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More iPad-like Mac hardware would balance Apple’s push for Mac-like iPads.

One question has loomed over OpenAI investors for years: How would they generate a return on their investment? The ChatGPT maker is a nonprofit that capped the potential returns of early backers in its for-profit arm, such as Khosla Ventures and Microsoft, and would prevent the newer investors ...

OpenAI says its under-18 experience will block sexual content, predict age, and let parents set usage limits.

Our long international nightmare may soon be over. Both China and the U.S. seem to be in agreement about the terms under which TikTok U.S. will be sold to a new company majority-owned by Americans, judging by a statement overnight from a Chinese government official. We don’t know the details, ...

The popular @ctrl/tinycolor package with over 2 million weekly downloads has been compromised alongside 40+ other NPM packages in a sophisticated supply chain attack dubbed "Shai-Hulud". The malware self-propagates across maintainer packages, harvests AWS/GCP/Azure credentials using TruffleHog, and establishes persistence through GitHub Actions backdoors - representing a major escalation in NPM ecosystem threats.

Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of a consortium that would control an 80% stake.

OpenAI introduces new age prediction and verification methods after wave of teen suicide stories involving chatbots.

The company will likely launch its latest Echo devices and new Kindles at the September 30th event.

A lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips were connected in ways that have not been previously reported.

Meta's HUD glasses with the sEMG wristband will in fact be Ray-Ban branded, a leaked video which also depicts the HUD and wristband in action reveals.

The U.S. and China have a 'framework' deal for social media platform TikTok in place, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday.

iOS 26! It feels like just last year we were here discussing iOS 18. How time flies. After a year that saw the debut of Apple Intelligence and the subsequent controversy over the features that it d…

Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes.

OpenAI's AI coding agent, Codex, can now spend anywhere from a few seconds to several hours on a task, thanks to a new, customized version of GPT-5.

The true cost of keeping the Internet Archive alive will likely remain unknown.

The Internet Archive has reached a confidential settlement with Universal Music Group and other major labels, "ending a closely watched copyright battle over the nonprofit's effort to digitize and stream historic recordings," reports the San Francisco Chronicle. From the report: The case (PDF), UMG...

Top economic officials met in Madrid for a second day, with deadlines looming on tariffs and a ban on TikTok in the United States if it is not sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance.

These days, artificial intelligence developers, investors and founders are all obsessed with “reinforcement learning,” a method for improving AI by rewarding it for accomplishing certain goals and penalizing it for other behaviors.Investors tell me that they’re getting pitched on dozens of ...

Residents of Annobón island in Equatorial Guinea have faced severe internet outages since complaining about dynamite explosions by a Moroccan construction company.

The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.

In a blog post shared Wednesday, Mira Murati's startup offered a rare glimpse into some of work its doing to improve AI models.

The officially licensed Kodak Charmera sold out almost immediately on the Reto Pro website.

The state's landmark safety bill sets new transparency requirements for large AI companies.

Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021

Penske Media Corp., owner of a wide range of entertainment publications include Rolling Stone, Variety and Billboard, sued Google on Friday, alleging its introduction of AI overviews to search results had reduced traffic to Penske’s websites and its revenue. Penske alleged that Google’s AI Overviews—which provide AI-generated answers to queries—reduces the need for people to click through to

The Digital Age Assurance Act will now go to Governor Gavin Newsom.

Gangs that rob gadgets are looking for new ways to extract more value from them. An expert analyzed the work of one organization as it was dismantled by the police

Slim phones don’t have to have bad batteries.

The tech entrepreneur has upended one business after another. Now he may be going after our phone networks.