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OpenAI upgrades the AI model powering its Operator agent

OpenAI is updating the AI model powering Operator, its AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and use certain software within a cloud-hosted virtual machine to fulfill users’ requests. Soon, Operator will use a model based on o3, one of … Continue reading

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Discord seeks to solve a problem that it created

Discord is entering its second decade as a company and seeking to go public. Along the way, it’s changed the way that online communities interact, turning groups that may have previously existed as forums or message boards into multi-channel instant … Continue reading

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Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla

The deal could be interesting if it went through, as Digg could leverage Pocket’s existing user base to fuel interest in its relaunch.

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Intuit shares pop 9% on earnings beat, rosy guidance

Intuit shares popped on Friday, a day after the company reported strong quarterly results.

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Why Trump’s iPhone tariff threat might not be enough to bring production to the U.S.

For now, most of Apple’s most important products are exempt from tariffs after Trump gave phones and computers a tariff waiver — even from China — in April.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp sells more than $50 million in stock

Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar, co-founder and president Stephen Cohen and other executives also dumped millions worth of shares.

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Trump Threatens 50% Tariff on E.U. and 25% Tariff on Apple

The president threatened both Apple and the European Union with higher tariffs on social media Friday morning, saying that trade talks with the Europeans had stalled.

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Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on AGI, Innovation and More

Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, says that “we’re quite close” to human-level artificial intelligence. After that, all bets are off.

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Apple could launch AI-powered smart glasses in 2026

Apple is reportedly looking to release a pair of smart glasses by the end of next year in a bid to compete with Meta’s AI-powered glasses, the Ray-Ban Meta. Apple’s wearable will have all the components one would expect in … Continue reading

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Trump threatens 25% tariffs on iPhones made outside the US

President Trump lashed out at Apple on Friday, threatening the company with a 25% tariff on iPhones unless it moves production to the U.S. “I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone’s [sic] that … Continue reading

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