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On a cloudy day in late March, Isaiah Taylor, the 27-year-old founder and chief executive of Valar Atomics, a Hawthorne, Calif.–based nuclear energy startup, led me into a large black tent at the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab in the middle of the Utah desert. Dozens of construction workers and beeping forklifts buzzed around the nearly 40-foot-tall reactor rising from the center of the tent, with an enormous American flag in the background.
Outside, Taylor gestured around to the empty landscape surrounding th
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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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"South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms," reports Ars Technica: The goal is to make drones a "universal combat tool" for all troops by training them to use drones like a "second personal weapon," said Ahn Gyu-back, South Korea's Minister of National Defense, in a June 26 briefing reported by Reuters and other media... Read more ›
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JB Hi-Fi has discounted the Asus Zenbook A14 to AU$1,399, making this lightweight OLED laptop a solid buy for work, study and travel. Read more ›
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When Delhivery acquired Ecom Express in 2025, the Indian logistics industry read it as a consolidation play — a larger… Read more ›
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The '60s influence is still alive and well on the road today, and if you have a keen eye, you may have recognized some of these offerings. Read more ›
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei cautioned Congress that releasing powerful AI models without centralized oversight could create irreversible risks. Nearly three years later, enterprises are increasingly adopting open-weight Chinese models that are closing the gap with America’s leading AI systems. For ... Read more ›
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WhatsApp is finally, after years of testing and anticipation, introducing usernames. You will be able to reserve yours starting "this week". The usernames themselves will only roll out "later this year" though, in a gradual manner. WhatsApp will notify you when they're available in your country. Obviously, with over three billion users, a lot of people will want the same username, so it's going to be a wild ride. WhatsApp... Read more ›
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More than a decade ago, I left a finance job, moved to Vietnam, and eventually started writing for a living. For a long time I told this story as a series of decisions. I had figured out what mattered to me, I had questioned the default path, I had chosen freedom over a predictable salary. ... Read more Read more ›
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We tend to assume that the calm you see in some older people is the reward for a lifetime of forgiveness. The picture is almost cinematic: a person in their seventies who has made peace with everyone, hugged it out, and tied every loose end into a neat bow. It is a lovely story. It ... Read more Read more ›
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Yeti coolers are going cheap, and you can get yours delivered in time for 4th July — these are the holiday discounts our outdoor expert has vetted for real value. Read more ›
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Some T-Mobile customers with legacy phone plans are being upgraded to newer T-Mobile plans automatically, reports CNET. The company has been sending out notifications to customers with older plans, letting them know that they're going to be transferred to a current plan. Customers being pushed to a new plan could get an automatic bill increase. The carrier plans to move customers to comparable modern plans. T-Mobile options include Essentials, Essentials... Read more ›
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The new requirement is rolling out to Netflix profiles, and only Kids profiles are exempt. Read more ›
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Meet ERNEST, NASA's prototype rover designed to test technologies that could support future exploration of the Moon and Mars. Read more ›
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Establishment Democrats can't seem to focus on the bigger picture as Trump dismantles the country. Read more ›
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Learn how family banking apps can teach kids and teens financial responsibility with spending controls, chores, savings goals, and more. Read more ›
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Adobe and Disney will build a custom AI solution trained on the latter's IP and leveraging Adobe's Firefly Foundry service. Read more ›
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Wheel alignment is a critical, but oft-overlooked, part of car maintenance. Thankfully, despite its importance, it's not too expensive to get done. Read more ›
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Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based startup founded by former Google researchers, has launched Fugu, a new artificial intelligence service that coordinates multiple AI models through one interface. Fugu uses various proprietary and open-source models to perform tasks, but Sakana packages it as a single AI ... Read more ›
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ByteDance on Tuesday unveiled Seedance 2.5, its new AI video generation model, at a conference in Beijing. The model upgrades its predecessor, Seedance 2.0, which was widely hailed as a major breakthrough for AI videos. The Chinese tech giant said Seedance 2.5 can generate a video up to 30 ... Read more ›
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As prices for Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s flagship products soar, some large customers are using cheaper AI models from those companies’ menus as well as from other providers. Ensemble Health Partners, a provider of software for hospitals that plans to spend up to $100 million on AI this year, says it’s had success switching to an OpenAI model that’s 23 times less expensive than the company’s more advanced models. Read more ›
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Nvidia on Tuesday released new open-source software for scientists and biotech firms to develop AI agents for their research, even if they don’t have coding experience. The software, Nvidia’s BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, is part of the AI chip leader’s effort to convince companies to use its AI ... Read more ›
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If you’ve been on the AI side of X or Reddit recently, you’ve probably seen the phrase “agent loops” popping up more than usual. That term refers to a new way to run models and AI agents to improve their performance on longer-running or more vaguely-defined tasks, and it’s been gaining traction with developers in recent months.The basic idea boils down to this: rather than giving an AI model a... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms unveiled a new line of smart glasses on Tuesday, pricing one of the devices $80 below its previous entry-level model despite adding no new major capabilities—a move that underscores the company’s desire to expand market share ahead of expected rival entries from Apple and Google. ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is building a prediction market app that could rival offerings from Polymarket and Kalshi, The New York Times reported. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has instructed a small team to develop the app, internally known as Arena, through which users could potentially wager on events using either ... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s ad chief Dave Dugan said at Cannes this week that around 20% of ChatGPT queries have a “direct commercial intent,” demonstrating that a user is looking to buy a specific product. A greater proportion of queries, he said, extend beyond requests for specific products and signal that the ... Read more ›
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Anthropic and OpenAI are booming, but so are providers of open-source AI models and other cheaper alternatives, thanks to businesses using open-source to control their costs, we reported in detail this morning. But there’s more.Together AI, the neocloud which rents out Nvidia cloud servers and access to open source models, raised its annual revenue projections at least three times in the past few months due to the growing usage of... Read more ›
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Walmart’s $1.4 billion purchase of New York–based advertising technology startup Vibe on Tuesday is a reminder of how serious the retail giant is about building its ad business.Walmart is paying a big price for Vibe, which helps small businesses buy ads on streaming platforms and will allow Walmart to reach more advertisers looking to buy spots on its site. The $1.4 billion price, which includes a $180 million executive retention... Read more ›
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