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Companies like Scale AI are replacing low-cost data labelers with highly paid experts in fields such as finance, driven by the rise of reasoning AI models (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

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Fans need to understand Link and Zelda aren’t a couple

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Take a Look Inside Sherri Shepherd’s Swanky Rented Harlem Townhouse

The Root

Black Men Rip Obama For Saying Black Boys Need Gay Men In Their Lives

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Barack Obama Says Young Boys Need Gay Men In Their Lives and Black Men Are on <i>Fire</i> About It

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Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of its 2026 launch; sources say Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Superman’s embarrassing video game legacy has a solve in Krypto

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The frenzied, gamified chase for Labubus

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like "Watch Mode Activation" and "Terminal Restrictions" (Louis Columbus/VentureBeat)

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Bring back the weirdest animated series of 1991

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The intolerable memes of Alligator Alcatraz

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The Switch 2’s next killer app is already here

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I tasked Alexa Plus with tackling my to-do list — it was hit or miss

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It’s always a good time to (re)play Hollow Knight

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Superman is a socialist

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What it would take to escape the two-party system

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Dallas-based iCounter, which uses AI to combat cyber risks, launches out of stealth from Apollo Information Systems with a $30M Series A led by SYN Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Megan Thee Stallion, Klay Thompson&#8217;s Workout Video Post Is Breaking the Internet

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Anker Nebula X1 review: a terrific home theater that goes anywhere

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How YouTube became the most-watched video provider on TVs in the US, with creator content tailored for family and group viewing and app features enhanced for TV (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)

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