Like Facebook’s Messenger Than Signal

Rather than launching a sleek, worthwhile encrypted messaging app, Musk dropped a junky, insular extension of his social...

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AI & Culture

Mother's Day Deals on Smart Bird Feeders (2026)

These are some of the lowest prices we've seen on our favorite bird feeders with cameras. Save even more with our WIRED-...

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AI Industry

New AI framework autonomously optimizes training data, architectures and algorithms — outperforming human baselines

AI R&D runs on a cycle of hypothesis, experiment, and analysis — each step demanding substantial manual engineering ...

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AI & Tech

Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs

Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity d...

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AI Industry

Why supply chains are the proving ground for automation‑led iPaaS

Presented by EdgeverveSupply chains are where legacy integration models reach their limits. As partner networks expand a...

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AI & Tech

What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch US software in favor of sovereign tech

Governments across Europe are looking to rely less on American tech providers....

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AI & Culture

The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path

David Silver has a new billion-dollar company that aims to build AI “superlearners.”...

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AI & Tech

China blocks Meta’s $2B Manus deal after months-long probe

China has ordered Meta to unwind its multibillion-dollar Manus acquisition, dealing a potential setback to Zuckerberg’s ...

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AI & Tech

OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps

The phone could go into mass production in 2028, an analyst says....

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AI & Tech

Critical infrastructure giant Itron says it was hacked

The American technology giant provides water and energy monitoring and utility meters to hundreds of millions of homes a...

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AI & Culture

Best Smart Glasses (2026): Meta, Viture, Xreal, and More

This burgeoning wearable tech category lets you talk to an AI assistant, listen to music, or check out a display screen ...

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AI Industry

RAG precision tuning can quietly cut retrieval accuracy by 40%, putting agentic pipelines at risk

Enterprise teams that fine-tune their RAG embedding models for better precision may be unintentionally degrading the ret...

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AI & Tech

Spotify’s next frontier: Fitness content

Spotify is adding fitness as its next major category, launching workout videos, playlists, and Peloton classes inside th...

techcrunch.com  — Apr 27, 2026 Read →
AI & Culture

Best iPhone Charger: Cable, Wireless, MagSafe, and More

Whether you’re a Screen Time champion or you’re constantly on Low Power Mode, we found an iPhone charger perfect for you...

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