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OpenAI has acquired popular tech industry talk show TBPN — Technology Business Programming Network — making this the AI giant’s first acquisition of a media company. The show will report to OpenAI’s chief political operative, Chris Lehane. TBPN, hosted by former tech founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays, is a daily live show that airs on YouTube and X for three hours, focusing on tech, business, AI, and defense. The show has gained a cult following in Silicon Valley, a safe space where industry power players can speak candidly and be questioned by fellow insiders. The show has a reputation…
OpenAI announced Thursday that it had acquired the online business talk show TBPN for an undisclosed sum. The move comes as OpenAI struggles with its public image, which has taken a significant hit in recent months.Since launching in 2024, TBPN has risen in popularity among Silicon Valley circles by offering a daily live stream about the technology industry that’s seen as more tech-friendly than traditional outlets. The show’s two hosts, John Coogan and Jordi Hays, offer real-time commentary on breaking news, cycle through viral social media posts, and interview executives from companies including Meta, Salesforce, Palantir and OpenAI. It’s become…
TelevisaUnivision and Nielsen say their new deal measures up.Today, TelevisaUnivision and measurement giant Nielsen announced a new multi-year measurement and data agreement covering TelevisaUnivision’s portfolio. That includes national and local broadcast, cable, streaming, and radio. TelevisaUnivision will also use Nielsen’s suite of media intelligence tools. “Measurement continues to evolve, and it is critical that it accurately reflects the scale, value, and influence of Hispanic audiences across platforms. We are pleased to continue working with Nielsen to support cross-platform measurement and to help ensure that brands and agencies can fully understand the audiences we reach every day,” Tim Natividad, president of U.S.…
Before the Orion spacecraft even launched on Wednesday, NASA’s Artemis II moon mission — the first in fifty years — had already weathered a storm of complex challenges, like hydrogen and helium leaks, a faulty heat shield, and technical issues with its safety system. Now in space, these four brave astronauts face their most formidable obstacle yet: Microsoft Outlook. In the first of their 10 planned days in space, Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman was having trouble using Microsoft Outlook, so he contacted Mission Control for tech support, according to the livestream of launch communications. At first, Wiseman was having…
Last year, a couple in San Francisco accidentally paid way too much money for a dirt road. On an auction bid starting at $1, they put down $25,000, thinking they were getting a screaming deal on a parcel of developable land right next to their house.They won their bid, but quickly learned that what they bought was just actually just a narrow, 82-foot long easement alongside the house that nothing could be built upon. They had paid all that money for a dirt path.“I couldn’t insure it,” says JJ Hollingsworth, the alley’s then-reluctant owner. “It was just a big liability…
On Thursday, the media brand Complex announced a partnership with the sports merchandise company Fanatics to launch a content offering called Complex Bets, according to the two companies. The tie-in will involve Fanatics Sportsbook and Fanatics Markets, the company’s sports-betting and prediction market offerings, respectively.The new vertical will include a dedicated home on the Complex website as well as social channels and a slate of original franchises, according to Complex president Moksha Fitzgibbons.According to Fanatics Betting and Gaming chief marketing officer Selena Kalvaria, the content produced across these touchpoints will center sports-betting and prediction market data provided by Fanatics, which…
Microsoft AI, the tech giant’s research lab, announced the release of three foundational AI models on Thursday that can generate text, voice, and images. The release signals Microsoft’s continued push to build out its own stack of multimodal AI models — and compete with rival AI labs — even though it remains tied to OpenAI. MAI-Transcribe-1 transcribes speech across 25 different languages into text and is 2.5 times faster than Microsoft’s Azure Fast offering, according to a company press release. MAI-Voice-1 is an audio-generating model. This voice model allows users to generate 60 seconds of audio in one second and…
Cursor announced Thursday the launch of Cursor 3, a new product interface that allows users to spin up AI coding agents to complete tasks on their behalf. The product, which was developed under the code name Glass, is Cursor’s response to agentic coding tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, which have taken off with millions of developers in recent months.“In the last few months, our profession has completely changed,” said Jonas Nelle, one of Cursor’s heads of engineering, in an interview with WIRED. “A lot of the product that got Cursor here is not as important going forward…
The holding company Sundial Media & Technology Group, which houses the media brands Essence, Refinery29, and Afropunk, among others, named marketing veteran Amanda Butler as its first chief marketing officer on Thursday, the company shared with ADWEEK exclusively.Butler, who started in the role in mid-January, will oversee consumer marketing, communications, creative strategy, and insights across SMTG’s portfolio of brands, which also includes the influential experiential franchises 29Rooms and Essence Fest.The hire represents a significant structural shift for the company. Rather than marketing functioning as a support operation, SMTG CEO Kirk McDonald is positioning it as a central growth driver, one…
A publicly accessible Amazon-hosted storage server allowed anyone with a web browser to access potentially hundreds of thousands of people’s personal data without needing a password. This included driver’s licenses, passports, and other personal information collected by the Duc App, a money-transfer service owned by Toronto-based Duales. The Canadian fintech company said it resolved the data exposure on Tuesday after TechCrunch alerted its chief executive that one of the company’s cloud storage servers was publicly listing its contents, without a password. The data was also stored unencrypted, meaning anyone with a link to the data was able to view it…
Claude has been through a lot lately—a public fallout with the Pentagon, leaked source code—so it makes sense that it would be feeling a little blue. Except, it’s an AI model, so it can’t feel. Right?Well, sort of. A new study from Anthropic suggests models have digital representations of human emotions like happiness, sadness, joy, and fear, within clusters of artificial neurons—and these representations activate in response to different cues.Researchers at the company probed the inner workings of Claude Sonnet 3.5 and found that so-called “functional emotions” seem to affect Claude’s behavior, altering the model’s outputs and actions.Anthropic’s findings may…
These are the evening news ratings for Q1 2026 and the week of March 23.First Quarter 2026Examining the quarterly ratings, there was good news to go around for all three evening broadcasts, including CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil, as an active news cycle resulted in quarter-to-quarter growth in total viewers and the prized Adults 25-54 demo.ABC World News Tonight with David Muir and NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas finished the first quarter of 2026 up double digits in both measured categories. WNT continued to firmly hold the top spot in total viewers, continuing its first-quarter win streak in…
United Airlines is updating its iOS and Android mobile apps with several new features, including estimated security wait times to give travelers a better idea of when they should arrive at the airport. The move comes as the ongoing partial government shutdown has left TSA checkpoints understaffed. In the “Travel” section of the United mobile app, travelers can now view security wait times for the airline’s U.S. hub airports in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Newark, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Users will see estimated wait times for specific lanes, including standard security and TSA PreCheck, throughout terminals serving…
Not even two months into my job here at WIRED, I found myself barfing in the office bathroom.Technically, it was work-related stress, but not in the way you might imagine. It was, instead, the unfortunate and almost immediate result of my efforts to switch to a diet solely consisting of foods, drinks, and supplements marketed as high in protein—and thereby meet the level of daily protein intake recommended by the US Department of Health and Human Services under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.The conversation on the porcelain telephone came about an hour after I sampled Ghost’s Nutter Butter–flavored whey protein powder.…
Tesla spent more than a year touting that “more affordable” cars were on the way, and they finally arrived last October, with stripped-down versions of the Model Y and Model 3 starting at $39,990 and $36,990, respectively. But the new vehicles are not moving the needle much for Tesla’s overall sales, first-quarter figures show. Tesla said Thursday that it delivered 358,023 EVs globally in the first three months of the year, below analysts’ expectations of of around 368,000. The company also produced far more than it sold, with the final tally built coming in at 408,386. This means Tesla only…
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