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What OpenAI will show the White House this week

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will brief the Trump administration this week on a model that solved an 80-year-old maths problem and hacked Hugging Face ...
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Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could escape its local VM and read credentials on a Mac

Security researchers showed Claude Cowork could exploit a Linux kernel flaw to escape its VM sandbox and access SSH keys and credentials on the host Mac ...
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Jeff Bezos says stress is a signal to work harder, not a reason to stop

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says anxiety comes from inaction, not overwork, and that stress vanishes the moment he takes the first step toward fixing a problem ...
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Apple targets WWDC 2027 for smart glasses but is still deciding on the camera question

Apple is targeting WWDC 2027 to unveil its first smart glasses but is still debating whether to include a camera amid growing privacy backlash ...
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Roku raises streaming device prices by up to 60 percent as the memory shortage reaches the living room

Roku raised prices on its entire US streaming lineup, with the Streaming Stick 4K jumping 60 percent to $80 as memory shortages squeeze consumer hardware ...
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Google confirms higher Pixel 11 prices as RAM costs surge sixfold, and says it is reworking Android to use less memory

Google VP Shakil Barkat says the Pixel 11 lineup will cost more due to a sixfold RAM price surge, and the company is reworking Android to use less memory ...
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AI chatbots are quietly becoming the uninvited third person in people’s relationships

One in five young Americans use AI for emotional support, and a Science study found chatbots are 49 percent more sycophantic than humans ...
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DeepSeek pauses its second fundraising round after founder’s leaked investor comments go viral

DeepSeek suspended its second funding round after viral posts revealed founder Liang Wenfeng discussing Nvidia chip reliance and China's AI gap ...
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EV owners are more satisfied with their cars than gas car drivers in nearly every category, JD Power finds

JD Power's 2026 APEAL study found EVs outscored combustion cars by 109 points on powertrain satisfaction and posted the biggest year-over-year gains ...
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Canon registered three new cameras. One may be a digital tribute to the legendary AE-1.

Canon registered three new EOS R cameras with wireless certification. Rumours point to an R8 II styled after the 1976 AE-1, an R7 II with a stacked sensor, and an R10 II.
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People are quietly recording every conversation they have with AI, and the person across the table has no idea

AI meeting tools like Granola now record without announcing themselves, and some users have started recording dates and personal conversations too ...
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New data shows EV batteries are lasting far longer than buyers think, yet US sales keep falling

New analyses from Recurrent and Geotab show modern EV batteries degrade far less than buyers fear, even as US sales fall 28 percent year over year ...