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.
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Last 44 daysDonald Trump’s Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federal agents shot and killed a man and quickly got to work justifying the use of force under the flimsiest of pretenses.
Hot showers, like electricity, are a luxury that’s easy to take for granted. That all changes after a few nights camping at a music festival, a week toiling at a backcountry job site, or overlanding all summer in the great unknown.
So dancing bugs got upstaged by kpop girls , there’s the whole Bun vs Zig drama , and yesterday’s ChatGPT/Codex superapp launch was bumpier than expected , and the reset button was pressed a couple times to compensate. After buying Statsig and making a big deal out of GPT5’s routing/getting rid of the model picker , the main issue now is that GPT 5.6’s…
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup’s hardware plans. In its complaint , Apple says it uncovered “a pattern of theft of Apple’s trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple.” In addition to OpenAI, the lawsuit also names IO Products — Jony Ive’s hardware startup, which OpenAI bought…
Apple filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI over allegations of trade secret theft and breach of contract. The iPhone maker alleges that this misconduct, which it says reveals a pattern of theft from OpenAI employees who previously worked at Apple, was directed by OpenAI’s senior leadership, including Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan .
Advocates are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who was killed by ICE officers in Houston during a traffic stop earlier this week. But DHS claims the agents involved in the shooting weren’t wearing body cameras because of the lengthy government…
When Niantic dropped the first Pokémon Go trailer in 2015, it was hard to grasp how a bunch of players could work together to catch a pokémon like Mewtwo. But this week at the game’s 10th anniversary event in New York City, Pokémon Go showed the world how it’s done.
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue . The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500.
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue . The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500.
Spotify is giving listeners control to fine-tune what gets surfaced for them in Release Radar — one of its most popular weekly playlists. The new options allow you to narrow the playlist to a specific genre, focus on artists that are new to you, and more.
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 .
Disney Plus is considering making some of its content free to watch, according to a report from Business Insider . A source tells the outlet that Adam Smith, Disney’s chief product and technology officer, mentioned a free streaming tier during the company’s town hall on Thursday.
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The Trump phone was never a serious phone. Not when it was announced last June , in dodgy renders and with an incoherent spec sheet.
I love it when a company challenges itself to make a cheaper version of a beloved product. Xreal’s $299 A01 Plus is a stripped-down version of its $449 1S that’s light on features but with just enough of the 1S’ best qualities.
A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one — instead, it’s offering to pay its customers to put its compute units in their homes. Sunrun is launching a pilot program for a new “distributed AI compute” program that will “place numerous compute nodes in homes equipped with Sunrun solar and battery…
Journal of Financial Planning: June 2026 NOTE: Please be aware that the audio version, created with Amazon Polly, may contain mispronunciations. Executive Summary This study evaluated the consistency and fairness of financial recommendations generated by seven widely used GenAI tools across three core areas of household financial planning: emergency…
This week should have been a celebration for Doom developer id Software. The studio just launched Revelations , a meaty expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages that adds a powerful new weapon and more demonic levels to blast through.
Profiling in PyTorch (Part 3): Attention is all you profile The series "Profiling in PyTorch" is meant to make you comfortable reading profiler traces and tables. In Part 1 we profiled basic math operations like addition and multiplication.
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…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role, The Wall Street Journal reports .
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…
OpenAI unveiled its newest family of models on Thursday, introducing a 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).
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? After users on X implied that Musk could wake up one day and simply boot the AI lab from SpaceX’s servers as a way to kneecap a rival, Musk replied with glowing praise for the AI lab.