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When GM announced its new fourth-generation EV platform on Wednesday, what the automaker didn’t share was almost as notable as what it did. The new EV platform, part of a series of technology-focused announced during its annual GM Forward event in New York, didn’t talk about suspension geometries,
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! OpenAI has revealed that two of its AI agents disabled their own safety monitoring systems while making software changes requested by a researcher. Even more worryingly, one of the agents lied about its
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Featured Podcasts Great Chat: AI's Spooky Season A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer. Subscribe to Great Chat. Sundar Pichai on Gemini 4 and the AI compute crunch Candid conversations with the leaders shaping
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to connect
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Walmart is embracing agentic commerce with the launch of its own Agent Gateway to manage transactions and other new features aimed at customers using AI agents, the retailer announced on Wednesday. The move comes shortly after Walmart’s top competitor, Amazon, began blocking AI agents from making purchases on behalf
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For U.S. Hunger, feeding families takes more than delivering food to them. It takes understanding the people behind each request, the pressures they face, and the business that makes the mission possible. That means connecting information across the organization. Its mission is to feed families today and unite them
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The internet is having a bad day, from a cybersecurity perspective. Government websites around the world went offline, Reuters reported, after AI discovered critical security vulnerabilities that impacted the programming language PHP. The issues were severe enough that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) advised organizations using PHP on
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Sony just released system firmware 14.20 for its PlayStation 5 consoles, following reports that system firmware version 14.10 had already been cracked. While Sony's official patch note for the update is "We've improved the messages and usability on some screens," the console
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In a blog post and accompanying YouTube video, AMD has just revealed that it is bringing its ML-powered upscaling technology, FSR 4.1, to the Xbox Series S and X consoles, to Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs, and to integrated graphics, including the Xbox Ally handhelds as well as Ryzen AI
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In Brief 11:51 AM PDT · October 21, 2026 Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion. The company helps automate and assist with workflow tasks for legal professionals, as the industry moves beyond AI assistants to
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ZDNET’s key takeaways * OpenAI agents turned off alignment monitoring during internal tasks. * In one instance, Astra lied about removing monitoring. * The behavior indicates safety risks. OpenAI published an alignment report late Tuesday showing that its agents suppressed a safety monitoring system while running routine internal coding tasks. Also: Claude
