AI News & Trends
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South Korea Narrows Its AI Contest to Three Model Teams
South Korea’s AI contest has reached its serious stage. Upstage, SK Telecom and LG AI Research advanced after the second-round…
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Stripe’s $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Puts AI Routing Center Stage
Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter Inc. in a deal valued at more than $7 billion, bringing one…
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Children Face a Polycrisis Their Support Systems Must Finally Address
The world feels unsafe to many children. Climate change, pandemics, conflicts, economic instability, and political division are not distant headlines…
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Horizon Hunters Gathering Retreats From Live-Service Ambitions
Horizon Hunters Gathering is changing course. Guerrilla Games is reportedly overhauling the project to make it a more traditional co-op…
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Warren Spector Leaves Game Development After Nearly 44 Years
Warren Spector has retired from game development, ending a career that was one month away from reaching its 44th year.…
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The Tech Hellscape Just Got Its Own Language
Technology has become so packed with irritations, intrusions, and grand promises that everyday frustration now needs its own vocabulary. From…
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The Tech Irritations and AI Power Plays Shaping 2026
Technology is giving people more tools, more automation, and more reasons to lose patience. One word now captures a familiar…
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Perplexity’s India Giveaway Delivered Growth With a Catch
Perplexity bought attention at Indian scale. In July 2025, the AI company partnered with Airtel to give the telecom operator’s…
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From Dickovers to Black Hole Stars, Tech Keeps Getting Stranger
Technology is no longer just adding features. It is creating new annoyances, new risks, new scientific puzzles, and new words…
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The Strange New Vocabulary of Life Inside the Tech Machine
Technology is giving people new tools, new problems, and now a growing vocabulary for both. A website that blocks its…
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