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What’s Driving the Turnover at Musk’s AI Startup?

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-18 20:50:37

Elon Musk’s xAI has lost a large number of top executives in recent months—so many that onlookers have begun to wonder what’s causing the high turnover rate. Now, new reporting from the Wall Street Journal suggests some of those executives may have left due to internal conflict over the management style at the company and disagreements over its financial projections. The list of executives who have recently departed Musk’s firm includes Mike Liberatore, the company’s former chief financial offi

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You Can Save $200 on Samsung’s Elite Gaming Monitor Today

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-09-18 20:45:16

Looking for an impressive gaming monitor to match your powerful desktop? The 32-inch version of the Samsung Odyssey G8 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is currently marked down from $1,300 to just $1,100. Only the beefiest gaming rigs can dream of powering its 3,840 x 2,160-pixel resolution at the full 240-Hz refresh rate, but those who can will be hard-pressed to find anything stronger. I got to spend some time with the 27-inch version of this panel and was extremely impressed with its incredible imag

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The FTC sues Ticketmaster for allegedly colluding with resellers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 00:13:37

The FTC and seven states sued Ticketmaster owner Live Nation on Wednesday. The lawsuit accused the company of knowingly allowing brokers to buy tickets in bulk. Ticketmaster allegedly then let them resell the tickets at a significant markup on its own second-hand market. The FTC claims Ticketmaster was aware that resellers routinely bypassed its security measures for these purchases. The company profits three times from resales. It collects fees at the initial purchase, followed by both buyer a

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Meta will let outside developers create AI-powered apps for its smart glasses

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 00:41:59

Meta's lineup of smart glasses could soon get a lot more capabilities. The company will begin allowing outside developers to bring their apps to its RayBan and Oakley smart glasses, Meta announced on the second day of its Connect event. Up to now, Meta has only had a limited number of third-party integrations for its glasses, with apps like Spotify and Audible. But Meta will now allow developers to start experimenting with apps that can take advantage of the built-in sensors and audio capabilit

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Notion rides AI boom to $500 million in annual revenue, but Microsoft competition looms

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-09-19 04:00:28

OpenAI's public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 is widely viewed as the event that kicked off the generative AI boom, which remains the dominant theme in the tech industry almost three years later. Notion jumped on the bandwagon early. Two weeks before ChatGPT hit the market, the productivity software startup announced its own artificial intelligence feature using an OpenAI model. Notion AI was designed to be a "writing assistant" that could help a user with brainstorming, editing and summa

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Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot AI assistant is coming to Windows PCs and the Xbox mobile app

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 04:54:52

Microsoft's Gaming Copilot AI assistant is officially coming to Windows PCs and the Xbox mobile app. The company has been testing the tool for PCs with Xbox Insiders, but now it's getting a broader rollout. To that end, it'll be available to players aged 18 and older on the PC Game Bar. The Xbox app version rolls out this October, for both Android and iOS, after a beta test took place earlier this year. Microsoft says that its Gaming Copilot will be available throughout the globe, except in mai

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The New ‘Critical Role’ Trailer Ushers in Campaign 4

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-19 04:15:24

Change is coming to Critical Role with its fourth major campaign: a new setting, more cast members, and Dimension 20‘s Brennan Lee Mulligan at the helm make things more different than they’ve been in some time for the decade-old Actual Play series. Ahead of Campaign 4’s debut in three weeks, the first real trailer gives an idea of what to expect with this new dynamic. It largely consists of Mulligan narrating as the assembled players actually play the game—it’s Dungeons & Dragons again, the go-

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Northrop Grumman successfully resupplies ISS after overcoming software glitch

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-19 04:38:54

Running a day late, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo freighter pulled alongside the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering more than 5 tons of supplies and experiments to the lab's seven-person crew. NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took control of the space station's robotic arm to capture the Cygnus spacecraft at 7:24 am EDT (11:24 UTC) on Thursday. A short time later, the robot arm positioned the spacecraft over an attachment port on the station's Unity module, and 16 bolts drove clos

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Notion launches agents for data analysis and task automation

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-19 04:00:00

At the “Make with Notion” event on Thursday, the company announced the launch of its first AI agent. The agent will draw on all a user’s notion pages and database as context, automatically generating notes and analysis for meetings, competitor evaluation reports, and feedback landing pages. The productivity platform said that the agent can create pages and databases, or update them with new data, properties, or views. Users can also trigger Notion agents from outside platforms that are linked t

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US government charges British teenager accused of at least 120 ‘Scattered Spider’ hacks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-09-19 04:27:33

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday unsealed federal charges against British teenager Thalha Jubair, who prosecutors accuse of being involved in at least 120 cyberattacks, including the U.S. Courts system, and the extortion of dozens of U.S. companies. Jubair, 19, was arrested on Tuesday at his home in East London, according to a statement by the National Crime Agency. He appeared in court on Thursday morning in London alongside another teenager, Owen Flowers, 18. Both are accused of inv

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Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 21:51:06

Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet One of my favourite features added to web browsers in the last few years is text fragments. Text fragments allow you to link directly to specific text on a web page, and some browsers will highlight the linked text – for example, by scrolling to it, or adding a coloured highlight. This is useful if I’m linking to a long page that doesn’t have linkable headings – I want it to be easy for readers to find the part of the page I was looking for. Here’s

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Google Launches AI-ified Chrome Browser

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-19 08:00:37

Earlier this month, Google avoided having to sell off its Chrome browser as a penalty for operating an illegal monopoly in its search business, and now it’s going all in on features that will keep users further ingrained in the Google ecosystem. On Thursday, the company announced a reimagined version of the Chrome browser that will be littered with AI features, including Gemini integration throughout the browser and an agentic AI that can navigate the web and complete tasks on behalf of the user

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Nvidia, Intel to co-develop “multiple generations” of chips as part of $5 billion deal

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-19 07:47:20

In a major collaboration that would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago, Nvidia announced today that it was buying a total of $5 billion in Intel stock, giving Intel's competitor ownership of roughly 4 percent of the company. In addition to the investment, the two companies said that they would be co-developing "multiple generations of custom data center and PC products." "The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting NVIDIA and Intel architectures using NVIDIA NVLink," reads Nvi

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Netskope opens at $23 after cybersecurity firm prices shares at top of range

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-19 12:44:43

Netskope shares opened at $23 in their Nasdaq debut after the cybersecurity software provider sold shares at the top end of its range. Shares were last up more than 20%. The company, which trades under the ticker symbol "NTSK," priced shares at $19 on Wednesday evening, raising over $908 million and valuing the company at $7.3 billion. Earlier this week, the company upped its expected range from between $15 and $17 a share to $17 to $19. CEO and co-founder Sanjay Beri said in an interview wit

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Notepad's AI writing features will soon run locally on Copilot+ PCs

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 12:35:18

CoPilot+ PC owners have a new perk in the pipeline. Your AI PC will soon perform Notepad's AI writing features on-device — no subscription required. The app's summarize, write and rewrite options were introduced earlier this year. Up to this point, you've needed a CoPilot Pro or Microsoft 365 subscription to use Notepad's AI writing tools. So, if you've splurged on an AI PC, this could save you a few bucks each month. And if you have both a subscription and a CoPilot+ PC, it lets you choose bet

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Zoning out in meetings? Google Meet's new feature can catch you up in real time

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-09-19 12:44:28

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Ask Gemini is now available for some Google Meet users. It offers meeting notes, key takeaways, and live summaries. The AI assistant protects user privacy and has some limitations. Your Google Meet meetings are about to get more helpful, thanks to additional Gemini features built into the platform. According to Google, new Ask Gemini features include real-time summaries of what someone

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Linking to Text Fragments with a Bookmarklet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 02:51:06

Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet One of my favourite features added to web browsers in the last few years is text fragments. Text fragments allow you to link directly to specific text on a web page, and some browsers will highlight the linked text – for example, by scrolling to it, or adding a coloured highlight. This is useful if I’m linking to a long page that doesn’t have linkable headings – I want it to be easy for readers to find the part of the page I was looking for. Here’s

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Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel, co-develop new server and PC chips

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-19 12:47:20

In a major collaboration that would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago, Nvidia announced today that it was buying a total of $5 billion in Intel stock, giving Intel's competitor ownership of roughly 4 percent of the company. In addition to the investment, the two companies said that they would be co-developing "multiple generations of custom data center and PC products." "The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting NVIDIA and Intel architectures using NVIDIA NVLink," reads Nvi

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Satya Nadella is haunted at the prospect of Microsoft not surviving the AI era

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-19 12:00:00

“Some of the biggest businesses we’ve built might not be as relevant going forward,” admitted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during an employee-only town hall last week. Nadella was responding to a question about the perceived change in culture inside Microsoft, but his answer revealed a lot more about his own fears over Microsoft’s future in this AI era. “Our industry is full of case studies of companies that were great once, that just disappeared. I’m haunted by one particular one called DEC,” s

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China closes antitrust probe into Google's Android operating system

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 15:58:16

China is ending its antitrust probe into Google, which had centered around Android’s ubiquity in the mobile world and what impact, if any, it was having on Chinese phone makers like Oppo and Xiaomi that use the software. As reported by the Financial Times , this move comes amid ongoing discussions between the US and Chinese governments over TikTok , NVIDIA , tariffs and the broader trading relationship between the world's two largest economies. Google's search engine remains blocked in China, a

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ChatGPT just got a new personalization hub. Not everyone is happy about it

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-18 20:42:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI has updated ChatGPT's personalization page. The page includes personality options, memory toggles, and more. Not all users feel seen or heard by the update. OpenAI is making it easier for ChatGPT users to customize what it calls the chatbot's "personality" and communication style. ChatGPT now offers an updated personalization page, which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previewed in a Tues

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NASA Mission to Map Sun’s Protective Bubble Could Help Better Predict Dangerous Space Weather

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-19 16:38:43

The Sun is an energetic star, constantly radiating energy and pumping streams of charged particles out into space. And while this solar wind can be dangerous in itself, without it, Earth and all the other members of our planetary system would be at constant risk of threats from outer space. Our host star creates a protective bubble called the heliosphere that extends far beyond the orbit of Neptune, shielding the planets from the interstellar medium. Yet though we may owe our existence to this b

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Microsoft is turning Foxconn’s empty buildings into the ‘world’s most powerful’ AI data center

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-19 16:27:11

is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Today Microsoft announced its plans to bring a Fairwater AI data center, which it claims is the “world’s most powerful,” online in early 2026. The $3.3 billion construction in Wisconsin is housed at the site of Foxconn’ s failed LCD factory which was announced in 2017, but by the end of 2018

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Massive collection of Apple gear on sale this week: M4 MacBooks, Mac mini, iPad Air/mini, accessories, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-09-19 20:00:40

Pre-orders for iPhone 17 are about to come to a close ahead of delivery day tomorrow, alongside pre-sale listings on the new AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and Apple Watch Series 11, but there are a ton of notable deals live right now across the Apple lineup. From M4 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models through to M4 Mac mini, we are also tracking solid price drops across the M3 iPad Air and iPad mini lineups, not to mention some notable accessory offers – Apple’s new 2025 model 25W Qi2 MagSa

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Windows Paint just got a major Photoshop-like upgrade you'll want to try - what's new

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-19 20:31:00

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Windows 11 Paint can now save your work with all edits intact. Paint also now lets you adjust the transparency of your strokes. The new features are rolling out to Windows 11 insiders. One of the many handy features in Adobe Photoshop is the ability to save your work as a PSD file with all your layers, edits, and adjustments intact. You can then open that file when you want

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I Love Hallmark Movies, but This New Netflix Flick Shakes Up the Rom-Com Formula

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 19:00:18

You could argue that the newly released Miranda Cosgrove romance movie, The Wrong Paris, which arrived on Netflix last week, could have been a Hallmark movie. As someone who covers a lot of streaming and television content, I've watched at least 100 Hallmark movies over the course of my career, and the plot of The Wrong Paris, at least on paper, is the perfect Hallmark film. In it, a broke artist named Dawn (Cosgrove) applies to a dating show, thinking it takes place in Paris, France, but to he

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Nvidia buys $5 billion stake in Intel, planning AI chip collaboration

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-09-19 20:31:18

Nvidia has agreed to buy a $5 billion stake in Intel as part of a broader deal to together develop “multiple generations” of data center and PC products. Nvidia will acquire the Intel stock for $23.28 per share, a slight discount on the companies previous trading price. According to Reuters, the deal would make Nvidia one of Intel’s largest shareholders, owning about 4% of the company. Intel shares were up as much as 30% in early trading on Thursday morning. The companies will integrate their

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Google and PayPal team up on agentic commerce

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-19 20:58:22

In Brief PayPal announced on Wednesday a new multi-year partnership with Google that will see the payments giant using Google’s AI technology to create new AI-powered shopping experiences. PayPal’s solutions, meanwhile, will be integrated across Google’s products, and PayPal will work with Google Cloud on hosting and improving its technology infrastructure. The companies did not detail what specific types of agentic shopping experiences they would work together to create, but said Google would

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New Report Finds That China's Space Program Is Rapidly Outstripping NASA

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-19 23:05:54

While the sitting US government strips NASA of its expert leadership and funding, it seems China is more than happy to take up the mantle. A new report from the Commercial Space Federation, a lobbying group fighting for the interests of the privatized space industry, found that China's space program is experiencing a meteoric rise, and will soon pose a significant challenge to the US' dominant position in space. Posed as a "risk assessment" of the pressure Chinese competition puts on "American

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Notepad gets free AI features on Copilot+ PCs with Windows 11

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-20 00:50:04

Microsoft is adding free AI-powered text writing capabilities to Notepad for customers with Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11. Currently, this change is being rolled out to Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels, who have upgraded to Notepad version 11.2508.28.0. The AI-powered text summarization, text rewriting, and text generation features introduced for Windows 11 users over the last year are normally available with Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, and Copilot Pro subscriptions. T

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Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel, co-develop new server and PC chips

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Nvidia buys $5 billion stake in Intel, planning AI chip collaboration

Google and PayPal team up on agentic commerce

New Report Finds That China's Space Program Is Rapidly Outstripping NASA

Notepad gets free AI features on Copilot+ PCs with Windows 11

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