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Amazon has told Perplexity to get its agentic browser out of its online store, the companies both confirmed publicly on Tuesday. After warning Perplexity multiple times that Comet, its AI-powered shopping assistant, was violating Amazon’s terms...
I’m thrilled to announce a fantastic new addition to our leadership team: Karyne Levy is joining VentureBeat as our new Managing Editor. Today is her first day.Many of you may know Karyne from her most recent...

How to watch the 2025 MLB World Series without cable

The World Series is headed to a Game 7 after the Los Angeles Dodgers tied up the series against the Toronto Blue Jays last...

Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answer and Help for Nov. 2 #609

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New...

A Monstrously Alluring Secret Comes to Light in This Eerie Short Story

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story...

The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, its widely used 365 services, Xbox, and Minecraft started suffering outages at roughly noon Eastern time on Wednesday, the result...

Waabi unveils autonomous truck made in partnership with Volvo

Self-driving truck startup Waabi shared Tuesday at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 the launch of a new autonomous truck made in partnership with Volvo, the Volvo...

MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling)

Watch out, DeepSeek and Qwen! There's a new king of open source large language models (LLMs), especially when it comes to something enterprises are...

OpenAI is reportedly working on an AI music-generation tool

According to a report from The Information, OpenAI is interested in developing a tool that could generate music from text and audio prompts, and...

Chevy’s New Bolt Electric Car Is Truly Affordable, at Less Than $30,000

Chevrolet's new Bolt feels like the kind of electric car the market has been waiting for -- an EV that's genuinely affordable but doesn't...

Jacob Elordi’s Full ‘Frankenstein’ Monster

Almost a year ago to the day, the promotional lead-up to 2024’s buzziest horror film, Robert...

Tinder Launches Mandatory Facial Verification to Weed Out Bots and Scammers

On Wednesday, Tinder announced that it is rolling out a mandatory facial verification tool for new users in the US to help combat the...

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