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Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership

Amazon MGM has dropped its partnership on director Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman biopic "Artificial," starring Andrew…

Charles Schwab Planning to Roll Out S&P 500 Prediction Markets With Cboe: WSJ

Global financial institution Charles Schwab is the latest firm hoping to steal a piece of the growing prediction market…

'We created a monster': companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

GPT-5.6 Rumors Heat Up as Users Swear ChatGPT Suddenly Got Smarter

Many AI users are convinced that OpenAI is quietly running GPT-5.6 inside ChatGPT. OpenAI isn't confirming anything.

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good

Research indicates that professionals increasingly relying on AI tools in their work may experience skill atrophy as…

Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and your PC's stability

Microsoft has confirmed a bug in the June 2026 Windows 11 update (KB5095051) that displays cryptic internal filenames…

John Jumper to join Anthropic

A New Bill Takes Aim at Government Pressure to Silence Lawful Online Speech

Senators Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden introduced the JAWBONE Act, bipartisan legislation that creates a federal cause of…

Agentic Coding Is a Trap

# Summary The article argues that relying too heavily on AI-assisted coding tools can cause developers to atrophy…

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks

The Arch User Repository (AUR) recently suffered a sustained attack in which malicious actors created fake accounts to…

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies. 

Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access

Google Workspace is warning Firefox users that they must use Chrome to access the service, though Firefox access…

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics, Atlas humanoid to be used at vehicle plant by 2028

Hyundai has acquired full ownership of Boston Dynamics for $325 million by purchasing SoftBank's remaining stake, giving…

Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controllers

A PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) controller is a feedback-based automation system that continuously compares a…

Spotify Killed the Thrill of the Hunt

A musician reflects on how Spotify and streaming services have diminished the thrill of discovering music by making it…

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

Recent AI benchmarks reveal that larger models don't necessarily perform better in real-world accuracy, with…

Most portable air conditioners suck – but there's an easy fix

Efficiency ratings on portable air conditioners don’t give consumers the full picture, and one type of aircon unit is so…

Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5,…

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home

Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.

I restarted a 10 year old Xeon 174 times to delete 12 flags and gain 4 tps

A developer performed 174 restarts of a 10-year-old Xeon processor to systematically test which of 25 configuration…

There Are No Instances in ATProto

# Summary ATProto differs fundamentally from Mastodon's federated instance model—there are no instances in ATProto…

Amazon Won't Release Sam Altman Film 'Artificial' Following $50 Billion OpenAI Investment

Amazon is pulling out of "Artificial," a film about Sam Altman's brief ouster from OpenAI, not long after investing $50…

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

Kalshi in early IPO talks with investment banks: Report

The prediction market platform is reportedly exploring a public listing after surpassing $2 billion in annualized…

The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no employees

Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.

Leave a Trace

The article advocates for leaving comments and feedback across the internet—whether praising helpful blog posts,…

Google is turning Android into a 'sloperating' system. Your thoughts?

Google has released Android 17, positioning it as a transition from a traditional operating system to an "intelligence…