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Firefox will begin catering to those who don’t want AI in their browser. On Monday, Mozilla announced that Firefox will soon let users block all current and future generative AI features. Users will also have the option to block certain AI features in Firefox, while keeping others. Starting with Firefox 148, which is rolling out on February 24, users will find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. People who don’t want access to any AI features from Firefox can turn on the “Block AI enhancements” toggle. When this setting is turned on, they won’t see pop-ups…
Back when he hosted the 2025 Saturday Night Live premier in October, Bad Bunny told Americans they had four months to learn Spanish ahead of his Super Bowl Halftime Show performance on Feb. 8. E.l.f. took the challenge head-on. The makeup and beauty brand revealed today that it will return to the Big Game for the third consecutive year, this time with a streaming-only buy on Peacock. The two-minute ad is a telenovela-style film starring comedian and actress Melissa McCarthy, who learns to roll her Rs in order to prepare for “the world’s biggest reggaeton show.”Realizing in a panic that she doesn’t…
Cloud data company Snowflake entered into a $200 million multi-year AI deal with OpenAI on Monday, the latest signal that enterprise AI competition continues to heat up. Under the deal, Snowflake’s 12,600 customers will have access to OpenAI models across all three major cloud providers. Snowflake employees have access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise as well. The two companies are also partnering to build new AI agents and other AI products. “By bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data, Snowflake enables organizations to build and deploy AI on top of their most valuable asset using the secure, governed platform they already trust,”…
The Winter Olympics were created a century ago, in 1924, just a few years before the dawn of the talkie. In the 100-plus years that followed, the Games have provided story after story full of cinematic possibility.Below is a selection of some of the best movies ever made about the Winter Olympics—and the athletes who compete in them. Some are inspiring, some are funny. Others are scandalous or downright heartbreaking. (I, Tonya is both of those last two.) Some are true stories, others are fiction, but all of them will get you amped up for the Games to come.If you…
Comcast’s Xfinity is partnering with iconic 1993 movie Jurassic Park for its national Super Bowl ad debut.Xfinity’s 60-second spot, created by Goodby Silverstein & Partners and directed by filmmaker Taika Waititi, reworks a classic scene from the film. “Jurassic Park Works” also reunites several of the film’s original cast members, notably Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and a scene-stealing Tyrannosaurus rex.The commercial imagines what would have happened if the theme park’s IT department (led by Samuel L. Jackson’s character) had been able to simply plug in an Xfinity connection, allowing the power grid to stay live and the visitors…
One of the design features that became synonymous with Tesla has been banned in China. Under new safety rules published Monday by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, cars sold in the country must have mechanical releases on their door handles. The new rules, which go in effect January 1, 2027, will prohibit the hidden, electronically actuated door handles popularized by Tesla — and now found on numerous other electric vehicles in China. The new rule dictates that each door (excluding the tailgate) should be equipped with a mechanically released external door handle. Vehicles must also have a mechanical…
Tired of the crackly, flat audio that’s constantly blaring from your television’s built-in speakers? A sound bar is a simple and effective way to massively improve your movie nights, and our favorite pick for most people, the Yamaha SR-C30A, is currently marked down at Amazon. You can grab the soundbar and included subwoofer for just $230, a $50 discount from the usual price.You don’t need to be a surround sound expert to get a big boost from the SR-C30A. Thanks to HDMI eARC, all you need to get up and running is an HDMI connection to the television, and power…
Meta Oakley’s smart glasses (quite literally) shine in a high-intensity Super Bowl LX ad that spotlights how elite athletes use the eyewear’s AI-powered features.In a fast-paced collage set to Travis Scott’s track Hyaena, viewers see running back Marshawn Lynch prompt his glasses to stream his ‘Beast Mode’ playlist before skydiving, filmmaker Spike Lee records a slam dunk in slow motion using his Oakley Meta eyewear, pro golfer Akshay Bhatia nails a picture-perfect drive after asking Meta for a weather update, and British-Japanese Olympic skateboarder Sky Brown drops into a skate park pool. Reflections of the athletes’ views from the visors appear…
SpaceX has acquired Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, creating the world’s most valuable private company, the spaceflight company announced Monday. Musk, who is also the CEO of SpaceX, wrote in a memo posted to the rocket company’s website that the merger is largely about creating space-based data centers — an idea he has become fixated on over the last few months. “Current advances in AI are dependent on large terrestrial data centers, which require immense amounts of power and cooling. Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions, even in the near term, without imposing…
Peter Thiel—the billionaire venture capitalist, PayPal and Palantir cofounder, and outspoken commentator on all matters relating to the “Antichrist”—appears at least 2,200 times in the latest batch of files released by the Department of Justice related to convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.The tranche of records demonstrate how Epstein managed to cultivate an extensive network of wealthy and influential figures in Silicon Valley. A number of them, including Thiel, continued to interact with Epstein even after his 2008 guilty plea for solicitation of prostitution and of procurement of minors to engage in prostitution.The new files show that Thiel…
Garage Beer, the brand co-owned by Jason and Travis Kelce, is making its Super Bowl debut with a regional ad that sees Jason smear horse crap on his face. The brand confirmed to ADWEEK that it will air its first Big Game campaign in the Philly designated market area, which includes Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.The 60-second spot was shot on a farm outside of Jason Kelce’s hometown of Philadelphia. Nodding to Budweiser’s famous Clydesdale ads, it shows the retired Philadelphia Eagles lineman alongside his former teammate and Super Bowl champ, Beau Allen.Created in-house, “Brotherly Shovel” riffs on the…
By now, the Forbes 30 Under 30 list has become more than a little notorious for the amount of entrants who go on to be charged with fraud. Notable alumni include FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, Frank CEO Charlie Javice, Joanna Smith-Griffin, founder of the AI startup AllHere Education, and “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli, among others. Now, another member of the list has been hit with federal charges. Gökçe Güven, a 26-year-old Turkish national and the founder and CEO of fintech startup Kalder, was charged last week with alleged securities fraud, wire fraud, visa fraud, and aggravated identity theft. The New…
Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company SpaceX is acquiring his AI startup xAI, the centibillionaire announced on Monday. In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers in space to power its AI ambitions.“In the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale,” Musk wrote. “The only logical solution therefore is to transport these resource-intensive efforts to a location with vast power and space. I mean, space is called ‘space’ for a reason.”The deal,…
Kinder Bueno has revealed its first-ever Super Bowl spot—and it’s a trip to space. The Ferraro-owned brand will air a 30-second ad during Super Bowl 60 on Feb. 8, featuring a spacecraft called the KNDR. The vehicle spirals out of control through an asteroid field as the copilot exclaims “No bueno!” The pilot—a Kinder Bueno chocolate bar in hand—counters, “Kinder Bueno!”Thus does the spot, titled “Kinder Bueno,” the stage set for “buenos” good and bad, with viewers hopefully picking up the brand name along the voyage.Ferrero North America’s CMO Chad Stubbs said that the brand saw an opportunity to riff…
Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company, has raised $16 billion as it plans to grow its fleet of driverless taxicabs this year to more than a dozen new cities internationally, including London and Tokyo. Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global, and Sequoia Capital led the funding round, which now values Waymo at $126 billion, the company said in a blog post Monday. Parent company Alphabet supported the round and maintained its position as majority investor. The round also included significant investments from Andreessen Horowitz and Mubadala Capital, as well as Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake, Tiger Global, and T. Rowe Price.…
“I had very little correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to go to his island or fly on his ‘Lolita Express,’ but was well aware that some email correspondence with him could be misinterpreted and used by detractors to smear my name,” Musk said in a post on X on Saturday. “I don’t care about that, but what I do care about is that we at least attempt to prosecute those who committed serious crimes with Epstein, especially regarding heinous exploitation of underage girls.” Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment from WIRED.Larry Page (314 Files),…