Restructuring paves way for ChatGPT maker to more easily raise capital and profit off its AI technology

OpenAI completes conversion to for-profit business after lengthy legal saga

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

PayPal is the first digital wallet to land on ChatGPT.

You’ll be able to pay with PayPal in ChatGPT next year

Starting in 2026, ChatGPT users will be able to use PayPal to make purchases from within the AI platform, as it adopts OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP).

^{Stevie Bonifield (The Verge)}

Developers can use multiple coding agents at the same time.

GitHub is launching a hub for multiple AI coding agents

GitHub is launching a new “Agent HQ” that will house its Copilot coding agent alongside third-party options, including OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Jules, and more.

^{Emma Roth (The Verge)}

EA has officially unveiled and launched its new battle royale experience, Battlefield REDSEC. There are a couple of surprises included in the free game in addition to the 100-player mode too.

https://www.neowin.net/news/battlefields-new-battle-royale-is-free-to-play-and-out-now-with-100-player-matches/

Following the Keepers of the Flame Content Reveal last week, we've seen a lot of questions about this update to Path of Exile. Check out the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions below.

The most recently answered questions are at the top.

What will it cost to respec points in the Genesis Tree passive tree?

Nothing, doing so is free.

Will I be able to hide my grafts if they conflict with the MTX I want to wear?

We are adding a "Hide Grafts" option in the MTX menu. This should be in place on release, but if it isn't it will be available shortly after.

What is happening with classic Breach Uniques like Xoph's Blood?

These will still exist, you'll be able to grow them on the Genesis tree or in some cases they'll come from Breach related Bosses.

Many of these will now have Foulborn variants to check out as well!

For the purpose of Schizophrenic Dissociation do Jewels socketed into a cluster jewel count as being socketed in your passive tree?

Yes

What is happening with content that is tied to Breach?

Breachstones will still work in standard, but are unobtainable in Keepers Leagues.

Breach Scarabs will be unavailable in the Keepers league.

Chayula on Maven's Invitation: The Feared has been replaced with the Incarnation of Dread.

Maven's Invitation: The Hidden is now replaced with The Remembered, requiring Witness of Courtyard of Wasting, Chambers of Impurity and Theatre of Lies.

It That Fled does not appear in Betrayal encounters in Keepers Leagues.

Will the identification of items use the Ctrl+Click shortcut from Path of Exile 2?

The quick shortcut for item identification is Ctrl+Alt+Click on Mouse and Keyboard.

Can all uniques be Foulborn?

Not all uniques can be Foulborn, the list of uniques that can be is still ongoing however there will be more than one hundred. Uniques that come from specific sources, such as boss uniques cannot be Foulborn.

Have there been any changes made to the frequency of finding Aul in Delve?

The frequency of Aul appearing in Delve is unchanged.

Will Faustus in the Rogue harbour also be able to manage asynchronous trade?

Faustus asynchronous trade will only be available in hideouts.

Will we be able to change our Bloodline Ascendancy and how?

Yes, you can respec your current Bloodline Ascendancy with another for free (after defeating a relevant boss). Otherwise, you can use Orbs of Regret or gold to respec those points like normal Ascendancy points (5 refund points each).

Can multiple party members all get the same Bloodline Ascendancy from the same boss?

Yes, assuming they are in the fight when the boss is killed.

Will Windburst Support work with movement from things like Flame Dash or Flicker Strike?

Yes. It counts movement from travel skills as well as regular movement.

Will graft skills scale off my damage and am I able to die from my graft skills reflected damage?

Graft skills do not scale off of player stats, but do have affixes which will affect their skills in many ways. Since graft damage is not dealt by the player, reflected damage will not be dealt back to the player from graft skill use.

How many Spectral Tigers can you have and how much Critical Chance, Attack and Cast Speed do they give?

You can have up to 5 of them and each of them grants 25% Increased Critical Chance, 7% Increased Attack Speed and 7% Increased Cast Speed.

We'll continue to monitor for questions and will continue to update this post when we do. Thank you so much for your continued support, we'll see you at launch!

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) now has licenses to use Zignal Labs, a platform used by the Pentagon and Israeli military to scan social media with AI.

https://www.neowin.net/news/ice-now-using-ai-software-that-can-search-eight-billion-social-media-posts-per-day/

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nearly-90-percent-of-windows-games-now-run-on-linux-latest-data-shows-as-windows-10-dies-gaming-on-linux-is-more-viable-than-ever

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/turbine-shortage-threatens-ai-datacenters-as-wait-times-stretch-into-2030

You know those obnoxious social media accounts that flood your messages with spam? Those might not be scammers after all, but a legitimate new business backed by one of the most powerful venture capital funds in Silicon Valley.

Introducing Doublespeed, a startup operating a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated slop on behalf of its clients. In a nutshell, phone farming is a tactic most often used by hackers and financial criminals to use large numbers of devices to send spam texts, farm social media engagement, or generate fake reviews.

On its website, the fledgling company bills itself as a “bulk content creation” service. Basically, it lets customers “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” It does this through “instrumented human action,” a fancy phrase meaning the company’s phone bots will somehow mimic “natural user interaction on physical devices to get our content to appear human to the algorithims [sic].”

In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, Doublespeed co-founder Zuhair Lakhani even boasts that they used AI to write the company’s code. “Claude code is truly our third cofounder,” he wrote.

The whole thing is backed by a $1 million cash injection from a16z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capitalist firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz back in 2009.

Doublespeed clients can expect to pay anywhere between $1,500 and $7,500 a month for access to its phone farm.

AI “Phone Farm” Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam

Andreessen Horowitz has injected $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup meant to flood social media with gobs of for-profit spam.

^{Joe Wilkins (Futurism)}

Hi everyone!

I've been enjoying playing Luanti (formerly Minetest), so I decided to create my own server to play and chat with friends, use downloaded mods, and generally enjoy the process, like in Minecraft. However, I'm having a hard time setting up the server.

I tested programs such as Hamachi, playit.gg, and FreeDNS Update, but they didn't work. I also don't know how or where to create a domain for my server. When I started the server, an error message appeared that said, "Connection timeout has expired."

I have a Windows 11 laptop with good RAM and a hotspot on an Android tablet.

If anyone knows the solution, please let me know.

Thanks for reading!

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Countries that signed the Paris agreement are required to update their plans every five years. A U.N. report shows a limited picture and thus, limited progress.

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