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OpenAI is the original frontier lab. Its latest publicly released model, GPT-5.6, is one of the most capable and efficient on the market. Its desktop app for agentic coding and workplace tasks has seen its user base grow by about 15 millionsubscribers in the last two months.

Confession: I’ve spent the past two weeks speed-dating. Not people, but phones. Some were overly luxurious, offering flashy features and bold promises that were simply too lavish for my lifestyle. Others were quietly compelling.

Netflix has paid an undisclosed but likely ludicrous amount of money to be the exclusive host of a new, extended-look Grand Theft Auto VI trailer on Thursday, August 27 — for a total of six hours. After that period of time has expired, the trailer will go live on Rockstar’s YouTube channel, where the masses will be…

Last week, I traveled to London to see some new products EcoFlow is releasing now that plug-in solar is set to become legal here in the UK. But what struck me was how I feel that pure plug-in solar has already been superseded by hybrid systems offering greater potential for savings.

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The Australian Recording Industry Association announced today that any tracks wholly generated with AI will not be eligible for inclusion on the nation’s music charts. The Code of Practice for the charts will allow songs that use generative AI to be counted, but only if the track in question “is substantially human made” and “raises…

Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI enthusiasm toward a gargantuan valuation over the course of the summer.

Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon’s data centers.

Meta reached an $18 billion settlement on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by 29 U.S. states concerning children’s safety. The settlement is historic in scale as Meta agrees with a group of 52 attorneys general to implement sweeping changes to how minors use Instagram and Facebook.