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Meta invests $14 billion in Scale to catch up in the AI race
Meta is paying $14.3 billion to acquire 49 percent of Scale AI and hire its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to revamp its troubled AI efforts. As part of the deal, Wang will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and remain on Scale’s board of directors, both companies announced on Thursday. Sources say Wang will lead a new AI lab at…
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Borderlands 2 Is Completely Free on Steam, But There’s a Catch!
This evening, I was browsing the internet for some good deals, and well well, Borderlands 2 is now completely free on Steam. Yes, you can grab the game only until Sunday, June 8, at 10:00 AM PT. This limited-time offer lets you claim the base game forever, no strings attached. With Borderlands 4 confirmed to launch this September, there’s no…
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Discord might use AI to help you catch up on conversations
Discord has become the place for gaming communities on the internet. The company just celebrated its 10th anniversary, and its impact is now big enough that it’s available directly on PlayStation and Xbox and was ripped off by Nintendo for the Switch 2’s GameChat. But as it tries to grow, one of the big challenges Discord faces is that, for…
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Verizon now offers a three-year price lock — but there’s a catch
Verizon is announcing a new price lock policy today, and the timing is probably no coincidence. The company is extending a three-year price guarantee on certain plans, both for new and existing customers. The announcement comes a day after President Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs, and Verizon says it’s hoping to give customers more “predictability” in the current economic environment. But…
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OpenAI Secures $40B in Historic Funding Round — But There’s a $10B Catch
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has just completed the largest private tech funding round in history — raising $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. The deal, led by Japan’s SoftBank with backing from Microsoft and other investors, solidifies OpenAI as one of the world’s most valuable private companies, trailing only SpaceX and rivaling TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. A historic…
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Android 16 Finally Lets You Check Your Pixel’s Battery Health, But There’s a Catch
Have you ever noticed how your phone just… doesn’t last like it used to? One day, it’s going strong, and the next, it’s dying before dinner—without warning, without explanation. If you’ve ever felt that frustration, you’re not alone. And until now, Android hasn’t given users a reliable way to check what’s going on under the hood. Google is quietly rolling…
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DeepSeek and Anthropic have a long way to go to catch ChatGPT: OpenAI’s flagship chatbot is still far and away the most popular AI tool in offices globally
ChatGPT remains the most popular AI tool among office workers globally, research shows, despite a rising number of competitor options available to users. Recent analysis from DeskTime found OpenAI’s flagship chatbot was used in 76% of offices worldwide at the end of 2024, maintaining a hefty lead over alternatives. Individual AI usage saw significant growth across 2024, according to DeskTime,…
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet now supports real-time web searching — but there’s a catch
The line between “AI Chatbot” and “Search Engine” gets thinner each day as Google rolls out new tools to Gemini and ChatGPT’s Deep Research continues to get more helpful at finding what you need. Now, Anthropic’s excellent Claude model will work similarly, letting the relatively minimal-looking chatbot search the web via an in-window update that brings external results closer than…
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The return-to-office Catch 22 – Computerworld
If you haven’t read Joseph Heller’s masterpiece, Catch-22, I highly recommend you do. The Catch-22 in the novel is this: “A combat pilot was crazy by definition (he would have to be crazy to fly combat missions) and since army regulations stipulated that insanity was justification for grounding, a pilot could avoid flight duty by simply asking, but if he asked, he was…
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Fisch Whale Migration Guide: How to Catch Moby and Blue Whale
Fisch has rolled out a new update following the massive Mariana’s veil, and this time we have some of the largest mammals, the Blue Whale, in the game. Like the Orcas, you will see these huge creatures migrating from one side of the map to the other, resembling their actions in the real world. One thing to note is that…
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