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Many of the largest U.S. tech companies signed a joint letter on Friday defending open-source AI software as the Trump administration considers possible restrictions on Chinese labs. The letter—signed by Meta Platforms, Nvidia, Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz, along with AI startups like ...
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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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Halo has a proud history of smuggling secret endings into its campaigns. In the very first 2001 game, there is a hidden (non-canon) ending featuring Sgt. Avery Johnson fighting and hugging an Elite. In Halo 2, there's a mid-credits scene that teases the beginning of Halo 3. In Halo 3, we get a full scene of Chief drifting, alone, in the cold, indifferent vacuum of space. ODST gives us a... Read more ›
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This might be our first true glimpse of how dangerous AI could be in the future in terms of making hacks much more commonplace. Read more ›
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Director Adam Wingard talked about his retro-tinged sci-fi action movie starring Adria Arjona and Dan Stevens. Read more ›
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Clean out that cable junk drawer every so often and keep only the things you actually need. Read more ›
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Hearing one of AI’s leading builders warn about losing control makes the future feel increasingly Skynet-adjacent. Read more ›
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Нам всем уже надоели новости об очередных «достижениях» LLM. Но, несмотря на поток надоедливых новостей, LLM представляют собой одной из ключевых направлений современных технологий (пусть и несколько переоцененное), и здесь иногда происходят некоторые открытия, которые становятся значимыми вехами...Я изучаю историю технологий и не мог пройти мимо статьи, которая говорит об обнаружении внутри мощных LLM паттернов-концепций, которые активируются, когда модель «думает» о связанных с этим паттерном вещах. И, чт Read more ›
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With the Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Ultra and Z Flip, Samsung turned a new chapter in its smartphone hardware history by incorporating silicon-carbon batteries for the very first time. The Fold8 Ultra in particular got a 600mAh boost over the Fold7 thanks to its higher-energy-density cell. But there is one minor downside. According to the EU’s EPREL ratings, the batteries on the new foldables are all rated at 1,200 endurance... Read more ›
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In a curious move, the social network is siphoning off its most popular features into separate apps. Read more ›
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Facebook is rolling out a standalone Seller app for Marketplace power users and testing a video-first home screen that mirrors TikTok's format. Read more ›
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Tesla's electronic door handles that have been linked to several deaths could lead to tougher safety rules for the entire auto industry. In a notice published today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that complaints about Tesla's mechanical door release don't warrant a defect investigation. Instead, the issue is better addressed through a broader […] Read more ›
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The fight over the future of artificial intelligence took another turn Friday as Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, and more than 20 other technology companies urged the Trump administration to resist calls for sweeping limits on open-weight AI models. Their message ... Read more ›
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Most Chromebooks ship with only 8GB of RAM, which is enough for some people, but certainly not enough for me. Multitaskers who want more memory in their next Chromebook should check out Best Buy, which is discounting Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 for the remainder of the day. Originally $749 for the configuration with 12GB […] Read more ›
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DoorDash is rolling out an updated fee structure that varies service fees by order size and distance to better reflect delivery costs. Read more ›
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In May, Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a U.S. class action lawsuit over Siri AI's delayed launch, and eligible iPhone users could receive up to a $95 payout. Apple's settlement has now received preliminary approval from a judge, according to a July 17 court document. However, there is no settlement website yet, and it may take months before eligible customers can begin submitting claims. In other words,... Read more ›
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As wildfires grow more frequent and severe, insurers are no longer pricing risk by location alone — they’re underwriting based on how resilient a property is, pushing operators to firm up their hotels. Read more ›
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Рано или поздно к вам приходит сотрудник с запросом о повышении зарплаты. Вы видите: за прошедший период он многое сделал, заметно прокачал технические и организаторские навыки. Сомнений в том, что он может пойти на повышение грейда, нет. Но прежняя шкала оценки уже не годится: она не учитывает умение работать с новыми инструментами. ИИ изменил разработку, однако осознали это далеко не все.В этой статье я расскажу о том, как я вижу... Read more ›
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Shares of SpaceX fell around 4% on Friday morning, extending recent declines, after the company scrubbed a planned Starship test launch in Texas on Thursday evening. “Some of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic launch abort,” Elon Musk said in a post on X. “To be confident of a ... Read more ›
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Apple and the U.S. Department of Justice are in talks to settle the antitrust lawsuit the agency brought against the iPhone maker in 2024, Bloomberg reported. The discussions are active and Apple has made multiple offers this year to settle with the Justice Department, though it’s possible no ... Read more ›
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OpenRouter, which helps app developers access hundreds of AI models, has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value the startup at billions of dollars, a steep premium to its $1.3 billion valuation, people familiar with the matter said. The discussions reflect a swell of interest this year in technology that makes it easier for app developers to run a variety of models, including open-source, to... Read more ›
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Databricks is raising $3 billion in new funding led by Coatue Management at a valuation of $188 billion, a 40% increase from its valuation after its last funding in December, the Wall Street Journal reported. The AI firm hosts GPU servers that customers can use to build applications using AI ... Read more ›
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OpenEvidence, the fast-growing startup that helps doctors find medical information through an AI chatbot, has considered raising $200 million after receiving offers from investors at a valuation of around $20 billion, according to a person involved in the discussions. The company is unlikely to proceed, in part because a round would dilute founders and other shareholders, the person said. OpenEvidence has also held acquisition talks with a large tech company... Read more ›
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In January 2025, just three days after entering office for his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that revoked many of the Biden administration’s efforts on AI. The order was part of Trump’s promise to take a light-touch approach to AI regulation, rolling back what he would later describe as his predecessor’s attempt to “paralyze” the industry through its emphasis on safety. Flanked by venture investor David... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Trump’s AI agenda collides with reality• Tech Culture: Welcome to the great private jet drought• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Gastronomics,” “Catch the Devil” and “The Invite”At the dawn of the AI boom, the technology sparked a real melee between newcomer startups and the industry’s established giants. A good amount of the energy in that fight seems to have diminished lately,... Read more ›
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Building an AI supercampus increasingly means paying more than you bargained for. Oracle’s attempt to salvage a proposed $165 billion project on the rocks in New Mexico is a recent example. The cloud provider earlier this year was planning to spend billions of dollars to build its own natural-gas plants to power Project Jupiter, a 1,400-acre, two-plus gigawatt AI data center for OpenAI near the Texas border town of El... Read more ›
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U.S. stock sales are on track for a record this year, as massive offerings from SpaceX, Alphabet and others push totals past a 2021 high. More sales are coming. Anthropic is headed for an initial public offering as soon as September. And bankers are pitching other public tech companies on issuing more stock. These include Intel, after the chipmaker’s shares more than doubled since the start of the year, according... Read more ›
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It’s midsummer, but now is not the time to be on the beach. This week, we’ve got Alphabet, Google’s parent, and Tesla reporting second-quarter earnings, and the week after, we’ll get Meta Platforms, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and PayPal, a company in the takeover spotlight right now. Of most interest, of course, is how Google, Amazon and Microsoft are doing on the AI front, both in their cloud businesses and in... Read more ›
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