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

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-10-08 08:43:51

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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EU Commission responds to Apple’s call to scrap the DMA

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-08 08:05:00

Last night, Apple issued its most forceful rebuttal yet to Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which may force it to open up its ecosystem. Today, the European Commission shot back. Here are the details. A bit of background For the past few years, Europe has been developing the DMA, which is a set of legislation that will compel “gatekeepers” to open up their platforms and ecosystems, in an attempt to promote a more level playing field for competitiveness. When it comes specifically to Apple,

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Identity Types

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 10:15:23

Previously: Models of (Dependent) Type Theory. There is a deep connection between mathematics and programming. Computer programs deal with such mathematical objects as numbers, vectors, monoids, functors, algebras, and many more. We can implement such structures in most programming languages. For instance, here’s the definition of natural numbers in Haskell: data Nat where Z :: Nat -- zero S :: Nat -> Nat -- successor There is a problem, though, with encoding the laws that they are supposed t

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ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 08:30:52

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

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Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high

news.ycombinator.com Works In Progress 2025-10-08 06:19:47

Works in Progress is becoming a print magazine. Our first print issue, Issue 21, will land in November. If you live in the United States or the United Kingdom, you can subscribe here. If you live outside the US or UK and want to be notified as soon as subscriptions are live in your country, leave your details here. CheXNet can detect pneumonia with greater accuracy than a panel of board-certified radiologists. It is an AI model released in 2017, trained on more than 100,000 chest X-rays. It is

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The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers

news.ycombinator.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-10-08 07:36:12

By June, Musk appeared to officially leave DOGE. With him went some key lieutenants: Steve Davis, Musk’s right-hand man during the Twitter takeover and DOGE’s de facto leader; Nicole Hollander, Davis’ partner, who played a key role at the GSA; and Katie Miller, communications lead for DOGE and the wife of White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller. Musk’s send-off had included a friendly press conference with Trump, but that fragile peace was shattered a few days later, when Mus

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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 11:56:00

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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Amazon agrees to $2.5B Prime settlement — so what’s your cut?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 16:06:46

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC claims over Prime signups and cancellations. The FTC said Amazon “tricked and trapped” people into recurring subscriptions. People who signed up for Prime in the US between June 23, 2019, and June 23, 2025 could be eligible for a payout. With Amazon’s next Prime sale just weeks away, the company could have done without the headlines its subscription service is making today. Amazon just agreed to pay $2.5 bil

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Your eyes will thank you: TCL launches the TAB 8 NXTPAPER 5G

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 16:18:44

TL;DR TCL has launched the TAB 8 NXTPAPER 5G. The tablet features a MediaTek MT8755 chip, 6,000mAh battery, 8MP rear and 5MP front cameras, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. It’s selling for $199 at Verizon, and will soon be available at Total Wireless. If you’re looking for a budget-level tablet, there are plenty of options to choose from. TCL’s tablets, in particular, stand out from the rest of the crowd due to the company’s innovative NXTPAPER tech. It’s a smooth, textured display that feel

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OpenAI introduces personalized daily summaries with ChatGPT Pulse

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 16:15:32

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

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Anker opens pre-orders for its Nebula X1 Pro projector system

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 16:46:35

Anker has opened up pre-orders for the Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro home theater system after teasing the product at IFA. This is being done via the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and prices start at $3,000, which is an early bird discount from the eventual $5,000 price tag. The Nebula X1 Pro is something of an all-in-one home theater system, as it includes a 4K projector, a soundbar, a subwoofer and satellite speakers. It boasts a unique design, with the subwoofer floating inside a spring-type a

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Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 16:36:20

Maintainer update From @MarshallOfSound (#48311 (comment)): Hey folks, anyone experiencing this issue can you please raise a Feedback (via Feedback Assistant) with Apple. Make sure you send it while the issue is occurring and ensure you include a sysdiagnose with your report (I think that's automatic now, but check the box if there's a box). We need a lot more to go on and this is likely a macOS issue. Preflight Checklist I have read the Contributing Guidelines for this project. I have read

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PlayStation’s New Portable Gaming Speakers Could Be Really Good, If They Don’t Cost a Fortune

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-08 16:15:21

Sony has been on a roll lately with lots of gaming peripherals (including the Inzone H9 II gaming headset that may actually justify its big price tag), and it’s apparently not ready to stop just yet. PlayStation just announced its Pulse Elevate wireless speakers, which support PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, and the PlayStation Portal, and they may potentially be useful for anyone who doesn’t love constantly wearing a headset. Inside the Pulse Elevate, Sony says it’s including “studio-inspired planar m

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Microsoft Copilot now offers Claude models - how to try them

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-08 20:28:04

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

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The tablet that easily replaced my Kindle and iPad now has a worthy successor

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-08 20:57:00

TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus ZDNET's key takeaways The TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus is available for $249. This tablet can switch from full color to an E Ink-like display with the press of a button, it has 256GB of storage, and an eye-catching matte display with 120Hz refresh rate. The Nxtpaper 11 Plus can get heavy when you use it one-handed and doesn't include a case or stylus, though you can buy them separately. $249 at Walmart Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I test a lot of tablets

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse to proactively write you morning briefs

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-08 20:00:00

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

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

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-10-09 00:01:00

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

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Vicious California Squirrel Sends at Least 2 People to the ER

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-08 23:15:38

A “very mean squirrel” is terrorizing local residents of San Rafael, a city north of San Francisco. So far, this squirrel has attacked more than five people, two of whom had to receive emergency medical care, according to a flyer describing the incident. Experts say that the behavior is likely due to humans feeding the squirrel when it was younger. Not rabid, but still terrifying Fortunately, squirrels rarely carry rabies, which was probably true for this particular squirrel. Regardless, the

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XR Is Going Mainstream. Does That Mean We'll All Be Glasses Wearers Now?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 23:38:00

I'm standing in the lobby of a hotel in Hawaii, gazing into the glaring sun through the lens of Snap AR Spectacles and wondering if this is my future. The glasses are an updated version of the ones I tried out last year at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. Rather than playing with Moo Deng -- a fun little novelty -- I'm using them for things I do every day on my phone: Browsing the internet and scrolling through social videos. Right here is evidence of Snap bringing productivity and genuinely u

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'Leave VPNs Alone': Today's VPN Day of Action Protests Possible Bans

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 00:22:00

"Leave VPNs alone." That's the plea from anti-online censorship and surveillance group Fight for the Future, which has designated Thursday as a VPN Day of Action, a day for people to press lawmakers not to ban virtual private networks. The group of activists, artists, engineers and technologists is calling on people to sign an open letter and encourage politicians to preserve the existence of VPNs, which are encrypted internet connections aimed at protecting privacy and preventing surveillance.

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Google’s Conversational Photo Editor Is the Rare AI Feature People Will Actually Use

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-08 18:30:00

A prototype app called Pixeltone developed by Adobe Research and the University of Michigan showed the possibility of using voice control and touch for photo editing. The top comment on the YouTube video demonstrating the capability is this one, left by a viewer 12 years ago: "Why so much hate? It isn't for the “real” photographer, but for my dad, that sometimes uses Photoshop; this is great." The democratization of powerful photo editing tools has clear dangers, like the ease with which bad ac

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

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-09 00:11:34

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

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CoreWeave inks $6.5 billion deal with OpenAI

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-10-09 04:54:45

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

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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

technologyreview.com Jacob Judah 2025-10-08 22:00:00

This could have significant repercussions in cases where Wikipedia is poorly written—potentially pushing the most vulnerable languages on Earth toward the precipice as future generations begin to turn away from them. “Wikipedia will be reflected in the AI models for these languages,” says Trond Trosterud, a computational linguist at the University of Tromsø in Norway, who has been raising the alarm about the potentially harmful outcomes of badly run Wikipedia editions for years. “I find it hard

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xAI accuses OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets in new lawsuit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-09 04:29:27

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

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Ubuntu: The Indigenous Ethos of Restorative Justice

news.ycombinator.com Traumᵃ Und Verantwortung E.V. 2025-10-09 03:20:59

Because European colonialists saw no jails, police, lawyers, judges, or courts in African indigenous societies, they mistakenly concluded these cultures had no way to address social conflict and wrongdoing. […] In Western culture, we are socialized to believe that the desire to inflict counterviolence upon or retaliate against someone who has hurt us or a loved one is innate and that justice has always been done and will always be done in this way. In fact, far from universal or natural, this a

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XR is Going Mainstream. Does That Mean We'll All Be Glasses Wearers Now?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 04:38:14

I'm standing in the lobby of a hotel in Hawaii, gazing into the glaring sun through the lens of Snap AR Spectacles and wondering if this is my future. The glasses are an updated version of the ones I tried out last year at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. Rather than playing with Moo Deng -- a fun little novelty -- I'm using them for things I do every day on my phone: Browsing the internet and scrolling through social videos. Right here is evidence of Snap bringing productivity and genuinely u

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AI Isn't Replacing Radiologists

news.ycombinator.com Works In Progress 2025-10-09 07:19:47

Works in Progress is becoming a print magazine. Our first print issue, Issue 21, will land in November. If you live in the United States or the United Kingdom, you can subscribe here. If you live outside the US or UK and want to be notified as soon as subscriptions are live in your country, leave your details here. CheXNet can detect pneumonia with greater accuracy than a panel of board-certified radiologists. It is an AI model released in 2017, trained on more than 100,000 chest X-rays. It is

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Shiller PE Ratio

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 08:16:52

Current Shiller PE Ratio : 39.79 -0.13 (-0.33%) Shiller PE ratio for the S&P 500. Price earnings ratio is based on average inflation-adjusted earnings from the previous 10 years, known as the Cyclically Adjusted PE Ratio (CAPE Ratio), Shiller PE Ratio, or PE 10 — FAQ. Data courtesy of Robert Shiller from his book, Irrational Exuberance .

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

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-09 12:00:01

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

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Latest Tech News

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

EU Commission responds to Apple’s call to scrap the DMA

Identity Types

ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history

Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high

The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers

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

Amazon agrees to $2.5B Prime settlement — so what’s your cut?

Your eyes will thank you: TCL launches the TAB 8 NXTPAPER 5G

OpenAI introduces personalized daily summaries with ChatGPT Pulse

Anker opens pre-orders for its Nebula X1 Pro projector system

Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe

PlayStation’s New Portable Gaming Speakers Could Be Really Good, If They Don’t Cost a Fortune

Microsoft Copilot now offers Claude models - how to try them

The tablet that easily replaced my Kindle and iPad now has a worthy successor

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse to proactively write you morning briefs

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

Vicious California Squirrel Sends at Least 2 People to the ER

XR Is Going Mainstream. Does That Mean We'll All Be Glasses Wearers Now?

'Leave VPNs Alone': Today's VPN Day of Action Protests Possible Bans

Google’s Conversational Photo Editor Is the Rare AI Feature People Will Actually Use

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

CoreWeave inks $6.5 billion deal with OpenAI

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

xAI accuses OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets in new lawsuit

Ubuntu: The Indigenous Ethos of Restorative Justice

XR is Going Mainstream. Does That Mean We'll All Be Glasses Wearers Now?

AI Isn't Replacing Radiologists

Shiller PE Ratio

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

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