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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• Tech Culture: Billionaire tax brings new boom time to Tahoe haven• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Interview: What Does Tucker Carlson Really Believe? I Went to Maine to Find Out,” “Hated by All the Right People,” and “Widow’s Bay”A very old proverb comes to mind when I think about this exact period in AI—because, really, it’s a moment when the enemy of your enemy can be your compute provider. I’m referencing, of course, Elon Musk’s decision
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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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World Fund, IQ Capital among backers of €91m QuantumDiamonds round Read more ›
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Gu Yichen was on an H-1B visa when he got laid off. He had 60 days to find a job, get sponsorship transferred, and start working. Read more ›
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Poison control calls involving semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy) soared after the drug was approved for weight management, with researchers linking the increase to accidental dosing mistakes rather than intentional misuse. Simple education about proper weekly dosing and gradual dose increases could help prevent many of these avoidable incidents. Read more ›
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AI isn't just shaking up workplaces and college classrooms, it's gaining ground among grade school kids and raising parents' concerns. Read more ›
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В работе с AI‑кодерами постепенно меняется формат задачи. Одного промпта часто недостаточно: агенту нужно не только выполнить разовую команду, но и повторять действия до понятного результата. Например: проверить CI, прочитать лог, внести минимальное исправление, снова запустить тест, остановиться при выполнении условий.Поводом для этой статьи стала заметка Anthropic «Getting started with loops» про циклы (loops) в Claude Code. Там термин«цикл» описывается как повторяющаяся работа агента до выполнения услови Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a legal petition demanding it set limits on toxic Pfas "forever chemicals" in food, marking another setback for public health advocates' push to limit exposures to the dangerous compounds. The agency is refusing to set limits despite a growing body of science and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finding food is the biggest... Read more ›
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All the ways to watch Scottish Open 2026 live streams online from anywhere, with plenty of big guns in the field at The Renaissance Club ahead of the Open. Read more ›
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Munich-based QuantumDiamonds (QD) today announced the close of a €91 million funding round to scale production of its quantum-based semiconductor inspection technology. The financing combines an €15 million equity round led by World Fund with €76 million in non-dilutive funding approved at EU level under the European Chips Act. The non-dilutive funding was provided jointly ... Read more ›
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NVIDIA's $149 Shield TV is out of stock at major retailers, suggesting it may have been discontinued. Read more ›
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A yet-to-be-announced Samsung Galaxy M-series phone emerged in a Geekbench listing, and it brings a surprising chipset choice. The Samsung Galaxy SM-M676K, which is speculated to be the Galaxy M67, is seen rocking the Exynos 2200. That’s the same Samsung flagship SoC from 2022, which we saw on the Galaxy S22 series and Galaxy S23 FE later on. Galaxy SM-M676K Geekbench listing As a reminder, this is a 4nm chip... Read more ›
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Scientists have created a silicon chip that can write dozens of DNA sequences simultaneously using electricity and water-based enzymes, offering a cleaner alternative to conventional DNA manufacturing. The breakthrough could eventually support portable DNA-writing devices and even massive DNA data storage, although new chemistry will be needed to scale the technology further. Read more ›
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Flipkart’s Zero-Commission Tryst Flipkart is trying the zero-commission playbook. The ecommerce major has dropped its fees on all fashion products… Read more ›
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Tiny silica nanoparticles engineered to seek out prostate cancer caused tumor cells to self-destruct and supercharged the immune system in preclinical mouse studies. Combined with immunotherapy, the treatment produced complete remissions in multiple mice, raising hopes for a powerful new approach to prostate cancer. Read more ›
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Сразу предупрежу: это личный опыт человека, который просто решил попробовать инструмент без сильных знаний в программировании, но с большим желанием закрыть потребности в реализации личных проектов.Про ИИ ассистентов уже не раз писали и напишут как с положительно, так и с отрицательной стороны. OpenClaw с его постоянным обращениями к LLM (которая прилично есть токены). Про Claude code в данной статье тоже не будет ничего сказано, поскольку тестировавние проводилось именно на основе... Read more ›
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It doesn't merit a full-throated denunciation of phones for parents, but it's food for thought. Read more ›
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Nvidia is promising to financially backstop young cloud providers that rent out its graphics processing units in exchange for a share of their revenues, The Information reported Wednesday. The backstop would come in the form of promising to rent back unused GPUs if the companies can’t find ... Read more ›
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and its affiliated payment processor AUS Merchant Services agreed to pay $600 million to resolve U.S. allegations that they failed to prevent illegal sales of pharmaceuticals, controlled substances and related equipment through Alibaba’s e-commerce ... Read more ›
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Signs that Microsoft is open to spinning off its struggling Xbox gaming unit have put the spotlight on the tech conglomerate’s vast mix of businesses. Investors typically don’t like conglomerates, and that’s as true for Microsoft as for any other such company. We calculated what Microsoft’s three main businesses—cloud, software and personal computing—would be worth if each was trading at valuations in line with rivals in those sectors. The total... Read more ›
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Microsoft on Thursday announced the creation of a new business unit geared towards helping large customers set up customized AI applications, commercial CEO Judson Althoff announced. Microsoft is spending $2.5 billion and assigning 6,000 employees to the effort, called Microsoft Frontier ... Read more ›
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Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, following the lead of rival OpenAI in trying to get more control over the costly computing systems behind its models, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project. If the Claude maker goes ahead with the chip, it would be a relative newcomer in developing its own... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s agenda, check out Phoebe’s report Wednesday night that Nvidia has launched a new program to financially backstop customers’ purchases of its AI chips. It’s yet another way Nvidia is leveraging its powerful balance sheet to keep the GPU data center party going.On to the column…As more companies reassess rising prices for advanced AI models and tokenmaxxing among their employees, model routers are having a moment... Read more ›
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Tesla’s vehicle deliveries rebounded by 25% to 480,000 in the second quarter, following a sales slump in 2025, the company said on Thursday. Out of the deliveries, 468,000 were Model 3 or Model Y vehicles, while 12,000 were other models including the Cybertruck, Model X and Model S. Tesla ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has discussed the government taking an equity stake in the company with a range of percentages put forward, according to a person familiar with the talks, who described the discussions as preliminary. The Financial Times earlier reported that OpenAI CEO had proposed a 5% stake. In a ... Read more ›
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Jay Puri, Nvidia’s top sales executive and one of CEO Jensen Huang’s direct reports, stepped down from his day-to-day role Wednesday, according to a Thursday regulatory filing. Puri, 71, told Nvidia on June 28 he intends to retire on his successor’s first day. Nicholas Parker, a longtime ... Read more ›
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Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot AI chatbots into a single application as it tries to create a more formidable competitor to Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a Microsoft executive told staff Thursday morning. In a 1,200-word memo, Jacob Andreou, an executive vice president, said the new unified app will also feature AI coding tools and new AI agents that customers would need to pay... Read more ›
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