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Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella used a blockbuster quarterly earnings call to sharpen his pitch against OpenAI and Anthropic, encouraging enterprise customers to avoid relying on any single AI model or lab. This matters because Microsoft holds valuable stakes in both companies while simultaneously competing with them, as OpenAI and Anthropic expand into applications and agentic infrastructure…
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How The Mars Volta brought prog-rock into the 21st century
The article examines how The Mars Volta helped make progressive rock feel relevant in the 2000s, rather than simply reviving the genre’s earlier styles. It presents the band as bringing ambitious, complex songwriting into a contemporary alternative-rock setting, broadening prog-rock’s appeal for a new generation. The focus is on the group’s approach to combining technical…
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Jeff Hiller Got Emmy Nom For 7-Minute ‘Pluribus’ Role Viewers Have Compared To ChatGPT: “I Was Trying To Convey Extreme Love”
Actor Jeff Hiller has received an Emmy nomination for a role in Apple TV’s sci-fi series “Pluribus” despite appearing on screen for just seven minutes. Hiller played Larry, a member of the show’s blissfully content “hive mind” collective, in the Season 1 episode “Please, Carol,” and revealed that viewers have likened his performance to ChatGPT,…
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Forget Going to Space, ‘9-1-1’ Gave Us Athena’s Best Moments in This Masterpiece Episode
The Season 8 premiere of 9-1-1 opens with a bizarre “bee-nado” emergency in Los Angeles, but the follow-up episode shifts focus to Police Sergeant Athena Grant (Angela Bassett), who is forced by the FBI to escort Dennis Jenkins, the man who killed her late fiancé, back to Los Angeles so he can testify in a…
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Microsoft’s cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest
Microsoft reported $90 billion in revenue for the quarter ended 30 June 2026, up 18 percent year-on-year, beating Wall Street expectations and pushing its shares up more than 7 percent in after-hours trading. The results were driven largely by its cloud and AI businesses, with Microsoft Cloud revenue reaching $59.3 billion (up 27 percent) and…
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Housing developer offers to pay £40,000 of private school fees on behalf of homeowners in bid to lure in buyers
A UK housing developer has launched an incentive scheme offering to cover up to £40,000 in private school fees on behalf of homebuyers, as part of an effort to attract purchasers amid a challenging property market. The offer is designed to sweeten the deal for prospective buyers, particularly families weighing the cost of private education…
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Catastrophic MoD data breach would not have happened if staff had been trained on Excel
A report from the Commons defence select committee has found that a catastrophic Ministry of Defence data breach exposing the personal details of thousands of Afghans who had worked with UK forces was a “foreseeable failure” that could have been avoided with basic staff training, and that the government kept it secret for too long.…
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Tour news: The National, Ride, Icona Pop, Cold Waves fest, Friendly Fires, blink-182 / The Format, And Always Forever festival, more
The article appears to be a tour-news roundup covering new or announced live dates involving artists including The National, Ride, Icona Pop, Friendly Fires, blink-182 and The Format, as well as the Cold Waves and And Always Forever festivals. Such announcements matter to fans because they indicate forthcoming opportunities to see these acts and festivals,…
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Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
Microsoft’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings revealed a striking contrast between its two major AI investments, with a $3.2 billion gain on its Anthropic stake far outpacing the annual return from its much larger OpenAI holding. The disclosure, tucked into an otherwise strong earnings report, highlights how quickly Anthropic’s valuation has risen since Microsoft’s investment and offers…
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More now say AI does more harm than good: Survey
The article text is unavailable because access to the page was denied, so its findings cannot be verified or summarised reliably. Based on the title, it appears to report survey evidence that more people believe artificial intelligence causes more harm than benefit, likely reflecting concerns about trust and jobs. No survey source, methodology, dates, sample…