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1 - OpenAI’s First Hardware Product Will Be Earbuds Called Dime
OpenAI is making its first pair of earbuds, but the plans have changed from what people first heard about.
What's happening:
The earbuds might be called "Dime" based on new papers filed in China. They will work like normal earbuds, not like a tiny phone that was talked about before.
The fancy version got pushed back because the parts cost too much money. The funny part? OpenAI and other companies need so many computer chips that memory prices went way up - making it too expensive even for them.
They want to sell the simple version first in 2026. After that, when parts become easier to get, they'll make the better version that works more like a smartphone.
This tells us that making gadgets is really hard, even for big tech companies. OpenAI is taking smaller steps now, but they still want to put their technology in your ears someday.
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2 - Nano Banana Prompt: Restore Photos
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Anthropic and OpenAI feud escalates over Super Bowl ads - Anthropic's commercials showing dystopian ad scenarios in ChatGPT sparked a heated public exchange, with Sam Altman calling the ads "dishonest" and accusing Anthropic of being "authoritarian," while Anthropic defends keeping Claude ad-free as a core principle.
Super Bowl LX features AI-heavy advertising - Building on last year's AI-themed ads, the 2026 Super Bowl elevated AI's role with commercials not only showcasing AI products but also using AI to create the ads themselves, including Svedka's primarily AI-generated spot featuring dancing robots.
ChatGPT fielding 1 million local news queries weekly - The AI chatbot handles over 1 million prompts about local news each week, with queries about weather, disasters, and school closures quadrupling during a recent winter storm as users increasingly turn to AI for civic information.
Big Tech's AI spending hits $650 billion in 2026 - Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft together forecast capital expenditures reaching approximately $650 billion this year for AI infrastructure, representing a boom without parallel this century as each company's budget approaches or surpasses their past three years combined.
Software stocks crater amid AI displacement fears - The WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund plummeted about 20% in 2026, with HubSpot down 39% and Figma down 40%, as investors worry AI agents will displace traditional software products despite strong business fundamentals.
Alphabet stock falls 5% on $180 billion spending plan - The tech giant's announcement of $175-185 billion in 2026 capital expenditures, roughly double last year's spending and far exceeding Wall Street's $120 billion estimate, left investors questioning the scale and sustainability of Big Tech's AI bets.
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