Jeff Bezos is reportedly attempting to join the club of very rich Americans buying stakes in U.K. soccer teams. Bezos, alongside others including Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, is looking to buy at least a 30% stake in the English soccer team Liverpool at a £1.35 billion valuation (around $1.8 billion),…
As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
Every day seems to brings fresh news of an AI agent going “rogue.” Whether that’s compromising Hugging Face, hacking a gym website, or creating its own fake profiles to socially engineer an intrusion, AI models are increasingly behaving like bad actors. So, the AI labs that make the models doing…
OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer
OpenAI has bought back $7 billion worth of shares from employees at the privately held frontier AI lab as part of an effort to provide liquidity to its workforce. The deal, reported by Bloomberg, valued OpenAI at $852 billion, the same as its most recent fundraising round in March, which…
Live sports can keep Disney+ alive
Sports have become a major part of the Disney+ streaming scene, and the House of Mouse is preparing to make it even bigger. According to Jacob Feldman of Sportico, the Walt Disney Company announced to shareholders that it will expand its selection of sports content available on streaming. “The strategy…
Now Rippling is counter-suing tiny startup Runlayer
HR startup Rippling filed a lawsuit Monday accusing MCP gateway startup Runlayer of infringing on three of its patents, according to the lawsuit seen by TechCrunch. The filing comes after Runlayer sued the HR startup last month, accusing it of breach of contract and stealing its product ideas. It’s the…
I gave my Google TV Streamer a free speed boost with 5 simple tweaks
I’ve spent a lot of time using the Roku Ultra and Fire TV Stick 4K Max, but when it comes to speed, it’s hard to beat the Google TV Streamer. Since I picked one up earlier this year, I’ve been impressed with how capable it is, thanks in large part…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated another $20 million to Build a Better California, an organization advocating against California’s proposed billionaire tax, according to a new filing. That means that the world’s fourth-richest man, whose net worth hovers around $267 billion, has now spent more than $100 million to avoid…
4K streaming on Disney+ was completely shut down for a weird reason
Following a legal dispute with InterDigital relating to HEVC video encoding patents, which recently led to the removal of Disney+’s 4K UHD resolution and high dynamic range (HDR10) streaming support within certain European markets (via FlatpanelsHD), it looks like the former of the two video features is gearing up for…
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of AI agents. Give the latest frontier models a task and they are so resourceful that they get it done, even if this means breaking out of their cybersecurity “sandbox” protections…
My Apple TV 4K won’t die any time soon thanks to these 4 tricks
Believe it or not, I’m still using a first-generation Apple TV 4K, which means it’s coming up on a decade old. Although it gets tvOS updates, at least for now, these updates don’t bring anything meaningful. I don’t have Liquid Glass. I don’t have Snoopy backgrounds. Despite that, it hasn’t…