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The iPhone maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.

Solid-state batteries are safer and more capable—but harder to mass-produce. They also represent an opportunity for non-Chinese companies to get back in the game.

As the AI boom boosts demand for RAM, SK Hynix - one of the world's biggest suppliers of memory chips - launched on Wall Street Friday. The South Korean chipmaker opened at $170 per share and raised $26.5 billion, surpassing Alibaba's record as the largest debut of a foreign company, according to reports from The […]

Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent. But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully.

The move comes after Simo took significant medical leave. She will stay on as a part-time adviser.

Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic’s best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, who is chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podcast about the media industry. And it’s a big week for the media industry — Comcast just announced that it’s splitting itself up, into the Comcast broadband company and the NBCUniversal entertainment company. That’s after […]

Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “Chat Control” bill to find child abuse material online.

Anthropic Shipped @claude for Slack. My Team Runs on Telegram. Anthropic just shipped @Claude inside Slack channels. Tag the bot, it reads the thread, does work async, posts back. Nice product. Except roughly 95% of small businesses don't live in Slack — they run on WhatsApp, Telegram, and Gmail. If you're a solopreneur or a 1-to-10-person team, here's the exact four-part recipe I use to run the same pattern in Telegram for under $12/month. What Anthropic actually shipped (and who it's for) Anthropic shipped an enterprise distribution deal wearing a product launch t-shirt. @Claude for Slack lets you tag the bot in a channel or thread, gives it channel memory, connects to your other apps, and returns work asynchronously — but only on Slack Team and Enterprise plans. That's the punchline: it lives where the annual contracts live. Look at the raw user counts. Slack's own reporting puts it around 35–40 million weekly active users globally. WhatsApp is over 2 billion. Telegram is over 900 million. Gmail sits around 1.8 billion. In the 1-to-10-employee segment outside US tech, Slack penetration is single digits. Small teams in Europe, LATAM, and most of Asia coordinate in WhatsApp groups and run pipeline out of Gmail. They are not about to add Slack seats at $15/user/month just to get an @Claude mention. That's a rational call for Anthropic — Slack is where the enterprise procurement motion already exists. It's just not a product for the operator segment. And the pattern they productized is trivially replicable on any messenger with a bot API. Platform Weekly/monthly active users Bot API Cost to run a mention-bot Slack ~35–40M WAU Yes, paid plan $15/user/mo + API Telegram ~900M MAU Yes, free ~$5–12/mo API only WhatsApp Business ~2B MAU Yes, metered $0.005–0.08/conversation + API Gmail ~1.8B MAU Pub/Sub push Free tier + API The four-part recipe (works in any messenger) Every mention-bot is the same four moving parts: a webhook that fires on mention, a context store that ho

The animal escaped after apparently arriving inside a package at Meta's Bangkok office, injuring one employee before finally being caught.

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are betting on AI, health tech, and startups. Mohamed Salah is taking a more traditional route beyond football.

Experiments in using AI to build AI show that the future doesn’t just belong to the frontier labs.

Matthew Danzeisen’s lawyer says the case is a “shakedown about a bag” that brushed someone’s leg. Stefanie Bojar says she was injured aboard the jet—and that the lawsuit is a bullying tactic.

Verity Harding tells WIRED that the US government’s nationalistic attitude toward AI is evidence that a worst-case scenario is taking shape.

Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.

One hundred dollars will buy you 8 pounds of glitter; 10 Domino's pizzas; 406 miniature disco balls from Temu; or 100 cans of Coors Light. For a friend's birthday party one year, Ayla D'Silva spent $100 on sour candy and made a "sour candy salad." Even sweeter was that she didn't have to foot the […]

Sony shared an announcement with the console market: physical disc production for all PlayStation games will completely stop in January 2028. You can read the official announcement on the PlayStation Blog . From a pure engineering perspective, modern internet infrastructure has rendered physical distribution redundant. We no longer need plastic circles to transport megabytes. The gamer community response isn't about data transfer speeds. It is over true digital ownership, consumer rights, and software preservation. In this article, we break down the details, look at the history leading to this moment and explore why console makers would pursue this direction. 🔍 The Announcement Break Down The 2028 Deadline: The mandate strictly applies to new games launching after January 1, 2028. Legacy Back Catalog: Discs pressed before this date will still function (assuming future hardware maintains optical drive compatibility). "Code-in-a-Box" Retail: Stores will still sell physical cases on shelves, but they will contain a paper download voucher instead of a disc. I am no sustanability poster boy, seems wasteful to preserve retail shelf presence. 🛑 The Illusion of Ownership: "Buying" vs. "Renting" When you hit "Buy" on a digital storefront, you aren't purchasing a game. You are purchasing a conditional license to stream or download it—a long-term rental agreement that can be unilaterally altered or revoked. No Secondary Market: Players completely lose the ability to resell, trade, or lend games to friends. Monopoly Pricing: Eliminating discs removes competitive pricing from retailers like GameStop, JB Hi-Fi, or Amazon, leaving users locked to a single proprietary storefront. Delisting Vulnerability: If a publisher loses IP rights, the software vanishes instantly. 🎮 Case Study: My Close Call with Digital Erasure Look no further than Star Trek: Resurgence for proof of how fragile digital stores are. In April 2026, the publishers suddenly lost their IP distribution rights. Within

During negotiations on Wednesday, employees voiced frustrations with what they consider an unwillingness among executives to engage meaningfully with the prospect of unionization.

Cloudflare details Town Lake, an internal unified data platform, and Skipper, an AI analytics agent unifying access to operational, billing, security, and business data. The platform processed ~91K billing queries, with billing forming majority usage. Built on a lakehouse architecture using Trino, Iceberg, R2, and DataHub, it enables governed cross-system analytics and natural language access. By Leela Kumili

One of Kalshi’s most prominent traders tells WIRED he’s swearing off Spotify-related markets until the issue is resolved.