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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launch looks aimed directly at Anthropic. * Sol, Terra, and Luna map closely to GPT-5.5's tiers. * ChatGPT Work brings OpenAI's agent tools beyond coding. OpenAI cranked
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TL;DR Elon Musk said on The Sean Hannity Show that SpaceX’s record IPO has probably made “several thousand” of his employees millionaires, framing years of stock grants as a deliberate policy to let staff share the upside. Estimates put the count at about 4,400 new millionaires and
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For more than a decade, the biggest fight in self-driving cars has played out in boardrooms and engineering labs. New Jersey now wants to settle it in law. A bill moving through the state legislature would force any company running fully driverless cars in New Jersey to fit them with
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A group of news publishers has asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI. The New York Times, the Daily News, and others allege the ChatGPT maker is concealing evidence central to their copyright case, the Associated Press reports. A filing on Thursday in Manhattan federal court claims OpenAI
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Jeff Bezos is letting outside investors into Blue Origin for the first time since he founded it in 2000. The rocket company is seeking about $10bn in fresh capital at a $130bn pre-money valuation, according to CNBC. For 26 years, Bezos bankrolled the company himself, selling billions in Amazon stock
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Google is rolling out a feature that flags when an advertisement was made using AI. The label will indicate if an ad was created or edited with generative tools, TechCrunch reports. The disclosure appears in the “My Ad Center” panel, reachable via the three-dot menu or info icon on ads.
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* Apex Recordhunter drone unofficially set a new air speed record of 434 mph * High-speed demonstrator will help develop next-gen military drones * Company targets further records with interceptor drones soon Germany’s Quantum Systems Group has broken the world airspeed record for an electric drone, hitting speeds of 699km/h (434mph)
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. You can see if ads on Google Search, Google Discover, and YouTube were made or edited using AI from a new section in Google’
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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If Google’s AI tools are used, it will automatically be noted in My Ad Center. Google is adding more tools for transparency around generative AI use in advertisements. The My Ad Center panel now has a section with 'How this ad was made' information. It will be
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Funk became the oldest person to fly in space in 2021. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Wally Funk, an accomplished pilot who became the oldest person to fly to space in 2021, has died at the age of 87. Funk died on July 8 at her home in Grapevine, Texas, The
