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Introduction Ikea will open mini retail experiences in a handful of Best Buy stores in the southern US later this year. Shop-in-shops will be 1,000-square-feet in size and will launch at 10 Best Buy locations in Florida and Texas including Daytona Beach, South Austin, and Mesquite. Key Insights What is Mini Ikea? Ikea will open […]

Introduction Wikipedia volunteers have mobilized to fight back against AI slop. “They are vigilant to make sure that the content stays neutral and reliable,” says Wikimedia Foundation product director Marshall Miller. Key Insights What is How Wikipedia? Wikipedia volunteers have mobilized to fight back against AI slop. “They are vigilant to make sure that the […]

Introduction Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel with a simple UI over the years. There’s still a number of settings that don’t exist in the new PC Settings app. The latest features to migrate are clock settings; time servers; formatting for time, number, and currency. Key Insights What is A decade? Microsoft […]

Introduction OpenAI is bringing back GPT-4o in ChatGPT just one day after replacing it with GPT-5. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the company will let paid users switch to GPT-4o after ChatGPT users mourned its replacement. “We will let Plus users choose to continue to use 4o,” Altman says. […]

Introduction OpenAI’s GPT-5 model is a machine-learning system. The company showed off a few charts that made the model seem quite impressive, but some were a little bit off. CEO Sam Altman called it a “mega chart screwup,” though he noted that a correct version is in OpenAI’s blog post. Key Insights What is OpenAI […]

Introduction The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees. He announced that OpenAI would give a “special one-time award” to researchers and software engineers. Key Insights What is OpenAI gives? The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees. He announced that OpenAI would give a […]

Introduction Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved with haste to get engineers to test and deploy DeepSeek’s R1 model on Azure AI Foundry. A few months later, he pushed to onboard xAI’s Grok 3 models, in a deal that saw them arrive on Azure in May. Key Insights What is Microsoft is? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella […]

Introduction The US Air Force wants to use the Tesla Cybertruck for target practice at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The Air Force cited some of the unique characteristics of the truck, including the vehicles’ “stainless steel exoskeleton” and its 48V electrical architecture. Musk himself has ruminated in the past about the […]

Introduction Lawmakers have introduced a new bill aimed at countering “foreign piracy sites” The bill, called the Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD) Act, would allow copyright holders to ask a federal court to block piracy websites. The bipartisan legislation marks yet another effort to block digital piracy in the US. Key […]

Introduction OpenAI is releasing GPT-5, its new flagship model, to all of its ChatGPT users and developers. CEO Sam Altman compares it to “something that I just don’t wanna ever have to go back from,” like the first iPhone with a Retina display. Key Insights What is GPT-5 is? OpenAI is releasing GPT-5, its new […]