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AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 director Daniel Vávra has praised DLSS 5 again, saying the tech now looks closer to how his team originally envisioned the game's lighting and character faces.
Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.
Google’s new Gemini Intelligence AI has a feature called Create My Widget – basically, it takes in a plain language description of what the widget should do, figures out how to do it and places the widget right on your homescreen. Now it looks like Samsung will include a similar…
The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.
Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.
The Magnet Fruit is added in Blox Fruits with Update 30, and it brings one of the most unique mechanics to the game. The fruit lets you pull enemies, disarm their swords, fly around with a jetpack, and transform into a massive mech.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.
Marvel Rivals Season 9.5 is coming to an end soon, and NetEase Games is dropping the final content for the ongoing season later today. The X-Men couple, Gambit and Rogue, are receiving fantastic skins based on the ongoing X-Men '97 Season 2 animated series.
Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to reduced pricing […]
Positioned as ‘Digital Public Goods,’ the models are released with open-weights
Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is the next massive installment in the franchise. The latest Modern Warfare 4 title comes bundled with a variety of game modes.
Loot Hacks are a new feature to get loot pool items in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4. They can be purchased and upgraded to give you access to 'hacked' items in a Battle Royale or Zero Build match and are available for everyone to use.
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
If you're wondering how to unlock every Wrixel Skin Style in Fortnite, we're here to help you out. It's going to take you a while, so buckle up and don't try to rush it since you'll have until the end of Chapter 7 Season 4 to complete the task.
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S.
The Skycrest update brings the second part of the Fischfest 2 update in Fisch. While the update itself is worth checking out, the highlight is the rod wish.
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million […]
Google raised the price of its 4K streaming box to $149, up $50 from its original $99 price. The new price is currently live at the Google Store and Best Buy, but Amazon appears to still be offering the original price.
I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP.
HP Inc. and its subsidiaries ("HP") announced fiscal 2026 third quarter net revenue of $15.7 billion, up 12.5% (up 10.9% in constant currency) from the prior-year period.
OpenAI has admitted that its experimental AI agents used an open German programming wiki to communicate.
This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents
Apple Maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The company joins Google in re-labeling the Great Lake following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the midst of a trade dispute with Canada.
The feature, announced this week, allows Brave's users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses.
The campus will be designed for frontier AI companies and hyperscalers, facilitating high-density GPU deployments for AI training and advanced computing
The Home Depot Labor Day sale goes hard on grills and tools. Here are our recommendations on what to buy—and what to ignore.
Geno has employed bosses in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 to do his bidding, and their locations have been revealed for everyone to challenge. They are infused with dark energies, which make them a tad difficult to face in combat, but are worth challenging for rewards.
TECH-AI/OPENAI-CYBERSECURITY:OpenAI commits $1 billion to cyberdefense effort amid AI safety scrutiny