AI & Tech

AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO

In recent months, the company announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services to use Cerebras chips in Amazon data cente...

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AI & Tech

Anthropic’s relationship with the Trump administration seems to be thawing

Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking to high-level members ...

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AI & Tech

The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why

New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile softwa...

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AI & Culture

The Best Smart Home Accessories to Boost Your Curb Appeal (2026)

These locks, lights, and other smart home upgrades let you add automation without messing up your home’s vibe....

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AI & Culture

How to Clean Your Vinyl Records (2026): Vacuum, Ultrasonic, Solution, Brush

Those clicks and pops aren't supposed to be there. Give your music a proper bath with this handy guide....

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AI & Culture

Asus TUF Gaming A14 (2026) Review: GPU-Less Gaming Laptop

A gaming laptop without a discrete graphics card feels revolutionary, but the TUF Gaming A14 doesn't quite take full adv...

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AI & Culture

Schematik Is ‘Cursor for Hardware.’ Anthropic Wants In

Schematik is a program that aims to help people vibe code for physical devices. Hopefully, it won’t blow anything up....

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AI & Culture

It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App

Plus: Major data breaches at a gym chain and hotel giant, a disruptive DDoS attack against Bluesky, dubious ICE hires, a...

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AI & Culture

Where to Shop for Vinyl Records Online (2026): Discogs, Bandcamp, Ebay

Don’t just load up an Amazon cart! Here are the better ways to find your favorite vinyl records online....

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AI & Culture

The Best Movies to Stream This Month (April 2026)

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Crime 101, and Deathstalker are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month...

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AI & Culture

The ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem Only Appears Simple

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end u...

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AI & Tech

Once close enough for an acquisition, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other

For most of its life, Airwallex and Stripe have mostly operated in different geographies, selling to different buyers. T...

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AI & Tech

Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is l...

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AI & Tech

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sh...

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AI & Tech

Man who hacked US Supreme Court filing system sentenced to probation

Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted...

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AI & Culture

OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company

The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex....

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AI & Tech

Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round....

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AI & Tech

“Tokenmaxxing” is making developers less productive than they think

There's a lot more code—but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting....

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AI & Tech

Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations

A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to expl...

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AI Industry

Train-to-Test scaling explained: How to optimize your end-to-end AI compute budget for inference

The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference ...

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AI & Tech

Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings

Zoom will show a badge on verified participants' tile....

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AI & Culture

Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder

Honestly, what’s hotter than a real person?...

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AI Industry

Most enterprises can't stop stage-three AI agent threats, VentureBeat survey finds

A rogue AI agent at Meta passed every identity check and still exposed sensitive data to unauthorized employees in March...

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AI & Tech

Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive

New iPhone app Gigs uses AI to turn old tickets, screenshots, and emails into a personal concert archive with stats, mem...

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