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The Washington Post laid off hundreds of staffers on Wednesday.
  • The Washington Post let go of hundreds of staff Wednesday in a major restructuring.
  • The cuts are hitting desks across the newsroom, including sports, foreign affairs, and books.
  • The Post is offering some staffers a couple of months more on payroll and severance pay tied to tenure.

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I visited Pizza Hut after Yum! Brands said it's exploring a sale and saw why the chain is struggling.
  • Yum! Brands is exploring a sale of the Pizza Hut brand and closing 250 underperforming stores.
  • I ate at two locations to see why the chain is struggling enough for Yum! to consider a sale.
  • While the food was on par with other pizza chains I've tried, Pizza Hut's value is

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A photo of Nintendo’s new Virtual Boy peripheral for the Switch family of consoles.

Though the Virtual Boy was both a commercial and critical failure, the console's infamy is part of what has made it such a fascinating piece of Nintendo's history. Original units are still going for hundreds of dollars on bidding sites, and hobbyists have spent years keeping the Virtual Boy alive through emulation and homebrew games. For a long while, it seemed like Nintendo wanted



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Without meaningful deterrents, Big Tech companies will do what's profitable, regardless of the cost to consumers. But a new bipartisan bill could add a check that would make them think twice, at least in one area. On Wednesday, Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Bernie Moreno (R-OH) introduced legislation that would require social platforms to crack down on scam ads.

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Sam Altman responded to Anthropic's new Super Bowl ad in an X post on Wednesday, saying the OpenAI competitor's campaign is "clearly dishonest," and called it "on brand" for Anthropic to "doublespeak." "We would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them," he wrote. "We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that." You can read his statement in full, below.

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Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is seeking a $2 billion seed funding round, which could be the largest seed funding round in history.
Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.
  • Neal Wu, a top competitive coder, has quietly been working at Thinking Machines Lab.
  • Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has faced aggressive poaching.
  • Wu is a founding member of another hot AI startup, Cognition, and the brother of its CEO.

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A still from Anthropic's ad is set to air during the Super Bowl. The ad features a scrawny man who wants to get a six-pack quickly, but a helpful trainer gives him more than just the advice he needs.
  • Anthropic is roasting OpenAI over its decision to bring ads to ChatGPT.
  • While OpenAI is not named directly, it's clear who Anthropic is taunting in its new commercials.
  • Anthropic will air one of

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