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There should only be one model of the AirPods 5. This is a hill I will die on. But let’s back up a bit, because there’s a lot to discuss before we get to that ultimate conclusion.

While it’s been a good year at the box office for film studios and theaters, things were looking dire for a while after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Revenue remained low even after lockdown measures lifted as more folks simply waited for films to hit streaming services. One of the strategies theater chains embraced…

This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it gave me a chance to dig into one of the most mysterious corners of the AI world. The big players in the space are Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs —…

This is despite a pre-existing rule that limits foreign equity ownership to 25 percent.

Microchip Technology Inc. stock (ISIN US5950171042) closed at USD 70.68 on the Nasdaq on September 17, 2026, marking a 1.6 percent gain versus the previous session according to Nasdaq data cited by portals such as MarketBeat.Ad-hoc-news notes that the advance came in the context of a broader semiconductor rally, which has helped lift chip makers…

These days, it’s rare to hear of a startup founded in 2019, or one not focused on AI agents, raising a hefty Series C. But health insurance startup Angle Health announced Friday that it raised a $200 million Series C, alongside a $400 million tender offer, at a $2.7 billion valuation. The round was led…

Formerly head of Character.AI, Karandeep Anand is now Disney’s chief technology officer. 

Meta is about to hold its biggest event of the year. While Connect was once solely dedicated to virtual reality, the event now covers all the company’s hardware projects, as well as AI and the metaverse.

Military aircraft were already in the air this spring when U.S. officials made an alarming discovery: The intelligence driving an armed operation against a Chinese vessel had been hallucinated by an AI chatbot. The operation was aborted at the last minute, narrowly averting a potential conflict with China, CNN reported on Friday.

OpenAI discloses six new incidents of ‘concerning’ AI behavior 02:21 Get more newson Sept. 17, 2026, 5:32 AM EDT