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Saving another 100TB of RAM

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A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers

Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.

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Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that

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Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO

You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time.

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Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters

The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.

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Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals

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In India, the new iPhone can arrive faster than a pizza

Availability of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro series turned patchy within hours of its debut on India's quick-commerce apps.

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Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households

Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and

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Joby Aviation’s 3,100-mile autonomous flight signals its push beyond electric air taxis

An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation's autonomy technology flew across the United States without a human pilot taking control at any point.

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A Model for Winning Survivor

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Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on indep

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The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro’s camera

It's one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wi

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Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Fr

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Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug

Score: 201 | Comments: 75

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Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops

Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.

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What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings

As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney

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Family offices are clamoring for AI investments

Whether it's a permanent shift or part of a familiar cycle is worth asking, though.

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Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago?

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FBI, Coast Guard boarded hacked oil tankers heading toward US coast

The feds are said to be investigating the compromise of the tankers' networks, which in one case interfered with one of the tanker's navigation and propulsion systems.

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Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI

A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Jou

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