If Amazon doesn’t know how to eliminate carbon emissions, then who does?
“We are still striving towards that target,” Kara Hurst said at an Axios event, adding later that she is “not going to sit here and say, ‘We know all the ways that we’re going to do this.’” The admission was both frank…
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Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
A promotional image for the third season of The Mandalorian . Credit: Disney Disney+ got its fourth price hike in four years today. Hulu prices also went up. Disney+ and Hulu’s respective standalone, ad-free plans (which…
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ShinyHunters hackers claim to have 2-3TB of sensitive information about FBI employees
Hacking group ShinyHunters has allegedly stolen extensive amounts of sensitive information from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation that includes details about its employees and job applicants. reports that it has…
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Here's the Torcal, the first fully electric Bentley
The Bentley Torcal will go on sale early next year as a 2028 model. Credit: Bentley Bentley provided flights from Washington, DC, to Monterey, California, and accommodation so Ars could ride in a preproduction Torcal EV…
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A US-China AI Hotline Won't Be Ready For a While
Tech executives from OpenAI and Nvidia have confirmed their attendance at the dinner, as a number of key agenda items are on the table. Chief among them is a US proposal to establish an AI notification system with China…
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Alien: Isolation 2's Xenomorph has animations initially designed for the first game, but the team 'didn't have the technology at the time' to use them — but now the Alien is even more 'responsive' and 'reactive'
In an interview with TechRadar Gaming at Gamescom, Whitehead confirmed that working around the alien's intelligence will be a core part of gameplay—even with the added exterior environment—and if players use a…
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US rejects global AI governance at UN Security Council
“The frontier of intelligence is advancing rapidly. That is not a reason to pause its further development or to constrain it with new global governance structures,” Kratsios says. Throughout his statement, he refers to…
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Trump’s China rivalry and “AI race” delusion may endanger US, experts say
This week, the US and China, the two world leaders on AI, finally started talks meant to keep the whole world safe from emerging safety risks. But whether meetings between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping can lead to a…
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Yahoo CEO says micropayments will never be enough for publishers
He spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam. He also said micropayments from AI companies will never pay publishers enough. “The large language models effectively photocopied the entire internet to build their answers…
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VC firm Bessemer now has another $5.75B to invest in (what else?) AI
The firm, which has backed companies such as Anthropic, Cognition, Legora, Perplexity, Ramp, Shopify, and Waymo, dedicated $1.75 billion for seed and early-stage investing and the remaining $4 billion for growth…
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