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Another OpenAI executive takes off
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s special projects lead and former chief operating officer, has announced his departure after eight years at the company, saying he plans to pursue “something new.” In an internal memo shared on X, he said he had been considering “the next horizon” for the company and was leaving to help advance its mission…
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4 Songs From 1968 Every 60s Kid Heard While Riding in the Family Car to School Each Morning
American Songwriter has published a nostalgic list recalling four songs that dominated Top 40 radio in 1968, the kind of tunes many children of the 1960s would have heard playing during the morning drive to school. The piece is a light retrospective feature rather than hard news, aimed at readers who grew up during that…
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After the Backrooms, a new creepypasta is about to get the Hollywood treatment
Hollywood is set to adapt “Jeff the Killer,” a well-known creepypasta horror story first published in 2008, following the success of Kane Parsons’s Backrooms film. According to The Wrap, indie filmmaker Savannah Moss has teamed up with production and crowdsourcing studio Tongal to bring the character to the screen, marking the latest instance of internet…
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The abandoned 1990s movie James Cameron called “the greatest I never made”
A failure. The post The abandoned 1990s movie James Cameron called “the greatest I never made” first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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Best players for FC 26 Back Shortly Evolution
This guide covers FC 26’s new “Back Shortly Evolution”, a free but restrictive player upgrade path aimed at left-backs. The evolution imposes tight stat caps and unusual requirements, meaning that while it costs nothing to use, only certain cards can benefit fully from its five tiers of boosts. The evolution requires a starting card with…
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Saber CEO hides jab at Randy Pitchford in game trailer as payback for Pitchford dumping on Embracer: ‘Without Embracer, Randy is performing magic tricks at birthday parties for a living’
Saber Interactive’s chief executive, Matthew Karch, has been reported to have hidden a dig at Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford inside one of his studio’s game trailers, in an apparent response to Pitchford’s recent public criticism of former parent company Embracer Group. The jibe reflects ongoing tension between senior figures at studios that were previously part…
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Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime chief operating officer, has announced he is leaving the company to “start something new,” according to an internal message he shared publicly on Tuesday. Lightcap is one of OpenAI’s longest-serving executives, and his departure adds to a wider reshuffle of senior leadership at the AI lab as it prepares for a…
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General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI
River AI, a startup founded two months ago by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator and Temasek also participating. The scale of the investment is striking for such a young company, underlining both the intensity…
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Noah Kahan Tees Up Second ‘Folk and Fairways’ Charity Show and Golf Tournament
Noah Kahan is hosting the second edition of his “Folk and Fairways” charity event, a two-day golf tournament and acoustic performance taking place on 14 and 15 September at Spruce Peak in Stowe, Vermont. All proceeds will go to the singer’s Busyhead Project, an organisation he founded to promote mental-health awareness and provide support resources,…
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Walt Disney Studios Second To Cross $4B WW In 2026 After Universal – Box Office
Walt Disney Studios has passed $4 billion at the global box office in 2026, becoming only the second studio after Universal to reach that milestone this year. The achievement underlines Disney’s continued dominance in Hollywood, a position it has held as the top-grossing studio in nine of the last ten years, and comes ahead of…