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Leadership turmoil, rumblings about an AI bubble, and a failed CEO coup last year didn't stop OpenAI from raising $6.6 billion.

On Wednesday, OpenAI completed its latest funding round according to the New York Times, giving it a valuation of $157 billion. That makes it the largest VC round of all time, a distinction that was previously held by Elon Musk's xAI, which raised $6 billion earlier this



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Charter’s Spectrum TV Select cable plan will include a free ad-supported Peacock Premium subscription next year, reports Reuters. The addition comes as Charter announced today that it has reached a new “multi-year deal” with NBCUniversal, which owns Peacock, to keep its TV channels in Charter’s cable lineup.

Charter recently lined up a similar agreement



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If you spot famed childhood science entertainer Bill Nye on the streets and feel compelled to ask for a brag-worthy selfie, you better be able to show where you stand on climate policy.

That's because the celebrity and newly minted "Climate Guy" is drawing a line: He'll take your photos, but only if you're voting Team Earth. Explained via the same "Bill Nye the Science Guy" humor that made him



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Boris Johnson said Queen Elizabeth II had bone cancer.
  • Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote in his memoir that Queen Elizabeth II had bone cancer.
  • Experts say royals have historically kept their medical information private for different reasons.
  • King Charles III has tried to use his health struggles to help others.

After Queen Elizabeth died on September 8, 2022, her



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One of the year’s scariest and most engrossing horror games is clawing its way to a new console. SFB Games’ Crow Country will launch on the Nintendo Switch on October 16.

Crow Country may look like a cheerier, grainier Animal Crossing but that just adds to the horror adventure’s creepy and dark atmosphere. You play as Mara Forest, a plucky young woman exploring the remains of an abandoned



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Hannah and Nick from "Love Is Blind" season seven.
  • "Love Is Blind" is back with its seventh season, featuring singles from the Washington, D.C. area.
  • Hannah and Nick are one couple who make it out of the pods to the group vacation in Mexico.
  • Here's what we know about whether or not they're still together.

Warning: Spoilers ahead through episode six of "Love Is Blind" season seven.

"Lov



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Tesla's least expensive car is off the market: the Model 3 Standard Range Rear-Wheel Drive is no longer available in the online configurator. Electrek first reported on the absence of that Model 3 build. It was the cheapest option from the electric vehicle brand with a price tag of $39,000. Now the Model 3 Long-Range Rear-Wheel Drive takes that title with a retail price of $42,500. Tesla unveiled



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Welcome to the streaming era of the wrestling wars. WWE’s flagship weekly show, Raw, is ditching cable and headed for Netflix in January. And today, Warner Bros. Discovery and All Elite Wrestling announced a multiyear rights extension that will bring AEW content to Max starting in... you guessed it... January 2025. The news was first reporte