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When Is Anthropic's IPO? Claude Maker Files To List On Nasdaq As Trading Debut Is Targeted Before Thanksgiving

When Is Anthropic's IPO? Claude Maker Files To List On Nasdaq As Trading Debut Is Targeted Before Thanksgiving

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, publicly filed for an initial public offering on Monday. That moves it one...

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Poland's Sikorski Hopes Musk Will 'Fly to Mars' Amid Starlink Row as Zelensky Says Ukraine Service Restored

Poland's Sikorski Hopes Musk Will 'Fly to Mars' Amid Starlink Row as Zelensky Says Ukraine Service Restored

WARSAW, Poland — Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has taken a fresh swipe at Elon Musk, saying he hopes the billionaire "will fly to...

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(VIDEO) Early iPhone Duo Buyers Report Cracked Screens Along the Hinge Within Hours of Apple's Foldable Launch

**Early iPhone Duo Buyers Report Cracked Screens Along the Hinge Within Hours of Apple's Foldable Launch** CUPERTINO, Calif. — A small number...

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Apple's $2,000 IPhone Duo Hits Stores Worldwide As Rationed Sales Shrink Lines And Reviewers Urge Caution

Apple's $2,000 IPhone Duo Hits Stores Worldwide As Rationed Sales Shrink Lines And Reviewers Urge Caution

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple's first folding phone, the iPhone Duo, went on sale around the world Friday. It costs about $2,000, and its debut drew...

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Apple Readies Fifth Avenue for iPhone Duo Launch as Giant Displays Appear and Fans Line Up for First Foldable

Apple is preparing its flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York for Friday's launch of the iPhone Duo, the company's first foldable...

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 Delivers Polished Clamshell Design at Higher Price Point

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 Delivers Polished Clamshell Design at Higher Price Point

**Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 Delivers Polished Clamshell Design at Higher Price Point** Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 8, released in early August 2026,...

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Motorola Razr Flex Wide-Fold Phone Appears on Geekbench With Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and 12GB RAM

Motorola Razr Flex Wide-Fold Phone Appears on Geekbench With Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and 12GB RAM

A prototype of Motorola's reported wide-fold Razr Flex smartphone has appeared in the Geekbench database, revealing a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5...

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Apple Store Staff Told To Warn Shoppers There May Be No IPhone Duo Stock For Walk-In Buyers On Launch Day

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple retail employees have been told to warn customers against visiting stores to buy the iPhone Duo without a preorder when...

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(VIDEO) IPhone Duo Vs. Galaxy Z Fold 8: Pros And Cons Of Apple's Foldable Against Samsung's Lighter Rival

(VIDEO) IPhone Duo Vs. Galaxy Z Fold 8: Pros And Cons Of Apple's Foldable Against Samsung's Lighter Rival

NEW YORK — Apple's long-awaited entry into the foldable smartphone market arrives Friday, setting up a head-to-head battle with Samsung, which...

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Sony Revives Walkman With $5,899 Gold-Plated Flagship As Premium Music Players Target Wealthy Audiophiles

Sony Revives Walkman With $5,899 Gold-Plated Flagship As Premium Music Players Target Wealthy Audiophiles

TOKYO — Sony has unveiled three new high-end Walkman digital music players, led by a gold-plated flagship priced at $5,899, as the Japanese company...

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OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT For Chrome So It Can Read Your Tabs And Act For You After Shutting Down Atlas Browser

OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT For Chrome So It Can Read Your Tabs And Act For You After Shutting Down Atlas Browser

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI has given its ChatGPT extension for Google Chrome a major upgrade, allowing the artificial intelligence assistant to read...

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iPhone Duo Sells Out in Minutes as Shipping Dates Slip to January 2027 Amid Preorder Frenzy and Tight Supply

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple's first foldable iPhone sold out within minutes of preorders opening Friday, with shipping estimates for new orders...

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Bank Of America Hired 1,000 Contractors To Patch Software Flaws Exposed By Anthropic's Mythos AI, CEO Says

NEW YORK — Bank of America brought in 1,000 outside contractors to help patch software vulnerabilities exposed by advanced artificial intelligence...

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Apple To Unveil HomeView Smart Home Hub On Tuesday, Its Boldest Bid Yet To Take On Amazon And Google At Home

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple is preparing to unveil a new smart home hub called HomeView this week, a long-anticipated device that could mark the...

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Pokemon Ruby And Sapphire Switch Release Date Leaked For October 8 As Fans Await Nintendo Shadow Drop

Pokemon fans are watching the Nintendo eShop closely after leakers claimed that ports of the classic Game Boy Advance games Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon...

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OnePlus 16 Debuts With Record 185Hz Display And Massive 9,000mAh Battery, But Price Jumps Sharply In China

SHENZHEN, China — OnePlus has unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 16, featuring what the company says is the fastest display...

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Apple Introduces $299 HomeView Smart Display With Face Recognition And New Siri AI Assistant

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple on Tuesday introduced HomeView, a 7-inch smart display designed to serve as a shared household screen for music, FaceTime...

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Apple's First Foldable IPhone Duo Faces Tight Supply As $1,999 Phone Heads Into Friday's Pre-Order Rush

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple's first foldable iPhone is expected to be difficult to buy when it goes on sale later this month, as production...

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Aiper IrriSense N2 SE Review: This Compact Smart Sprinkler Turns Any Hose Into a Rain-Like Watering System

SYDNEY — For many Australian homeowners, keeping a lawn green through a long, dry summer means one of two things: dragging a hose and sprinkler...

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Elon Musk Says SpaceX Could Be Worth Far More Than Earth's Entire Economy, Here's What That Would Really Take

NEW YORK — Elon Musk has never been shy about big predictions. His latest may be his biggest yet. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO said this week that he...

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OpenAI Vs Anthropic Vs Gemini Vs Grok: Who Will Win The AI Race In 2027?

The question of which lab — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or xAI — will "win" artificial intelligence in 2027 has no published answer. The...

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(VIDEO) California Orders a Halt to Human-vs-Robot Cage Fights After a San Francisco Bout Left a Man Injured

SAN FRANCISCO — California's athletic commission has ordered a startup to stop staging fights between people and robots in the state, after a...

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Google Launches SynthID Detector Worldwide So Anyone Can Check If Photos, Videos And Audio Were Made By AI

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google has opened its artificial intelligence detection tool to the public worldwide, letting anyone check whether an image,...

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Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra Takes Aim At MacBook Pro With $2,599 Price, Nvidia RTX Spark Chip And 128GB RAM

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft on Wednesday set a $2,599 starting price for the Surface Laptop Ultra, its most powerful laptop to date, and opened...

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OpenAI Releases 722 AI-Written Math Papers Claiming Hundreds Of Breakthroughs, But Experts Urge Caution

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI has released 722 mathematical manuscripts produced by an unreleased artificial intelligence model, claiming solutions to...

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Apple's Tim Cook Sold $63.8 Million in Stock Under a May Plan, One Day After Restricted Shares Vested

Apple's Tim Cook Sold $63.8 Million in Stock Under a May Plan, One Day After Restricted Shares Vested Tim Cook sold about $63.8 million of Apple...

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Google Will Restrict Free Gemini Users to Flash Lite on Oct. 9 and Pull Pro From Its $4.99 AI Plus Plan

Google will cut free access to its better Gemini models on Oct. 9, leaving unpaid users on Flash Lite and removing Gemini Pro from the $4.99-a-month...

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Elon Musk Says He Will Rename A Company After Agreeing To Swap AI For Trump's Super Intelligence Label

Elon Musk said he will rename one of his companies after endorsing President Donald Trump's preferred phrase, "Super Intelligence," in...

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SEHMUA Solar Security Camera Review: Is This No-Subscription 4-Cam Kit With 360-Degree PTZ Worth Buying?

Home security cameras have become one of the fastest-growing smart home categories. Many buyers, though, are tired of the monthly subscription fees...

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Bill Gates Calls AI Self-Regulation 'Insane,' Rebuking Trump And Warning Of Bioterror And Cyberattack Risks

SEATTLE — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned that artificial intelligence is "the most dangerous thing that humans have ever gone...

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Nvidia Raises the Seven-Year-Old Shield TV Pro by $100 to $299, Blaming Industrywide Surge in Memory Costs

Nvidia has raised the price of the Shield TV Pro by $100, to $299.99, effective Oct. 2, a 50 percent increase on a streaming box that first went on...

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AT&T Warns iPhone 18 Pro Max Users Some Phones Can't Call 911, Urges Immediate Update as Problems Persist

DALLAS — AT&T is urging customers with Apple's new iPhone 18 Pro Max to update their software immediately. The carrier acknowledged that...

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Is Instagram Really for Girls? Elon Musk Revives Claim, but Global Data Shows Men Slightly Outnumber Women

SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk has reignited an online debate about Instagram by once again describing the Meta-owned photo-sharing app as a platform...

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Meta Takes Muse AI Agent To 200 Million Small Businesses As It Weighs Fees And Subscriptions To Cash In On AI

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Meta Platforms is expanding its new artificial intelligence agent, Muse, into the small-business market and weighing fees and...

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(VIDEO) Vivo X Fold 6 Review: Huge 7,000mAh Battery and 200MP Zeiss Camera , but Weight and Crease Linger

Vivo's latest foldable smartphone, the X Fold 6, is earning strong marks from early reviewers for its massive battery, powerful camera system and...

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Firefox 157 Arrives With Nova Redesign, Mozilla's Biggest Visual Overhaul in Years and Faster Video Calls

SAN FRANCISCO — Mozilla on Tuesday began rolling out Firefox 157, the first stable version of its web browser to include the company's...

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Anthropic IPO Filing Warns AI Could Pose 'Existential Risks to Humanity' as $42 Billion Loss Revealed

SAN FRANCISCO — plans to warn investors in its initial public offering that advanced artificial intelligence could pose "catastrophic or...

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SpaceX Starship Reaches Orbit For The First Time And Deploys 26 Starlink V3 Satellites, But Ends Flight Early

STARBASE, Texas — SpaceX's Starship rocket reached orbit for the first time on Monday and deployed 26 of the company's newest Starlink...

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(VIDEO) Xiaomi 18 Fold Review Roundup: Critics Praise Passport-Style Design, 6,000mAh Battery and 200MP Camera

Early reviews of the Xiaomi 18 Fold, the company's first wide-screen foldable in its main numbered flagship line, are largely positive on design,...

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Bose Launches $99 Noise-Canceling Wired Earbuds, Its First Corded Pair in 11 Years, Shipping October 15

Bose on Monday announced the Bose Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds, a $99 USB-C pair that adds active noise cancellation to a category the company left...

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Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley Targeted Online Over Alleged Blurred Home as Doxxing Fuels Privacy Row

NEW YORK — Flock Safety Chief Executive Garrett Langley has become the target of an online pile-on that started with his public call for Americans...

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(VIDEO) Meta's Muse AI Agent Tops 3.4 Million Downloads And Hits No. 1, But Amazon Block Pose Hurdles

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Meta Platforms' new artificial intelligence agent, Muse, has passed 3.4 million downloads and reached the top of the U.S....

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(VIDEO) Honor Unveils Magic 9 Pro Max in China With Dual 200MP ARRI Cameras and Giant 8,800mAh Battery

BEIJING — Honor put its most expensive Magic phone on sale in China on Monday, a 6.8-inch slab built around two 200-megapixel cameras tuned with...

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Disgaea Developer's CEO Says Talks With Sony Over Ending PlayStation Discs Could Still Change Course

The chief executive of Nippon Ichi Software, the Japanese studio behind the Disgaea series, said his company is in discussions with Sony about the end...

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Apple's First Foldable iPhone Duo Lifts Galaxy Z Fold 8 Sales About 10 Percent in South Korea Market

SEOUL — Apple's first foldable phone has not immediately undercut Samsung in the company's home market. Industry sources cited by Maeil...

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10 Things You Must Know About Meta Muse, the AI Agent: What It Does, What It Costs and Why Amazon Blocked It

Meta Platforms' new personal artificial intelligence agent, Muse, has gone from launch to the top of the U.S. App Store in less than three weeks,...

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Meta and YouTube Reverse Course, Will Run Ads for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Documentary After All Amid Backlash

Meta and YouTube said Saturday they will accept advertising for director Alex Gibney's upcoming documentary about Elon Musk, reversing course...

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AirPods 5 Review Roundup: Big ANC Upgrade and Great Sound at a Surprisingly Low Starting Price, Critics Say

AirPods 5 Review Roundup: Big ANC Upgrade and Great Sound at a Surprisingly Low Starting Price, Critics Say Apple's newest AirPods have drawn...

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5 Major New Technologies Elon Musk's Companies Are Racing To Build Across Space, AI And Robotics This Year

Elon Musk's various companies are pursuing an unusually dense slate of new technology projects in 2026, spanning space exploration,...

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(VIDEO) Meta Launches $1,299 VR Glasses, Sharply Undercutting Apple's Vision Pro On Both Price And Weight

Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a new $1,299 virtual reality headset Wednesday that undercuts Apple's Vision Pro on both price and size, marking a...

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