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Microsoft says today’s Xbox shakeup doesn’t mean game studio layoffs (theverge.com)

2026-02-20 | by Sean Hollister | get Xbox Series X → | tags: booty, booty wrote, boss

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Get Ready to Become Obsessed With the New Horror Film ‘Obsession’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-12 | get Film → | tags: barker, barker wrote, curry

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AI Is a Burnout Machine (futurism.com)

2026-02-12 | by Frank Landymore | get Neural Network → | tags: employees, khare, problems

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Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-11 | by Rebecca Bellan | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: february, left, musk

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OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-11 | get Chatbot → | tags: chatgpt, hitzig, openai

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Senior engineers, including co-founders, exit xAI amid controversy (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-11 | by Rebecca Bellan | get Neural Network → | tags: february, founder, left

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It Turns Out ‘Social Media for AI Agents’ Is a Security Nightmare (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-02 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: fake, fake fake, fake meaning

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Zoom's 'hidden gem' investment in Anthropic could be worth $2 billion to $4 billion, analysts say (cnbc.com)

2026-01-26 | by Ashley Capoot | get Neuralink → | tags: analysts, analysts wrote, anthropic

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Substack now has a TV app (engadget.com)

2026-01-22 | get Podcast → | tags: media, substack, tv app

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OpenAI acquires health-care technology startup Torch for $60 million, source says (cnbc.com)

2026-01-12 | by Ashley Capoot | get Chatbot → | tags: abyzov, abyzov wrote, acquired

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OpenAI acquires health-care technology startup Torch (cnbc.com)

2026-01-12 | by Ashley Capoot | get Torch AI → | tags: abyzov, abyzov wrote, acquired

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Anthropic wants you to use Claude to ‘Cowork’ in latest AI agent push (theverge.com)

2026-01-12 | by Hayden Field | get Cloud → | tags: anthropic, anthropic wrote, claude

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Baldur’s Gate 3 studio says it won’t use AI for concept art or writing (theverge.com)

2026-01-09 | by Ash Parrish | get Game engine → | tags: assets, larian, text

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A viral Reddit post alleging fraud from a food delivery app turned out to be AI-generated (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-06 | by Amanda Silberling | get Food Delivery App → | tags: newton, reddit, viral

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Starlink is lowering thousands of satellites' orbits to reduce risk of collisions (engadget.com)

2026-01-02 | get Starlink Satellites → | tags: lowering, minimum, nicolls

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Police charge driver who allegedly killed a pedestrian while livestreaming on TikTok (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-28 | by Anthony Ha | get Smartphone → | tags: charged, mccarty, mccarty wroten

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Even LinkedIn has hopped on the Spotify Wrapped train (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-19 | get Spotify Wrapped → | tags: came, came snapchat, crew

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Meta Is Planning to Raise Prices on a Popular Product, According to a Leaked Memo (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-11 | get Facebook → | tags: cairns wrote, memo, meta

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OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-02 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: altman, chatgpt, gemini

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The Go-Between (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-22 | by Brooke Kroeger | get The Product Name is: Facebook Messenger → | tags: daily, helen, later

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Verizon confirms plans to lay off 13,000 employees (engadget.com)

2025-11-20 | get Network → | tags: close, fund, schulman

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Meta wins monopoly trial, convinces judge that social networking is dead (arstechnica.com)

2025-11-18 | get Facebook → | tags: apps, boasberg, boasberg wrote

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Microsoft Forms Superintelligence Team Under AI Chief Suleyman 'To Serve Humanity' (slashdot.org)

2025-11-06 | get Microsoft Forms → | tags: building, clear, companions

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Jefferson’s paradox: How one of the largest slaveholders penned the words “All men are created equal” (feeds.washingtonpost.com)

2025-11-03 | by Michael Kranish | get Inequality → | tags: declaration, independence, jefferson

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Google investors have big expectations after stock’s sharpest quarterly rally in 20 years (cnbc.com)

2025-10-31 | by Jennifer Elias | get Chromebook → | tags: ai, analysts, google

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Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House (futurism.com)

2025-10-31 | by Joe Wilkins | get smartphone → | tags: device, narayanan, smart

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Ask HN: Why is software quality collapsing? (Apple Calculator leaks 32GB RAM) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: 79gb, macos, quality

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AI “Friend” Startup Overwhelmed With Hatred (futurism.com)

2025-10-31 | by Victor Tangermann | get Meta Quest → | tags: ai, device, friend

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‘The Predator’ Director Thanks ‘Prey’ and ‘Badlands’ Director for Saving the Franchise (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Cheryl Eddy | get digital camera → | tags: black, directed, franchise

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A Top Engineer Reveals OpenAI’s Culture of Secrets and Chaos (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Luc Olinga | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: company, french, openai