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Airports in Denmark Shut Down as Mysterious Drones Spotted

Denmark is on edge after mysterious drones were spotted above four airports across the country late Wednesday and early Thursday. The country’s defense minister described the drone flights as part of a “hybrid attack” and they come after a similar incident at Copenhagen’s airport on Tuesday. While Denmark’s government hasn’t officially blamed Russia yet, officials are investigating that possibility. “The aim of this type of hybrid attack is to spread fear, create division and frighten us,” said

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

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

ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history

On Thursday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Pulse, a new "push" feature that generates personalized daily updates for users without having to ask each time. The preview feature, available now for Pro subscribers on mobile, marks OpenAI's latest attempt to make ChatGPT proactive rather than reactive, with the AI model conducting overnight research to deliver morning updates based on user history and connected apps. OpenAI calls it "personalized research and timely updates that appear regularly to keep

ChatGPT Pulse Gets You Personalized Morning Briefings Based on Your Chat, Email and Calendar Data

OpenAI wants you to use ChatGPT to prep your day every morning. ChatGPT Pulse is a new feature that will give Pro users a curated set of personalized updates at the start of the day, using past chats and connected apps like your calendar, according to an OpenAI press release on Thursday. Think of it like how the president gets a daily briefing from staff. Except this edition is from a chatbot. Pulse is a mobile-only feature rolling out now. It is currently limited to $200/month Pro subscribers

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OpenAI introduces personalized daily summaries with ChatGPT Pulse

ChatGPT already tries to answer all your questions. Now it's trying to answer questions before you ask them. OpenAI's new feature for its AI chatbot is ChatGPT Pulse, a summary of personalized updates. The blog post explaining Pulse positions it as a bulletin to start the day based on asynchronous research done by ChatGPT. Users can direct Pulse toward or away from particular topics, and the summaries will also draw on chat history and, if connected, your Gmail and Google Calendar. The examples

Microsoft Copilot now offers Claude models - how to try them

alexsl/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft's Researcher agent can now be powered by Claude Opus 4.1. Anthropic's models are also now available in Copilot Studio. Microsoft has been distancing itself from its dependence on OpenAI. Microsoft is continuing to invest in its new partnership with Anthropic, while distancing itself further from OpenAI. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that two of Anthropic

‘The Astronaut’ Teases a Returned Space Traveler’s Worst Sci-Fi Nightmare

A person who thinks they’re home alone starts to suspect there might be an unnatural presence lurking around: that’s a pretty classic horror movie setup. What makes The Astronaut extra eerie is that the main character is a NASA astronaut whose most recent voyage ended with a rough re-entry. And that presence just might be something extraterrestrial that hitched a ride to Earth. Here’s the new trailer for The Astronaut, starring Kate Mara as the understandably freaked-out title character. Is it

‘It’s Moving Slower Than We Want.’ Qualcomm’s Still Trying to Figure Out PC Gaming

PC gaming has become Qualcomm’s white whale. The company wouldn’t put it in those terms, but it’s clear the company wants users to know its new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip will be gaming capable. It’s far from the ideal, and Qualcomm seems to know it. It wants to show off the new chip’s GPU abilities, but for one of the most common uses of graphics processing, Qualcomm will still be behind everyone else. The looming elephant in the room is the chip microarchitecture Qualcomm is beholden to

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse to proactively write you morning briefs

OpenAI is launching a new feature inside of ChatGPT called Pulse, which generates personalized reports for users while they sleep. Pulse offers users five to ten briefs that can get them up to speed on their day, and is aimed at encouraging users to check ChatGPT first thing in the morning — much like they would check social media or a news app. Pulse is part of a broader shift in OpenAI’s consumer products, which are lately being designed to work for users asynchronously instead of responding

OpenAI tested GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini on real-world tasks - the results were surprising

NurPhoto / Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AI's efficacy at work is still proving lukewarm at best. OpenAI's new evaluation measures its GDP impact in certain tasks. Companies are under pressure to justify their tools' existence. Despite so many AI tools flooding the market, promising increased productivity and even fully automated work, their impact so far has been inconsistent at best. As a recent MIT report noted, 95% of enterpr

OpenAI says GPT-5 stacks up to humans in a wide range of jobs

OpenAI released a new benchmark on Thursday that tests how its AI models perform compared to human professionals across a wide range of industries and jobs. The test, GDPval, is an early attempt at understanding how close OpenAI’s systems are to outperforming humans at economically valuable work — a key part of the company’s founding mission to develop artificial general intelligence or AGI. OpenAI says its found that its GPT-5 model and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 “are already approaching the

CoreWeave inks $6.5 billion deal with OpenAI

Michael Intrator, co-founder and chief executive officer of CoreWeave Inc., during an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. CoreWeave on Thursday announced a $6.5 billion deal with OpenAI, expanding its current agreement with the artificial intelligence startup behind ChatGPT. The new agreement brings the AI cloud infrastructure provider's total contracts with OpenAI to $22.4 billion. "This milestone affirms the trust that wor

xAI accuses OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets in new lawsuit

Elon Musk's xAI is suing OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT maker has stolen its trade secrets. The lawsuit comes after the company recently sued a former employee , Xuechen Li, for allegedly stealing confidential information from the company before taking a job at OpenAI. In its latest lawsuit, which was reported by Sherwood, xAI says that Li's alleged actions are part of "a broader and deeply troubling pattern of trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, and intentional interference w

Sunken World War II Debris Has Become Surprisingly Useful for Sea Creatures

During World War II, unused explosive munitions were frequently dumped at sea. Today, the waters off the coast of Germany contain 1.6 million tons of sunken weapons laden with chemicals that are highly toxic to marine life. Surprisingly, researchers behind a new study in Nature Communications Earth & Environment observed more sea creatures clinging to debris than living on the ocean floor around it. The findings suggest some marine organisms can tolerate high levels of toxic compounds as long a

The OnePlus 15 With Brand New Snapdragon Chip Makes Its First Appearance

The OnePlus 15 will be among the first phones to be powered by this year's top Android mobile chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which was revealed at the company's Snapdragon Summit on Wednesday. The company revealed the OnePlus 15 on Thursday. The new phone follows the OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R, which were released earlier this year. "For more than a decade, OnePlus and Qualcomm Technologies have moved in lock-step to redefine what a flagship can be," said Pete Lau, founder of OnePlus.

Love, lies, and algorithms: Is AI really helping us find ‘the one’? Live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

What happens when technology takes the wheel in our love lives? From dating apps and AI-powered matchmaking to full-on digital companionship, artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a third party in our most personal relationships. But is it truly helping us find deeper connection — or just reshaping romance into an algorithmic illusion? Only on the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re bringing together three powerhouse voices

Your next Android phone could get a significant performance boost (Samsung models included)

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. It features the Qualcomm Oryon CPU and next-gen Qualcomm Adreno GPU. Improvements should enable better phone speeds, camera, AI, and more. Nearly every major smartphone launch in the past year has shared a common theme: the devices have an increasing amount of on-device, advanced AI features. These experiences are only made possible by the chip

Children's names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery chain hack

Children's names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery chain hack Hackers say they have stolen the pictures, names and addresses of around 8,000 children from the Kido nursery chain. A group of cyber criminals says it is using the highly sensitive information to demand a ransom from the company, which has 18 sites in and around London, with more in the US and India. The criminals say they also have information about the children's parents and carers as well as safeguarding notes. They cl

Databricks commits to $100 million in OpenAI spending as high-valued startups team up in AI

OpenAI and Databricks are two of the most highly valued tech startups on the planet. Now they're working together. Databricks, a data analytics software vendor, said Thursday that it has committed to spending $100 million over multiple years with OpenAI. Databricks is making it easier for customers to connect their data stored in its cloud service with GPT-5, announced in August, and other OpenAI models. OpenAI, which was recently valued by private investors at $500 billion, has become a house

OnePlus 15 confirmed globally with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and new camera engine

TL;DR The OnePlus 15 will launch globally with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. The phone will launch with a new “DetailMax Engine” for pro-grade photography. This year’s name announcement comes earlier than last year’s, suggesting the OnePlus 15 may get a slightly earlier release date. Rumors for the OnePlus 15 have been circulating throughout most of September, and as the month is quickly coming to a close, OnePlus has just confirmed a couple of key details about its next sm

I’m glad Pixels don’t use Snapdragon. Here’s why!

​Of all the hills I’m willing to die on, this might be the one that gets the most pushback. It’s a controversial opinion, I know, but I’m going to say it anyway: I’m glad Google Pixel phones don’t use Snapdragon processors. Let me start my defense with a little analogy. Imagine that you’re in the market for a new vehicle. Your goal is to take your family on long road trips, exploring national parks and camping under the stars. You need space for people, beds, and maybe even a small kitchenette.

The New Trailer for ‘Avatar: Fire & Ash’ Readies for War

Our first major look at Avatar: Fire & Ash a few months ago focused a lot on the kind of things James Cameron’s sci-fi saga does very well: very pretty celebrations of the natural world of Pandora. Our latest look puts all that under threat, as enemies old and new rise up to not just give the Sully family a hard time but threaten to consume all of Pandora itself in a devastating new war. The latest trailer for Fire & Ash dives much more into the story that we can expect from Cameron’s third ret

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The OnePlus 15 With Brand New Snapdragon Chip Lands in the US on Nov. 13

OnePlus will bring its upcoming flagship, the OnePlus 15, to North America on Nov. 13. It will be among the first phones to be powered by this year's top Android mobile chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which was revealed at the company's Snapdragon Summit Summit on Wednesday. The company announced the news of the OnePlus 15's North American release at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit on Thursday. "For more than a decade, OnePlus and Qualcomm Technologies have moved in lock-step to redefine w

Databricks will bake OpenAI models into its products in $100M bet to spur enterprise adoption

Databricks said on Thursday that it is incorporating OpenAI’s models, including GPT-5, into its data platform as well as its AI product, Agent Bricks, as part of a $100 million multi-year deal that bets on the AI company’s ability to bring in enterprise customers. The deal highlights the accelerating race to bring generative AI into the enterprise stack, as companies foresee demand for AI tools that can tap into corporate data securely. Agent Bricks lets organizations build AI apps and agents

OnePlus 13 plus one equals the OnePlus 15

OnePlus has revealed a few details about its next flagship phone at a Qualcomm event in China: it’ll be called the OnePlus 15, and it will come with Qualcomm’s freshly announced Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and a 165Hz refresh rate display. You didn’t blink and miss the OnePlus 14, if you’re wondering about that. The OnePlus 13 will be succeeded by the OnePlus 15, likely to avoid including a “4” in the product name — bad luck in Chinese culture. It’ll pair nicely with the 8 Elite Gen 5 name

Trump is pushing leucovorin as a treatment for autism. What is it?

That meant that more people met the criteria for an autism diagnosis. Lerner points out that there is also far more awareness of the condition today than there was several decades ago. “There’s autism representation in the media,” he says. “There are plenty of famous people in the news and finance and in business and in Hollywood who are publicly, openly autistic.” Is Tylenol a contributor to autism? Some studies have found an association between the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy and autis

We just got our first official glimpse of the OnePlus 15

TL;DR The OnePlus 15 was just teased at the Chinese edition of the Qualcomm Summit. A OnePlus representative showcased the phone in its black color. This confirms the design shift to a square camera bump — at least on the Chinese variant. Qualcomm is hosting the Snapdragon Summit a month earlier than usual this year. Naturally, Android flagships to be powered by the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 are also cropping up sooner, and we’re already starting to see brands vying to be the first to l

Qualcomm says its new Snapdragon chips are 'the fastest and most efficient' for Windows PCs

Qualcomm has unveiled its new Snapdragon X Series chips for laptops, in addition to its new system-on-a-chip for flagship phones. The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip meant for "ultra-premium" Windows 11 laptops are designed to handle "complex, expert-level workloads" and to enable fast AI processing, as well as a multi-day battery life. Meanwhile, the Snapdragon X2 Elite chips come in two variants, one with 18 total cores and one with 12. Qualcomm claims that these processors are the "fastest,

Meet Asana's new 'AI Teammates,' designed to collaborate with you

Eugene Mymrin/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Asana's new AI agents can access organizations' Asana workflows. They're available now in public beta. Many tech companies are building agents, hoping to commercialize AI. More AI agents have arrived! This time, they're coming to project management platform Asana: a suite of helpers the company says are designed to collaborate with human workers. Also: Your coworkers are sick

The next era of Windows PC has me ready to ditch my M4 MacBook - here's why

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET At its recent Summit 2025 event, Qualcomm took the stage to announce its next generation of laptop chipsets: the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme. I've been closely following Qualcomm's journey through the laptop industry since the company launched the first generation of Snapdragon hardware back in 2024. These chipsets perfectly balance performance with energy efficiency, allowing host computers to last all day long. Judging from preliminary information