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NPR to get $36 million in government funds to operate U.S. public radio system
National Public Radio will receive approximately $36 million in grant money to operate the nation’s public radio interconnection system under the terms of a court settlement with the federal government’s steward...
An AI-powered teddy bear explained match-lighting and sexual role-play
As we head into the holiday season, toys with generative AI chatbots in them may start appearing on Christmas lists. A concerning report found one innocent-looking AI teddy bear...
The OxyContin settlement explained: Where the Sackler family’s $7 billion will go
Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must pay billions of dollars to settle a flood of lawsuits over the harms of opioids, under a new deal...
On-site workers get worse ‘Sunday scaries’ than remote workers
Like clockwork, 5 p.m. on a Sunday, flashes of unread emails and notifications for tomorrow’s upcoming meetings start. Your shoulders tense, your stomach knots. You have a case of...
TurboTax gets an AI upgrade as Intuit inks major deal with OpenAI
AI can do your taxes now—sort of. The tax software giant Intuit just struck a new deal with OpenAI that will weave AI deeply into its portfolio of financial...
Meta wins antitrust case involving WhatsApp and Instagram
Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does...
AMD, ARM, INTC, NVDA: Chip stock prices are falling across the board today. Here’s the reason why
The most closely watched earnings report of the quarter is tomorrow. That’s when AI chipmaking giant Nvidia will announce its third-quarter results. Ahead of those results, Nvidia shares are...
Bill McKibben says Bill Gates is wrong about climate change—and he’s part of a bigger problem
In his new book, Here Comes The Sun, author and activist Bill McKibben argues that we’re at a tipping point where solar and wind power is now cheaper to...
What to know about tech’s newest buzzword: ‘agentic’ AI
For technology adopters looking for the next big thing, “agentic AI” is the future. At least, that’s what the marketing pitches and tech industry T-shirts say. What makes an...
Cloudflare outage disrupts ChatGPT, X, and more
A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game “League of...
Meta’s AI spending spree has even the most bullish stock analysts wondering: How much capex is too much?
Meta Platforms has been spending too aggressively on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and that will affect the tech giant’s profitability, according to a new investor note from Wall Street...
