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  • The White House is urging OpenAI to exercise caution with new model releases due to safety concerns, while Anthropic's Claude gains traction in the paid consumer market, challenging ChatGPT's dominance.
  • YouTube Shorts is introducing an update allowing for double playback speed, potentially making the short-form video experience even more rapid-fire.
  • Patronus AI has secured $50 million to develop 'digital worlds' for stress-testing AI agents, and General Intuition is investing $2.3 billion in using video games to train AI for real-world applications.
  • Cybersecurity threats are escalating, with Polymarket reporting user fund theft by hackers and Klue confirming data deletion by criminals, while some entities like Rippling aim to consolidate entire data stacks.
  • The tech hardware market is seeing price adjustments, with Apple increasing prices for Macs and iPads, and Xbox following suit, while Databricks' former AI chief proposes radical solutions to cut AI's power consumption.

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  • This year’s Prime Day deals on Apple products are the best I’ve seen 10 hours ago by Sheena Vasani
    Apple, Deals, Gadgets, Prime Day, Tech, Verge Shopping

    The latest iPad Air is still available at its pre-price hike discount. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon’s Prime Day is now in its third day, and whether you’re looking for a new pair of wireless earbuds or a smartwatch, there’s a good chance you’ll find a discount. The Apple Watch Series 11 has already dropped to a new low price, while the AirPods Pro 3 are discounted to $179 . With Apple recently raising prices on several Macs and iPads , now may be one of the last chances to pick up the company’s hardware

  • Android 17’s new foldable gaming mode could make flippy phones more fun 10 hours ago by Jay Peters
    Android, Entertainment, Foldable Phones, Gaming, Google, Mobile, News, Tech

    Android 17 is getting a dedicated gaming mode for foldables that will put a virtual gamepad with touch controls on half of your screen to theoretically make it easier to play games. With foldable gaming mode, which is set to launch in the coming months, the virtual controller emulates physical button presses at a system level and is designed to work "with any game that supports physical controllers," says Google's Mishaal Rahman on Reddit . For the actual inputs, the virtual controller will have a D-pad; left and right virtual sticks; A, B, X, and Y buttons; L1, L2, L3;

  • YouTube updates Shorts to make it even more like TikTok 11 hours ago by Emma Roth
    Apps, Creators, News, Streaming, Tech, TikTok, YouTube

    YouTube is adding even more TikTok-like features to Shorts, including a new "clear screen" mode that removes the icons and text from the video you're watching. In a blog post on Thursday , YouTube says it's also replacing the "thumbs-up" button with a "heart" icon, and is introducing a new option that lets you watch Shorts at 2x speed. As noted by YouTube, you can speed up a video by holding down the edge of your screen and lifting your finger when you want it to return to normal speed. You can lock the speed at 2x by pressing the

  • OpenAI will delay GPT-5.6 after Trump administration request 11 hours ago by Hayden Field
    AI, News, OpenAI, Policy

    The Trump administration, apprehensive of potential security issues, has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its next big-ticket model, GPT-5.6. The Information reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees Wednesday in a company Q&A that it would release GPT-5.6 in limited preview form - granting access only to a small group of enterprise customers - in compliance with a request from the federal government. During that preview period, the Trump administration itself would reportedly approve access for customers on a case-by-case basis. It's a more favorable deal than the Trump administration gave OpenAI rival Anthropic … Read

  • Framework has good news and bad news 12 hours ago by Jay Peters
    Gadgets, Laptops, News, Tech

    Thanks to the component crisis, it's a bad time to want a new computer . But if you are waiting on a preorder for the Framework Laptop 13 Pro - which Framework's CEO has called the "MacBook Pro for Linux users" - the company shared good news on Thursday that might mean yours will cost less than you expected. The company announced that it has secured cheaper new PCIe Gen 5 SSDs from its supplier, Adata, and if you had put in an order for a configuration with a 500GB SSD, you'll now get a 1TB SSD at a lower


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