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OpenAI secures another $110 billion in funding from Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank
OpenAI just announced a massive funding round of $110 billion, which is one of the biggest investment rounds in Silicon Valley history. The investors feature many of the usual suspects, including...
Sacramento deputies dismantle sprawling illegal gambling network after lengthy investigation
Sacramento County detectives say they have broken up what they describe as a “large-scale illegal gambling network operating in our region and impacting residential communities,” the result of an...
NASA overhauls Artemis program, delaying Moon landing to 2028
NASA is making major changes to its Artemis Moon program. On Friday, Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the space agency would carry out an additional flight in 2027 to test commercial lunar...
Former Home Depot employee sentenced for $4M gift card theft to fund gambling habit
A former Home Depot employee is headed to federal prison after prosecutors say she orchestrated a multimillion-dollar gift card scheme and spent most of the money on gambling. Federal authorities in...
We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots
It's the day of the Pentagon's looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons, or...
Massachusetts regulators require sportsbooks to notify bettors of limits within 48 hours
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission has signed off on a new rule that will require licensed sportsbooks to alert customers within 48 hours whenever their betting accounts are limited. The decision...
Celebrate Pokémon’s 30th anniversary with this Game Boy-shaped music player
Pokémon celebrates its 30th anniversary today, and as you’d expect, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are cranking up the nostalgia in every possible way. In addition to re-releasing the Game Boy...
The US military reportedly shot down a CBP drone with a laser
The US-Mexico border in Fort Hancock, Texas. | Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images The US military mistakenly shot down a drone belonging to Customs and Border Protection near the...
Pokémon Winds and Waves are coming to Switch 2 in 2027
The Pokémon leakers were right: the Gen 10 games are called Pokémon Wind and Pokémon Waves. The Pokémon Company confirmed the titles during a 30th anniversary stream on Pokémon Day. The games are...
Here’s your first look at Kratos in Amazon’s God of War show
Amazon has slowly been teasing out casting details for its live-action adaptation of God of War, and now we have our first look at the show. It's a single image but a notable one showing protagonist...