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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: What Anthropic’s Pentagon feud means across Silicon Valley• Artificial Intelligence: Otters, Minesweeper and Will Smith’s spaghetti dinner—the at-home tests for judging AI’s abilities• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Murder at the U,” “End of Days” and “How to Get to Heaven From Belfast”A couple days ago, a piece of science fiction caused a good amount of fuss, with Citrini Research’s “thought exercise” on the economic consequences
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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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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Kingston IronKey Locker+ 50 G2 delivers AES 256-bit hardware encryption, layered password protections, and physical durability for secure enterprise-grade USB storage. Read more ›
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The company is reportedly building a new AI-powered mobile device. If Amazon follows through on the plan, experts warn it would be next to impossible to break into a crowded market. Read more ›
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Here’s something that trips most people up: the world can be genuinely brutal, and you can still refuse to become brutal in return. Not in spite of what’s happened to you. Sometimes because of it. These two things are not in conflict. But holding them both at the same time, without letting one collapse into ... Read more Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Microsoft says it is finally listening to user complaints about Windows 11, promising a series of changes focused on performance, reliability, and reducing everyday annoyances. In a message to Windows Insiders, the company outlined plans to bring back long requested features like taskbar repositioning, cut down on intrusive AI integrations, and give users more control over updates. File Explorer is also getting attention, with promised improvements to speed,... Read more ›
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Tumblr users were left scrambling on Wednesday after dozens of accounts were banned in the same afternoon by an automated system. Numerous users contacted The Verge about the incident, claiming that the wave of bans disproportionately seemed to impact accounts run by users who identify as trans women, many of whom were given no specific […] Read more ›
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В стартапе на стадии Pre-Seed/Seed вы либо фанатично считаете деньги, либо умираете. В RankCaster AI мы уперлись в классическую ловушку масштабирования: больше фич = больше людей в QA = раздутый COGS и медленные релизы.Регрессионный анализ каждого апдейта занимал до 48 часов ручного труда. Мы решили, что платить за «прокликивание» дашбордов в 2026 году — это грех, и собрали автономного AI-агента, который делает это лучше человека. Читать далее Read more ›
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Microsoft is reducing Copilot integrations in Windows 11 apps after user backlash, aiming for a more thoughtful and less intrusive AI experience. Read more ›
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iOS 26.4 isn't the major update with new Siri features that we hoped for, but there are some useful quality of life improvements, and a little bit of fun with an AI playlist generator and new emoji characters. Playlist Playground - Apple Music has a Playlist Playground option that lets you generate playlists from text-based descriptions. You can include moods, feelings, activities, or make up something entirely nonsensical and let... Read more ›
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Eclipse's Joe Fath explains AI's role in transforming physical industries, with Travis Kalanick's Atoms and Jeff Bezos making similar moves. Read more ›
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Запуск современных Text-to-Video моделей локально — задача не для слабонервных. Когда китайские исследователи из PKU-YuanGroup выложили в open-source свою модель Open-Sora-Plan, энтузиасты бросились её тестировать. Но есть нюанс: оригинальный пайплайн рассчитан на кластеры уровня H100/A100. Веса модели в полном разрешении занимают десятки гигабайт.Моя цель заключалась в том, чтобы запустить инференс Open-Sora-Plan (v1.3.0) в спартанских условиях — на абсолютно бесплатном инстансе Google Colab с видеокартой. Read more ›
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After months of beta testing, Google Messages now lets you @mention people in group chats and recover deleted conversations within 30 days — here's how both work. Read more ›
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Приемная кампания в российских колледжах и вузах сопровождается публикацией обширных массивов данных на официальных сайтах. С одной стороны, это требование прозрачности процедуры зачисления. С другой стороны, существующий подход к обезличиванию информации содержит системную уязвимость, которая позволяет стороннему наблюдателю с высокой точностью сопоставить ФИО абитуриента с его номером СНИЛС.Я провел анализ открытых источников 100 учебных заведений (вузы и колледжи) и выяснил, что 87 из них оставляют возмо Read more ›
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Unfortunately, the fantasy manga is a visual feast that quickly curdles into the genre's worst instincts. Read more ›
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Such an overt, specific threat to tourism from an official government entity is rare indeed. Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Donald Trump may be getting his wish: a super-sized gold coin with his face on it. What’s happening? On Thursday, the US Commission of Fine […] Read more ›
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Microsoft is improving Windows 11 performance by reducing memory usage, aiming to make 8GB RAM laptops more usable amid rising hardware costs. Read more ›
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Pinterest's CEO has thrown his support behind an Australia measure banning social media for younger teens and is calling for governments around the world to implement similar bans. "Social media, as it’s configured today, is not safe for young people under 16," Ready writes in a piece published by Time. "We need a clear standard: no social media for teens under 16, backed by real enforcement, and accountability for mobile... Read more ›
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The judge overseeing Elon Musk’s breach of charitable trust lawsuit against OpenAI said the court would not throw out testimony from Musk’s damages expert that OpenAI should pay Musk up to $109 billion if a jury finds OpenAI in the wrong. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, speaking at a pre-trial ... Read more ›
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Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins are co-leading an investment in Mirendil, a new AI startup started by ex-Anthropic researchers, The Information reported on Friday. The startup is in talks to raise $175 million at a $1 billion valuation, the people said. Mirendil, which is working on ... Read more ›
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xAI is hiring a senior staffer from Thinking Machines Lab to work on training its Grok models, according to a person with direct knowledge of the move, as Elon Musk says the AI company is “being rebuilt” after the majority of its founding team left. Devendra Chaplot, whose website describes him ... Read more ›
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The Trump Administration will get $10 billion in payments from investors in a company designed to safeguard the user data of U.S.-based TikTok users, The Wall Street Journal reported. Investors in the company, which include Abu Dhabi-based MGX, Silver Lake and Oracle, paid the Treasury ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is planning layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, Reuters reported Friday. The cuts would offset high costs of artificial intelligence spending and prepare for efficiency gains from AI assistants, said the report. The cuts, if they materialize, would be the latest ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Kings League, a fast-growing, internet-savvy soccer startup, takes a lean approach to pro sports• Tech Culture: Can protein-obsessed techies help save Sweetgreen? • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Real Vikings,” “Kutchinsky’s Egg” and “Sirat”Patrick Collison, one of the most interesting people in Silicon Valley, made a very exasperated comment this week about the media—and why it seems to cover tech and... Read more ›
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For a little salvation, Sweetgreen co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman has lately been looking beyond the piles of chopped romaine lettuce and maple-glazed squash that originally won his company a devoted following with the suit-and-salad lunch set in Washington, New York and Los Angeles. The high-earning young people who used to frequent Sweetgreen are not eating there as much anymore. So Neman has partly turned his attention to winning over... Read more ›
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ByteDance has put on hold the global launch of its latest video-generation model, Seedance 2.0, due to a string of copyright disputes with major Hollywood studios and streaming platforms, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. The TikTok parent released Seedance 2.0 to consumers and businesses in China last month, and some clips generated by the model immediately racked up millions of views on X due to... Read more ›
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U.K.-based cloud provider Nscale, whose announced customers include OpenAI and Microsoft, is in negotiations to acquire a massive AI data center site in West Virginia, The Information reported. Amazon, Meta and a cloud ally of Google have also expressed interest in the site. The site is ... Read more ›
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Leaders at enterprise app makers such as Figma, Workday and HubSpot have downplayed threats from AI that could crimp their growth, a concern that has pressured their stocks for months. But the securities filings those leaders sign every quarter are beginning to note the competitive risks the companies face from AI agents, which their customers could use to replicate their apps or draw data from them. So far this year,... Read more ›
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