Canva is now in the coding and spreadsheet business

Canva is now in the coding and spreadsheet business

Source: The Verge Canva is launching its latest smorgasbord of generative AI-powered workspace tools in its attempt to cram everything that Microsoft, Google, and Adobe can do into a single platform. Canva’s Visual Suite is being redesigned to combine its design and productivity tools into a single interface, alongside adding new coding, photo editing, spreadsheet,…

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Why DOGE is dismantling the CFPB

Why DOGE is dismantling the CFPB

Source: The Verge Today, I’m talking to Rohit Chopra. He was the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) until the end of January, when President Donald Trump fired him and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) began trying to dismantle the agency. The CFPB has been around for just under 15 years…

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The tariff apocalypse has not been canceled

The tariff apocalypse has not been canceled

Source: The Verge Last week, President Donald Trump declared a series of tariffs that pitted the United States against the rest of the world. Big companies stayed nervously silent; small ones panicked. The stock market plunged. And surely worst of all, Switch 2 preorders were delayed. Then, the same day the largest tariffs went into…

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OpenAI gets ready to launch GPT-4.1

OpenAI gets ready to launch GPT-4.1

Source: The Verge OpenAI is getting ready to unveil a number of new AI models, sources familiar with the company’s plans tell The Verge. Among the new AI models will be a release of what I’m expecting will be branded GPT-4.1, which one source describes as a revamped version of OpenAI’s GPT-4o multimodal model. GPT-4o…

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Why hundreds flock to play with decades-old computers

Why hundreds flock to play with decades-old computers

Source: The Verge “ That’s one of the things about our museum, it’s hands-on,” says VCF East showrunner Jeffrey Brace. “If you go to the Smithsonian, everything’s locked away. You can’t touch it.” Throughout the festival, I played Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe, operated a renovated Heathkit H-89, doodled using every paint application from the…

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