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To combat her loneliness, An Xu, a 15-year-old middle schooler in Shanghai, had recently been relying for emotional support on her text and voice conversations with an AI companion on Doubao, China’s most popular AI chatbot app.
AI companions are meant to mimic humanlike conversation, emotions and interactions as realistically as possible—even more so than ordinary chatbots. And just before a new Chinese government regulation forced Doubao and other companies to stop offering such features to minors 10 day
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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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Когда человек впервые слышит про одногодичную магистратуру, обычно возникает один из двух вопросов:«А так вообще можно?»«Что из обычной двухлетней программы пришлось выбросить?»На первый вопрос ответить просто: да, можно. Рассказали про нашу одногодичную программу «Большие данные и машинное обучение». Читать далее Read more ›
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To celebrate my partner's 50th birthday, I planned a bucket-list trip around the world that included our first African safari and wildlife sightings. Read more ›
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Back to school shopping usually means picking from a handful of solid budget options. This year, however, there aren't many options, with one solid pick I'd recommend for the school year ahead, plus a strong alternative with a catch. Read more ›
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Ukraine introduced a naval drone carrying FPV aircraft while expanding unmanned maritime operations through new launch concepts and future interception capabilities. Read more ›
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A large Danish study found a modest but consistent association between long-term road traffic noise exposure and higher Parkinson's disease risk, with a 3% increase for every 11.5 dB rise in noise at the most exposed side of a home. The Guardian reports: The researchers modeled noise exposure at the most and least exposed exterior of the residence of each participant and calculated the difference in noise levels. The magnitude... Read more ›
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The Wireless Horipad Turbo for Nintendo Switch 2 is a decent Pro Controller alternative with some frustrating flaws. Read more ›
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"Amy's recalled the lot out of an abundance of caution to ensure the high quality of its products," the company said in a statement. Read more ›
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The group allegedly breached Central Bank systems, converted crypto to cash via Chinese brokers, and used small transfers to evade detection. Read more ›
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В предыдущей статье я описал как я делал DTMF-MQTT шлюз для открывания ворот. Там я мЕльком упомянул, что делалось это как альтернатива телеграм и в общем свою функцию выполнило. В действительности путь был длинней, тернистей, но зато и завел куда дальше: текущее решение ничем не уступает тому что было в ТГ, а кое в чём и превосходит. Читать далее Read more ›
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Vinegar shows up as a common ingredient in hack videos, but is using it on or around your engine a good idea? Here are some things to consider. Read more ›
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В первой статье мы познакомились с pg_ilm — расширением Tantor Postgres, реализующим концепцию ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) для PostgreSQL. Оно анализирует жизненный цикл данных, помогает определить, какие таблицы и партиции действительно «остыли», и готовит рекомендации по их переносу в более экономичное хранилище. Теперь пришло время посмотреть, как это работает на практике... Читать далее Read more ›
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Qualcomm, the maker of processors powering numerous Android devices, is raising its prices. Read more ›
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Silka Luisa talked about Prime Video's upcoming sci-fi thriller based on 'Blade Runner' and 'Blade Runner 2049.' Read more ›
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A Redditor is giving away an RTX 5060 gaming PC that's covered by RAM on the outside and has 32GB of RAM on the inside. You can join the sweepstakes simply by leaving a comment on the post. Read more ›
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For his first-ever post on X, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared an open letter to DC calling for the protection of open source AI. 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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Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group has unveiled a preview version of Qwen3.8 Max, its latest and most powerful model, saying its performance is comparable to that of top U.S. models. Alibaba said in a post on X that it believes Qwen3.8 Max, its largest-ever model with 2.4 trillion parameters, is “ ... Read more ›
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Chinese startup Moonshot AI, whose powerful new open-source model is upending Silicon Valley, is seeking formal approval from investors to begin preparations for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The Beijing-based company recently ... Read more ›
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Google is working on a new server chip that would directly integrate the blueprint of its Gemini AI model, enabling the company to serve its AI models to users much more efficiently, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Google intends the new chip, informally dubbed “Frozen v2,” to help it address a major shortage in AI computing capacity that has fueled internal tensions and compelled Google... Read more ›
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A sell-off in the triumvirate of memory chip stocks this month—Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron Technology—has presented investors with a fresh opportunity to get exposure to the fast-growing sector. But investors buying in now have to be willing to dismiss the worries that sparked the sell-off—that the memory chip surge will falter in the next few years, as it has done many times in past boom-and-bust cycles. One solution for... Read more ›
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Thursday’s release of a surprisingly sophisticated new open-source AI model from Beijing-based startup Moonshot has ignited debate over whether China’s developers are erasing the gap with the dominant models from America’s AI firms.There is little question that Moonshot’s Kimi K3 is impressive. The largest open-source model in the world, with 2.8 trillion parameters, it performed impressively on some AI benchmarks, topping a key coding leaderboard from Arena, for instance—ahead of... Read more ›
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The last thing a consumer pondering the purchase of a new electric truck might think about is the origin of the 17-digit vehicle identification number that vehicle authorities everywhere use to keep track of cars and trucks. For Chinese long-haul truck startup Windrose Technology, though, the VIN numbers put on a handful of its trucks shipped to the U.S. turned out to be a problem. By March last year, Windrose... Read more ›
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Alphabet stock jumped 3% on Monday morning after The Information reported that Google was working on a new chip that could be 6 to 10 times more efficient than its current line of homegrown AI chips. The new chip, internally dubbed “Frozen v2,” works by etching the blueprint for Google’s Gemini ... Read more ›
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