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Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open weight AI models and benchmarks.

What's the difference between Dolby Atmos and lossless audio? - Engadget

One is likely to make a bigger difference in your listening experience.

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Adnan Ahmed for Engadget

If you've spent any time browsing on Apple Music or Tidal, you've likely come across the "Dolby Atmos" or "Lossless" tags next to certain albums and tracks. Though both of these features are marketed as premium listening experiences, they are fundamentally different technologies. Dolby Atmos is an object-based audio system that utilizes both vertical and horizontal positioning to create a three-dimensional soundstage. Compared to traditional stereo, which places sound between the left and right channels, Dolby Atmos can pick any point in 3D space and position individual sounds there.

8 Incredible Details In GTA 6's Extended Look That Blew Us Away

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Published Aug 28, 2026, 1:51 PM EDT

GTA 6's 26-minute trailer was full of small gameplay details that were easy to miss

Jason, GTA 6's co-protagonist, faces a fence as cops aim guns at him. Image: Rockstar Games

In 26 minutes, Rockstar quietly justified Grand Theft Auto 6's 13-year development timeline. The game's visuals achieve a level of visual fidelity where the transition between cutscene and playable game is sometimes barely perceptible.

Tom Hardy Gets X-Rated About Kathy Bates, Raps About Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin and Recites Shakespeare on His Wild New Album

Tom Hardy is best known as a movie star who plays rough-and-tumble characters, and he’s brought that energy to the mic on his latest project. The actor who records music under the alias Frankie Pulitzer just dropped a collaborative album called “Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer” with underground rap supergroup Czarface, which consists of duo 7L & Esoteric and Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck.

SCAD Savannah Film Festival Returns for 29th Year

SCAD Savannah Film Festival returns for its 29th year on Oct. 24 through Oct. 31. 

The eight-day university-led festival in Georgia will host exclusive screenings, competition films, feature films, documentaries, shorts, animated films, panel discussions and workshops. Visiting industry professionals and students of SCAD School of Film and Acting and School of Animation and Motion Media can get to know each other through master classes, coffee talks, portfolio reviews and more. 

Drake Is Letting Fans Sleep With Him for $80 a Pop

HATE SLEEPING ALONE

It's not a recession indicator, but rather an official body pillow that lets fans cuddle up to the rapper every night in bed

August 28, 2026

Muscle Man Pillow

Lucid Recalls 27,185 Air Sedans That Pose a Fire Risk, Directs Owners to Park Outside

  • Lucid issued a recall for 27,185 Air sedans that could catch fire, according to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
  • Lucid reported being aware of three fires believed to be related to the issue, along with four reports of smoke and 33 reports of issues with the center high mounted stop lamp (CHMSL).
  • According to the associated documents, the recall covers a range of Air sedans that span from the 2022 to 2026 model years.

Lucid issued a recall that affects a huge percentage of its Air sedans, according to documents filed with NHTSA. The recall is necessitated by an overheating issue with the exterior lights that could create a fire risk. The recall covers 27,185 vehicles spanning the 2022 through 2026 model years.

Peacock Is Releasing a Second Season of The Office Spin-Off Series Following Subscription Price Increases

Peacock recently raised all of its subscription pricing, so you may be looking to September's slate of releases to see just what that price increase gets you. The short answer is that you'll be getting much of the same from Peacock next month. YouTube Premium isn't getting added to the service until early 2027, and the highly anticipated Dungeon Crawler Carl series is even further away.

All The New Cars We Spotted In GTA VI's Extended Look Trailer, And Their Real-Life Counterparts - Jalopnik

A car meet in GTA6.

Rockstar Games

Rockstar Games dropped a 26-minute "Extended Look" trailer on Netflix on Thursday (it's now available all over YouTube) for Grand Theft Auto VI, hands down this decade's most anticipated video game and very easily one of the most anticipated video games ever. It compiled extended play throughs of several classic GTA-style single player missions interspersed with shorter montages showing off new gameplay elements. What we're most interested in, naturally, are the new cars.

Late F1 Icon Gilles Villeneuve Drives For Speed, Trophies in ‘Rise of a Legend’ Trailer (Exclusive)

Gilles Villeneuve, the late Canadian race car legend, shows his daring, aggressive style both on and off the Formula 1 track in the trailer for the Villeneuve: Rise of a Legend biopic set to world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.