Instacart’s CEO is about to take the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI

Instacart’s CEO is about to take the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI

Instacart’s CEO, Fidji Simo, will start her new role as an OpenAI executive on August 18th, leading at least one-third of the company and reporting directly to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Simo will be “CEO of Applications,” tasked with scaling and growing the tech’s use cases.

It’s a brand-new role, first revealed as part of Altman’s reorganization announcement in May. At the time, Altman wrote that he’d still oversee what he called the three pillars of OpenAI — research, compute, and applications — but that he would start to focus more on the research and compute side of things, including safety systems. Simo, on the other hand, will be more focused on product and growth.

In a memo to employees, which was also published on OpenAI’s blog, Simo wrote she was most excited for AI-led healthcare breakthroughs. She also wrote extensively about her belief in AI’s ability to help with career and life coaching, creative expression, time-saving, medical second opinions, regaining time, and personalized tutoring.

Simo wrote that major technology trends can either expand access to power or “further concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few — usually people who already have money, credentials, and connections.” She wrote that the choices the company and AI leaders make now “will shape whether the coming transformation leads to greater empowerment for all, or greater concentration of wealth and power for the few.”

Simo first joined OpenAI’s board in March 2024. Her appointment came at the same time as CEO Sam Altman regained his board seat, after an internal investigation of the lead-up to his ouster.

OpenAI’s applications department “brings together a group of existing business and operational teams responsible for how our research reaches and benefits the world,” Altman wrote in May, adding that Simo’s role will focus on “enabling our ‘traditional’ company functions to scale as we enter a next phase of growth.”

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly referred to Simo as the former CEO of Instacart. Simo will remain as CEO through the company’s earnings in early August and then transition into her role at OpenAI.

Ugreen M571 Vertical Ergonomic Mouse review: a budget-friendly vertical mouse that delivers comfort over long hours

Ugreen M571 Vertical Ergonomic Mouse review: a budget-friendly vertical mouse that delivers comfort over long hours

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The Ugreen M571 Vertical Ergonomic Mouse is an attractive, affordable alternative to more expensive options from brands like Logitech, making it a compelling option for those seeking ergonomic benefits without the price tag.

In contrast to traditional mice that often compel the wrist into a pronated (or palm-down) position, this model boasts a 57º near-vertical angle to it’s ‘sail’. This design encourages a neutral, handshake-like wrist position that I found significantly more comfortable when using a mouse for extended periods.

How to View Your Spotify Listening Stats

How to View Your Spotify Listening Stats

The Download

  • You can explore your Spotify stats directly in the app to see what you’ve been listening to.
  • There are several tools and websites that let you dive deeper into your Spotify stats online.

This article covers several ways to view your Spotify stats: check recent tracks in your profile, explore year-long trends with Spotify’s personalized playlists, or use a third-party app or website.

How to See Your Spotify Stats on a PC or Mac

Spotify tracks the music you play over time, offering insights into your listening habits. This helps identify your favorite tracks and observe how your tastes evolve.

The Spotify app on PC, Mac, and the web interface provides detailed insights into your recent Spotify habits. You can view your top artists, songs, and playlists by following these steps.

  1. Click your user profile name in the upper-right corner of the app.

  2. Select Profile from the drop-down menu.

  3. You can browse your frequently played artists, songs, and a list of your playlists. Tap See All under any category to expand the list of artists, songs, or playlists shown.

How to See Your Spotify Stats on Mobile

You can find Spotify stats in the mobile app, although the information is limited to frequently played artists and playlists. Access it by selecting Your Library in the bottom tray to see what you’ve been listening to.

Alternatively, tap your profile picture in the upper-left corner of the screen and select View Profile. You’ll then see your listening history under Recently Played Artists.

How to Find More Stats With Stats.fm for Spotify

Stats.fm for Spotify (formerly Spotistats for Spotify) is a mobile app that provides deeper insights into your Spotify habits, including when and how long you listen, your top genres, and more.

  1. Install the Stats.fm app from the App Store or Google Play Store.

  2. Tap Login with Spotify.

  3. Enter your Spotify account information and tap Log in.

  4. Tap Agree to agree to give the app permission to access your Spotify account.

  5. On the Home tab, view basic statistics, including your top artists, tracks, and recently played music.

  6. Tap Top to see even more stats, including the albums you’ve listened to over four weeks, six months, or a year.

  7. Tap Stats to see your top genres, usage percentages, and more.

  8. Upgrade to Stats.fm Plus for additional stats. The app will guide you in importing your Spotify history, allowing you to view your total streams, minutes listened, full streaming history, and more.

How to Use the Stats for Spotify Website

Link your Spotify account with a third-party stats website for more detailed information. Stats for Spotify is a popular choice. Here’s how it works:

  1. Go to the Stats for Spotify website and select Login with Spotify.

  2. Select Agree to allow the site to access your Spotify data.

  3. Choose Top Tracks, Top Artists, or Top Genres to view detailed information in these categories.

    Create a personal playlist from tracks on your charts and listen to it in Spotify.

Other Third-Party Spotify Stats Tools

Explore your Spotify stats in unique ways using these tools:

  • Obscurify: The Obscurify website gives you insight into how obscure your musical tastes are compared to other users.
  • Receiptify: The Receiptify website and app is a top-track generator that lets you view your top tracks in the form of a receipt.
  • How Bad Is Your Streaming Music? The How Bad Is Your Streaming Music website gives a humorous take on your musical tastes and stereotypes you accordingly.

How Do I See My Spotify Wrapped Story?

The annual Spotify Wrapped story highlights your listening trends throughout the year and appears on the home screen of the mobile, PC, or Mac app. It typically appears at the top of the home screen and in the playlists section. Wrapped is available from late November through early December and disappears after the New Year.

Visit Spotify’s Wrapped website to view your Wrapped story and the data it uses.

Can I Still See My Spotify Wrapped From Previous Years?

You can’t view past versions of the Spotify Wrapped story as it disappears after the New Year.

The Spotify Wrapped story differs from the playlist. The story is a video showcasing your favorite tracks and artists, while the playlist is a list of songs you can play in the Spotify app. Although the story is delisted, past playlists remain available.

Find past yearly playlists in your playlists list marked as Your Top Songs with the year. You can also search for Your Top Songs to locate them.

Users sometimes create playlists labeled as Spotify Wrapped or Your Top Songs, which might be mistaken for the official ones. They may even use Spotify’s artwork. Check the playlists’ byline to identify fakes. These playlists are not harmful, but the songs aren’t based on your Spotify stats.

Your Spotify Wrapped story differs from the playlists it’s built on. Though the story is gone, the playlists remain. You can view Your Top Songs for a given year in your playlists library and see recent favorites in your user profile.

FAQ

  • How do I see artist stats on Spotify?

    To view stats for specific artists, search for the artist and visit their profile. Play counts appear beside each song in the Popular section.

  • How do I cancel Spotify Premium?

    To cancel Spotify Premium, log in to Spotify via a web browser. Navigate to Account > Change Plan > Cancel Premium > Yes. If subscribed through iTunes, cancel from your iOS device or iTunes on a computer.

  • How do I delete my Spotify account?

    To close your Spotify account, visit support.spotify.com/contact-spotify-support/ and select Account > I want to close my account. Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription first, if applicable.

  • How do I change my Spotify username?

    To change your Spotify display name, go to Settings in the app, tap your username, then tap Edit Profile. Alternatively, link your Spotify account to Facebook to show your Facebook name and photo.

  • How do I download songs on Spotify?

    This feature is for paid subscribers only. Open a playlist or album on Spotify, then toggle the Download switch. The songs will be saved to your device for offline listening.

Rumors of GPT-5 are multiplying as the expected release date approaches

Rumors of GPT-5 are multiplying as the expected release date approaches


  • OpenAI appears to be testing GPT-5 based on leaked files and internal biosecurity tools
  • GPT-5 is rumored to unify memory, reasoning, vision, and task completion into one
  • No specific release date has been announced, but it’s likely to roll out officially in the next few months

Rumors that OpenAI is already testing GPT‑5 have started to spread thanks to leaks and hints appearing online. A particularly notable example was shared on X by engineer Tibor Blaho when he posted a partial screenshot of a config file hinting at “GPT‑5 Reasoning Alpha,” dated July 13, 2025.

That same week, independent researchers discovered a mention of GPT-5 in OpenAI’s internal BioSec Benchmark repository, suggesting the model is already being trialed in sensitive domains like biosecurity.

Upcoming: Costco Wholesale Members: In-Warehouse & Online Savings: See Thread

Upcoming: Costco Wholesale Members: In-Warehouse & Online Savings: See Thread

Note: These deals start July 30; we are promoting them on the Frontpage ahead of time due to strong positive feedback from the community.

Costco Wholesale (sale link not live yet; see the original post for coupon book image scans) has In-Warehouse & Online Deals listed below valid for Costco Members only.

Thanks to Community Member worldofcolor for sharing this deal.

Note: An active Costco Wholesale Membership is required to visit/purchase items at these warehouse prices. Prices & availability may vary by location.

Example Deals:

  • A portion of the instant savings throughout this booklet are manufacturers’ savings.
  • Active Costco membership required for warehouse purchases.
  • Valid at all U.S. Costco warehouse locations and at Costco.com during the promotion period, unless otherwise noted.
  • Online-only promotions valid only for purchases on Costco.com.
  • Pricing on Costco.com may be higher than Costco warehouse pricing.
  • Shipping and handling charge(s) may apply on items available at Costco.com; products shipped to Alaska or Hawaii will include an additional shipping and handling fee which will be quoted at checkout. Not valid at Costco Business Centers. Item limits per household apply where indicated except where prohibited by law. Selection and pricing may vary and is subject to availability. While supplies last.
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New Roblox Feature Uses Age Estimation to Protect Teens

New Roblox Feature Uses Age Estimation to Protect Teens

Byte-Sized Brief

  • Roblox’s new Age Estimation uses video selfies to verify age.
  • Users confirmed 13+ gain access to Trusted Connections.
  • Teens can also upload a government-issued ID.

Roblox is upping its safety game with the rollout of several new protective measures to the platform, starting with an Age Estimation feature. To unlock more freedom with filter-free and more expressive chats, teens must upload a video selfie for age confirmation. This is an optional feature, and Roblox emphasizes the privacy of uploaded biometric data.

If the system can confirm a user is 13 or older with a selfie (or a government-issued ID), she gains access to a new Trusted Connections area. Friends are now Connections, and Trusted Connections are contacts users 13 to 17 know in real life. In addition, younger teens can only add friends who are over 18 and verified through a QR code or Contact Importer. Roblox has also added more tools for teens to self-manage their online time with status controls, screen time insights, and a do-not-disturb mode. Parents also gain access to these insights and the list of Trusted Connections, with their teen’s permission.

The Bottom Line

Roblox’s new Age Estimation aims to keep teens safer by only allowing filter-free chats via Trusted Connections to users with a confirmed age of 13. This change comes with a slew of other controls both teens and parents can use to promote safer online habits.

The Vax Rapid Power Revive is now an affordable way to clean carpets

The Vax Rapid Power Revive is now an affordable way to clean carpets

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This high-performance carpet cleaning device is designed to tackle your carpets, upholstery and even the interior of your car with a deep clean that really gets to work.

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Google Just Couldn’t Hold The Pixel 10 Until August

Google Just Couldn’t Hold The Pixel 10 Until August

Summary

  • Google leaks Pixel 10 design early, sticking to the same look as Pixel 9—at least from the outside.
  • Android Headlines reports Pixel 10 may have 3 rear cameras. Other rumors suggest a new, redesigned Tensor chip.
  • Google struggles to prevent hardware leaks and often prefers to reveal the phone to offset the impact.

Google does things a lot differently from most other Android OEMs. And one of the things it does differently is that it’s really bad at preventing leaks—and for years I’ve been sure they do this on purpose. If you thought Google was going to do things differently this year, too bad—the company just couldn’t hold the Pixel 10 for a few more weeks.

In anticipation of its hardware event on August 20th, Google just… decided to spill the beans on the Pixel 10 earlier anyway. The company published a teaser of the Google Pixel 10, its next major flagship due to be announced next month. It didn’t announce any official hardware details or anything of the like, but it did confirm that it will have basically the same exact design as the Google Pixel 9, which means we’re probably just in for an incremental update. It’s not clear if the phone depicted in the teaser is the Pixel 10 or the Pixel 10 Pro.

In case you missed it, Android Headlines leaked a few official Pixel 10 renders, and Google is seemingly adding a third rear camera to the base Pixel 10 model—something that was previously reserved for the Pixel Pro models only. That might be the only “big” outside hardware change, though. On the inside, there’s more stuff rumored, including a new Tensor chip that will see Google move away from Samsung for manufacturing to TSMC, which might either be a really good idea or backfire terribly for a few generations.

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Google’s Pixel 10 Reveal Event Finally Has a Date

The event is much closer to the next iPhone announcement.

Google has been noted for just “giving up” on covering up its hardware announcements at some point in its release cycle. This has happened with Google several times—once leaks start rolling in, the company just decides to start teasing the phone itself, presumably to offset the impact of more leaks. The company has never quite figured out its leak problem, and in the past, we’ve gone as far as having prototypes out in the public. That hasn’t happened in quite a while, thankfully, but Google hasn’t exactly tightened things up either. Just this year, it wasn’t secretive enough with the location it chose for shooting its marketing materials, resulting in real-life pictures of the phone leaking to the public.

If you want to know what’s next in the Google Pixel range, you’ll have to wait until August 20th, when Google will do a full unveil with specs and availability information. We’ll get more info through leaks, surely, but the official announcement is less than a month away.

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Kevin Feige Says Mephisto Was Never the Plan for ‘WandaVision’

Kevin Feige Says Mephisto Was Never the Plan for ‘WandaVision’

By the time Mephisto, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, appeared at the end of Ironheart to strike a sinister deal with Riri Williams, it felt almost anticlimactic for Marvel fans. That’s because it was long anticipated that the character would appear on WandaVision, or perhaps, when that didn’t happen, its witchy spin-off Agatha All Along. There were certainly teases about it, but it wasn’t meant to be until Marvel’s most recent series—and that’s according to Kevin Feige himself.

As reported by CBR, the Marvel boss came clean about Mephisto in a recent roundtable interview.

“He was never part of WandaVision … But the enthusiasm with which he was theorized on that certainly was cool, and was fun to watch, and he’s another character that, pre-MCU, it would have been, ‘How do you (do Mephisto)? He’s the devil? How do you do that character?’ But he’s a formative character! He was a big part of Thanos’s storyline in the comics. So again, now that he’s here, the potential is—the plan is clear, theoretically, to use more of him.”

“Theoretically,” Feige said, but now that Mephisto is out of the bag, the next place your mind goes is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, given the character’s importance in the comic book arc of the same name. Even though the story won’t be the same (for one thing, there’s not a big-screen Peter and Mary Jane marriage to mess with yet), certainly some inspiration might be taken.

What do you think? Were you expecting to see Mephisto much earlier in the MCU?

Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits theaters July 31, 2026.

 

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

“Unlock Gaming Excellence: MageGee Mini 60% RGB Keyboard – Ultra-Compact & Ergonomic for Gamers!”: Available now at [price_with_discount]

“Unlock Gaming Excellence: MageGee Mini 60% RGB Keyboard – Ultra-Compact & Ergonomic for Gamers!”: Available now at [price_with_discount]

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, an efficient and effective keyboard can make a significant difference, whether for gaming, work, or a combination of both. The TS91 RGB Backlight Keyboard stands out as a compelling option, blending functionality with aesthetic appeal. Let’s delve into the features that make this keyboard a worthy investment for any tech enthusiast.

Visual Appeal with RGB Backlighting

At the heart of the TS91 keyboard is its customizable RGB backlighting. With a range of light colors and modes, users are afforded the luxury of personalizing their keyboards to suit their moods or gaming atmospheres. The vibrant colors can shift dynamically or remain steady, and users can easily adjust the brightness and breathing speed to their liking. This not only enhances the overall décor of your workspace but also provides practical benefits when gaming or working in low-light environments. The illuminated keys ensure that every keystroke is visible, adding to the ease of use during late-night sessions.

Compact and Functional Design

The TS91 features a classic 60% compact layout, making it a practical choice for users who prefer to maximize their desk space. By eliminating the number pad, this design grants more freedom of movement for your mouse, essential in fast-paced gaming scenarios where precision is key. Moreover, it’s also an excellent option for typists who appreciate the benefits of proximity while typing.

This laptop-sized keyboard is not just about aesthetics; it emphasizes function, making it suitable for both home and office use. Its small form factor allows easy transportability, ideal for business travelers or gamers who wish to bring their keyboard to LAN parties.

Built to Endure

One standout feature of the TS91 is its waterproof circuit board (IPX4 Certified), which significantly mitigates the worries surrounding accidental spills. Whether you enjoy snacks or beverages while gaming or working, this keyboard’s robust design allows you to do so with ease. Cleaning it is hassle-free—simply wipe it down without the fear of damaging the electronics. However, it’s essential to note that the USB interface itself is not waterproof, so taking care when plugging and unplugging is advisable.

Ergonomic Comfort for Long Sessions

For gamers and professionals who spend prolonged hours typing, ergonomics cannot be overlooked. The TS91 incorporates an ergonomic design that minimizes fatigue, making it comfortable to use for extended periods. The key height mimics that of mechanical keys, providing a satisfying tactile response without the loud clacking typical of traditional mechanical keyboards. This makes the keyboard not only an excellent choice for gaming but also for typing and general everyday use.

Compatibility Across Platforms

One of the major strengths of the TS91 is its wide compatibility. It seamlessly works with various versions of Windows, including Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP. This extensive adaptability ensures that users will find it easy to incorporate the keyboard into their existing setups without additional hassles or compatibility problems.

Easy Setup and Versatile Use

Whether you are tech-savvy or a casual user, setting up the TS91 keyboard is straightforward and intuitive. The accompanying video guides you through the unboxing process and initial setup, ensuring you can be up and running in no time. Additionally, users can explore the features through a comparative analysis of other products showcased in the instruction video, helping them to understand the advantages the TS91 offers.

The versatility of the TS91 extends beyond gaming into the realms of business and casual use. Its compact design and simple functionality make it an excellent addition for anyone needing a reliable keyboard for various environments—be it a home office, a coworking space, or a gaming setup at home.

Conclusion: The Perfect Blend of Form and Function

In conclusion, the TS91 RGB Backlight Keyboard is an impressive piece of technology, combining aesthetics with practical features that cater to gamers, typists, and anyone requiring efficient keyboard functionality. With its customizable RGB lighting, space-saving design, waterproof features, ergonomic comfort, and compatibility across a range of platforms, it meets the demands of modern users.

Investing in the TS91 means not just purchasing a keyboard but enhancing your overall computing experience. Whether you’re deep in a gaming session or grinding away at work tasks, this keyboard ensures you remain comfortable and efficient. In a sea of options, the TS91 stands out as a worthy contender, making it an excellent choice for anyone seeking a reliable and attractive keyboard.

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