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President Trump said Wednesday that oil prices, driven up by the ongoing Iran conflict, will likely stay elevated until after U.S. midterm elections. His remarks came as Brent crude topped $100 a barrel for the first time since July, with prices jumping over 3% amid escalating U.S.-Iran military exchanges.
Amazon has struck a deal with OpenAI allowing advertisers to buy ChatGPT ad inventory through Amazon's demand-side platform, with Delta Vacations among the first U.S. brands testing the integration. Ads will appear as sponsored text and image units below ChatGPT's free and Go-tier responses, purchased on a cost-per-click or cost-per-thousand-impressions basis and managed by Amazon's team, though OpenAI retains control over ad delivery.
A developer built and released a free tool for practicing technical interview questions, including real problems sourced from companies like Google, after finding existing paid interview prep services unaffordable. The tool lets users try problems like 'Two Sum' immediately without requiring signup.
A longtime startup operations executive with no coding background describes building an AI-powered assistant to handle administrative and organizational tasks, running it for roughly $25 daily. The project marks a shift for someone who spent two decades on the business side of startups without ever building software themselves.
A 2009 demo video of Microsoft's abandoned Courier prototype is drawing renewed attention for its resemblance to Apple's rumored iPhone Duo foldable design. The Courier featured dual screens with an integrated interface allowing users to drag content like photos between panels, a concept Microsoft shelved less than a year after unveiling it.
CNBC's Investing Club reported that its portfolio stocks diverged sharply from a broader market pullback driven by rising oil prices and a 10-year Treasury yield near 4.9%. Salesforce surged 21.3% on strong earnings and an AI-optimistic outlook, while Meta Platforms gained 9.9%, even as the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all declined over the past month.
Jacob Coxon, who moved from OpenAI to Anthropic earlier this year specifically for its safety-focused reputation, has now left the AI field entirely, saying the industry is on a path toward building systems humans may not be able to control. He told the Wall Street Journal that even Anthropic cannot safely pursue advanced AI without government regulation or a broader industry slowdown, predicting things could spiral by the end of next year. Anthropic's Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger publicly backed Coxon, estimating a greater than 10% chance AI could cause human extinction within a decade.
Omaha Steaks is cutting its catalog by 60%, simplifying its pricing structure, and shrinking its overall lineup while pledging to emphasize domestically raised beef. The move comes as the broader beef market faces turmoil, with grocery prices at record highs and cattle supplies at their lowest in 75 years.
Data from Xcode 27 reveals that Apple's new Watch Ultra 4 and Series 12 both ship with 4GB of RAM, twice the 2GB found in last year's Ultra 3 and Series 11. Apple did not disclose this memory increase in its official announcements, and the discovery came from developer tools rather than Apple's own specs pages.
A user posting on Hacker News says OpenAI's account setting that disables use of chat data for model training has reverted to 'on' after being turned off, despite no action from the user. They say this has happened more than once, and they only caught it by deliberately tracking when they last disabled the option.
Microsoft has designated Rust as a Tier-1 supported language for internal development, placing it alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript with full toolchain, tooling, and compliance support. As part of this effort, the company introduced rustc_codegen_utc, a new code generation backend that connects Rust's compiler to the MSVC backend used across Windows.
A researcher replayed 68,266 requests from 393 Claude Code sessions and 23,608 Mooncake requests through a custom prefix-cache simulator, testing three approaches meant to outperform the standard LRU eviction policy used by vLLM, SGLang, LMCache and Mooncake Store. None of the alternatives beat the default LRU-over-radix-leaves baseline, and the analysis found that cache misses mostly come from rapid, seconds-apart tool-calling loops rather than sessions timing out after going idle.