Monday, October 27, 2025

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OpenAI says more than a million people a week show severe mental distress when talking to ChatGPT

James Farrell / siliconangle - In a report released by OpenAI today, the company illustrated just how many of its users are struggling with mental health issues and what it’s doing to mitigate the problem. Working with 170 mental health experts, OpenAI analyzed responses from its 800 m…

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Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here’s what the difference is

Mike Pearl / gizmodo - Grokipedia exists. You can read it if you want.

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AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership

Stevie Bonifield / theverge - AMD has sealed a $1 billion deal with the US Department of Energy to develop two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, in collaboration with Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Both supercomputers will live at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in…

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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

Simon Willison / simonwillison - The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant programThe Python Software Foundation was recently "recommended for funding" (NSF terminology) for a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation to help improve the se…

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Amazon to Lay Off Tens of Thousands of Corporate Workers

Sean McLain / wsj - The cuts amount to roughly 10% of the online giant’s white-collar workforce.

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Spotify finally brings video podcasts and music videos to its Apple TV app

Andrew Liszewski / theverge - Spotify has announced a redesigned version of its Apple TV app that the company says has been “rebuilt from the ground up for a faster, smarter, more visual experience.” The tvOS version of the Spotify app is also gaining several welcome features from the…

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Fitbit’s overhauled app and AI health coach arrive today

Allison Johnson / theverge - Fitbit's new Gemini-powered health coach is debuting in preview today, as part of an entirely new app experience that was announced back in August. Premium subscribers in the US on Android will have access to it first as it starts rolling out today, with …

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Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5, barrels down on the Caribbean. Here's what you need to know

Chris Morris / qz - Storm could bring more than three feet of rain and winds of more than 160 mph to Jamaica. Here's what to expect

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Apple says U.S. passport digital IDs are coming to Wallet ‘soon’

Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Apple says it will soon introduce an Apple Wallet feature to allow U.S. users to create a digital ID using their passport, which can be used at select TSA checkpoints for domestic travel.

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Threads introduces 'ghost' posts that disappear after 24 hours

engadget - Meta's Threads is getting its own version of ephemeral posting with a new feature the company is calling "ghost posts." The temporary posts will be published within Threads' main feed like any other post, but will disappear after 24 hours. And while other…

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Anthropic Challenges Microsoft Copilot with ‘Claude for Excel’ Launch

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anthropic launches 'Claude for Excel,' a new AI tool that directly competes with Microsoft's Copilot by targeting the financial services industry with deep data integrations.The post Anthropic Challenges Microsoft Copilot with ‘Claude for Excel’ Launch ap…

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X to Retire Twitter.com Domain for Good

Laurent Giret / thurrott - X/Twitter is urging users who set up two-factor authentication with a security key to make some changes, as it’s preparing to fully retire the twitter.com domain.The post X to Retire Twitter.com Domain for Good appeared first on Thurrott.com.

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How Mercor’s human-in-the-loop AI platform went from college dropouts to $10B startup

Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - The scarcity of high-quality human expertise necessary for training and improving advanced models like ChatGPT has emerged as…

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Tantalizing clue hints at Pixelmator Pro and more coming to iPad soon

appleinsider - Newly-discovered App Store IDs suggest that Apple may bring popular Mac apps including Pixelmator Pro and Motion 5 to iPadOS.Pixelmator Pro on a MacWhen Apple acquired the Pixelmator company in November 2024, the fear was that it would asset-strip it the …

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Researchers exploit OpenAI's Atlas by disguising prompts as URLs

Richard Speed / theregister - NeutralTrust shows how agentic browser can interpret bogus links as trusted user commands Researchers have found more attack vectors for OpenAI's new Atlas web browser – this time by disguising a potentially malicious prompt as an apparently harmless URL.…

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Elon Musk could leave Tesla if he doesn't get his $1 trillion pay package, board chair warns

Chris Morris / qz - Tesla Board Chair Robyn Denholm pleads with shareholders to approve the unprecedented pay package

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iPhone 18 Pro variable aperture camera rumor surfaces once again

appleinsider - A leaker has jumped on a pair of rumors discussing a change in release schedule and a variable-aperture camera system for the iPhone 18 lineup.iPhone 17 Pro has a new wider camera bar, which could feasibly contain a variable aperture mechanism. After the …

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Adaptam Therapeutics raises €3M to target tumour immune evasion

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Spanish biotech startup Adaptam Therapeutics has raised €3 million in a pre-seed financing round led by Criteria Bio…

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Apple Maps will start showing ads from local businesses next year

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Apple plans to introduce advertisements in Apple Maps as early as next year, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. The ads will enable restaurants and other brick-and-mortar businesses to pay for promotion within search results, mirroring features …

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Australia sues Microsoft over 'misleading' AI offer

techxplore - Australia's competition watchdog accused Microsoft on Monday of misleading people into paying for its AI assistant Copilot.

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