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Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moon
"Please jump on my cislunar bandwagon because I need some more friends here."
You can grab three months of Game Pass Ultimate for under $20 per month
The price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has fluctuated between $20 and $30 per month over the last year, but you can get three months of the top plan for around $19 per month. At Newegg, using the coupon
Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutiny
Jensen Huang’s alleged affair with a suspected Chinese spy threatens to complicate Nvidia’s lobbying efforts to loosen U.S. chip export restrictions and maintain access to China’s lucrative AI market.
Instagram’s Effect Builder makes new filters from AI prompts
After expanding its Edits app to macOS last week, Instagram's next move is launching this Effect Builder that generates custom filters for your Stories posts with AI. Available now for US residents wh
Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution
At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.
James Gunn is out as DC movie leader
James Gunn. | AFP via Getty Images Soon, James Gunn and Peter Safran will no longer head up Skydance's DC Studios. After taking the helm of DC Studios as co-CEOs in 2022, Gunn and Safran are being rep
The future of AI hinges on… Jensen Huang’s sex life?
Step 1. Cut a hole in the box. | Image: The Verge I would prefer that these people's sex lives were none of my business but I guess we have to talk about Jensen Huang and the National Security Inciden
Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub
"Do not ask again" prompt leads to passwords, API keys, and more being shared.
Uber wants to park your car now, too
Uber announced the launch of Uber Parking, a native in-app reservation feature that allows drivers to find, book, and pay for garage and lot spaces ahead of time. The new feature is a result of Uber's
Uber launches parking service following SpotHero acquisition, with an eye on robotaxis
Uber Parking is the latest example of the company offering products beyond its core ride-hailing service.
Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines
Anthropic bought billions of dollars worth of natural gas turbines in a deal that could give it buyer's remorse.
Sony’s new PlayStation Portal handheld includes ‘additional’ internal storage
Sony is launching a new version of its PlayStation Portal exclusively in Japan next month. The updated model will launch in the midnight black color option we've seen before, and will include "additio
Medium’s new TK app brings AI assistance directly into the writing process
Medium's new writing app embraces AI-assisted writing, despite growing controversy over the technology's role in publishing.
Trump’s 60 Minutes interview touched on AI safety, threat to arrest an AI exec
Asked about AI executives' warnings about their models' safety on 60 Minutes, Trump said, "I think that the risk is not nearly as real as it- as they talk, and I think the risk can be managed, and it'
SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says
"Grok analyzing the same video is 99.9 percent perfect."
Disney and Adobe are building generative AI tools together
Who wants a hand-designed and creatively curated monorail anyway. | Image: Disney / Adobe The Walt Disney Company has teamed up with Adobe to develop proprietary "artist-led" generative AI models to s
Meta expands Instagram’s AI age-guessing tech globally
Meta says it will use its AI technology to look for clues about people it suspects to be teenagers — even if they use an adult birthday.
Hold up — I had a great time talking to the RIAA guy
Today, I’m talking with Mitch Glazier, who is CEO and chairman of the RIAA. This conversation was a real full-circle moment for me: I was in college when Napster hit, and the RIAA became everyone’s vi