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Companies developing AI models to power humanoid and other robots have been hard at work collecting videos and other data for training their models, even paying people to record themselves completing tasks in homes and workplaces. As these data-collection efforts start to pay off, and robots take on some of those tasks, the robot developers could start prioritizing quality of data over quantity. That’s a scenario that Encord, a five-year-old startup, is already preparing for with its software for helping AI
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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When your average daily token usage is 8 billion a day, you have a massive scale problem. This was the case at AT&T, and chief data officer Andy Markus and his team recognized that it simply wasn’t feasible (or economical) to push everything through large reasoning models. So, when building out an internal Ask AT&T personal assistant, they reconstructed the orchestration layer. The result: A multi-agent stack built on LangChain... Read more ›
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Although Microsoft commits to not bricking printers using legacy drivers, it still wants you to upgrade to the IPP Class Driver. Read more ›
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Final Fantasy 14's in-house band, The Primals, are heading to the UK for Download Festival 2026 — and I promise I've not just made that up. Read more ›
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My grandma lived to be 99 years old and I've learned lessons about living a long, happy life full of love through her legacy and advice. Read more ›
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New research reveals a growing appetite for "AI immortality” among younger generations – even as experts warn the technology can’t truly recreate a human mind. Read more ›
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The integration lets XRP holders deposit into yield-generating vaults through a single transaction without leaving their existing wallet or bridging assets manually. Read more ›
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io9 spoke to directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller and star Ryan Gosling about the cool Lego set. Read more ›
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Cricut has announced new versions of two of its cutting machines that could appeal to crafters struggling with limited space for their hobby. The new Cricut Explore 5 is 30 percent "more compact" than the Explore 4 that launched a year ago, without reducing the size or types of materials the machine can handle. The […] Read more ›
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Bigfoot is coming to the world of Fallout 76 as a new legendary enemy. Read more ›
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In a bid to further bolster its presence in the rapidly evolving Indian fintech ecosystem, Jio Financial Services (JFS) has… Read more ›
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We appear to have reached a point in the information age where AI models are becoming old enough to retire from, er, service — and rather than using their twilight years to, I don’t know, wipe the floor with human chess leagues or something, they're now writing blogs. Can anything be more 2026 than that? ICYMI, Anthropic recently sunsetted Claude Opus 3, the first of its models to be retired... Read more ›
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Nvidia Corp., the dominant maker of artificial intelligence chips, suffered its worst stock decline in three months after the company's latest forecast failed to dispel fears of an AI bubble. Read more ›
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Google is rolling out a new version of its popular AI image generation tool that's meant to produce better visuals more quickly, six months after challenging OpenAI with the release of the original Nano Banana product. Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is the latest big name in tech to weigh in on the possible future of orbital data centers. Read more ›
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![[Перевод] Сэм Альтман раскрыл, что техно-олигархи на самом деле думают о нас, людях](https://times42.com/media/8/6/0/12039860_640x200.jpg "[Перевод] Сэм Альтман раскрыл, что техно-олигархи на самом деле думают о нас, людях")
Сэм Альтман, генеральный директор OpenAI, наконец-то сказал это вслух. В интервью на мероприятии Express Adda в Индии он заявил:Одна из вещей, которая всегда несправедлива в этом сравнении, это... люди говорят о том, сколько энергии требуется для обучения модели ИИ по сравнению с тем, сколько стоит человеку сделать один логический вывод (inference query). Но на обучение человека тоже уходит много энергии. Требуется около 20 лет жизни и вся еда, которую вы... Read more ›
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OpenAI has more than 200 people working on a family of AI-powered devices that will include a smart speaker and possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp, according to a person with knowledge of the plans. New details are starting to emerge about the group and its development strategy. The smart speaker—the first device OpenAI will release—is likely to be priced between $200 and $300, according to two people with... Read more ›
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OpenAI recently raised its outlook for revenue for the next five years, predicting it would generate about 27% more than previously forecast from sales of its ChatGPT subscriptions and other business lines, The Information reported Friday. But it warned it will burn more than twice as much cash ... Read more ›
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OpenAI recently hiked its revenue outlook for the next five years, predicting that it would generate about 27% more than previously forecast from sales of its ChatGPT subscriptions, AI models, and newer business lines such as advertising and hardware, according to financial forecasts. But it warned it will burn more than twice as much cash through 2030 than previously predicted, as it spends $665 billion on the costs of running... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: A radical bet on a totally different type of longevity cure • The Top 5: The best home sauna tech• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Secret World of Roald Dahl,” “Vigil” and “Love Story”Judging strictly by appearances, anyone who is anyone in tech is looking to carve out a niche for themselves in AI. The smart ones are asking themselves... Read more ›
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The tech world is a realm that enjoys obsessing over the newest things: the vibe coding apps, the orchestrating agents, the driverless cars. It also enjoys modernizing the very ancient. The latest example: saunas, which are believed to have existed in some form or another since the Stone Age. They’ve been popular gathering points since the Romans embraced bathing as a public pastime, and lately, there’s been a boomlet in... Read more ›
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OpenAI unveiled long term partnerships with consulting groups McKinsey & Company, Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, and Capgemini aimed at promoting its “Frontier” software for managing AI agents to businesses, in OpenAI’s latest shot at enterprise software firms. The offering will compete ... Read more ›
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Chipmaker AMD is pursuing the same growth-driving strategy that has boosted sales at rival Nvidia: lending its financial support to upstart cloud providers buying its chips. AMD will effectively guarantee a $300 million loan for data center and cloud startup Crusoe to purchase AMD’s AI chips and install them in a data center in Ohio. The loan from Goldman Sachs will be backed by the chips and related equipment, said... Read more ›
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Before we get to what’s coming this week, let’s take a moment to honor the company that has honed the power of magical thinking. That would be OpenAI, whose latest long term revenue and profit projections we reported on Friday night here. The most important element of the report was that in 2025, the cost of running AI models quadrupled, so the company’s gross margin fell to 33%, which is... Read more ›
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EBay struck a bargain this week with its agreement to purchase Depop, the popular secondhand clothing resale app, for $1.2 billion in cash. That’s less than the $1.63 billion Etsy paid for Depop five years ago. There’s a reason eBay got a good deal. Even while Depop increased its total sales last year by roughly 25% to $1 billion, Etsy had been spending heavily on marketing the U.K.-founded garment reseller... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump called on Netflix to kick former Biden administration official Susan Rice off its board, “or pay the consequences.” His comments came after Rice said on a podcast that if Democrats win control of the House of Representatives this fall “there will be an accountability ... Read more ›
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