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Microsoft next week will unveil a suite of new homegrown AI models at its annual Build conference for app developers in San Francisco. The question is whether it can win over these people.The company plans to unveil a coding model to boost the competitiveness of Microsoft-owned GitHub Copilot, a coding assistant whose early lead in the AI coding market was eroded by Cursor and Claude Code, according to someone with direct knowledge of the plans. Microsoft also is planning to announce new models that come in
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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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Dire Straits' Guy Fletcher says that Atmos can deliver more emotion from the music you love Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said the granite helipad will prevent the new fleet of Sikorsky Marine One helicopters from damaging the South Lawn. Read more ›
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Nvidia has a plan to deal with the growing list of AI server chip competitors: partner with them. In the latest example, Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their respective hardware in a new system to power AI models, the companies told The Information exclusively. Read more ›
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A centimeter-sized crystal has revealed clear signs of quantum entanglement, showing that large, everyday objects can display surprisingly deep quantum behavior. The discovery could help solve the mystery of strange metals while opening new possibilities for ultra-precise quantum sensors and other advanced technologies. Read more ›
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Diesel engines still have their place in the modern automotive world, but they're not without flaws. What is diesel regen? Why is it necessary? Read more ›
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Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained entirely on domestic chips, avoiding Nvidia hardware entirely. Read more ›
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At its next Unpacked event, Samsung is expected to launch three new foldable phones as well as refreshed smartwatch models. Read more ›
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SUVs aren't exactly known for their fuel economy, but even among these inherently less fuel-efficient vehicles are some that have truly terrible mileage. Read more ›
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Mere hours ago a rumor claimed Google would, rather fittingly, (considering the naming) be unveiling the Pixel 11 devices on August 11, and it turns out that rumor was wrong - but not by much. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has now received an official invite from Google to the grand launch event, and it's taking place on August 12 in New York City at 6 PM local time. Google Pixel event... Read more ›
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An Omdia report warns that smartphones priced below $400 could decline by more than 22% in 2026 as rising memory costs, fueled in part by AI demands, reshape the global smartphone market. Read more ›
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Samsung, it seems, deserves a little more respect. The electronics conglomerate may be best known in the U.S. for its TV sets and smartphones, which jostle with the iPhone for attention, but it’s also one of the three biggest makers of memory chips globally (along with Micron Technology and SK Hynix). The explosion of that business, thanks to demand from AI data centers, has turbocharged profits at all three companies—with... Read more ›
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YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers, listen up — you could be owed a share of $50 million thanks to a Disney lawsuit settlement. Read more ›
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Amid public backlash over its smart glasses, Meta announced that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the glasses' privacy LED light. The update is meant to address modders who have taken actions such as physically drilling […] Read more ›
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Most people know that ships use nautical miles to measure distance, as it is in the name. You might be surprised, however, to learn that airplanes do too. Read more ›
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Get a whisper-quiet ergonomic mouse that’s so comfortable, your wrist will love you for it — and it doesn't cost the earth either. Read more ›
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ByteDance is developing its own AI chip to reduce Nvidia dependence, targeting mass production by late 2027. Read more ›
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It’s not easy to run an enterprise software company these days. For the nth example of this, read the latest story by my colleague Laura Bratton, who describes how an Atlanta real estate manager replaced Salesforce software with a custom app developed using Replit and Claude Code—saving $100,000 a year. Yipes. Fears that companies will replace their software subscriptions with cheaper AI tools have hammered not just publicly traded stocks... Read more ›
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Chinese food delivery giant Meituan unveiled its new open-source large language model that it says has been trained entirely on Chinese chips. Meituan, which developed its first LLM last year, said its new model, LongCat-2.0, which has 1.6 trillion parameters, is the first model of this ... Read more ›
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The company behind Lime electric scooters said late Tuesday it had priced its initial public offering at $25 a share, selling $174 million in new and existing shares. The IPO of the nine-year-old company is the latest venture-backed offering to test investor appetite after the massive listing ... Read more ›
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Verkada, which makes security cameras and accompanying software, said Wednesday that Nvidia is investing an unspecified amount of capital in the 10-year-old company at a $5.8 billion valuation. It’s the same valuation as Verkada’s December financing led by Alphabet’s growth investment arm, ... Read more ›
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Anthropic is backtracking a spyware rolled out covertly to track users’ location and whether they are based in China or affiliated with Chinese AI labs, after the move sparked controversies on social media. A Reddit post earlier this week said Claude Code covertly tracks and transmits ... Read more ›
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Expectations are growing that Elon Musk will propose a merger of SpaceX and Tesla. But a close look at Tesla’s org chart, including the $55 billion Terafab semiconductor manufacturing project, a Tesla and SpaceX collaboration, shows that the two companies are already operating as one entity in key ways. Several people, aside from Musk himself, have senior responsibilities at both companies, including Charlie Kuehmann, who has held leadership roles in... Read more ›
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Microsoft is planning to lay off thousands of employees across the company in the coming week, including in sales and engineering units, according to someone briefed on the plans. The layoffs will also include job cuts across Microsoft’s Xbox gaming organization that have been previously ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, Bloomberg reported, putting it in direct competition with cloud firms such as Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure. Meta has spent heavily to expand its AI data centers in recent years, to give it more ... Read more ›
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Software developers are starting to combine the two most successful uses of large language models: coding and customer support.Specifically, they’re using AI to automate the process of turning customer complaints about software issues or feature requests into new code. Previously, that could be a long and tedious process, which involved sending customer support tickets to a company’s support team, directing those issues to the relevant engineer, and coding up and... Read more ›
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Italian conglomerate Bending Spoons, which is rolling up aging internet businesses, priced its initial public offering at $29 a share, just above the preliminary range of $26 to $28 a share. The IPO price values the company at $19.4 billion. The shares will start trading later Wednesday. Bending ... Read more ›
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Financial data companies such as FactSet and Moody’s appear to have made progress reassuring investors that they won’t be replaced by finance-focused AI tools. But investors may have new questions these days around how the uncertainty of AI costs will affect usage of these businesses’ products.Investors were spooked when Anthropic and others touted AI products for finance and other professions earlier this year. Companies like FactSet, Moody’s, S&P Global and... Read more ›
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