Last month, OpenAI published a usage study showing that nearly 15 percent of work-related conversations on ChatGPT had to deal with “making decisions and solving problems.” Now comes word that at least one high-level member of the US military is using LLMs for the same purpose. At the Association ofContinue Reading
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it Wrinkles and gray hairs aside, it can be difficult to know how well—orContinue Reading
Microsoft is continuing to roll out in-house AI models, further decreasing its reliance on long-standing partnership with OpenAI. Today, the company introduced MAI-Image-1, its first internally-developed image-generating AI model. According to the blog post, MAI-Image-1 is particularly good for creating photorealistic results, and can generate natural lighting and landscapes. ForContinue Reading
It seems to be the end of the road for Apple’s Clips app. The company said on a support page that it has stopped updating the video-editing app, and new users can no longer download it from the App Store. Existing users on iOS and iPadOS will continue to haveContinue Reading
By Sam Bradley • October 9, 2025 • Ivy Liu Advertisers are spoiled for choice in the CTV market. It’s good news for buyers, but the sheer quantity of supply makes it difficult for streaming players to get their share of ad spend. A deepening alliance between free ad-supported TVContinue Reading
Questionable cull Today’s layoffs are the work of White House Budget Director Russell Vought, a lead creator of the Project 2025 playbook, which planned a massive reduction in the federal workforce. In a post on X earlier today, Vought announced that the terminations “have begun.” But as The Washington PostContinue Reading
The Programmed Data Processor-1 (PDP-1) is perhaps most recognizable as the home of Spacewar!, one of the world’s first video games, but as the video above proves, it also works as an enormous and very slow iPod, too. In the video, Boards of Canada’s “Olson” is playing off of paperContinue Reading
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra is a high-quality premium tablet equipped with a 14.6-inch AMOLED display that boasts enormous brightness and impressive image quality. Its aluminum unibody case, which features a thickness of only 5.05 millimeters, is IP68-certified for water and dust protection and has a high-quality finish, butContinue Reading
The AMD Ryzen 7 6800H features eight Zen 3+ cores, making for a total of 16 threads that max out at 4.7 GHz boost frequency. The Radeon 680M iGPU packs 12 CUs on the RDNA 2 architecture, putting it right around the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in many ofContinue Reading
The Discord logo with its signature blurple-colored background (image source: Discord) Discord has confirmed a data breach through one of its third-party customer service vendors, exposing user names, emails, and limited billing info. The company says affected users will be contacted directly by the service. Discord users are being urgedContinue Reading
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