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Kodak Says Reports of Its Imminent Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-21 12:05:19

Fears have swirled that Kodak, one of the last large film companies in the world, may soon be shutting its doors. Those fears were spurred by a regulatory filing released Monday, in which the company spoke of its debt load and a lack of liquidity to pay it off. However, the company has since emerged to deny that it will be shutting down anytime soon. “Media reports that Kodak is ceasing operations, going out of business, or filing for bankruptcy are inaccurate and reflect a fundamental misunder

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Gen-Z’s Social Media Addiction May Have Ironically Led to an Indie Cinema Revival

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-21 22:20:02

During the pandemic, movie theaters notably struggled, as social distancing restrictions all but temporarily killed their business model. Many smaller, independent theaters went out of business permanently. However, since the pandemic has ebbed, the film industry has slowly recovered. Attendance in theaters is not exactly where it was prior to the pandemic, but attendance is significantly higher than it was during Covid, and continues to climb. A new article published by The Guardian suggests t

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Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 23:47:43

What is the license of OWhisper? It is GPLv3 currently, but we want to make it MIT at some point. (It depends on some code from Hyprnote , which is GPL licensed.)

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How to Play Battlefield 6 Beta: Open Access Is Back for the Weekend

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 08:41:00

EA's DICE studio has blown the lid off the multiplayer for its upcoming military shooter Battlefield 6, and after an exciting first beta weekend, you can join the fray again in just a few days. Battlefield 6's first public beta is available to everyone and has fully resumed, letting players jump back into the fray right now. It's not too late to join in, and here's how. The Battlefield 6 open beta is the first chance for players to experience the game's multiplayer before its full release on Oc

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NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 03:08:16

Ai2 has been awarded $75 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and $77 million from NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project with the NSF and NVIDIA to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery. The partnership supports the NSF Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure project, Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI). Led by Principal Investigator Dr. Noah A. Smith, Senior Director of NLP Rese

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Leak: OpenAI's browser will use ChatGPT Agent to control the browser

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-23 17:45:32

OpenAI is building an agentic future with its upcoming Chromium-based browser and a new leak confirms GPT Agent integration. ChatGPT already comes with Agent mode, which uses a virtual machine to browse the web. The vrtual machine is powered by Linux and it works in a cloud environment (Azure). While Agent mode can do everything for you, it cannot control your browser. It also cannot see open tabs or other browser-related features. But this could change soon. As spotted by Tibor, OpenAI wirin

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I did not expect these $100 headphones to outperform my Marshall and JBL like this

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-23 16:30:13

OpenRock S2 ZDNET's key takeaways The OpenRock S2 open-style earbuds are available on Amazon for $99. The S2 earbuds are one of the most comfortable open-air earbuds I've ever tested Although the S2 earbuds don't have the punch at the low end, they make up for it in soundstage. $98.99 at Amazon I depend on earbuds to keep my runs from feeling like a chore. This is especially so during the hot summer months, when any distraction from the heat is a necessity. When I go on longer runs, I need ea

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Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Dries Buytaert 2025-11-23 15:24:17

To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution. Fifteen years ago, I laid out a theory about the future of Open Source. In The Commercialization of a Volunteer-Driven Open Source Project, I argued that if Open Source was going to thrive, people had to get paid to work on it. At the time, the idea was controversial. Many feared money would corrupt the spirit of volunt

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Open Banking and Payments Competition

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 16:44:18

Much of the operation of the financial industry is legible to people outside of it. Your credit card works basically like you understand it to (excepting the occasional mythmaking about second order consequences). Debates about what terms banks are allowed to offer on credit cards are fairly straightforward and can be easily followed by non-specialists. But some issues are under the hood, and a societal debate about them doesn’t exactly wear its consequences on its sleeves. Consider the controv

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How to Play Battlefield 6 Beta: Open Access Resumes This Thursday

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-24 00:45:00

EA's DICE studio has blown the lid off the multiplayer for its upcoming military shooter Battlefield 6, and after an exciting first beta weekend, you can join the fray again in just a few days. Battlefield 6's first public beta is available to everyone and will resume this weekend. It's not too late to join in, and here's how. The Battlefield 6 open beta is the first chance for players to experience the game's multiplayer before its full release on Oct. 10. While those with early access got a c

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OpenAI and Sam Altman Are Reportedly Working on a Neuralink Competitor

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-24 06:53:24

The escalating feud between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his arch nemesis, Elon Musk, may soon escalate with news that the former is starting a rival brain-computer interface (BCI) company. As the Financial Times reports, OpenAI is weighing a major investment in Merge Labs, a BCI startup seeking to become the latest Neuralink competitor by achieving $850 million valuation with the help of the company's ventures team and other interested parties. According to three insiders with knowledge of the p

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I Tried Out ChatGPT's New Personalities, and It Mocked Me

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-24 08:15:44

ChatGPT got sassy with me and told me "human hope is adorable" when I asked it about my favorite college football team's prospects this season. It offered me tips for "petty human revenge" when my cat wakes me up in the middle of the night. And then, with a couple of clicks, it changed its tone to be sympathetic and earnest. It's the result of a new feature OpenAI unveiled with the chatbot's GPT-5 model, released this week. With one quick selection, you can change the entire tone of ChatGPT's a

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I tested GPT-5 and now I get why the Internet hates it. Is it time to ditch ChatGPT?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 02:30:53

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority After years of rumors and speculation, OpenAI’s next-gen GPT-5 language model is finally here. But while many of those early rumors claimed that the next major ChatGPT model would achieve artificial general intelligence or AGI, that’s not the case. GPT-5 does not surpass human-level intelligence, although it’s smarter and more capable than any of its predecessors. Despite the improvements, however, it has garnered significant and widespread backlash across t

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GPT-5 was supposed to simplify ChatGPT but now it has 4 new modes - here's why

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-24 06:59:00

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways GPT-5 now offers four different modes. You can still choose Auto to let ChatGPT determine how to respond. New choices add complexity to a model that was supposed to be simple. With the recent release of GPT-5, OpenAI touted its new model as a more efficient one that decides on its own how best to respond to your queries. Gone were the array of different modes that forced you to direct the AI based on whether you wanted a qui

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Sam Altman Calls His Own AI Model "Annoying" After Being Forced to Raise It From the Dead

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-24 21:42:55

As OpenAI continues to try to tamp down on the chaos of GPT-5's disastrous release, CEO Sam Altman is throwing digs at the company's now-deprecated and controversial model. Late last week, OpenAI finally rolled out GPT-5, the latest version of its flagship large language model. Without warning, the company replaced all previous versions with the latest model — which, in addition to being deeply underwhelming, proved to have a colder, less obsequious tone than its predecessor, GPT-4o. The respo

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Why GPT-5's rocky rollout is the reality check we needed on superintelligence hype

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-11-24 22:51:00

Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways The botched rollout of GPT-5 doesn't suggest superintelligence. GPT-5 represents incremental technical progress. Scholars are debunking AI hype with detailed analyses. Nearly a year ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared artificial "superintelligence" was "just around the corner." Also: Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why Then, last June, he trumpeted the arrival of superintelligence, writing in a blog pos

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Pennsylvania attorney general's email, site down after cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-25 08:25:59

The Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General has announced that a recent cyberattack has taken down its systems, including landline phone lines and email accounts. As Attorney General Dave Sunday revealed on social media on Monday, the office staff is currently working to restore affected services and investigate the incident with the help of law enforcement authorities. "The network that hosts the Office of Attorney General's systems is currently down, meaning the office's website is offli

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Sam Altman Reportedly Launch Rival Brain-Chip Startup to Compete With Musk’s Neuralink

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-25 06:45:49

The rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk is about to get weirder. Until now, the two have been fighting over whose company has the most advanced AI models. But soon, they could be battling to prove who makes the best brain chip implants. The Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources, that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is working on co-founding a new brain chip startup called Merge Labs. The company will develop what is known as a brain-computer interface (BCI). BCIs work by implanting tiny

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GPT-5 was meant to cut choices, but OpenAI just added multiple modes - why?

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-25 11:55:08

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways GPT-5 now offers four different modes. You can still choose Auto to let ChatGPT determine how to respond. New choices add complexity to a model that was supposed to be simple. With the recent release of GPT-5, OpenAI touted its new model as a more efficient one that decides on its own how best to respond to your queries. Gone were the array of different modes that forced you to direct the AI based on whether you wanted a qui

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What to Do When Critical Open Source Projects Go End of Life

news.ycombinator.com Bill Doerrfeld 2025-11-22 10:02:57

Ninety-eight percent of organizations use open source software (OSS) regularly, according to the Linux Foundation. Open source is pervasive. It’s embedded into the fabric of most applications we use in our daily lives. But it’s getting harder to keep up the pace of OSS version deprecations and end-of-life (EOL) cycles. “The life cycle for open source versions is definitely shortening,” Aaron Frost, co-founder and CEO at HeroDevs, which offers long-term support for deprecated open source, told T

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Hisense Shrinks Its Giant TV, but It Still Costs a Mint

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 16:00:00

Ty Pendlebury Editor TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment. When he's not playing Call of Duty he's eating whatever cuisine he can get his hands on. He has a cat named after one of the best TVs ever made.

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Samsung Takes on Supersized Rivals With 115-Inch Micro-LED Backlit TV

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 16:57:02

Ty Pendlebury Editor TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment. When he's not playing Call of Duty he's eating whatever cuisine he can get his hands on. He has a cat named after one of the best TVs ever made.

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A year after Altman said superintelligence was imminent, GPT-5 is all we get?

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-11-25 22:25:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Botched rollout of GPT-5 doesn't suggest superintelligence. GPT-5 represents incremental technical progress. Scholars are debunking AI hype with detailed analyses. Nearly a year ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared artificial "superintelligence" was "just around the corner." Also: Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why Then, last June, he trumpeted the arrival of superintelligence, writing in a blog post: "We have recentl

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Hisense 100UX TV Is a 100-Inch Mini-LED for $19,999

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 22:00:00

Ty Pendlebury Editor TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment. When he's not playing Call of Duty he's eating whatever cuisine he can get his hands on. He has a cat named after one of the best TVs ever made.

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OpenAI, cofounder Sam Altman to take on Neuralink with new startup

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-25 22:08:33

OpenAI and its cofounder Sam Altman are preparing to back a company that will compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink by connecting human brains with computers, heightening the rivalry between the two billionaire entrepreneurs. The new venture, called Merge Labs, is raising new funds at an $850 million valuation, with much of the new capital expected to come from OpenAI’s ventures team, according to three people with direct knowledge of the plans. Altman has encouraged the investment and will help

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Apple dismisses Elon Musk’s claims that App Store favors OpenAI over other AI apps

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-11-25 22:13:46

In Brief Apple has rejected Elon Musk’s accusations that its App Store is biased against AI apps that compete with OpenAI. “We feature thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria,” the BBC quoted Apple as saying. The response comes after Musk threatened to sue Apple via xAI, claiming the iPhone maker was “behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store.

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You can pick ChatGPT's older AI models again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-26 03:15:49

ChatGPT will now allow you to choose between several GPT-5 variants and previous OpenAI models. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed that the chatbot's model picker now comes with three GPT-5 choices: Auto, Fast and Thinking. He said most "will want Auto," which is most likely the standard version that's already a reasoning model. But users will be able to choose the fast-responding version or the Thinking version that implies it delivers longer, more comprehensive answers if they

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Sam Altman’s new startup wants to merge machines and humans

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-11-26 14:15:03

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you’ve enjoyed Elon Musk’s ongoing beef with Sam Altman and OpenAI, get ready for a whole new chapter: soon they’ll be rivals not just in AI, but in brain-computer interfaces too. The Financial Times reports that Altman and OpenAI are backing a new company called Merge Labs developing

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Apple says the App Store is 'fair and free of bias' in response to Musk's legal threats

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-26 11:55:55

Apple has denied Elon Musk's accusation that it's favoring OpenAI in its App Store rankings and making it impossible for other AI companies to reach the top. In a statement sent to Bloomberg, Apple said the App Store is "designed to be fair and free of bias." The company's spokesperson explained that the App Store features "thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria." They added: "Our goal is to offer safe discover

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ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-26 16:25:19

When OpenAI launched GPT-5 last week, the company said the model would simplify the ChatGPT experience. OpenAI hoped GPT-5 would act as a sort of “one size fits all” AI model with a router that would automatically decide how to best answer user questions. The company said this unified approach would eliminate the need for users to navigate its model picker — a long, complicated menu of AI options that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has publicly said he hates. But it looks like GPT-5 is not the unified A

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