The DOGE-affiliated acting president of the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded, independent think tank, has moved to transfer the agency’s $500 million headquarters building to the General Services Administration free of charge, according to court documents revealed in a recently filed lawsuit. Tensions at USIP have... Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In a move that surprised the tech industry Monday, OpenAI said it has secured a monumental $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, catapulting its valuation to an unprecedented $300... Read more

OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot, ChatGPT, is building a new AI model. The model will be an “open-weights” language model with reasoning, according to CEO Sam Altman who tweeted about the development on Monday. An “open-weights” AI model is a kind of middle ground between open- and... Read more

Second, it wasn’t clear that the DOGE affiliates had the authority to either access these systems or do what they purportedly wanted to. An executive order signed by president Donald Trump gives the US DOGE Service broad authority to access unclassified systems. But while Holmes is detailed to DOI... Read more

Gunzilla is launching its $GUN token on Binance as a way for its Off the Grid battle royale game community to trade their gaming items. The move is part of Gunzilla‘s dream of making Off the Grid, a hybrid Web2 and Web3 game, into the first mainstream success for... Read more

Yellowstone season 5 has finished airing on Paramount Network (and you can catch up with Peacock). If you’re interested in pivoting to earlier in the Dutton timeline, Yellowstone prequel 1923 is dropping new episodes. 1923 follows a new Dutton family generation after fellow spinoff 1883, time-warping viewers to the early... Read more

Macs are powerful machines straight out of the box. Whether you’re using a MacBook Air or a Mac Studio, these machines can power through a wide range of tasks. But installing the right apps can up the ante on the entire experience. If you’re looking to fine-tune your workflow,... Read more

It was a night of intense debate and verbal smackdowns at GamesBeat’s Crossfire Lounge, during the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. Dean Takahashi, GamesBeat’s lead writer, hosted three head-to-head conversations, tackling the AI apocalypse, direct-to-player marketing and sales, and the state of the game industry. Round one:... Read more

The Amazfit Bip 6 has just launched and is the latest iteration in the Bip smartwatch series. Like its predecessors, the new watch aims to deliver robust health tracking and fitness features without breaking the bank. And after 24 hours of testing the Bip 6, I’m left thinking that... Read more

As an actor, DiMercurio is interested in how many emotions and “micro observations” you can pick up on just by the way someone says a word. Some actors trust their gut, or do an impersonation, and others look at voice granularly, observing, re-creating, and manipulating the speed of the... Read more