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Apple announced the AirPods 5 earlier this week at its September event, and they're available at Walmart from $129. The retailer also has impressive discounts on its older AirPods lineup, including the AirPods 4, the AirPods Pro 5, and Apple's Earbuds, starting at just $14.99.
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David Sacks told Anthropic and OpenAI to go ahead and pace the frontier but to stop seeking an antitrust waiver or an approval regime, arguing that product liability and market pressure already discipline them. Europe reached the same conclusion about liability in February 2025, and from 9 December treats standalone
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Vy Capital, a Dubai firm with a core investment team of four, holds about 3.4% of SpaceX worth roughly $40B, making it the fifth-largest shareholder and larger than Sequoia or Andreessen Horowitz. Europe’s sovereign alternative to Starlink costs EUR 15.6B and will not enter service until 2030.
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OpenAI will not go public this year, and Sam Altman says the reason is safety. “I would say not 2026,” he told Fortune in an interview at the company’s San Francisco headquarters on Friday. “Given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public.
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Revolut gave sensitive customer information to criminals who requested it from what appeared to be a government email address, and did so because the address was real. The company has confirmed the breach and says its systems were never touched; the story was reported by TechCrunch on Friday. A Revolut
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Renewing a US passport has historically been one of the more tedious government processes available to American citizens: printed forms, paper checks, mailed-in photos that had to meet oddly specific size requirements and weeks of waiting with no clear status updates. The State Department has been gradually dismantling that friction,
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Ben Shelton stands on the brink of becoming the first American to win the Men’s Singles title at the US Open in 23 years as the Floridian prepares to battle it out with German top seed Alexander Zverev in Sunday’s final. Our Picks Bottom Line ESPN now offers
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* Microsoft and two key US teaching federations have agreed safeguards on AI use within education across America * The American Federation of Teachers and the United Federation of Teachers have made the deal with Microsoft after months of negotiations with all parties * The AFT is in talks with other companies including
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Former President Barack Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety, according to The New York Times. Obama made these comments on Thursday, at Democratic fundraising
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At IFA 2026 I got to experience several pairs of smart specs including two from RayNeo: the impressive GT Max glasses which could be my new favorites, and the RayNeo iO. I’ve tried specs like iO before. They’re smart like Meta Ray-Bans — meaning they can link up with
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The Drakong Challenger is a no-thrills Xbox and PC controller, shorn of bells and whistles to focus on top-tier performance instead, courtesy of its Hall Effect sticks and triggers and tactile buttons. The headphone jack is a welcome addition, but it lacks wireless connectivity and customization software. Still, these omissions
