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Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Is Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-22 11:45:11

Generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok have exploded in popularity as AI becomes mainstream. These tools don’t have the ability to make new scientific discoveries on their own, but billionaires are convinced that AI is on the cusp of doing just that. And the latest episode of the All-In podcast helps explain why these guys think AI is extremely close to revolutionizing scientific knowledge. Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company,

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One of our favorite Ninja air fryers is 36 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-22 16:20:55

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Prime Day might have ended last week, but that doesn't mean the sales are over. Amazon still has discounts on some of our favorite items, including our pick for best dual-zone air fryer. Right now, you can get the Ninja DZ401 Foodi Air Fryer for $160, down from $250. The 36 percent di

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"English Translators of Homer": A Review

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-19 05:09:08

“English Translators of Homer” by Simeon Underwood July 12, 2025 I must caveat the rest of my remarks by saying I believe the book I was looking for would be titled “English Translations of Homer” rather than “English Translators of Homer.” This book is a history of the translators, the choices they made in translation, and how they were influenced by previous translations and by the style and culture of their times. Whereas, what I was looking for would spend more time comparing the texts. Th

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Lenovo’s Luxurious Chromebook Plus 14 Has More Power Than It Knows What to Do With

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2026-01-22 21:30:00

2025 “Excessive” isn’t a qualifier I would use to demean the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14. It’s merely a statement of fact. It’s a pretty device with surprisingly good audio and more power under the hood than the previous leading contender, the $700 Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus. But is taking the crown as king of ChromeOS enough to justify the $650 asking price? Even with a few exclusive software features, using it is not a distinct experience from using any other $400 or under Chromebook Plus m

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Praise and Addiction Fears: Musk’s AI Girlfriend Sparks Fierce Debate

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-22 21:34:06

How do you bury a controversy? If you’re Elon Musk, you drop an anime waifu into the middle of a scandal and watch the internet do the rest. Just days after xAI’s chatbot Grok sparked outrage for spouting anti-Semitic rhetoric and praising Adolf Hitler, the billionaire shifted the narrative by unveiling a new feature called Companions, which lets users interact with flirty, customizable AI avatars like Ani, a goth anime girl, and Rudy, a red panda. The feature went instantly viral. While xAI ha

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Facebook creators who steal and repost videos could lose their monetization

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-01-22 21:40:03

Facebook is cracking down on accounts that steal and repost content from other users in an effort to reduce spam in feeds. Meta announced on Monday that creators who repeatedly reuse someone else’s videos, photos, or text posts will lose access to Facebook monetization programs for “a period of time,” and see reduced distribution of their posts on the platform. “Too often the same meme or video pops up repeatedly — sometimes from accounts pretending to be the creator and other times from differ

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xAI says it has fixed Grok 4’s problematic responses

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-22 21:12:21

When xAI launched Grok 4 last week, the company claimed the large language model outperformed several competitors on different benchmarks. But the Grok account on X that runs off the model immediately showed there were some major issues: it started saying its surname was “Hitler”, tweeted antisemitic messages, and seemed to reference Elon Musk’s posts when asked about controversial topics, siding with the xAI owner’s views as a result. xAI soon afterwards apologized for Grok’s behavior. On Tue

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I hope Google doesn’t screw up these things when it merges Chrome OS into Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-23 12:00:38

Ryan Haines / Android Authority A Google executive confirmed in an interview that the company is combining Chrome OS and Android. This comes a while after we exclusively reported that Chrome OS will effectively be absorbed into Android. It also comes after Google said it would develop Chrome OS on “large portions of the Android stack.” This all sounds very interesting on paper, but I have some reservations about such a merger. Here are the things Google can’t afford to screw up when it combine

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The Casino Social Media Platform That Wants to ‘Kill’ Facebook and TikTok

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-23 09:18:11

Pump.fun, a viral crypto launchpad built on Solana, says it wants to “kill Facebook, TikTok, and Twitch.” If that sounds like meme-fueled madness, it might be, but it also just pulled off one of the most astonishing fundraising feats in recent memory, raking in an eye-watering $600 million in 12 minutes through a public token sale. That’s a number even Meta would envy. The July 12 offering marked the debut of $PUMP, the platform’s official token. Pump.fun offered 15% of its 1 trillion token sup

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Predicting Competitive Pokémon VGC Leads Using Latent Semantic Analysis

news.ycombinator.com Jgs Editor 2026-01-20 08:18:50

Bruno Luvizotto Carli Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil. brunolcarli (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Competitive Pokémon battles often hinge on the initial selection of Pokémon leads. Anticipating an opponent’s lead choice offers a tactical edge, particularly in high-stakes matches. In this paper, I explore the use of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a natural language processing algorithm, applied to over 5,000 Pokémon Showdown battle logs, to predict likely lead pairs b

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Tim Cook’s run as Apple CEO could be much longer than you think

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-23 16:04:25

How long will Tim Cook stay Apple’s CEO? The question has come up often, but a new report indicates any big leadership transition is likely a lot farther off than you might expect. No internal signs of Cook preparing to retire or find successor, per Bloomberg Last week Apple announced that long-time COO Jeff Williams was leaving. Williams is the latest in a string of high-profile leaders transitioning out of the company in recent years, which often leads to speculation about CEO Tim Cook. Bu

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The Casino Social Media PlatformThat Wants to ‘Kill’ Facebook and TikTok

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-23 21:18:11

Pump.fun, a viral crypto launchpad built on Solana, says it wants to “kill Facebook, TikTok, and Twitch.” If that sounds like meme-fueled madness, it might be, but it also just pulled off one of the most astonishing fundraising feats in recent memory, raking in an eye watering $600 million in 12 minutes through a public token sale. That’s a number even Meta would envy. The July 12 offering marked the debut of $PUMP, the platform’s official token. Pump.fun offered 15% of its 1 trillion token sup

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Starlink Doubled Its Speed In 2 Years. It Still Doesn’t Meet the FCC’s Definition of Broadband

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-23 22:39:00

Starlink is nearly twice as fast as it was two years ago, according to a new report from the speed test site Ookla. (Disclosure: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) Median download speeds from the satellite internet provider have steadily ticked up over the past few years, going from 53.95 megabits per second in 2022 to 104.71Mbps today. That’s an impressive feat considering Starlink added about 5 million customers over the same period and recently passed the 6 milli

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NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-23 21:26:38

Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination. The company announced Monday it would add a series of featured notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits that allow NotebookLM users to explore a wide array of topics from health and life advice to travel tips and financial analysis, and more. The initial collection, which includes notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, as well as profess

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Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-01-24 06:06:08

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. People who pay for access to SuperGrok can now try the AI chatbot’s new “Companions” avatars, xAI owner Elon Musk announced Monday morning. The companions available currently include Ani, an anime avatar, and Rudy, a cartoony red panda. Ani also has what TestingCatalog describes as an “NSFW” mode where the character wears lingerie. (And just a warning: if you search for posts

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Google adds featured notebooks on selected topics to NotebookLM

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-24 16:14:00

Google is adding what it calls "featured notebooks" to NotebookLM as a way to demo its AI-powered software and offer interactive, high-quality resources on everything from personal advice to William Shakespeare. The company tried something similar after its developer conference in May, when it created a NotebookLM notebook trained on everything that was announced at Google I/O 2025. The new featured notebooks have their own dedicated tab on the NotebookLM homepage and were created in partnershi

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Kiro: A new agentic IDE

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-24 11:24:40

I’m sure you’ve been there: prompt, prompt, prompt, and you have a working application. It’s fun and feels like magic. But getting it to production requires more. What assumptions did the model make when building it? You guided the agent throughout, but those decisions aren’t documented. Requirements are fuzzy and you can’t tell if the application meets them. You can’t quickly understand how the system is designed and how that design will affect your environment and performance. Sometimes it’s b

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Elon Musk Is Trying to Get His Other Companies to Foot the Bill for xAI

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-24 15:20:21

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to invest billions in his artificial intelligence company, and now he is hoping Tesla will do the same. Investors familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that the rocket company SpaceX has agreed to invest a whopping $2 billion in xAI, the Musk-led firm behind the controversial large language model Grok. This investment makes up almost half of the $5 billion of equity that the AI company raised last month. Unsurprisingly, the richest man in the world isn

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Too Hot to Stay in the Kitchen? 9 Ways to Stay Cool While Cooking This Summer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-24 15:00:00

Summer is in full swing, and the heat waves have arrived. Already this summer we've seen massive heat domes that blanketed the Northeast, driving temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When it's hot outside, the last thing you want to do is stand over an oven while trying to cook up a tasty dinner. However, just because it's hot outside doesn't mean your only option is takeout. There are a few easy ways to help keep your kitchen cool even when it's boiling outside. Read more: Best Foods for

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Google’s curated AI ‘notebooks’ talk you through topics from parenting to Shakespeare

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-24 16:02:59

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google is partnering with authors, researchers, and publications to launch “featured” notebooks within its AI notetaking app, NotebookLM. These notebooks come pre-filled with research, and let you interact with the app’s tools, including its AI podcast maker, to learn more about each topic. Google has released eight featured notebooks to start, inc

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Google’s underrated AI tool just got a major upgrade with featured notebooks

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-24 21:38:31

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding expert-curated featured notebooks to NotebookLM, expanding its role beyond personal research and note-taking. Topics include the complete works of Shakespeare, Yellowstone travel tips, and predictions from The Economist. The new feature is desktop-only for now and follows the recent rollout of public notebook sharing. NotebookLM was already doing a good job as anything from a personal research assistant to an advisor on your car maintena

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NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-24 21:26:38

Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination. The company announced Monday it would add a series of featured notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits that allow NotebookLM users to explore a wide array of topics from health and life advice to travel tips and financial analysis, and more. The initial collection, which includes notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, as well as profess

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Not again: Sony’s WH-1000XM6 hinge shows signs of cracking

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-25 02:10:09

TL;DR A WH-1000XM6 user has reported a broken hinge, even after using the headphones “carefully.” While there has only been this one report so far, Sony supposedly redesigned the XM6 hinge to prevent this. The problem echoes an issue that plagued the previous XM5 model. The flagship Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones are barely two months old, but a new report is raising concerns about their durability. Specifically, it’s an issue from the predecessor device we had hoped was in the past. A Reddit po

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xAI starts offering Grok to US government agencies

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-25 02:29:53

Just days after apologizing for Grok's recent hard turn toward antisemitism, xAI has announced a suite of AI products for government use. Grok for Government brings together the company's latest commercial products, including Grok 4 and Deep Search, with special considerations given to the needs of federal, state and local agencies. To that end, xAI says it will design custom models for specific national security and research customers. It will also develop specialized AI applications for use i

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New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-25 02:08:13

An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with an unexpected occasional behavior: checking what its owner thinks first. On Friday, independent AI researcher Simon Willison documented that xAI's new Grok 4 model searches for Elon Musk's opinions on X (formerly Twitter) when asked about controversial topics. The discovery comes just days after xAI launched Grok 4 amid controversy over an earlier version of the chatbot generating antisemitic outputs, including labeling itself as "Mech

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I'm a Windows user, but the MacBook Air M4 could be my new primary laptop at this price

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-01-25 06:17:00

MacBook Air M4 in Sky Blue Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET When Apple announced the MacBook Air M4 earlier this year, it was clear that the laptop would be an incremental upgrade from last year's model, with the latest in Apple silicon and a host of software and AI-powered features. The fact that the 13-inch version was $100 less was a pleasant surprise, however, positioning it as a competitive choice in the current market. I had a chance to test out the new MacBook Air M4, and my initial findings reflec

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The Kindle Scribe is a reader and note taker's dream device

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-01-25 06:31:27

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazon Kindle Scribe is on sale for $259 for the 16GB version, or $299 when bundled with the folio case and adapter. It combines the familiar features of the Kindle e-reader with a bright display and a suite of premium note-taking features. The aforementioned features have a bit of a learning curve to fully take advantage of. $399.99 at Amazon $399.99 at Target $399.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Amazon's latest Kindle Scribe can be considered a 2-in-1, as it's b

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Six Game Devs Speak to Computer Games Mag (1984)

news.ycombinator.com John Paul Wohlscheid 2026-01-21 20:17:22

from the June 1984 issue of Computer Games magazine Computer Games Interview: The Secret Superstars Meet the Creators of Choplifter, Wizardry, Castle Wolfenstein, Zaxxon, Canyon Climber, and the Arcade Machine By Kathy Bissell How do they do it, these masterful creators of high-caliber games like Wizardry and Choplifter? From what strange planet or time warp do they draw such appealing and durable game scenarios? How did they get a foot in the high-tech door in the first place? And what kind

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AWS launches Kiro, its Cursor clone

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 05:24:40

I’m sure you’ve been there: prompt, prompt, prompt, and you have a working application. It’s fun and feels like magic. But getting it to production requires more. What assumptions did the model make when building it? You guided the agent throughout, but those decisions aren’t documented. Requirements are fuzzy and you can’t tell if the application meets them. You can’t quickly understand how the system is designed and how that design will affect your environment and performance. Sometimes it’s b

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Musk says he does not support a merger between Tesla and xAI but backs investment

cnbc.com Ruxandra Iordache Arjun Kharpal 2026-01-25 11:13:00

Elon Musk on Monday said he does not support a merger between xAI and Tesla, as questions swirl over the future relationship of the electric automaker and artificial intelligence company. X account @BullStreetBets_ posted an open question to Tesla investors on the social media site asking if they support a merger between Tesla and xAI. Musk responded with "No." The statement comes as the tech billionaire contemplates the future relationship and possible integration between his multiple busines

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NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others

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Google adds featured notebooks on selected topics to NotebookLM

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Google’s curated AI ‘notebooks’ talk you through topics from parenting to Shakespeare

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Musk says he does not support a merger between Tesla and xAI but backs investment

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