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People try out the Kobo Inc. Kobo Touch e-reader at a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, July 2, 2012. Rakuten Inc., the operator of online shopping websites and parent of Kobo, will in July start selling the new e-reader for 7,980 yen ($100) in Japan, setting it up to compete with Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle.

When Pocket shut down earlier this year, it hurt more than just folks who wanted to save articles easier. Kobo users could no longer read articles directly from the internet on their eReader — a devastating move for so many readers like myself.

Kobo recently announced it would replace Pocket with Instapaper, a minimalist and sleek service much like Pocket that offers both a free plan as well as a



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AI companies are throwing multi-billion dollar offers at Google with one goal in mind: Acquiring the search giant's web browser Google Chrome.

Perplexity AI recently offered more than $34 billion to Google for Chrome. OpenAI, which has much larger coffers, has also expressed strong interest in buying the web browser.

But, why are all these massive AI companies offering to throw money at Google for a



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Not to put too fine a point on it, but Jim Jarmusch is one of the coolest filmmakers alive. It's not just the windswept silver swirls of his iconic locks, or the way he'll cameo as himself on New York-set comedy series like Bored to Death and What We Do in Shadows. It's also that he makes movies with impeccable casts that dare to linger in love, longing, and loss, like Coffee and Cigarettes



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Emma Stone walks the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival.
Emma Stone at the 2025 Venice Film Festival.
  • The Venice Film Festival is being held in Italy until September 6.
  • So far, stars including Emma Stone and George Clooney have had strong red-carpet fashion moments.
  • Other stars, like Laura Dern and Andrew Garfield, missed the mark with their outfits.

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A Russian naval drone approaches a Ukrainian reconnaissance ship.
Russia carried out what appears to be its first naval drone attack this week.
  • Russia said on Thursday that it used a naval drone to strike a Ukrainian reconnaissance ship.
  • It marked what appears to be Russia's first time using a naval drone to hit a Ukrainian vessel.
  • Ukraine has used naval drones throughout the war to attack Russia's Black Sea Fleet

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Microsoft has largely relied on OpenAI's models to power its AI products, but now it's working on its own in-house models.

On Thursday, Microsoft launched a speech generation model called MAI-Voice-1, and started public testing for a foundation model called MAI-1-preview. The company said MAI-Voice-1 can generate a minute of audio in under a second on a single GPU, highlighting its efficiency. MAI


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A phone shows a folder of AI apps.

As the industry weathers repeated allegations that generative AI and its chatbots are unsafe for users — in what some say is a soon-to-burst bubble — AI's top leaders are joining forces to prove the efficacy of their models.

This week, AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic published results from a first-of-its-kind joint safety evaluation between the two LLM creators, in which each company was