Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. On the heels of the abrupt announcement today from OpenAI that its board of directors had fired co-founder Sam Altman as CEO due to... Read more

OpenAI / Ars Technica On Friday afternoon, not long after news of CEO Sam Altman’s abrupt and surprising departure from OpenAI began spreading online, the company held an all-hands meeting at its headquarters in San Francisco, reports The Information. During the meeting, interim CEO Mira Murati attempted to reassure... Read more

With news of data breaches and scandals around the misuse of people’s data becoming a worrying norm, one company is working to put data ownership back in the hands of individuals and organizations. Akord is a web3 platform offering digital vaults for storage and collaboration. For the first time,... Read more

While Black Friday is still officially a few days away, the shopping event of the season has expanded far beyond a single day, with some retailers touting Black Friday savings as early as October. Big outlets like Best Buy have already been offering deals for weeks, and Walmart has joined in,... Read more

Take a gander at these early Home Depot Black Friday deals and get a lead on the masses who’ll be ready to crowd the digital gates before the Thanksgiving turkey even gets cold. Winter means, for more of us than not, spending a lot more time at home than... Read more

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the brightest minds of the gaming industry? Consider getting a custom GamesBeat sponsorship. Learn more. I haven’t mentioned this to GamesBeat’s audience directly up to now, but earlier this year I began doing a daily (well, business days) video... Read more

Enlarge / Users in the extended European Economic Area will soon be able to avoid most of the things that feel so exhausting about Windows 11. Andrew Cunningham Using Windows these days means putting up with many, many pitches to use and purchase other Microsoft products. Some are subtle,... Read more

According to recent reports, Elon Musk’s X has made good on its promise to support users facing consequences over their posts, coming to the defense of a University of Illinois student facing disciplinary action over his posts. According to information gathered by Financial Times, Juan David Campolargo, an engineering... Read more

Bose’s excellent SoundLink Flex Bluetooth speaker sells for around $150 and sometimes goes on sale for less (it’s now $119 ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday). The Soundcore Motion 300 is Anker’s answer to that Bose speaker. Around the same size as the Bose, it doesn’t sound quite... Read more

The future can look pretty bleak. Climate catastrophes, new diseases, crumbling infrastructure, wealth inequality, cyber risks, geopolitical conflicts, and threats to democracy around the globe are just some of the things now shaking people’s confidence in a better tomorrow. But human ingenuity is always a cause for hope, and... Read more