Last week, the Trump administration began sending $500 checks to roughly 1 million Obamacare enrollees in 30 states—a “refund” for what the administration calls “high costs imposed by the Biden Administration’s gross mismanagement of Obamacare.” In a video posted to X...

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Cats are having a moment. In American homes, cats have long played second fiddle to dogs. More U.S. households own dogs, but the balance is starting to tip. Last year, the number of U.S. homes with a dog under a year old was basically equal to the number of homes with...

While OpenAI and Anthropic stoke fears over rogue agents, Canadian model dev Cohere promises enterprises a safer and more consistent experience. On Monday, the company said it revamped its North agent harness, which launched early last year, to improve collaboration,...

Apple’s attempt to integrate AI into its various operating systems hasn’t been entirely well received, nor has the decision to make Apple Intelligence increasingly difficult to disable completely. Thankfully, the open source community has come to the rescue. A...

The FBI and law enforcement partners have arrested “multiple” suspects as part of an investigation into a September hack allegedly involving data-theft-and-extortion group ShinyHunters, the bureau told The Register. “The bureau continues to aggressively investigate...

Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.

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Capcom saw tremendous success with the launch of Resident Evil Requiem earlier this year. The survival horror game has already sold more than 8.5 million copies, bringing in revenues topping $500 million and reigniting interest in the 30-year-old franchise. Resident...

”No more AI. SI, it’s better,” said Elon Musk after announcing that he is rebranding his newly-branded artificial intelligence division: SpaceXAI will become SpaceXSI, replacing the acronym “AI” with “SI”, which stands for “super intelligence.” His X post came after a...

Copper sulfate crystals are probably among one of the prettiest crystals you can grow at home, with even just a simple setup with some copper scrap and vinegar already capable of producing lots of them. Yet what if you want to grow really big ones? In that case the...

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The pledge signed by the president and tech CEOs misspelled "United States," which is surely a sign of good things to come.

Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post.

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute. Weights are due this month.

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