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Apple's iPhone 18 Goes on Sale Worldwide as New CEO John Ternus Greets Fans at Its 5th Avenue Flagship Store

NEW YORK — Apple's newest iPhone lineup officially went on sale Friday, drawing crowds of customers at stores around the world for the first...

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Maye Musk Reveals the One Piece of Business Advice Elon Ignored After Selling PayPal Two Decades Ago

Maye Musk, the mother of Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, said in a recent television appearance that her son ignored a piece of...

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Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration Hits Stores Worldwide With All-Foil Packs and 30 Pikachu Cards

Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration Hits Stores Worldwide With All-Foil Packs and 30 Pikachu Cards

BELLEVUE, Wash. — The Pokémon Trading Card Game's 30th Celebration expansion went on sale Wednesday in a simultaneous worldwide launch, the...

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Microsoft Rushes Out Emergency Windows 11 Fix After Its Biggest-Ever Patch Broke Remote Desktop Access

Microsoft Rushes Out Emergency Windows 11 Fix After Its Biggest-Ever Patch Broke Remote Desktop Access

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft has released a series of emergency out-of-band updates for Windows 11 to fix a cluster of problems introduced by this...

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Marvel's Wolverine Review Roundup: Insomniac's Brutal PS5 Exclusive Draws Praise And Some Critical Pushback

Marvel's Wolverine Review Roundup: Insomniac's Brutal PS5 Exclusive Draws Praise And Some Critical Pushback

Insomniac Games' latest superhero adaptation, "Marvel's Wolverine," has arrived on PlayStation 5 to a broadly positive but notably...

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No Official Price Tag Yet for Wednesday's Global Salesforce Outage, But Here's How the Costs Could Add Up

No Official Price Tag Yet for Wednesday's Global Salesforce Outage, But Here's How the Costs Could Add Up

SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce Inc. has not disclosed a dollar estimate for how much Wednesday's global service outage cost the company or its...

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Salesforce Suffers Global Outage on Day Two of Dreamforce as Stock Slides for a Second Straight Session

SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce Inc. suffered a widespread global service outage Wednesday, the second day of its flagship Dreamforce conference in San...

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Inside Project Lily: OpenAI Contractors Are Reading ChatGPT Users' Private Prompts, New Report Finds

Inside Project Lily: OpenAI Contractors Are Reading ChatGPT Users' Private Prompts, New Report Finds

OpenAI has hired hundreds of contractors to read a continuous stream of real ChatGPT users' conversations as part of an internal effort to...

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MediaTek Beats Qualcomm To TSMC's 2nm Chip Race With Its New Dimensity 9600 Pro Smartphone Processor

MediaTek Beats Qualcomm To TSMC's 2nm Chip Race With Its New Dimensity 9600 Pro Smartphone Processor

TAIPEI, Taiwan — MediaTek unveiled its new flagship smartphone processor Monday, the Dimensity 9600 Pro, becoming the first chipmaker to bring a...

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Trump Crashes Jensen Huang's Stage Talk to Call AI Safety Fears 'a Hoax' in Surprise Live Speakerphone Call

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump interrupted Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang's onstage interview at the All-In Summit in Los...

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Apple Releases iOS 27 With Long-Awaited Siri AI Overhaul as New CEO John Ternus Officially Takes Charge

Apple Releases iOS 27 With Long-Awaited Siri AI Overhaul as New CEO John Ternus Officially Takes Charge

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple began rolling out iOS 27 to compatible iPhones on Monday, delivering the long-delayed overhaul of Siri that the company...

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Elon Musk Says Optimus Robots Will Ship To Customers In 2027 — Here's What That Could Mean For Tesla

Elon Musk Says Optimus Robots Will Ship To Customers In 2027 — Here's What That Could Mean For Tesla

AUSTIN, Texas — Tesla Inc. is pushing ahead with plans to begin shipping its Optimus humanoid robot to commercial customers in 2027, according to...

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Aiper Scuba X1 Pro Max Review: Does This $3,499 Robot Really Clean Every Corner of Your Backyard Pool?

Aiper Scuba X1 Pro Max Review: Does This $3,499 Robot Really Clean Every Corner of Your Backyard Pool?

Robotic pool cleaners have promised an all-in-one solution to backyard maintenance for years, but most models have traditionally forced a trade-off:...

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Elon Musk's X Corp and xAI Drop Grok Monopoly Lawsuit Against Apple, Keep Pursuing Claims Against OpenAI

Elon Musk's X Corp and xAI Drop Grok Monopoly Lawsuit Against Apple, Keep Pursuing Claims Against OpenAI

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI said Monday they have resolved their federal antitrust lawsuit against Apple, ending a year-long...

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(VIDEO) Apple Reportedly Building iPhone Game Controllers Under Beats Brand as Mobile Gaming Push Gains Steam

(VIDEO) Apple Reportedly Building iPhone Game Controllers Under Beats Brand as Mobile Gaming Push Gains Steam

Apple Reportedly Building iPhone Game Controllers Under Beats Brand as Mobile Gaming Push Gains Steam CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple is developing its...

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Man Sues OpenAI After Claiming ChatGPT Fueled Belief He Was Jesus and Encouraged Suicide Attempt Last Year

Man Sues OpenAI After Claiming ChatGPT Fueled Belief He Was Jesus and Encouraged Suicide Attempt Last Year

A California man is suing OpenAI, alleging that months of conversations with ChatGPT pushed him into a severe religious delusion in which he came to...

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(VIDEO) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Tells CNN's Anderson Cooper He Fears AI Could Threaten Humanity This Decade

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview that he largely agrees with a former company researcher who...

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(VIDEO) Tesla Confirms Next-Generation Roadster Reveal Date Of October 1 In Waco, Texas, After Long Delays

(VIDEO) Tesla Confirms Next-Generation Roadster Reveal Date Of October 1 In Waco, Texas, After Long Delays

Tesla announced Saturday that it will finally unveil the second-generation Roadster on October 1, ending months of speculation over when the...

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Rivals Sam Altman And Elon Musk Rally Behind Dario Amodei's Call For A Slowdown In AI Development

Rivals Sam Altman And Elon Musk Rally Behind Dario Amodei's Call For A Slowdown In AI Development

Three of the most fiercely competitive figures in artificial intelligence found unlikely common ground Saturday, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI...

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(VIDEO) Samsung Enlists a Real 'Tim Cook' From New Zealand to Troll Apple in New Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ad Campaign

Samsung New Zealand has released a new advertisement for the Galaxy Z Fold 8 starring a real estate agent named Tim Cook, using the coincidental name...

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Elon Musk Says Technology Is War's 'Most Important Advantage' as John Carmack Warns on AI and Coding

Elon Musk Says Technology Is War's 'Most Important Advantage' as John Carmack Warns on AI and Coding

Tesla CEO Elon Musk weighed in Friday on a growing industry debate over artificial intelligence's role in software development, declaring...

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(VIDEO) 2,977 Drones Rebuild Twin Towers Over New York Harbor In 9/11 25th Anniversary Tribute

(VIDEO) 2,977 Drones Rebuild Twin Towers Over New York Harbor In 9/11 25th Anniversary Tribute

NEW YORK — A fleet of 2,977 illuminated drones rose over New York Harbor Wednesday night, forming a helix before assembling into a full-scale...

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Bill Gates Says 'The Aliens Are Here,' Urges US-China Cooperation To Tackle AI Risks At Telluride Festival

Bill Gates Says 'The Aliens Are Here,' Urges US-China Cooperation To Tackle AI Risks At Telluride Festival

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Bill Gates compared the threat posed by artificial intelligence to an alien invasion during a panel discussion at the Telluride...

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LG Denies Smart TVs Secretly Record Conversations After Researchers Allege Standby Spying

LG Denies Smart TVs Secretly Record Conversations After Researchers Allege Standby Spying

SEOUL — LG Electronics said claims that its smart televisions record living-room conversations, even when the screen is dark, are "not...

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Elon Musk Threatens Legal Action Against Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Documentary, Calls It 'Hit Piece' After Venice

Elon Musk Threatens Legal Action Against Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Documentary, Calls It 'Hit Piece' After Venice

VENICE, Italy — Elon Musk is threatening legal action against filmmaker Alex Gibney over a nearly four-hour documentary examining the...

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Lawmakers Demand Action After Anthropic Researcher Warns AI Could Cause Extinction By 2030

Lawmakers Demand Action After Anthropic Researcher Warns AI Could Cause Extinction By 2030

WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers from across the political spectrum are calling for urgent action on artificial intelligence regulation after a...

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Five Leading AI Experts Warn Superintelligence Could Kill Humans and Explain Their Case

Five Leading AI Experts Warn Superintelligence Could Kill Humans and Explain Their Case

SAN FRANCISCO — Five people who helped build or police modern AI said this year that systems smarter than humans could end the species. They do not...

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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Clears Robot Checks as AI Actors and Rogue Agents Stir Safety Fight

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Clears Robot Checks as AI Actors and Rogue Agents Stir Safety Fight

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI's newest model can finish a 48-step "I'm not a robot" gauntlet. A synthetic performer named Tilly Norwood...

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(VIDEO) Former Anthropic Researcher Quits, Warning AI Builders Fear It Could Kill Us All by 2030

SAN FRANCISCO — Jacob Coxon spent three years helping two of the world's most powerful AI labs make their models smarter. On Tuesday he quit...

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Does Elon Musk Use An iPhone Or Galaxy Phone? Here's What The Evidence Actually Shows In 2026 So Far

Does Elon Musk Use An iPhone Or Galaxy Phone? Here's What The Evidence Actually Shows In 2026 So Far

The question of which smartphone Elon Musk actually carries has become a recurring subject of online speculation, and the honest answer, based on...

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21 Hidden Features Of Apple's New iPhone Duo Foldable You Might Not Know About Yet

21 Hidden Features Of Apple's New iPhone Duo Foldable You Might Not Know About Yet

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple's first foldable iPhone, unveiled Wednesday at a launch event led by new CEO John Ternus, packs far more than a...

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(VIDEO) 10 Surprising Features Apple Revealed About Its New Foldable IPhone Duo At Launch Event

(VIDEO) 10 Surprising Features Apple Revealed About Its New Foldable IPhone Duo At Launch Event

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple officially unveiled its first foldable smartphone Wednesday, called the iPhone Duo, at a launch event held at Apple Park...

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Does Apple's Foldable IPhone Have A Real Chance To Beat Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8? Experts Split Wide Open

Does Apple's Foldable IPhone Have A Real Chance To Beat Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8? Experts Split Wide Open

Apple's long-awaited entry into the foldable smartphone category has technology analysts sharply divided over whether the company can genuinely...

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When Is Apple's Live Event Today? Here's How To Watch The Sept. 9 iPhone Launch For Free Online

When Is Apple's Live Event Today? Here's How To Watch The Sept. 9 iPhone Launch For Free Online

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple's biggest product event of the year is taking place Wednesday, Sept. 9, with the tech giant expected to unveil its...

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Apple's First Foldable IPhone Will Be Judged By Tight Supply And A Steep $2,000-Plus Price Tag

Apple's First Foldable IPhone Will Be Judged By Tight Supply And A Steep $2,000-Plus Price Tag

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple's first foldable iPhone will not succeed or fail the way a regular iPhone does. It will succeed if a scarce,...

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(VIDEO) Apple Set To Unveil $2,000 Foldable 'iPhone Duo' At High-Stakes Event This Wednesday In Cupertino

(VIDEO) Apple Set To Unveil $2,000 Foldable 'iPhone Duo' At High-Stakes Event This Wednesday In Cupertino

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple Inc. is set to unveil its first foldable iPhone, expected to be called the iPhone Duo and priced at roughly $2,000, at a...

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Qualcomm Shares Surge Up To 10% On Multi-Year Amazon AI Chip Deal Worth Up To $60 Billion Signed

Qualcomm Shares Surge Up To 10% On Multi-Year Amazon AI Chip Deal Worth Up To $60 Billion Signed

SAN DIEGO — Qualcomm Inc. shares surged as much as 10% Tuesday after the company announced a multi-generational collaboration with Amazon to build...

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Apple's Foldable IPhone Event Nears: What Surveys, Leaks And Skins Already Reveal About Wednesday's Debut

Apple's Foldable IPhone Event Nears: What Surveys, Leaks And Skins Already Reveal About Wednesday's Debut

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple's biggest product event in years is set for Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 1 p.m. ET, marking the first major keynote hosted...

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What To Expect At Apple's Sept. 9 Event: iPhone Ultra Foldable, New Watches And Home Hub Amid CEO Change

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple is preparing for its biggest product announcement of the year, with the company's annual fall event scheduled for...

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Tesla Starts Paid Cybercab Rides in Austin as Regulators Probe Its Wheel-and-Pedal-Free Design

AUSTIN, Texas — Tesla has begun charging passengers for rides in the Cybercab, the two-seat electric car it built without a steering wheel, pedals...

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(VIDEO) Lenovo Unveils Yoga Tab Gen 2 And Plus Gen 2 With 4K Screens, 7 Years Of Android Updates At IFA 2026

BERLIN — Lenovo unveiled two new flagship Android tablets at IFA 2026, the Yoga Tab Gen 2 and Yoga Tab Plus Gen 2, positioning both devices as...

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Nintendo Lifts Wave Of Switch 2 Console Bans After Reported System Fault Sparks Player Panic Worldwide

TOKYO — Nintendo Co. appears to have reversed a wave of Switch 2 console bans that struck players worldwide over the weekend, with the...

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Google Down? Users Report Login And Content Loading Issues Across Search, YouTube And Play In The US

Google users across the United States began reporting widespread access problems Sunday, with complaints spanning multiple services including Google...

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YouTube Down? Users Report Access Issues Sunday Morning As Reports Spike On Downdetector Worldwide Today

YouTube users began reporting access problems early Sunday morning, with outage-tracking services logging a surge in complaints, marking the latest in...

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Seoul Forum To Ask Whether AI Can Cut A Decade Off Drug Development Amid Healthcare Revolution

SEOUL, South Korea — A major forum hosted by South Korea's Maeil Business Newspaper is set to bring together global executives from Microsoft,...

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(VIDEO) Apple's Sept. 9 IPhone Event To Reshape Market With Gemini AI, First Foldable, Split Launch Strategy

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple is set to unveil its new iPhone lineup at a Sept. 9 event, with technology analysts predicting the announcement will mark...

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Can John Ternus Fill Tim Cook's Shoes As Apple's New CEO? Analysts Weigh The Challenges Ahead In First Test

CUPERTINO, Calif. — John Ternus officially took over as Apple's chief executive on Sept. 1, ending Tim Cook's 15-year tenure atop the...

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NHTSA Opens Safety Audit Of Tesla's Cybercab Robotaxi Hours After Austin Launch Event

AUSTIN, Texas — Federal safety regulators opened an audit of roughly 1,000 Tesla Cybercab vehicles just hours after the electric automaker launched...

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7 Public Figures Who Have Openly Criticized Elon Musk, In Their Own Words Over The Years In Public Spats

Elon Musk's high public profile as owner of X, Tesla and SpaceX has made him a frequent target of criticism from celebrities, authors and fellow...

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ChatGPT's Outage Drew Over 340,000 Reports As ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini Crashed Together Yesterday

Several of the world's most widely used artificial intelligence services experienced simultaneous outages Thursday, with ChatGPT, Claude, Grok,...

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