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OpenAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of with the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.

YouTube Shorts is getting a makeover.

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.

The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party breach.

The company says the increases are being driven by rising memory and console storage prices, with costs more than 2.5x higher than previous levels.

The company said it is discontinuing its email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering as users are increasingly handing over the reins of their email to the agents.

Base Power is skipping the PJM's troubled interconnection queue by placing its batteries at people's homes, offering backup services in exchange.

Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

Un-0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.

Market research company Klue told customers that it believes the hacking group that stole their data is now deleting it. The company, however, warned about a second group of hackers wanting ransom.

"There were employees doing things like, 'Claude is so helpful for me — it analyzes my calendar and my email and puts together a plan for me,'" he says. "That person was spending at a run rate of $30,000 a year for this."

Users will be able to access their watchlists, real-time market data, live financial news, and Google's AI-powered "Key Moments" feature, which explains why stocks moved.

Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.

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NASA's TESS space telescope has discovered two 'super puffy' giant planets with the density of cotton candy.

The author of a tell-all book says Meta is using her as an example to deter future whistleblowers.

California governor Gavin Newsom worked with the state's employment department to roll out an AI job loss tracker.

YouTube has made several key changes to Shorts by removing dislikes and offering a clear screen mode.

So much for voluntary review.

NSFW uses account for "well over half" of traffic, a new report says.

A refreshing direction for a price change.

So long, Notion Mail.

Spain's mobile networks will need to stay live for at least four hours during power outages, per new rules.

Polestar moved some of its production to the US, but it may be locked out from selling its cars here soon.

Retroid's Pocket Nova seems capable of handling games up to the GameCube and PS2 era.

The skyrocketing cost of computer components needs to foster a new mindset.

It's not so much about using a wrong port, and more so about freeing up the more capable ones for needier devices.

Apple may skip the M6 Pro and Max chips.

We're all trying to find the guy who did this.

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Meta is, by and large, a company built on other companies' ideas. It has almost perfected the strategy: wait for a new platform or social mechanic to take off, then either buy or clone it, put it next to Meta's unmatched user base and advertising engine, and watch the money pile up. Well, the next big thing appears to be turning everything into gambling . So why wouldn't Meta make a Polymarket ? On this episode of The Vergecast , David and Nilay discuss the reported prediction market app being built inside Meta, plus the company's onslaught of other news

It's been two weeks since Anthropic took its Mythos-class models offline after a Friday evening ultimatum from the Trump administration. The company sprang into action immediately, sending a barrage of executives to Washington, DC. But updates have been suspiciously lacking, with no resolution in sight. Anthropic declined to comment multiple times this week about the state of the talks, saying there was no news to share. But the lack of news is the story here. After 14 days of high-intensity negotiations, nobody knows when or if Anthropic's most powerful AI models will come back, let alone whether President Trump could

One of the best deals this ongoing Prime Day has been on Apple’s latest flagship headphones. The AirPods Max 2 are still available for a heavily discounted price of $399 ($150 off) at Walmart , even though they sold out at Amazon. Since the Amazon deal kicked and Walmart is out of stock on one of the Max 2’s five colors, it seems this deal is not long for this world. Even discounted to $399 the AirPods Max 2 are still pretty expensive, but it’s a much better price for some fancy headphones. The sequel version of the AirPods Max

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Qatar has become the place where FIFA experiments with the next generation of football technology. The results are already visible across this year’s World Cup.

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Anthropic's critics argue it's rapidly accumulating power. The company says that's what responsible AI development looks like.

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The move comes as the Trump administration is trying to weaken the act that’s meant to protect endangered species from going extinct in the first place.

The Amble One is a street-legal $25,000 electric buggy designed for luxury resorts—but a car is also coming.

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