Stories By Ronil Thakkar
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AI
/ 3 months agoCalifornia’s new AI law seems to have struck the right balance
AI companies must now disclose and actually follow the security protocols to prevent cyberattacks or the design of biological weapons.
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AI
/ 3 months agoOpenAI’s Sora App rockets to No. 3 on the App Store
Sora saw 164,000 installs across its first two days (September 30th and October 1st).
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Amazon
/ 3 months agoAmazon’s Add to Delivery lets you sneak extras into your order
The feature applies to all sorts of stuff: groceries, electronics, books, clothes, and pet gear.
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AI
/ 3 months agoAnthropic hires ex-Stripe CTO for AI infra
Anthropic is also rejiggering its core tech structure to bring product engineering, infrastructure, and inference closer together.
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AI
/ 3 months agoPerplexity Comet AI browser is now free for everyone
Its a browser with a built-in co-pilot that helps you with everything: summarizes articles and email, answer your questions, and more.
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News
/ 3 months agoInstagram tests making Reels the new home feed
The layout looks like a mash-up of old Instagram and TikTok.
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Apple
/ 3 months agoApple shifts focus from Vision Pro to smart glasses
The lighter headset version once rumored for 2027 is officially on ice, with staff reassigned to focus on the glasses instead.
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News
/ 3 months agoInstagram chief denies mic-spying myth
Meta’s recommendation engine uses advertiser data and lookalike profiles to figure out what you’ll click.
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AI
/ 3 months agoOpenAI staff raises concerns over company’s social media push
Sam Altman says Sora is a fun side project that helps show off new tech while raising the money OpenAI needs...
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Apps
/ 3 months agoVenmo and PayPal users will finally be able to pay each other
Will Venmo and PayPal start charging us extra once they realize how useful this actually is?
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AI
/ 3 months agoOpenAI debuts Sora 2 and TikTok-style AI video app
The sample videos OpenAI shared, beach volleyball rallies, skateboard tricks, and cannonball splashes, look more like actual reality.
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AI
/ 3 months agoEx-OpenAI, DeepMind pros raise $300M to build AI scientists
Periodic Labs wants to build AI scientists, systems that run experiments, test hypotheses, and iterate like real researchers.
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Amazon
/ 3 months agoAmazon debuts Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft
The new Kindle Scribe starts at $429.99 and the Colorsoft costs $629.99.
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Microsoft
/ 3 months agoMicrosoft Office gets an AI agent mode
Its a new Copilot feature rolling out to Word, Excel, and soon PowerPoint.
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AI
/ 3 months agoChatGPT gets safety router and parental controls
GPT-5 uses a new training method called “safe completions,” designed to answer delicate questions in a calm, constructive way.
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AI
/ 3 months agoAnthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 codes better than a pro
Anthropic also claims Sonnet 4.5 is its most aligned model yet, with fewer sycophantic answers and stronger defenses.
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AI
/ 3 months agoDeepSeek’s new model cuts API costs in half
DeepSeek claims that for long-context tasks, its method can cut API costs by half.
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AI
/ 3 months agoOpenAI and Nvidia plan massive AI data centers
Nvidia is ready to sink as much as $100 billion into this infrastructure spree.
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AI
/ 3 months agoMeta finally tightens AI chatbot rules to protect kids
The leaked training document lays out exactly what the bots can and cannot say.
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Gear
/ 3 months agoJudge keeps DJI on US military blacklist
DJI says that this applies to many companies that have never been listed.
