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More than three years after ChatGPT’s launch brought generative AI into the mainstream, OpenAI is broadening its focus beyond individual users to families. OpenAI is hiring a dedicated product manager in San Francisco to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults across its products.
As the AI boom boosts demand for RAM, SK Hynix — one of the world’s biggest suppliers of memory chips — launched on Wall Street Friday. The South Korean chipmaker opened at $170 per share and raised $26.5 billion, surpassing Alibaba’s record as the largest debut of a foreign company, according to reports from The Associated Press and CNN .
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On any other day, the launch of a surprisingly good/competitive Muse Spark 1.1 from Meta Superintelligence Labs, including, for the first time, in the Meta Model API (signaling high confidence for broad usage and third party testing which is bearing out in their sister models ), would deserve title story status, but they had the misfortune of going up…
Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft was replacing some of OpenAI’s software with its own in-house models to cut costs. Those in-house models, known as MAI, were being used to power apps like Word and Excel, the outlet noted.
Microsoft may once again be struggling to keep up with its own climate goals, according to its 2026 sustainability report . As reported by GeekWire , the report states that Microsoft’s carbon emissions increased 25 percent in 2025, totalling 34 million metric tons “without select interventions.” Microsoft says this was “driven primarily by the expansion of…
A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to completely consume available disk space, the researcher who discovered the flaw said. RoguePlanet, tracked as CVE-2026-50656, came to public notice in June when NightmareEclipse, the pseudonymous…
Three years ago, Sequoia partner David Cahn was one of the first people to do the math and put a number on the implications of Silicon Valley’s titanic spend on AI infrastructure. In 2023 , he was reacting to Nvidia’s reported annual GPU revenue of $50 billion.
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.
Long the leading light of the industry, Nvidia has had a bad couple of months. Bloomberg has the ugly details , but the upshot is that the company’s stock price has fallen 15% since its peak in May, even as projected revenue continues to grow.
Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it’s now using AI to “identify potential issues earlier,” which means “customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security release.” Hackers, even amateurs, have increasingly been using AI to quickly…
Today on Decoder , I’m talking with Peter Kafka, who is chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels , a podcast about the media industry. And it’s a big week for the media industry — Comcast just announced that it’s splitting itself up , into the Comcast broadband company and the NBCUniversal entertainment company.
As part of Microsoft’s big Xbox “reset,” which includes layoffs affecting 3,200 staffers, jettisoning studios, and shifting investments to focus on “higher priority projects,” Obsidian Entertainment is changing its plans. The studio, behind games like Grounded and The Outer Worlds , is starting work on a new Fallout title and has canceled “multiple…
This week, Microsoft took a huge ax to its Xbox business. The company announced that it would be laying off 1,600 workers now, 1,600 more over the next fiscal year, and that it would be shedding four studios.
Congrats to Meta Superintelligence on having the top 2/3 image/video models in the world! This would’ve been a candidate for a title story, but unfortunately that is pretty much all the detail we have about Muse Image/Video - no paper, no technical detail whatsoever.
As AI costs continue to rise , companies are looking for ways to cut back. The most recent example is Microsoft, which has reportedly begun to deploy a cost-savings strategy by relying less on software from OpenAI and Anthropic and instead deploying its own in-house models.
As part of the mass layoffs hitting Xbox, Doom developer id Software has laid off around 50 percent of its staff, according to Game Developer . One source claimed to the publication that the cuts equate to more than 90 redundancies.
Hugging Face Models on Foundry Managed Compute At Microsoft Build 2026, we announced Foundry Managed Compute and Hugging Face models on Foundry — a curated catalog of open-weight models from the Hugging Face ecosystem, refreshed weekly, deployable in one click onto Foundry Managed Compute. Weights are pre-staged in Azure, runtimes are built and scanned by…
Microsoft is addressing a Windows 11 bug that caused a folder to take up several gigabytes of storage space. As spotted earlier by Windows Latest , Microsoft included the patch in its optional June 2026 update (KB5095093) , which “improves disk space usage for the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file.” The CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file is installed on…
It’s another bad week for the video game industry. Microsoft outlined a series of layoffs on Monday that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma described as “ the most significant restructure in Xbox history .” But buried in Sharma’s memo was a curiously optimistic statement: “I want Xbox to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and…
While we congratulate (friend of the show!) General Intuition on their new model and (friend of the show!) Shunyu Yao on their new model , and the world awaits the release of GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra , people are racing to find the limits of Fable 5 before the subscription subsidy ends tomorrow . Thariq had been working on a “ Field Guide to Fable ” blog series,…
South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix, rival to Samsung and U.S.-based Micron , is planning to sell nearly 17.8 million shares in a U.S. IPO, the company said on Monday .
Last week, researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig said they’d documented the first known case of “agentic ransomware.” It was an extortion operation, dubbed JadePuffer, in which an AI agent — not a human — handled the technical execution of a real-world cyberattack from start to finish. The agent broke into a vulnerable server, stole credentials, moved…
A major rollout of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools across the NHS is being accelerated to help cut waiting lists and improve care for millions of patients. A new AI triage tool in the NHS App that helps direct patients to the most appropriate NHS service, as well as widespread access to AI notetaking tools to reduce admin for NHS staff, are among…