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Musk pitched naming OpenAI ‘Freemind’ in jab at Google, emails show

Newly-revealed courtroom exhibits in the blockbuster case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman show how OpenAI nearly ended up with a different name — one intended as a jab at an AI rival. Loading audio narration… Musk and Altman, along with others, founded OpenAI in December 2015 as a nonprofit…

Forget franchises: these 12 movies stole the show at CinemaCon

Every year, Hollywood makes a pilgrimage to Las Vegas for CinemaCon, a theater convention where studios and major distributors show up with flashy star-filled presentations to get exhibition owners excited about upcoming movies.This year, as always, franchises were a major highlight of the convention; footage was shown from Warner Bros.’…

Big Tech’s hiring boom is over. 2 charts show where its workforce stands now.

Exactly how “big” is Big Tech’s workforce these days? Loading audio narration… The past several years brought a pandemic-era hiring surge followed by a swift pullback, waves of layoffs, and massive AI investments. Together, these shifts have reshaped the labor force at some of the largest US tech companies. Between…

2 charts show why families need 9,000 a year to afford NYC

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a new warning: Living in the city with kids could cost you at least $150,000 a year. Loading audio narration… The Mayor’s Office of Equity & Racial Justice released its inaugural “NYC True Cost of Living Measure” report Monday. The TCOL figure adapts…

OpenAI just bought tech talk show TBPN: ‘This is not an April Fools joke’

OpenAI is moving into an unexpected industry: media. Loading audio narration… The San Francisco AI giant just bought TBPN, a tech talk show that’s gone viral among Silicon Valley insiders, it announced Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed.Jordi Hays and John Coogan host the two-man talk show, which streams for…

2 charts show how the highest and lowest earners spend their money

It can get expensive to keep the gas tank filled, pay the bills, and decide what to make for dinner.Those costs and more add up over a year, especially for lower-income Americans. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes annual consumer expenditures data, with the most recent estimates capturing spending in…