Patrick Stewart, Star Trek captain and X-Men's Professor X, dies at 86
Tributes poured in from William Shatner, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry for the actor whose career spanned Shakespeare and blockbuster sci-fi.
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Apple Intelligence to launch in China with iOS 27.3
Apple announced on its Chinese newsroom that its AI features will debut in a beta of iOS 27.3, finally bringing the suite to its largest overseas market.
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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back a new standard letting publishers opt out of AI scraping
The coalition says it will adopt a shared mechanism publishers can use to signal their content is off-limits to AI training crawlers.
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Reddit will require everyone to log in to browse
The platform is ending anonymous browsing, a change that could limit traffic from search engines and AI crawlers.
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Reddit CEO says Google's AI Mode 'does not drive traffic'
Steve Huffman's remark sharpens the dispute between content platforms and Google over the value of AI-generated search summaries.
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Google's satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth
Google said it booted Tensor Processing Units on its Project Suncatcher satellite and ran an onboard Gemma model, testing data-center compute in orbit.
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Sam Altman says RAM belongs in data centers, not on your desk
The OpenAI CEO's comment on the ongoing memory shortage signals how AI buildout is reshaping consumer hardware supply and pricing.
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People Inc. lays off 195 staffers, about 6% of workforce
CEO Neil Vogel cited rapid changes in media in the memo announcing cuts at the publisher of People and Entertainment Weekly.
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Criminal Minds to end with 20th season on Paramount+
The long-running procedural will wrap its run on the streaming service, closing out one of CBS's most durable franchises.
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NFL to face new trial over $4.7 billion Sunday Ticket verdict
A judge ordered a retrial in the antitrust case over the league's out-of-market package, reopening a multibillion-dollar liability.
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TikTok launches Must Eat, a user-generated restaurant guide
The feature turns food videos into a structured local recommendations product, expanding TikTok's push into search and discovery.
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Waymo's next robotaxi will be a purpose-built Toyota bZ4X
The Alphabet unit detailed a vehicle designed specifically for autonomous ride-hailing, deepening its partnership with Toyota.
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GM to pay $220 million to settle claims it sold driving habits data
The settlement resolves allegations that the automaker shared driver data with insurers without clear consent.
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Rivian's autonomy gamble faces its first real test
On its earnings call, Rivian's CEO emphasized unproven robotaxi ambitions over the R2 production ramp.
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Rivian's R2 is officially its best-selling vehicle
The cheaper SUV is now the company's volume leader, a key milestone as Rivian works toward profitability.
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Data centers could send US climate pollution skyrocketing
New projections link AI compute buildout to a sharp rise in power demand and associated emissions.
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Wikipedia operator warns a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web
The Wikimedia Foundation argues that broad copyright interpretations in AI training cases could chill publicly useful content.
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Universal Music Group posts $3.78 billion in Q3 revenue, signals fight against AI slop
The major label reported quarterly results while positioning itself against AI-generated music flooding platforms.
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