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Humanoid robots are Meta’s next ‘AR-size bet’

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-10-17 15:45:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. This is Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Building humanoid robots is Meta’s next “AR size bet,” a top executive told me recently. That suggests the company plans to spend billions of dollars on the effort. During a recent conversation at Meta’s headquarters, CTO Andrew Bosworth said he stood up a robotics “research ef

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Samsung’s dual-hinge foldable is looking like a beast for productivity in new animations leak

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 19:38:54

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR A leak has provided a bevy of new animations showing off Samsung’s dual-hinge device. These animations focus on the foldable’s productivity features and multitasking capabilities. One of the clips suggests that the phone could have a camera with 100x digital zoom. There have been a few leaks, rumors, and vague confirmations, but most of what’s known about Samsung’s “Galaxy Trifold” has come from leaked official-looking animations. The last batch of ani

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Trump’s new H-1B policy caused short-term panic — and will cause long-term chaos

theverge.com Felipe De La Hoz 2025-10-17 23:00:00

Throughout his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump often claimed that his efforts against immigration were primarily against irregular or illegal immigration, and that he was happy to have people go through “proper channels.” Those assurances got weaker as he moved into his first term, but he still made at least rhetorical overtures to legal immigration — he had to appease a business community that was still skeptical of his then-new political movement. Now, Trump and anti-immigration ideo

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OpenAI's historic week has redefined the AI arms race for investors: 'I don't see this as crazy'

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-10-18 03:27:22

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman listens to questions at a Q&A following a tour of the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Reuters This week, OpenAI redefined what momentum — and risk — look like in the artificial intelligence arms race. Now comes the hard part: Executing on CEO Sam Altman's multitrillion-dollar vision. In a rapid-fire series of announcements, the company unveiled partnerships involving mind-bending sums of money and cemented its place at the center of th

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Ex-Meta global affairs chief says tech should stay out of politics

cnbc.com Jaures Yip 2025-10-18 03:18:30

Former Meta global affairs chief Nick Clegg said Friday that tech companies should keep a distance from politics and people should feel "uneasy" about those firms intervening in the public space. "I generally don't think that politics and tech innovation mixes very well," Clegg told CNBC's "Squawk Box." "I think it's quite good when they kind of keep each other at a certain, respectful distance." President Donald Trump's deal with China this week to keep TikTok alive in the U.S. includes heavy

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5 ways you can maximize AI's big impact in software development

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-10-18 03:32:05

asbe/iStock / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Companies guide developers to make the most of AI. Hammer home the changes that automation brings. Create a flywheel of change to help people learn skills. Industry experts recognize that AI is having a massive impact on software development. Research suggests that almost all developers now rely on AI tools, with many of the roles and responsibilities of these professionals at risk o

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Tesla Is Urging Drowsy Drivers to Use ‘Full Self-Driving.’ That Could Go Very Wrong

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-17 22:00:00

Since Tesla launched its Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature in beta in 2020, the company’s owner’s manual has been clear: Contrary to the name, cars using the feature can’t drive themselves. Tesla’s driver assistance system is built to handle plenty of road situations—stopping at stop lights, changing lanes, steering, braking, turning. Still, “Full Self-Driving (Supervised) requires you to pay attention to the road and be ready to take over at all times,” the manual states. “Failure to follow thes

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Battery startup Moxion went bankrupt. Now its founder is back to ‘finish what we started.’

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-18 00:00:00

Just over a year ago, Moxion Power closed its doors, adding its name to a list of high-profile bankruptcies that roiled the climate tech world in 2024. The portable battery startup had raised more than $110 million in a bid to replace diesel generators at festivals and construction sites, but even that wasn’t enough to get it through the valley of death. Moxion laid off more than 400 employees and its assets were liquidated. Now, the startup’s co-founder, Paul Huelskamp, and several former Moxi

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Anthropic to triple international workforce in global AI push

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-10-18 07:11:45

Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Anthropic is stepping up its global enterprise ambitions. The $183 billion artificial intelligence startup has grown its business customer base from under 1,000 to more than 300,000 in just two years, as demand for Claude's models accelerates across industries and regions. On Friday, the company announced it will triple its international workforce and expand its applied AI team fivefold in 2025, as it scales beyond the U.S. and intensifie

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OpenAI's historic week has redefined the AI arms race for investors: 'I don’t see this as crazy'

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-10-18 11:15:32

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman listens to questions at a Q&A following a tour of the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Reuters This week, OpenAI redefined what momentum — and risk — look like in the artificial intelligence arms race. Now comes the hard part: Executing on CEO Sam Altman's multitrillion-dollar vision. In a rapid-fire series of announcements, the company unveiled partnerships involving mind-bending sums of money and cemented its place at the center

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Neon, the Popular Free App That Pays for Call Recordings, Has Been Disabled

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 10:52:00

A new app that promises to pay people for recordings of their phone calls, which are then used to train AI models, has been disabled after a major security flaw was reported. Neon is still in the top 10 of iOS free app downloads, but after TechCrunch reported Thursday about a security flaw that the news site found in the service, its servers have apparently been made unavailable to users. The app can still be downloaded, but it's no longer functioning. It's unclear whether the service will ret

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Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

news.ycombinator.com Mark Sweney 2025-10-18 14:50:50

The Abu Dhabi royal family is to take a stake in TikTok’s US business after Donald Trump signed an executive order brokering a deal valuing the social media company at $14bn (£10.5bn). MGX, a fund chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will take a 15% stake and gain a board seat when TikTok US is spun out. The US president signed an executive order on Thursday night approving the deal and providing a 120-day window to finalise the details. Larry Ellison’s Oracle, the private equity gr

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Sierra’s Dream Chaser is starting to resemble a nightmare

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-18 00:00:43

The Dream Chaser spaceplane, which has been under development for two decades, now seems like it might be further than ever from taking flight. On Thursday, NASA, confirming an earlier Ars Technica report, said the first flight of the winged spacecraft will no longer berth with the International Space Station. Rather, the space agency said, the Dream Chaser program would be "best served" by a free flight demonstration. "Development of new space transportation systems is difficult and can take

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Battery startup Moxion went bankrupt. Now its founder is back to ‘finish what we started’

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-18 15:00:00

Just over a year ago, Moxion Power closed its doors, adding its name to a list of high-profile bankruptcies that roiled the climate tech world in 2024. The portable battery startup had raised more than $110 million in a bid to replace diesel generators at festivals and construction sites, but even that wasn’t enough to get it through the valley of death. Moxion laid off more than 400 employees and its assets were liquidated. Now, the startup’s co-founder, Paul Huelskamp, and several former Moxi

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Facebook and Instagram to offer ad-free service in UK for up to £3.99 a month

news.ycombinator.com Dan Milmo 2025-10-18 18:28:16

Facebook and Instagram users in the UK are to be offered advert-free versions of the social networks for up to £3.99 a month. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has responded to regulatory warnings about personalised adverts, in which users’ data is crunched to produce targeted ads, by launching an ad-free subscription service. Web users will be charged £2.99 a month, and mobile phone users £3.99 a month, to scroll through Facebook and Instagram without ads. If the accounts are linked, users only need to

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Tesla Is Urging Drowsy Drivers to Use 'Full Self-Driving'. That Could Go Very Wrong

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-18 18:00:00

Since Tesla launched its Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature in beta in 2020, the company’s owner’s manual has been clear: Contrary to the name, cars using the feature can’t drive themselves. Tesla’s driver assistance system is built to handle plenty of road situations—stopping at stop lights, changing lanes, steering, braking, turning. Still, “Full Self-Driving (Supervised) requires you to pay attention to the road and be ready to take over at all times,” the manual states. “Failure to follow thes

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Samsung phones could finally get a native double-tap back gesture (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 01:02:44

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that Samsung is working on a double-tap gesture for the back of Galaxy phones. This feature currently requires users to download a Samsung Good Lock app, but we’ve discovered it in a leaked One UI 8.5 build. This discovery suggests that you can double-tap the back of your Galaxy phone without downloading a separate app. We’ve seen a few smartphone brands offering a back-tap gesture in recent years. This lets y

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NASA Marshall Space Flight Center director Joseph Pelfrey resigns

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-10-18 21:37:04

A crane towers above the mobile launcher 2 adjacent the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. The director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Joseph Pelfrey, announced his resignation from the role on Thursday, CNBC confirmed. Pelfrey said in an email to employees at the space agency that as NASA focuses on its mission to return humans to the moon, it will be "important for agency leadership to move forward with a team they choose to execute the task

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Fintech Checkout.com's valuation falls to $12 billion

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-19 05:46:04

Guillaume Pousaz, CEO and founder of payment platform Checkout.com, speaking at the annual Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2022. LONDON — Fintech unicorn Checkout.com is giving staff a way of cashing in their shares: buying them out. The London-headquartered payments platform said Friday that it plans to launch a share buyback initiative for employees to "provide them with a path to liquidity." The share buyback program is based on a new internal valuation of $12 bill

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This is our clearest look yet at Samsung’s big One UI makeover coming to Galaxy phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 02:28:02

Sammobile TL;DR A leaked One UI 8.5 build on the Galaxy S25 Ultra shows Samsung’s big design refresh, which includes rounded corners, pill-shaped icons, and bottom bars. Sammobile has showcased the update in a hands-on video, giving us a better look at features like the fully customizable quick settings panel, Direct Voicemail in the Phone app, and new tweaks in Gallery, My Files, and Camera. More features are expected before launch, with a stable rollout most likely coming alongside the Gala

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Hundreds plunge into Chicago River in first open-water swim in nearly a century

news.ycombinator.com Casey He 2025-10-16 21:02:29

About 300 swimmers plunged into the Chicago River on Sunday morning for the first organized open-water swim in almost a century as spectators lined the Dearborn and Clark Street bridges and the Riverwalk. “Reclaiming our river not only creates a recreational space for residents and visitors, but it also puts us on the map, along with other global destinations, where open-water swims have become part of city culture,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said at the 7 a.m. start. Participants who were swimmin

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The bacteria turning waste plastic into painkillers

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-19 07:02:06

The bacteria turning waste plastic into painkillers 60 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Corbyn Technology Reporter, San Francisco Share Save Getty Images E. coli has been used in many discoveries in genetics and molecular biology Earlier this year an extraordinary new way of using waste plastic made headlines. A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday painkiller, paracetamol. The microbe used by Stephen Wallace, profes

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Judge in Anthropic copyright case preliminarily approves $1.5 billion settlement with authors

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-19 10:54:19

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in 2025. A federal judge on Thursday preliminarily approved Anthropic's offer to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of authors, in what will be the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was brought last year by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Joh

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Samsung SmartThings will soon let you start your car, lock your door, and more from the app

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 11:21:24

Samsung TL;DR Samsung is rolling out a new feature for its smart home platform called “Home to Car.” The feature allows you to check on the status of your car, control functions, and set up automated routines. The company also made a few other announcements, like the launch of SmartThings Safe, enhanced customer service, and a Home Life update. Earlier this year, Samsung announced it was entering a partnership with Hyundai Motor Group to bring a new car-related feature to its smart home plat

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Trump signs executive order to facilitate TikTok deal

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-19 11:27:15

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that essentially approves the sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations to an American investor group in order to keep the social media app operational in the country. Vice President JD Vance said that the deal would value TikTok US at “around $14 billion.” TikTok was required to divest its American business or be banned in the U.S. via a national security law originally signed by former president Joe Biden. Trump’s executive order essentially bars th

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Trump Executive Order Will Hand TikTok Over to US Investors

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-10-19 15:05:29

On Thursday, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order to transfer ownership of TikTok’s US operation to a group of American investors, including Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison. “I had a very good talk with president Xi. We talked about TikTok. He gave us the go-ahead,” Trump said during a White House press conference. He conceded that he’d gotten a bit of resistance from the “Chinese side.” By Thursday afternoon, the Chinese government had not issued an announcement acknowledging the

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Trump signs ‘Saving TikTok’ order to start resolving its big ban problem

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-19 15:13:28

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order recognizing the framework of a deal between ByteDance and the US that would satisfy the TikTok divest-or-ban law. The deal values TikTok’s US operations at $14 billion and puts it under the control of companies based in the US. “I spoke with President Xi [Jinping], we had a good talk,” Trump said during a briefing. “I told him what we were doing, and he said, ‘Go ahead with it.’” TikTok “will be majority-owned and controlled by United States

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Trump approves TikTok deal through executive order, Vance says business valued at $14 billion

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-10-19 19:43:51

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order approving a proposal that would keep TikTok alive in the U.S. in a transaction that Vice President JD Vance said values the business at $14 billion. The deal satisfies the requirements of a national security law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok's U.S. operations or face an effective ban in the country, according to the executive order. Under the terms, which China must still approve, a new joint-venture company will over

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When It Comes to Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, East Beats West

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-19 19:39:26

While Halloween Horror Nights icon Jack the Clown takes over Universal Horror Unleashed in Las Vegas, he leaves Universal Studios Orlando in the hands of Terrifier slasher Art the Clown for a bloody good time. And essentially, Art feels like this year’s master of scaremonies at the 34th Horror Nights, between having the most extreme house and roaming around his Clown Cafe. But unlike the West Coast version of HHN, which boasts primarily movie/TV franchise frights, Terrifier isn’t the only draw h

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Amazon blamed AI for layoffs, then hired cheap H1-B workers, senators allege

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-19 16:56:43

Senators are demanding answers from Big Tech companies accused of "filing thousands of H-1B skilled labor visa petitions after conducting mass layoffs of American employees." In letters sent to Amazon, Meta, Apple, Google, and Microsoft—among some of the largest sponsors of H-1B visas—Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) requested "information and data from each company regarding their recruitment and hiring practices, as well as any variation in salary and benefits between

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Humanoid robots are Meta’s next ‘AR-size bet’

Samsung’s dual-hinge foldable is looking like a beast for productivity in new animations leak

Trump’s new H-1B policy caused short-term panic — and will cause long-term chaos

OpenAI's historic week has redefined the AI arms race for investors: 'I don't see this as crazy'

Ex-Meta global affairs chief says tech should stay out of politics

5 ways you can maximize AI's big impact in software development

Tesla Is Urging Drowsy Drivers to Use ‘Full Self-Driving.’ That Could Go Very Wrong

Battery startup Moxion went bankrupt. Now its founder is back to ‘finish what we started.’

Anthropic to triple international workforce in global AI push

OpenAI's historic week has redefined the AI arms race for investors: 'I don’t see this as crazy'

Neon, the Popular Free App That Pays for Call Recordings, Has Been Disabled

Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

Sierra’s Dream Chaser is starting to resemble a nightmare

Battery startup Moxion went bankrupt. Now its founder is back to ‘finish what we started’

Facebook and Instagram to offer ad-free service in UK for up to £3.99 a month

Tesla Is Urging Drowsy Drivers to Use 'Full Self-Driving'. That Could Go Very Wrong

Samsung phones could finally get a native double-tap back gesture (APK teardown)

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center director Joseph Pelfrey resigns

Fintech Checkout.com's valuation falls to $12 billion

This is our clearest look yet at Samsung’s big One UI makeover coming to Galaxy phones

Hundreds plunge into Chicago River in first open-water swim in nearly a century

The bacteria turning waste plastic into painkillers

Judge in Anthropic copyright case preliminarily approves $1.5 billion settlement with authors

Samsung SmartThings will soon let you start your car, lock your door, and more from the app

Trump signs executive order to facilitate TikTok deal

Trump Executive Order Will Hand TikTok Over to US Investors

Trump signs ‘Saving TikTok’ order to start resolving its big ban problem

Trump approves TikTok deal through executive order, Vance says business valued at $14 billion

When It Comes to Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, East Beats West

Amazon blamed AI for layoffs, then hired cheap H1-B workers, senators allege

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