I’ve recently developed a daily habit—perhaps one I should cut back on—of visiting several subreddits to keep up on things like audio production and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off; Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone. Instead,...
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White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available.
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Anthropic and Wall Street Giants Join Forces to Create New A.I. Firm
Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are among the investors in the new firm, which will help integrate Anthropic’s A.I. model Claude into their systems.
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GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it’ll pay for it
GameStop yesterday made an unsolicited offer to buy eBay for $55.5 billion. GameStop claims that eBay has underperformed and spends too much on sales and marketing and argues that it would become a stronger company if it cuts costs and is combined with GameStop’s physical retail locations. “GameStop’s ~1,600 US locations give eBay a national...
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(BPRW) NABJ Announces 2026 Convention Co-Chairs & Program Co-Chairs
(Black PR Wire) The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is proud to announce the Co-chairs for the 2026 NABJ Convention & Career Fair, taking place in Atlanta, Georgia from August 12 -16, 2026. Under this year’s powerful theme,…
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Why So Many People Already Own Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Even before the rocket company holds a major initial public offering, many people own stock in it through so-called special purpose vehicles.
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Pentagon Makes Deals With A.I. Companies to Expand Classified Work
The agreements with the technology companies come amid the Defense Department’s dispute with Anthropic.
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Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ever since, a situation that’s preventing the OS provider from communicating normally following the botched disclosure of a major vulnerability. Attempts to connect to most Ubuntu and Canonical webpages and download OS updates from Ubuntu servers...
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Elon Musk’s A.I. Claims of Danger Face Limits in OpenAI Trial
One of Elon Musk’s abiding fears is that A.I. could one day threaten humans. But the jurors deciding his suit against OpenAI probably won’t hear about it.
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Apple Reports 17% Sales Jump, Powered by iPhones
John Ternus, who will take over in September, spoke publicly on an investor call for the first time since his new job was announced.