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TikTok backed out of a congressional committee’s “public roundtable” set for this month over concerns it would be asked about child safety practices, the chair of the committee said. After negotiating “in good faith” to bring TikTok’s chief security officer before the House Select Committee on China to answer questions about Chinese government access to…
Researching, buying, then finally assembling a sound system for your TV is daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. If you want one of the best kits you can get at a rare discount, Best Buy and Amazon are selling the Samsung Q990F Soundbar for $999.99. It normally retails between $1,300 and $1,600. This bundle…
OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.
Midjourney quietly swapped its default engine on August 29, 2026. Anyone who opened Discord and typed /imagine that week got V8.1 output instead of the V7 renders they were used to, with no announcement banner and no opt-in required. If your prompts suddenly look different, or you’re setting up Midjourney for the first time, this…
AI is getting cheaper at a speed that could reshape the economics of the biggest infrastructure buildout in tech history. Silicon Data’s LLM Token Expenditure Index fell to $0.9665 per million tokens on August 31, down more than half from […] The post AI Token Prices Collapse Nearly 60%, Raising Questions About the $600 Billion…
OpenAI claims that Astra represents “a new frontier on computer and browser use,” and that it handles tasks with unmatched “speed, accuracy, and safety.”
OpenAI’s next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it’s also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI’s “critical cybersecurity capability threshold” – but the company promises that won’t…
The rumors were true, all of them (and then some): OpenAI today is releasing GPT-6 Astra, a new frontier model that the company says likely marks the onset of artificial generalized intelligence (AGI), its long sought goal of "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work." In a closed a press briefing…
A Chinese state-linked hacking group compromised executive laptops at an agricultural industry conference on Hainan Island this spring — not through phishing or a network breach, but by breaking into hotel rooms and booting the machines from a USB stick while the executives were at dinner. CrowdStrike, which tracks the group as OVERCAST PANDA, disclosed…
Square Enix dropped a free demo for Final Fantasy Resonance today, September 3, 2026, putting the studio’s first HD-2D mainline entry into players’ hands on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 alongside PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The release accompanied a new State of Play segment and a fresh trailer that also confirmed…
