OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar recently shared insights into the company’s financial strategies and growth trajectory during a conversation that highlighted both opportunities and challenges in the artificial intelligence sector. Speaking with Yahoo Finance, Friar outlined how OpenAI manages its substantial operational costs while positioning itself for long-term sustainability in a market that demands […]

The House of Representatives slipped a major rewrite of the U.S. Copyright Office into law last week. No hearings. No debate. Just a voice vote on H.R. 6028, the Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act. The bill now awaits Senate action. Its effects could ripple through creators, libraries, tech firms and everyday device owners for years.

Tim Berners-Lee coined a simple truth decades ago. “Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.” The inventor of the World Wide Web delivered this line in his writings on web science. It captures a reality that technology executives still grapple with today. Platforms rise and fall. Companies pivot or

The Swift programming language team has completed a significant project to convert the TrueType hinting engine from C to Swift, marking a notable step in modernizing core components of font rendering technology. This work, detailed in the announcement on the Swift.org blog, demonstrates how the language can handle low-level systems programming while maintaining both performance

Many Android users grow tired of the default applications that come preinstalled on their devices. These official Google apps often collect extensive data, display unwanted advertisements, or simply fail to meet individual needs for privacy and customization. A growing community has turned to open source alternatives that provide better functionality while respecting user freedom. The

Samsung’s One UI has long stood apart from stock Android and skins from Google, Xiaomi or OnePlus. Yet for all its polish, one basic status-bar element stayed missing. Until now. One UI 9 brings native internet speed indicators Users on the current beta can enable a live network speed meter directly in the status bar.

Artificial intelligence now touches half of all American jobs. Yet Washington’s data systems still treat the upheaval as a minor statistical blip. Companies announce thousands of positions eliminated with AI cited as the reason. Federal labor statistics lag months behind and lack the granularity to show exactly which tasks vanished. Marco Riedesser saw the shift

Google just expanded its limited ad serving policy to more searches on its flagship platform. The change, announced this week, gives the company wider latitude to throttle impressions for advertisers it views as untrustworthy or likely to confuse users. Search Engine Land first reported the update yesterday. Its story detailed how the policy now covers

Oracle is rolling out token bundles for its artificial intelligence services. More than 30 customers have already pre-purchased them. The move marks a significant shift in how the database giant sells AI capacity to large organizations that want to move beyond pilots and into production agentic systems. Chief Executive Officer Mike Sicilia detailed the limited

Depth First published a striking report that uncovered 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the widely used FFmpeg multimedia framework. These zero-day flaws, many of them critical, exposed how even the most established open-source projects can harbor serious security weaknesses for years without detection. The findings sent ripples through the software community because FFmpeg powers everything