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The best deals on MacBooks right now

Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series processors in a wide range of sizes and price points, all of which run the company’s newest operating system, macOS 26. Purchasing a new MacBook can be complicated if you’re trying to figure out what specs you need, but finding a deal on a relatively speedy […]

Apptopia: ChatGPT's US market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% between Jan. 2025 and Jan. 2026; Gemini rose from 14.7% to 25.1%, Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2% (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Apptopia: ChatGPT's US market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% between Jan. 2025 and Jan. 2026; Gemini rose from 14.7% to 25.1%, Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2%  —  Google, Grok are gaining ground on ChatGPT as the chatbot market expands.  —  ∙ Paid  —  OpenAI's rivals are cutting into ChatGPT's lead.

Are Michael Peña or Zazie Beetz in Avengers: Doomsday? We asked the MCU actors if they'd return

Michael Peña and Zazie Beetz discuss the possibility of reprising their Marvel roles as Ant-Man's Luis and Deadpool's Domino.

Lotus Health, which uses AI to offer free, 24/7 primary care in 50 languages, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, taking its funding to $41M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Lotus Health, which uses AI to offer free, 24/7 primary care in 50 languages, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, taking its funding to $41M  —  A growing number of people are asking OpenAI's ChatGPT and other LLMs about their health, often discovering that the chatbots provide remarkably useful medical insights.

Cowboy Bebop's Yoko Kanno gets first U.S. concert with anime legends SEATBELTS

The composer behind the greatest anime of all time will come to New York City this April for two very different shows.