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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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Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models ... Read more ›
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Here's the full court document showing what went on behind the scenes before the Pentagon turned on Anthropic. Read more ›
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The tech mogul has repeatedly called for the colonization of Mars, but has previously warned that early missions may carry monumental risks Read more ›
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Любая гипотеза о происхождении вселенной — божественная или научная — рано или поздно упирается в вопрос: а что было до того, как что-то появилось?Если сначала был только бог — где находился сам бог? Философское «ничто» по определению не может ничего содержать, включая бога, — иначе это уже не ничто, а вместилище. Но чтобы бог просто существовал, нужно как минимум пространство, а пространство неотделимо от времени. Значит, пространство-время должно было существовать... Read more ›
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Google’s long-running battle over a huge Android antitrust fine has ended with the EU’s top court upholding the penalty. Read more ›
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Как я встретил ESP-Claw? Очень просто: не на Хабре, не в Google, а в одном дружном чатике, куда ссылку запостил коллега по несчастью. Не могу сказать, что именно меня зацепило, но я решил - почему бы и нет. Если в двух словах, то оно того стоило: попутно я освоил подключение к LLM по API-ключу, разобрался с OpenRouter, позаботился об экзотической лягушке, убедил ИИ написать Arduino-скетч для управления Tuya-совместимыми выключателями и... Read more ›
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Amazon plans to launch its initial Leo satellite internet service later this year after placing nearly 400 satellites into orbit, setting up a bigger challenge to SpaceX's Starlink. Read more ›
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Back in May, AT&T launched Build-A-Plan, a new way to customize your wireless plan's perks and pricing. It seems to have been a success, as the company is now expanding the program to include home internet as well. The expansion is taking place on July 7. Starting on that day, if you use Build-A-Plan you will be able to add home internet to your plan as well - either AT&T... Read more ›
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Anduril's "divergent" recruitment campaign is paying off with increased recruitment and a more efficient talent process, says CMO Jeff Miller. Read more ›
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А точно ли в наши дни обязательно уметь писать? Какую пользу это несет? Сократ считал, что запись ухудшает память, знаем мы это, впрочем, лишь потому что его ученик Платон его записал. Оставим этот вопрос ученым, мы практики - если что-то можно автоматизировать, значит нужно!Сначала написал свой сервер Whisper для транскрибаци, по стандарту OpenAI v1 transcriptions API , умеет streaming, таймкоды, авто выбор модели, очередь, и lazy+ttl. Таких куча: 1, 2.... Read more ›
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding is rumored to be at Madison Square Garden in New York City on the Fourth of July weekend. Read more ›
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Everything you need to know about Folarin Balogun's red card and the internet's reaction. Read more ›
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Instacart took home its first-ever Cannes Lions awards at the 2026 Cannes Lions Festival. CMO Laura Jones shared the insight behind the "Bananas" campaign Read more ›
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Brave now lets desktop users open tabs in separate Containers, so the same website can run different accounts side by side. Read more ›
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The hosting platform wants sites to have more control over how AI companies use their content. Read more ›
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When traveling abroad, you might notice something is missing in many homes and public buildings. Here's why Europe has been slow to adopt air conditioning. Read more ›
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NASA’s never-before-attempted plan to move a sensitive scientific satellite into a safer orbit has faced a week of delays—but it’s still go for launch. Read more ›
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Remember back to last December, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order designed to “remove barriers to United States AI leadership”? Trump said he was revoking former President Joe Biden’s “attempt to paralyze this industry” and planned a “minimally burdensome national standard” for regulation. It’s a different story now.Today, The Information reported that in response to a request from the Trump administration, OpenAI was releasing its latest model only... Read more ›
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Samsung Group, the South Korean tech giant, plans to unveil an investment package of more than 1,000 trillion won ($648 billion) next week, a record pledge aimed at chips, AI data centers, batteries and display, according to the Maeil Business Newspaper. The investments, amounting to half of ... Read more ›
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Up until two months ago, DeepSeek, the three-year-old Chinese AI lab, was an anomaly in the increasingly costly global AI battle. It had relied entirely on CEO Liang Wenfeng’s personal wealth and never raised outside money. That changed in the middle of this month, when DeepSeek completed a $7.4 billion fundraising that valued the startup at more than $50 billion, the biggest ever first-time fundraising by a Chinese startup. The... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s recent bond sale is weakening in the secondary market, with investors now demanding a significantly bigger yield premium versus U.S. treasuries from when the offering priced on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported on Friday. A large dealer was quoting SpaceX’s 2056 bonds at as much as 0.28% ... Read more ›
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One after the other, four men jumped onto a stage at the front of a darkened, crowded hall one recent evening in central Beijing. Each of them was fired up. The subject: superadvanced batteries. One of these batteries, a man said, was perfect to power ultra-cheap electric vehicles and another for ultraexpensive ones. A third could almost completely charge a car in 11 minutes, while a fourth could do so... Read more ›
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When people ask me what I've learned about leadership from reporting on tech companies for 20 years, I always say the same thing: that the most successful CEOs are more pragmatic than zealous. Tech CEOs are notorious for using visionary language and tying it to their personal beliefs about improving the world. They brandish mission statements about organizing all the world’s information and make us believe that their products are... Read more ›
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OpenAI on Friday launched GPT-5.6, its most advanced AI models, to a small group of partners that have been cleared by the U.S. government to use the technology, according to the release blog post. The move confirms The Information’s Thursday report that OpenAI will release the new models in a ... Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services is raising the price for its AI workload rental service by 20%, the company said on Friday, in what appears to be another example of how the global compute crunch is increasing costs throughout the tech supply chain. AWS’s price increase affects its EC2 Capacity Blocks, which ... Read more ›
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Apple’s Vision Pro and smart glasses chief, Paul Meade, is leaving for OpenAI, Bloomberg reported. Meade, a vice president, will depart Apple by next week and join OpenAI’s hardware unit to work on its forthcoming line of devices, Bloomberg said. Meade has been at Apple since 2010 and in the ... Read more ›
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A political movement against data center construction is gaining speed nationwide. This week, The Information published an investigation cataloging more than 300 cities and counties that have enacted temporary or permanent bans on data center construction and more than 75 weighing them. We estimate the bans now cover more than 80,000 square miles that are home to more than 20 million people. For insights on what we published and beyond,... Read more ›
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