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Most of us would like to believe we’re independent thinkers who make decisions based on facts, logic and personal values. But according to some of the world’s biggest AI models, we’re not nearly as independent as we think.

If you follow your audio news, no doubt you followed the early-2026 unveiling of the TDM Neo with fascination. It’s a novel audio gadget: it functions both as a loudspeaker and as a pair of headphones, with a neat twisting mechanism folding it or unfolding it between the two.

An annual report from recruiting solutions company Employ — which owns Lever, Jobvite, and JazzHR — found that 74% of HR decision-makers report increased hiring activity in 2026, while recruiter stress has fallen for the second consecutive year, largely due to improved AI tools and hiring systems. 

Senior figures at OpenAI and Anthropic are privately war-gaming a catastrophic AI-related incident that knocks out financial services, power, or water, followed by the political firestorm that comes next, according to Axios (October 9, 2026). OpenAI confirmed it runs preparedness exercises designed to improve readiness, emphasizing those scenarios are not considered inevitable. Anthropic declined to…

Tech workers gathered in San Francisco this week to talk about the opportunities they see for their industry, their mixed feelings about AI, and the high cost of living in the Bay Area.

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Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with awider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI company.…

Over the last two years, Google has been found liable for unlawfully maintaining monopolies in two separate cases brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) involving online search and advertising technology. The company also agreed to pay $700 million to settle claims related to its Play Store, and faces a private lawsuit from rival…

The use of artificial intelligence in the courtroom is drawing fresh attention after plaintiffs in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit claimed an expert witness used ChatGPT to create more than 80% of his expert report.

If you’ve been looking to get more gaming power out of your laptop but don’t want to pay for a replacement amid RAMpocalypse pricing, an eGPU could be your best bet. An eGPU is an external graphics processor, usually a desktop graphics card in an enclosure connected to a compatible laptop or gaming handheld through…