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Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness

OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks...

July 9, 2026 – PBS News Hour full episode

July 9, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode  

Netflix reportedly considers adding always-on channels

Netflix is thinking about adding always-on channels that would stream specific shows and movies, according to The Wall Street Journal. The move sounds like a Netflix version of always-on services like Pluto TV and Tubi, except the big hook...

By a new Microsoft tally, a worker is interrupted every two minutes of the working day — around 275 times — as after-hours pings...

One number from Microsoft’s June report spread fast: 275. That is how many times, on average, a worker gets interrupted in a day by a meeting, an email, or a chat notification. Spread across normal work hours, that works...

Reminder: E-motorcycles prohibited on King County trails | King County

Editor’s note: The following is a press release from King County. Responding to the growing market for Class 3 e-bikes and other unauthorized motorized vehicles that can reach speeds up to 50 mph, King County Parks this week is...

Reminder: E-motorcycles prohibited on King County trails | King County

Editor’s note: The following is a press release from King County. Responding to the growing market for Class 3 e-bikes and other unauthorized motorized vehicles that can reach speeds up to 50 mph, King County Parks this week is...

The ChatGPT browser is already dead

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of news about...

The floatable, powerful Soundcore Boom 2 speaker is over half off

Anker’s Soundcore Boom 2 is fully waterproof. Bluetooth speakers with big sound and great features are hard to find for under $100, with most offerings being some variation of the same basic (and often small) design. Thankfully, through July 10th...

Nearly three in ten American households are now a single person living alone — up from fewer than one in ten in 1940, one...

Nearly three in ten American homes now contain exactly one person. In 1940 the figure was fewer than one in ten. That shift, measured across eight decades, is one of the largest changes in how the country lives, and...

New Music You Shouldn’t Miss

This story was originally published in The Stranger’s July 2026 Issue. Terror/CactusColapso(Share It Music)Terror/Cactus’s Impulsos was one of the most interesting PNW albums of 2018, a spicy fusion of cumbia, wonky electronic music, and surf rock. And while I’ve caught...

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