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A seemingly-innocuous photo of strawberries in a garden posted by Sam Altman has AI enthusiasts freaking out.

On Wednesday, the OpenAI CEO shared the photo accompanied by a cryptic comment that said, "i love summer in the garden." But Altman wasn't just musing about his appreciation for the late summer crop. He was teasing a secretive OpenAI technology dubbed "Project Strawberry."



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Humane’s universally derided AI Pin is not exactly flying off of store shelves, according to internal sales documents published by The Verge. As a matter of fact, returns seem to be currently outpacing new purchases. So many have been returned, that there are only around 7,000 units out in the wild. The company had once hoped to sell 100,000 in the first year, so that ain’t happening.

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Scientists in Singapore say they've discovered a sixth major clade of Candida auris, an emerging and often drug-resistant fungal threat.



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Ukrainian F-16s are seen in the air in an undisclosed location of Ukraine on August 4.
Ukrainian F-16s are seen in the air in an undisclosed location of Ukraine on August 4.
  • Ukraine finally got its first batch of American-made F-16 fighter jets from NATO.
  • An official video and photos show the new F-16s armed only with air-to-air missiles.
  • The loadout offers insight into what the F-16s may be tasked with initially.

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An Uber Eats driver on the job.
  • Consumers have been pulling back spending lately on a range of goods.
  • But they're still having lots of stuff delivered, DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber earnings show.
  • Even with higher prices for just about everything, consumers are still willing to pay for delivery.

Shoppers are cutting back spending on everything from snacks to washing machines.

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Characters from the Chapter 5: Season 3 battle pass. | Image: Epic Games

Epic Games is making a major change to Fortnite’s battle passes that should remove some angst if you can’t buy or complete a pass before the end of a season.

Fortnite’s battle passes offer a bunch of exclusive in-game rewards that you can only obtain during an individual season, but that means you



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An innovative scanner created by an NYU computer scientist is allowing scientists to digitize previously isolated fossils in remote South American regions. Claudio Silva’s PaleoScan provides a portable and affordable way to preserve and share collections of ancient impressions that may have otherwise been lost or smuggled.

Brazil’s Araripe Basin is lush with ancient fossils, some in unusually



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OpenAI will have to weather the storms of being the first company to take generative AI mainstream.
  • OpenAI is losing key members, including cofounder John Schulman, who left for Anthropic.
  • Despite leading the market with ChatGPT, OpenAI faces big challenges in the fledgling AI world.
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Last year, when Minnesota’s progressive politicians coalesced around a bill to raise the minimum pay for Uber and Lyft drivers in the state, their ostensibly left-of-center governor surprised them all by pulling a move he had yet to use while in office: he vetoed it.

Uber and Lyft were threatening to stop operating in Minnesota if the bill



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A few months back, Disney promised to further crack down on password sharing, or the practice of multiple households using the same account for a streaming service. That's set to come into effect in the very near future for many more Disney+ users, meaning that account sharers will have to pay extra or have separate subscriptions to keep using the service. Disney started targeting account sharing