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Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday each announced new, less costly artificial intelligence models as both frontier labs continue to face stiff competition from cheaper, open-weight competitors. OpenAI introduced additional tiers to its GPT-6 family, with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, sl

Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday each announced new, less costly artificial intelligence models as both frontier labs continue to face stiff competition from cheaper, open-weight competitors. OpenAI introduced additional tiers to its GPT-6 family, with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, sl

The Global South is “a little bit more optimistic” about AI compared to the West thanks to differing perceptions about how the technology can benefit society, a top Google-Alphabet executive said Tuesday. “The attitudes to AI have always been a little different,” James Manyika, t

Liz’s view “This is the beginning of a bankless world,” proclaimed a 2016 ad for SoFi, which embodied the sneering disdain its generation of fintech startups had for the banks they were out to dethrone. SoFi is now a bank, the 46th biggest in America. So are Klarna and PayPal. Ch

Two companies in the AI ecosystem have delayed their IPOs, the latest sign that investor appetite for the trade is uneven at best. SoftBank’s energy business and nuclear company Holtec put off their listings after investors balked, The New York Times reported. At the same time, S

Lib Dems leave conference buoyed by Davey's message - Published This was a more sombre, more serious, Sir Ed Davey. The stunts - from falling off paddleboards to hurtling down rollercoasters – were scaled back at this year's Liberal Democrat party conference. "This is the fight o

The News The head of the Inter-American Development Bank said Tuesday the lender is weighing a return to Venezuela after nearly a decade away, but did not say whether Caracas’ unpaid debts would be forgiven. “As a development bank, we need to look at Venezuela and look at the Ven

The families of victims killed in one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada’s history have already sued OpenAI over its failure to warn law enforcement after discovering in advance that the shooter was using ChatGPT to plan the violence. Now, British Columbia is suing, explai

Apple is in the process of developing a new screen-less fitness tracker that would put it into competition with Whoop — the fitness tech firm whose valuation recently crested $10 billion. Bloomberg reports that the iPhone maker is currently engaged in a “technology investigation”

Burnham 'gets it' says Trump, as the two leaders meet for first time Andy Burnham and Donald Trump have been speaking to reporters at their first face-to-face meeting in New York. The US president said he could do business with the UK prime minister, but criticised the "terrible"

Banks are sitting on a mountain of money in the wake of the inflows from foreign currency non-resident (FCNR) deposits which have been swapped with the central bank for rupees. In situations where banks are inundated with liquidity, the natural tendency among many lenders is to p

Early adopters of Meta’s Muse have been speculating that the reason the AI works so well is because it’s OpenClaw under the hood, wrapped in a more consumer-friendly package. Meta now says those comparisons aren’t entirely off-base. According to an X post by Nat Friedman, head of

Video editing has never been Android’s strong suit. While Apple has long offered iMovie for iPhone and iPad, Google has never had a comparable offering. Adobe is now stepping up to fill this feature gap with a proper version of Premiere. The app is now available in the Play Store

Jacks stars as England grind out win over Sri Lanka - Published First Metro Bank one-day international, Chester-le-Street England 265 (48.1 overs): Brook 67 (69); Colombage 3-44 Sri Lanka 176 (37 overs): Wellalage 45 (36); Jacks 5-22 England won by 89 runs Will Jacks' all-round e

Booker Prize judges reveal shortlisted novels after selection 'tussle' - Published Past Booker Prize winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart have been shortlisted for the prestigious literary award again, after a selection process that the judges described as "a tussle". Jamaican

President Donald Trump on Tuesday focused on a wide range of threats the U.S. faces from abroad during a frequently boastful address to the United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan. Trump, in a roughly 37-minute speech, also directly criticized the U.N. itself, and reaffirmed

With a smaller share of customers carrying balances month to month, interest-bearing receivables are growing more slowly than transaction volumes, pushing issuers to convert purchases into EMIs, deepen personal loan-on-card offerings and extract more fee income from a business th

President Donald Trump and the leaders of Greenland and Denmark signed a deal Tuesday allowing the U.S. to expand its military presence in Greenland, while maintaining the sovereignty of Denmark and its autonomous island territory. "This is tremendous for Europe and for the Unite

Peloton is betting that revamped treadmills, AI and new distribution channels can bring it back to sustained growth. The connected fitness company on Tuesday unveiled three new treadmills and new features for its Peloton IQ artificial intelligence platform with tools for runners,

ShinyHunters, a prolific cybercriminal group known for large-scale data theft and extortion, says it has breached the FBI and stolen data on thousands of agents and applicants. The hackers made the claim on their dark web leak site, which TechCrunch reviewed, saying they had stol

Banned British player's £15m lawsuit against WTA dismissed - Published British doubles player Tara Moore's legal bid for £15m ($20m) in damages from the Women's Tennis Association - over a doping case which led to her being banned for four years - has been dismissed by a United S

The News Nvidia’s head of sustainability pushed back against the groundswell of anti-AI sentiment that’s unfurled over the last few weeks, attributing the backlash partly to a “fear of the unknown.” “A lot of us feel that around AI,” Josh Parker said at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billi

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is launching a school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy aimed at aspiring founders who have just graduated high school and have not yet attended college. The academy is aiming to train these high school grads with hands-on coursework

The News A global pullback in aid funding by the US and other wealthy nations has left the world with “more shocks, fewer shock absorbers,” International Rescue Committee President David Miliband said Tuesday at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion in New York. Some 700,000 people have l

Listen to this article in summarized format Barkin said inflation currently poses a greater threat than weakness in the labour market, explaining that this prompted the Fed to raise interest rates last week. He said the quarter-percentage-point increase “will help” return inflati

The News The Trump administration’s tit-for-tat tariff war threatens to split the global economy into hostile trading blocs, the head of the World Trade Organization warned on Tuesday. The effect could be a 7% hit to global GDP, she said. Speaking at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion

Beat the Switch 2 storage crisis with this $99 512GB microSD Express card — Amazon deal slashes 33% off high-performance Samsung P9 The flash shortage has driven up prices for nearly all consumer storage devices. Fortunately, for a limited time, Nintendo Switch 2 owners have a ra

S&P 500 futures are trading at all-time highs, but an aura of concern is lingering among investors trying to make sense of extremely low breadth in the U.S. stock market. On the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, 75 stocks made new 52-week lows, versus just 14 names making new high

Earlier this month, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, which it heralded as its most powerful and capable model yet, and the “world’s best model” for a variety of activities, including computer work and coding. Now, the lab is expanding the GPT-6 generation with updated versions of the

Take a drive in Texas on Interstate 45 between Houston and Dallas or I-20 between Fort Worth and El Paso, and you will see dozens and dozens of tractor trailers. They are two of the busiest highways in the country for trucks — and two routes where Aurora Innovation is operating c

Take a drive in Texas on Interstate 45 between Houston and Dallas or I-20 between Fort Worth and El Paso, and you will see dozens and dozens of tractor trailers. They are two of the busiest highways in the country for trucks — and two routes where Aurora Innovation is operating c

The Scoop Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for President Donald Trump’s new “AI czar” position, three sources familiar with the matter told Semafor. Bessent has long played a central role in the Trump administration’s AI policy, and this week he’s alr

A curious dynamic is happening in shares of Nvidia ahead of two potential catalysts this month, and it's presenting an unique opportunity for options traders. As shares of the AI giant have surged, the stock's forward multiple, a measure of how expensive it is relative to the mar

Waymo will allow teenagers as young as 13 to use its robotaxi service in Nashville as the Alphabet-owned company looks to scale its business by reaching a new group of riders. Nashville is the second city to offer Waymo teen accounts; the company kicked off its teen account progr

President Donald Trump lashed out at a CNN journalist Tuesday morning at the United Nations, telling her, "You should not be here covering me," as the Department of Justice prepares to defend in federal court his ban on that media outlet, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are expected to address the United Nations Security Council for a meeting about artificial intelligence this week, a U.N. spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue is also set to join, along with Yosh

I was on the fence about going to see the latest Resident Evil reboot to review, given how uninspired the prior reboot attempt in 2021 turned out to be. But director Zach Cregger gave us last year’s phenomenal Weapons, and early word of mouth was extremely positive, so I took a c

As large language model (LLM) inference increasingly processes sensitive information and proprietary model context across personal, enterprise, and regulated settings, data must be processed inside a trusted environment. NVIDIA Confidential Computing (CC) provides a pathway for r