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Apple fitness exec accused of creating toxic workplace environment

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:55:56

Jay Blahnik is Apple's vice president of fitness technologies and responsible for leading a team of about 100 people. After a lengthy period consulting for Nike, he joined the company in 2013 to help with the launch of the Apple Watch and programs such as Apple Fitness+. Today, The New York Times reported on allegations that Blahnik created a toxic workplace environment, with his behaviors described as "verbally abusive, manipulative and inappropriate." He and Apple are currently being sued by

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Struggling fusion power company General Fusion gets $22M lifeline from investors

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-09 12:12:29

General Fusion, a Canadian nuclear fusion energy startup, announced today that it had been thrown a lifeline in the form of $22 million in fresh funding. The company had laid off at least 25% of its employees in May in a bid to shore up its stretched finances. At the same time, CEO Greg Twinney wrote an open letter pleading for funding. The additional cash will give General Fusion some breathing room, though not much. A subset of General Fusion’s existing investors ultimately ponied up for wha

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95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

news.ycombinator.com Oliver Flynn 2025-11-09 21:36:24

Over the last three years, companies worldwide have invested between 30 and 40 billion dollars into generative artificial intelligence projects. Yet most of these efforts have brought no real business return. A new study from MIT found that 95 percent of enterprise organizations report zero measurable gains from the adoption of AI tools. Only a small group has seen strong benefits. “Just five percent of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value,” the report said. In contrast, the v

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Ozempic Maker Novo Nordisk Freezes Hiring Amid Ongoing Struggles

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-10 03:58:43

No one stays on top forever. It’s a lesson that Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk may be painfully learning about. The Danish pharmaceutical company has enacted a hiring freeze—the latest sign of a sinking financial outlook for the once-titan of the obesity treatment world. Reuters reported on the hiring freeze Wednesday. The company has faced numerous setbacks in recent months, including billions shaved off its stock market value and continued competition from cheaper, compounded versions of its bloc

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Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-11-10 03:00:00

While overall sales to African countries are still small compared to these traditional export markets, the Global South appears to be at a turning point in how it thinks about energy. For decades, energy-starved countries largely had one default option when they wanted to add new power supply: import coal and gas. Now, for the first time, solar energy is emerging as the cheaper and greener way forward, so there’s no need to sacrifice the environment for development. Familiar Story What’s happe

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The first update for Proton's privacy-focused chatbot offers major performance improvements

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 08:52:55

In July, Proton, the company behind Proton Mail , released Lumo , a privacy-focused AI chatbot. Now, just under a month later, Proton has begun rolling out Lumo 1.1 to both free and paying users, and according to the company, the updated assistant "performs significantly better across the board" relative to its predecessor. Just how much better is the new version of Lumo? Proton claims it offers a 170 percent improvement in context understanding, meaning the chatbot is able to more accurately a

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Raising multiple rounds of venture capital might be wrong for your startup

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-11-10 08:00:00

There’s a generally accepted script in Silicon Valley: Identify a startup idea. Sell a chunk of your company to raise venture capital. Make sales. Raise more venture capital, and make more sales. Repeat until the company goes public, or gets acquired, hopefully for billions either way. But what if you didn’t get on a fundraising treadmill after taking a first round? What if you structured your company to sprint to profitability through slower, sustainable growth, rather than the reverse — unpro

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Sennheiser updates the Ambeo Max soundbar with lossless audio, customizable immersion and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 12:47:07

Sennheiser's most expensive Ambeo soundbar is getting a substantial update. The company announced that the Ambeo Soundbar Max, a $2,000 beast of a living room speaker, will gain two features it calls Customizable Immersion and Voice Enhancement Mode. Plus, the company is adding lossless audio support on top of Dolby Atmos Music. The firmware update will equip the Max with Ambeo OS2 and is available via free download through the Sennheiser Smart Control app for iOS and Android. With Customizable

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Nancy Mace Hitches Her Wagon to the Hertz AI-Scanner Controversy

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-10 12:10:29

Car rental giant Hertz is in the hot seat, after customers have come out of the woodwork to complain that the company’s newly instituted AI scanners are charging them outrageous fees over minor issues. Now the system reportedly has the attention of one of Congress’s most artificially intelligent members. The company recently rolled out the scanners as part of a partnership with Israeli firm UVeye, whose products were originally developed as a homeland security device—designed to detect guns and

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Google says a typical AI text prompt only uses 5 drops of water — experts say that’s misleading

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-11-10 11:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amid a fierce debate about the environmental toll of artificial intelligence, Google released a new study that says its Gemini AI assistant only uses a minimal amount of water and energy f

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One of the most annoying things about the X app has been fixed – for now

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-10 17:30:50

The most annoying thing about X is, well, X – but the company has at least fixed an app behavior many of us found frustrating. Just 18 years after users started complaining about it, X’s head of product said that a fix is now rolling out … That irritation? You’ve just started reading something at the top of your feed, and then the feed spontaneously reloads and it is lost forever. Entrepreneur and investor Jesse Pujji repeated the complaint a few days ago, and product lead Nikita Bier says it

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On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop

technologyreview.com Charlie Metcalfe 2025-11-11 02:00:00

Supported by Kutkov’s technical expertise and Stepanets’s organizational prowess, Kovalskyy’s warehouse became the major repair hub (though other volunteers also make repairs elsewhere). Over time, Kovalskyy—who co-owned a regional internet service provider before the war—and his crew have learned to perform adjustments to Starlink terminals, especially to adapt them for battlefield conditions. For example, they modified them to receive charge at the right voltage directly from vehicles, years b

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The Pixel 10 series brings even more panorama mode upgrades

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-11 00:57:36

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel 10 phones bring several more upgrades to the panorama mode. You can now take panoramas with the 5x camera, although ultrawide panoramas are still out of the question. Google has also brought manual controls to the panorama mode so you can fine-tune your snap. Google neglected panorama mode on its Pixel phones for a long time. However, the Pixel 9 series delivered a variety of welcome upgrades last year. Now, Google has brought even more addit

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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

news.ycombinator.com James Titcomb 2025-11-11 04:04:08

Stock market volatility was largely prompted by a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which claimed that 95pc of companies were getting “zero return” on their AI investments. A Meta spokesman sought to downplay the freeze, saying: “All that’s happening here is some basic organisational planning: creating a solid structure for our new superintelligence efforts after bringing people on board and undertaking yearly budgeting and planning exercises.” It comes after the company h

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SpaceX has built the machine to build the machine. But what about the machine?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-11 04:30:20

STARBASE, Texas—I first visited SpaceX's launch site in South Texas a decade ago. Driving down the pocked and barren two-lane road to its sandy terminus, I found only rolling dunes, a large mound of dirt, and a few satellite dishes that talked to Dragon spacecraft as they flew overhead. A few years later, in mid-2019, the company had moved some of that dirt and built a small launch pad. A handful of SpaceX engineers working there at the time shared some office space nearby in a tech hub buildin

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OpenAI says GPT-6 is coming and it'll be better than GPT-5 (obviously)

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-11 02:56:15

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman told reporters that GPT-6 is already in the works, and it’ll not take as long as GPT-5. The GPT-6 announcement doesn't surprise me because OpenAI is slowly becoming a product-first company rather than research-focused. There's no denying that OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman overhyped GPT-5 and underdelivered. While GPT-5 isn't exactly bad and actually offers significant improvements over GPT-4 or o3 for coding, the rollout wasn't smooth and some people were expecting more than

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Analogue delays its N64 remake console yet again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 16:53:43

Analogue's 4K take on the Nintendo 64 is… still not quite here. The company announced its third delay to the Analogue 3D on Wednesday, pushing the retro system back to Q4 2025. However, it said that's an intentionally conservative estimate, so this probably isn't a huge concern. The postponement follows previous ones in March and July. (The last time was due to tariffs.) Analogue acknowledged the frustration pre-order customers must be feeling. "We know this sucks," the Pocket maker wrote. "Ano

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Oracle will reportedly power a giant data center with gas generators

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 17:16:59

Bloomberg has published a deep dive into operations at Oracle, chronicling the software giant's rise in cloud computing and current push into powering artificial intelligence projects. The publication reported that Oracle has promised to develop tens of billions of dollars in data centers, which have become a hot business. Notably, Oracle landed a deal to back operations at OpenAI, in a partnership that will give the AI company 4.5 gigawatts of computing power . According to Bloomberg, that's en

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Framework is teasing a ‘big’ update for August 26th — could it be Framework 16?

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-11 17:14:41

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Framework, the modular computer company, just released its first delightful tiny desktop PC, on top of its smallest laptop yet. But it’s already teasing its next big live announcement on YouTube for August 26th at 8am PT / 11am ET, saying it’ll reveal h

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Palantir stock falls for sixth-straight day in longest losing streak since April 2024

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-11 22:04:35

Palantir shares sank further into correction territory Wednesday after six straight days of heavy selling. The slide marks the longest such streak for the artificial intelligence software company since April 2024, and brings shares down 18% from the recent intraday record. Shares closed in correction territory on Tuesday after accumulating a 15% loss from the highs. Wednesday's moves also dropped Palantir out of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies ranking. The software analytics company achiev

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The Maker of Ozempic Is in Such Deep Trouble That It’s Going on Hiring Lockdown

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-11 22:04:24

Image by Sergei Gapon / AFP via Getty / Futurism Rx/Medicines Novo Nordisk, the Denmark-based pharmaceutical company that makes Ozempic and Wegovy, looks like it's being toppled off its GLP-1 throne. In a statement to Reuters, the Danish conglomerate admitted that it "currently [has] a hiring freeze in non-business critical areas." Though Novo offered no additional explanation, the writing has been on the wall for months that the once-dominant drug manufacturer is in big financial trouble. D

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Microsoft is working on a fix for PC shader stutter

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 03:36:18

Microsoft is creating a new "advanced shader delivery" feature for the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handhelds that might make loading games faster and more stutter-free. The company teased the upcoming feature alongside the announcement of the launch date for the first Xbox-branded handhelds and the company's new compatibility system for figuring out if games will run well on handhelds. Shader stutter is a widespread issue in PC gaming that doesn't occur on consoles because of their uniform hardware. You

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Oracle Will Reportedly Spend $1 Billion a Year on a Gas-Powered Data Center

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-12 03:45:36

Oracle is going all-in on its AI-focused cloud business, pouring billions into building massive new data centers. One site under construction in West Texas will reportedly cost the company around $1 billion just to keep the lights on. Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the plans, that Oracle intends to spend more than $1 billion a year to run a new West Texas megasite on gas generators rather than wait for a utility hookup. It can take years to get approval and infrastruc

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Analogue 3D gets yet another delay to later in 2025

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-11-12 03:59:26

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Things just keep going wrong for Analogue’s take on the Nintendo 64. The company announced today that the shipping date for its next console, the Analogue 3D, has been delayed until sometime in Q4 of this year. The announcement comes a little over a

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Gemini is coming to Google Home in October with both free and paid versions

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 08:23:34

Gemini is launching in early access on smart displays and speakers in October, Google announced in a new blog post. Gemini for Home will replace Google Assistant on the company's smart home devices, and will apparently be available in both free and paid versions, implying Google is interested in expanding its subscription business, not unlike Amazon is with Alexa+. Google originally demoed Gemini for Home back at CES 2025. At the time, the company was primarily promising that generative AI woul

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AI Is Failing at an Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 12:16:18

With AI software increasingly hogging the enterprise spotlight, companies and investors are spending like never before. In the first half of 2025, AI startups raised over $44 billion, more than all of 2024 combined. By the end of this year, a Goldman Sachs analysis estimates that total investments in AI will soar to almost $200 billion. But all that money is, to put it gently, a reckless gamble. In the US at least, investors have essentially bet the farm on the idea that AI will soon lead to ga

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14.ai (YC W24) is hiring engineers in SF to build an AI-native Zendesk

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 12:01:10

We are an intense, tightly-knit team based in the heart of San Francisco. Our customers range from fast-growing startups to established enterprise companies, and we obsess over listening to each of them and helping them succeed. Our development pillars are security, reliability and performance, combined with pragmatism to always find working solutions and be ultra-responsive to customer feedback and requests. Working both at the infrastructure and product level, we strive to build correct, futur

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Zoox taps ex-Uber Pool exec’s startup for routing software help

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-12 08:00:00

When James Cox, the former leader of Uber’s ride-share product, Uber Pool, left that company in 2019, the Silicon Valley giant had abandoned its autonomous vehicle development and sold off the division entirely. While Uber Pool had struggled to take hold, Cox felt a massive opportunity had been missed: taking the core of Uber Pool’s tech and applying it to robotaxis. For the last five years, Cox has instead been running a small startup called The Routing Company, which helps transit agencies ma

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White House Joins TikTok With New Account. Here's What It's Posted So Far

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-12 16:35:00

The White House has officially joined TikTok, even as the administration is trying to help determine the future of the platform in the US. So far, the TikTok account has four videos: a mix of President Donald Trump speaking, footage of the White House over music -- and the caption "We're so back." There's also a video of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responding with hostility to a press conference question from a New York Times reporter, which is one way to set the tone early on. As of this

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Palantir stock plummets 20% from highs in longest losing streak since April 2024

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-12 22:48:39

Palantir shares sank into bear market territory Wednesday after six-straight days of heavy selling. The slide marks the longest such streak for the artificial intelligence software company since April 2024, and brings shares down 20% from the recent record. Shares closed in correction territory on Tuesday after accumulating a 15% loss from the highs. Palantir's slide followed a broader market selloff and came on the heels of a short-seller report from Andrew Left's Citron Research. He called t

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Apple fitness exec accused of creating toxic workplace environment

Struggling fusion power company General Fusion gets $22M lifeline from investors

95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

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Sennheiser updates the Ambeo Max soundbar with lossless audio, customizable immersion and more

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