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OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex

An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking “matched or exceeded” other approaches like Google DeepMind’s SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the watermarking Anthropic announced in August. Like OpenAI, Anthropic…

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The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026

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. People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? —Will Douglas Heaven Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM designed to come…

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Shield TV Pro vs Google TV vs Fire TV: $240 Gap [2026]

NVIDIA quietly rewrote the economics of cloud gaming on the living room TV this week. On October 2, 2026, the Shield TV Pro jumped from $199.99 to $299.99, a 50% increase on a box that first shipped in 2019, while the standard Shield TV was discontinued outright. That single price change turns a settled market…

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