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Google DeepMind agreed to pay between $80 million and $90 million to hire employees from AI agent startup Contextual AI and to license its technology, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. Douwe Kiela, Contextual’s cofounder and CEO, is expected to join DeepMind alongside over ...
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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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The venture capital landscape on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, is defined by an aggressive transition from model experimentation to industrial-scale deployment. This shift, colloquially termed the “Agentic Infrastructure Super-Cycle,” follows a historic first quarter where global venture investment surged to ... Read more ›
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Police said the 70-year-old driver was testing out the truck's Wade Mode setting. He ended up spending the night in jail. Read more ›
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Major fires are threatening homes and ecologically sensitive areas following a hot, dry winter. Read more ›
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Welcome to a "profound moment for humanity," according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who closed out Google I/O's keynote presentation on Tuesday, saying: Google's cutting-edge research and products will help unlock AGI's incredible potential for the benefit of the entire world. When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that […] Read more ›
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Did you download the latest iOS update? Discover the three brilliant new tools Apple just quietly added to your car's infotainment screen this month. Read more ›
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A security exploit may have revealed sensitive customer data, and that isn't the only embarrassing aspect for the company. Read more ›
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Google is giving its iconic search box its first major redesign since 2001. The new design incorporates, you guessed it, artificial intelligence, "getting bigger and more interactive so that people can ask even longer questions and upload photographs and videos into queries," reports the New York Times. "In addition, people can ask follow-up questions with a chatbot on Google's main search page." From the report: The company will also offer... Read more ›
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The 'Lost,' 'Watchmen,' and 'Lanterns' writer correlates his exit to a key issue in a galaxy far, far, away. Read more ›
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Деплоите LLM? Значит, обвешиваете её гардами. Сначала safety, потом PII, потом prompt injection, потом toxic BERT - и в один прекрасный день обнаруживаете, что у вас 5 классификаторов на каждой ноде и 20 forward-ов на один пользовательский запрос.GLiNER Guard (GLiGuard) - возможность схлопнуть этот стек в единый schema-driven энкодер. И да, его можно тоже промптить: через zero-shot + description. Читать далее Read more ›
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XREAL and Google showcased Project Aura at Google I/O 2026, giving attendees a closer look at XREAL’s upcoming wired Android XR glasses. The device is scheduled to launch globally in 2026, but today’s update is a developer and demo milestone, not yet a full-blown retail launch. Project Aura is not in the same product category as Google and Samsung’s new audio-first smart glasses, unveiled today at I/O. It is a... Read more ›
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What better way to unwind from a two-hour-long keynote presentation than to pour over the weirdest and wildest details, from a Gmail bot you can converse with to DeepMind's leader saying the singularity is near. The Vergecast went live right after the show, with Senior AI Reporter Hayden Field joining me to discuss the highlights. […] Read more ›
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Route 66, one of the most famous highways in America, is turning 100 thus year, and one city is going all out with a massive retro celebration. Read more ›
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A bipartisan bill would ask electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid drivers to pay annual fees because they don't pay gas taxes. Read more ›
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If you're into headphones, then you're no doubt familiar with Sony's WH-1000X series, which is easily one of the most popular wireless over-ear noise-cancelling headphones around. One could say that alongside the Bose QuietComfort 35, which started the trend, Sony's 1000X series has been the most popular option for years. An achievement remarkably maintained even after many others, including Apple, joined the space. Sony's line of wireless over-ear ANC headphones... Read more ›
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According to Gemini’s transcript of the Google I/O keynote today, AI was mentioned nearly 100 times on stage. One of the mentions had to do with updated AI subscription plans, including a new $100/month AI Ultra plan. Below you can find the details of the new AI Ultra plan, but the highlights include Gemini 3.5,... Read the original post: Google Updates AI Subscription Plans, Highlighted by New $100 AI Ultra... Read more ›
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Google has announced its integrating Google Play with the Gemini app, enabling app and conten discovery. The company has also revealed Play Shorts, a short-form video feed for browsing apps, and Ask Play, a conversational AI search tool that can help users find the right apps. Read more ›
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Madison and Spencer Huang, the daughter and son of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, have quietly become rising forces inside the world’s most valuable company—and their paychecks reflect it. Madison, a senior director of product marketing, earned $1.2 million last year, according to Nvidia’s annual ... Read more ›
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The charitable foundation tied to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori Huang, has agreed to rent Nvidia graphics processing units from CoreWeave, which it plans to donate to artificial intelligence developers, according to Nvidia’s annual report. The Huang Foundation has donated $108 ... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sought to turn the tables on Elon Musk in their legal battle, testifying that the tycoon abandoned the group they co-founded and worked to undermine its success. Altman’s appearance in court Tuesday marked the highest-stakes moment yet in the trial over Musk’s lawsuit, which centers on allegations that the OpenAI chief led a deceitful effort to “steal” the charity that he and Musk co-founded in 2015.... Read more ›
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When some journalist writes the book on the AI boom, one critical chapter will start on Christmas Eve 2025. That was the day that Nvidia and OpenAI’s complicated frenemy relationship became incredibly lucrative for chip startups that focus on AI inference.We already know that Christmas Eve was the day the tech industry (and this newsroom) scrambled to make sense of the news that Nvidia would spend billions of dollars for... Read more ›
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Is it time for another activist investor to take a run at Microsoft? Shares of the iconic software giant are down nearly 16% so far this year, making it the worst performer of the big tech names. The Financial Times reported on Friday that British hedge fund TCI had sold “almost all” of its stake in Microsoft, citing uncertainty about how AI could undermine the company’s big Office productivity software... Read more ›
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Junyang Lin, former lead researcher of Alibaba’s Qwen models, is seeking to raise several hundred million dollars for his new AI lab, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The new AI lab will likely be valued at around $2 billion after the funding round, the people said, adding that the discussions are ongoing and the final valuation could change. Chinese venture capital firms Gaorong Ventures and... Read more ›
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Junyang Lin, former lead researcher of Alibaba’s Qwen models who left the firm earlier this year, is seeking to raise several hundred million dollars for his new AI lab, The Information reported. Lin’s new AI lab will likely be valued at around $2 billion after the funding round, though the ... Read more ›
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Anthropic’s revenue growth is unprecedented. Newer Anthropic customers such as PagerDuty are a big part of the reason. Eric Johnson, chief information officer at PagerDuty, which helps software engineers respond to tech outages, said he is bracing for volatile costs as his company’s 1,200 employees start using Anthropic’s AI coding and other tools to speed up software development and other tasks. Read more ›
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Amazon is rebranding its Rufus chatbot to Alexa for Shopping, the company said on Wednesday. Amazon first announced an AI-powered chatbot for shoppers called Rufus in early 2024. A year later, Amazon launched Alexa+, the large language model-enhanced version of its decade plus-old assistant. ... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got a last-minute invitation to join President Donald Trump’s trip to China, Trump revealed in a Truth Social post. After reports surfaced that Huang had been left out of a trip that included many other tech executives, including Elon Musk and Apple CEO Tim Cook, Trump ... Read more ›
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