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’SNL’: Women’s Hockey Gold Medalists Stick It to Trump
Olympic gold medal winners from the U.S. men’s and women’s hockey teams crashed Connor Storrie‘s SNL monologue on Saturday, with the two on the women’s team taking a shot at Donald Trump for his dismissive comment about them. Storrie, who stars in the hockey-themed...
Pope tells priests to stop using AI to write their sermons
Forget stochastic parrots: how about periphrastic priests? Pope Leo XIV, in an address in Rome, warned Catholic clergy against using AI to pad out their sermons: "To give a true homily is to share faith," Leo said. "[machines] will never be able to share faith." He...
Jim Carrey Confirms Private Romance in Rare Personal Update
You could say Jim Carrey's heart grew three sizes at the 2026 Cesar Awards. After all, the How the Grinch Stole Christmas star was joined by his loved ones at the French film award ceremony Feb. 26, including his "companion" Min Ah, as well as his daughter Jane Erin...
Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.
On 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A medical examiner said that her husband, Joe Ceccanti – who had been missing for several hours – had jumped from a railway overpass and died. He was 48. Fox couldn’t believe it. Ceccanti had no...
OpenAI just closed its biggest funding round, raising $110 billion from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank
The company said it has secured a $110 billion investment, with backing coming from Nvidia, Amazon, and SoftBank. The new funding was at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, OpenAI said in a Friday announcement. The round included $30 billion from SoftBank, $50 billion...
Apple says UK age verification message in iOS 26.4 beta 2 was a bug – 9to5Mac
Some users in the UK began seeing an age verification prompt after installing iOS 26.4 beta 2. Apple now says the message appeared in error. Here are the details. ’That message was displayed in error, and has been fixed’ A few days ago, my colleague Ben Lovejoy shared...
Apple TV’s Second-Largest Market Is Brazil, Says Eddy Cue
Apple's SVP of services Eddy Cue has revealed that Brazil is Apple TV's second-largest market by subscriber count and its fastest-growing, in an interview with Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo (via 9to5Mac). Apple TV Color Speaking on the sidelines of Apple's...
iPhone could benefit from memory chip crisis in one key way: report – 9to5Mac
A new Bloomberg report covering IDC data offers a dire outlook for the smartphone market in 2026 due to the current memory chip crisis, but Apple and the iPhone could actually benefit in one key way. Apple likely to grow iPhone marketshare in 2026 due to shrinking...
eBay will lay off 800 workers, or 6 percent of its staff
eBay announced that it is cutting about 800 jobs from its global staff. "We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities, which will affect certain roles across our workforce," the retailer said in a statement...
Apple TV reveals new space-race thriller series is coming soon – 9to5Mac
Apple TV’s space drama For All Mankind returns next month, but the streamer just revealed that its spinoff—Star City—will premiere soon too. Here are the details. Star City premieres May 29 as ‘For All Mankind’ spinoff For All Mankind was part of Apple TV’s very...
An OpenClaw AI agent asked to delete a confidential email nuked its own mail client and called it fixed
What happens when AI agents with email access, shell privileges, and their own memory get targeted by twenty researchers for two weeks? An international study catalogs the results. In an exploratory red-teaming study titled "Agents of Chaos," a team of over 30...
Sketchy report claims Apple fell for Samsung negotiating ploy on RAM
Apple almost always gets the better part of any negotiation with its suppliers, but a sketchy report claims that this wasn’t the case when it came to buying RAM from Samsung. The report says Samsung had asked for a 100% increase in price, expecting to negotiate down...
