Sam Altman stands alone at OpenAI; Gen Z employees not impressing bosses; X complies with Brazil's Supreme Court, but kill blocking; former FTX Exec given light sentence; Microsoft to reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI; banning Chinese smart cars; Click to cancel bill passed into law in California; The Cure, Underworld new albums; Bad Monkey; Culinary Class Wars; BBC sound effect library; Duolingo piano; Wordpress vs WP Engine; Jony Ive working on a new AI device startup; AI playlists; Archive.today; more books released as Audible first exclusives; grumpy old Greeks.
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IN THE NEWS
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MEDIA CANDY
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The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access.
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APPS & DOODADS
Duolingo, best known as a language learning app, now makes a piano
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AT THE LIBRARY
The Original by Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal
Not Till We Are Lost Bobiverse Book 5 by Dennis E. Taylor
Echoes of Extinction by D. Ward Cornell
Reverberations: Echoes of Extinction: Book 2 by D. Ward Cornell
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