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In Brief 5:16 PM PDT · July 9, 2026 Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft was replacing some of OpenAI’s software with its own in-house models in an effort to cut costs. Those in-house models, known as MAI, were increasingly being used to power apps like Word and
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The company’s annual sustainability report also says sustainability solutions aren’t keeping up with AI demands. by Stevie Bonifield Jul 10, 2026, 12:04 AM UTC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop
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In a new motion, the New York Times, Ziff Davis and 15 other media organizations say OpenAI "chose obstruction" on details about how it trains its AI models. 3 min read On Thursday, multiple news organizations accused OpenAI of withholding evidence about how the company trains its artificial
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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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OpenAI’s Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company’s AGI chief and is transitioning to being a “part-time advisor,” she said on X. The news follows Simo’s original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due to a neuroimmune
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OpenAI’s chief executive of AGI deployment, Fidji Simo, is leaving her full time role at the company and transitioning to become a part-time adviser. The move comes after Simo took a months-long medical leave due to a worsening neuroimmune condition. “Three months ago, I had to go on medical
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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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Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Thursday'
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That’s a choice. Pabradyphoto/Getty Images The US Federal Reserve has announced the industry leaders who will head up its various task forces guiding monetary policies. The country's central bank has made some baffling appointments to its productivity and jobs team, which will "Assess the economic
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OpenAI unveiled its newest family of models on Thursday, introducing a new set of heavyweight programs into an increasingly crowded field of AI offerings. GPT-5.6 comes in three variants: Sol (considered its workhorse), Terra (a more intermediate option), and Luna (its budget friendly option). These models expand what users
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OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its core. But it’s not giving up on the idea that AI should help people browse the web. Instead, it’s taking some of the agentic browsing features it tested in Atlas and redistributing them
