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When OpenAI’s board fired Sam Altman in late 2023, the board members said he “was not consistently candid in his communications.” The statement raised more questions than answers, indirectly calling Sam Altman a liar, but about what exactly? Six months later, creatives and former employees are once again asking the…

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When you come for the king, you best not miss.

That, at least, is what comes to my mind after watching Xiaomi's new ad for the company's upcoming Xiaomi 14 Civi smartphone.

The short ad, tagged #CinematicVision (Civi for short), is an obvious riff on Apple's tone-deaf 'Crush' ad. In the clip, a hydraulic press is shown destroying a bunch of instruments and other creative tools to create an iPad Pro

Out of all the big blowout declarations from Microsoft Build, from the launch of all new “Copilot+” PCs with Snapdragon X Elite chips to new software, perhaps the most standout offering is Recall. It’s an always-on screenshotting time machine that is supposed to let users search through every last minute of their…

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• Disneyland performers voted over the weekend to unionize with the Actors' Equity Association.
• Mai Vo, a performer at the theme park, was part of the union push.
• She told BI that in the past her eye was stained by a costume, and her colleagues struggle with low pay.

Mai Vo

You might start to see more Airbnb properties with EV accommodations in the future. The online platform is teaming up with ChargePoint to get more Airbnb hosts to install EV chargers, Business Wire reports. The partnership means Airbnb hosts can access an exclusive ChargePoint package and save money. 

ChargePoint is giving Airbnb hosts 25 percent off whichever charger they pick and another $100

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, announced late Tuesday afternoon that he would accept donations in Bitcoin, Ether, Dogecoin, Solana, and other cryptocurrencies. With this move, he has become the first major party candidate to embrace digital currencies. Earlier this month, the former…

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• European nations say they're planning a $4.3 billion joint air and missile defense system.
• Creating an Iron Dome similar to Israel's 'is necessary," Poland's PM Donald Tusk said.
• The European Sky Shield Initiative involves 21 countries and aims to enhance NATO's defenses

• The US economy is headed for a recession and a wave of corporate failures, Jeffrey Gundlach said.
•  Several sectors are slowing and higher interest rates are squeezing people and businesses, he said.
• Higher prices and interest costs are spurring consumers to rack up credit card debt, Gundlach said.

Prepare for a recession to strike and companies

• Cambridge University professor Thomas Roulet has hit back at the idea that Gen Z is lazy.
• He said younger people just have a different idea about what work means to them.
• JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said people shouldn't "feel so bad" for Gen Z and millennials this week.

Gen Z is often called lazy — but a Cambridge

• Neom canceled a desalination project worth $1.5 billion, according to a report.
• It comes as Saudi Arabia reportedly plans on scaling back part of the project. 
• Enowa, a Neom subsidiary, told Meed it's water requirements had evolved. 

A project to build a $1.5 billion water

While many of us at Engadget are passionate about cooking, it turns out that tech blogging isn’t the most efficient path to owning a large kitchen. No matter: We try to make the most of our cramped apartments regardless, and we’ve managed to (mostly) stay sane along the way thanks in large part to a few space-spacing appliances and cooking tools. If you’re in a similar situation and have been

Individuals and organizations are still struggling with how and how much to integrate AI into daily life. Rarely has that been more clear than a case out of Emory University in which the school went from awarding students with an entrepreneurship prize worth $10,000 for their AI-powered studying tool to suspending them for it, 404 Media reports. No, the students didn't suddenly misuse the tool