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Most smart speakers sit on your counter like expensive paperweights that occasionally mishear you. OpenAI wants something different. Its first consumer hardware product — a screenless, doughnut-shaped speaker designed by Jony Ive’s LoveFrom studio — reportedly costs between $300 and $400 and includes mechanical parts that physically animate when it responds. Think less “Alexa, set…

First Hospitality has added five lifestyle properties to its managed portfolio, including Sky Rock Sedona, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel; The Steward Santa Barbara, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel; Hotel Northland, Autograph Collection in Green Bay, WI; Hotel Elkhart, Tapestry Collection by Hilton in Elkhart, IN; and Le Méridien St. Louis Downtown. These additions expand the company’s…

Over the last fortnight, reports of AI models going beyond their expected bounds – be that technically or morally – have been seemingly unavoidable