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Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex
the launch of Cursor 3, a new product interface that allows users to spin up AI coding agents to complete tasks on their behalf.
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A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant
center being built with investments from Google will be partly powered by a natural gas project that emits the yearly emissions equivalent of putting more than 970,000 additional gas-powered cars on the road.According to a Texas state air permit application, the Goodnight data center campus in Armst
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OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show
OpenAI has acquired popular tech industry talk show TBPN — Technology Business Programming Network — making this the AI giant’s first acquisition of a media company.
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OpenAI Acquires Tech Talk Show ‘TBPN’—and Buys Itself Some Positive News
that it had acquired the online business talk show TBPN for an undisclosed sum. The move comes as OpenAI struggles with its public image, which has taken a significant hit in recent months.Since launching in 2024, TBPN has risen in popularity among Silicon Valley circles by offering a daily livestre
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Google Vids gets AI upgrade with Veo and Lyria models, directable AI avatars
OpenAI might be pulling back on video generation, but Google is forging ahead with a major AI update to its Vids editing product. The company’s latest video and audio models are now integrated with the tool, and you can choose from various controllable avatars to appear in generated videos.
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Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says
A lawsuit accuses Perplexity AI's Incognito Mode of being a sham, claiming it secretly shares millions of chat records with Google and Meta for advertising revenue, sparking industry-wide concerns over data privacy.
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‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran’s Threats on US Tech, Trump’s Plans for Midterms, and Polymarket’s Pop-up Flop
The team is back this week to discuss how top US tech companies are increasingly finding themselves as targets in the ongoing war with Iran. They also give an inside view into how Polymarket’s pop-up bar in DC went sideways.
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The 3 Best Portable Jump Starters in 2026: Get Charged Up
The AI Database →SectorAutomotive on used to mean a knock on a neighbor's door—or a long and maybe costly wait for a tow truck. But battery technology changes everything, whether for cars or portable blenders or power packs.
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OpenAI takes on another "side quest," buys tech-focused talk show TBPN
OpenAI has struck a deal to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show popular in Silicon Valley, making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon “side quests” and focus on its core business. The ChatGPT maker had purchased the 11-person company in a “low hundreds of millions
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The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era
When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout.
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Four things we’d need to put data centers in space
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next.
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Experian uncovers fraud paradox in financial services’ AI adoption
The same technology that financial institutions deploying is being weaponised against them. That is the core tension running through Experian’s 2026 Future of Fraud Forecast, and it’s a tension the company is in a position to name because it sits on both sides of it.According to FTC data cited in th
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Autonomous AI systems depend on data governance
Much of the current focus on AI safety has centred on models – how they are trained and monitored. But as systems become more autonomous, attention is changing toward the data those systems depend on.
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Fuel prices are soaring. Plastic could be next.
As the war in Iran continues to engulf the Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz stays closed, one of the most visible global economic ripple effects has been fossil-fuel prices.
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The Download: plastic’s problem with fuel prices, and SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO
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. Fuel prices are soaring.
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China’s Five-Year Plan details the targets for AI deployment
China has approved its 15th Five-Year Plan [PDF] setting out the country’s economic, education, social, and industrial priorities through to 2030. As might be expected, there is a significant number of references to AI, with the technology mentioned in several contexts.
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5 best practices to secure AI systems
A decade ago, it would have been hard to believe that artificial intelligence could do what it can do now. However, it is this same power that introduces a new attack surface that traditional security frameworks were not built to address.
Highlights of SGLang at NVIDIA GTC 2026
Highlights of SGLang at NVIDIA GTC 2026The SGLang TeamMarch 31, 2026SGLang came to NVIDIA GTC 2026 with panels, a happy hour, a 200-person meetup, and a hands-on training lab. Three days, five events, one packed week at the center of the LLM ecosystem and left with a lot to share.
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‘Thank You for Generating With Us!’ Hollywood's AI Acolytes Stay on the Hype Train
Hollywood super-producer behind culture-defining megahits like Jurassic Park and the Star Wars franchise, recently put a question to the head of the American Film Institute: “How are you going to teach taste?”As Kennedy told an audience of industry insiders who gathered in Manhattan this week for th
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AI Models Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Protect Other Models From Being Deleted
experiment, researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz asked Google’s artificial intelligence model Gemini 3 to help clear up space on a computer system.