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Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board

Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like?

Tesla says it will finally unveil the second generation Roadster on October 1

Tesla’s halo sports car was first announced in November 2017.

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.

Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data

The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.

OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May

In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack…

Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking inci…

StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter

Blizzard originally tried to bring the StarCraft universe to the world of 3D shooters way back in 2002 with StarCraft: Ghost. It sat in development hell for years until Blizzard president Mike Morhaime confirmed that …

Sylvan Esso think you should splurge on good-quality yogurt

Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, better known as Sylvan Esso, have been bringing their low-key electro-pop to the masses since 2014, bursting onto the scene with their self-titled debut album and the single "Hey Mami." …

Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In …

LG responds to TV spying allegations

Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG's TVs are logging and uploading data on its users. Now the company is pushing back agains…

I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.

Some satellite companies still have an appetite for boutique launch services

"Dedicated launch is pretty essential for us for most of our missions."

Random rewards enrich classic game-theory insights

Simple games gain rich strategies in the face of noise.

Bouncy castle launches horrifying MRSA outbreak, striking 48 kids in Ireland

The strain lurking in the inflatable structure was hypervirulent.

Trump's forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge

The Department of Energy declared an "emergency" when none existed.

ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses

"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.