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A pair of researchers from the University of Montreal today published a pre-print research paper on creating “more intelligent artificial agents” by imitating the human brain. We’ve heard that one before, but this time’s a little different. The big idea here is all about giving artificial intelligence agents more agency. According to the researchers: Despite the progress made in social neuroscience and in developmental psychology, only in the last decade, serious efforts have started focusing on the neural
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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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Season two of Amazon's live-action Fallout adaptation might have been a bit of a divisive one, but that hasn't stopped it from being showered with another bunch of nominations ahead of this year's prestigious Emmy Awards. In total, Fallout's second TV outing has made it in nine categories - a decent clutch, even if it's significantly less than the 16 nominations it got for season one. Read more Read more ›
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The impact of this week's massive wave of Xbox layoffs on individual projects and teams is starting to become clear. The latest revelation comes from multiple staff at Bethesda, who have told IGN they expect a "substantial and cascading effect" on the long in-development Elder Scrolls 6. Read more Read more ›
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Nvidia and Sega have scheduled an event next week to celebrate their history and longstanding friendship. Read more ›
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The Bezos-backed automaker building America's cheapest electric truck is teaming up with the crayon company in a bid to brighten its rides. Make ours Razzmatazz. Read more ›
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The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber - and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a "reflect" feature for its Claude chatbot, allowing users to see an analysis of their usage data over the past month, […] Read more ›
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How traveled are you across the United States? Have you ever driven on these polarizing interstates? They tend to be hit or miss. Read more ›
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The Claude Reflect dashboard is like a mix of Spotify Wrapped and the screen time tool on your phone. Read more ›
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New York has banned smart glasses in all 1,240 state, county, city, town and village courts. Read more ›
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A new Deloitte survey found that 49% of parents worry their child relies on AI too much, while only 33% of schools have any AI guidelines in place. Read more ›
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Tamara Johnson, 58, quit her corporate job to care for her husband, estimating her family has spent over $700,000 on her mother's and husband's care. Read more ›
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Ukraine is showing the importance of drones in modern warfare, but also how quickly they can become obsolete, complicating long-term war planning. Read more ›
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Samsung may be plotting a new entry into the PC chip business. A new report from the Korea Economic Daily says Samsung’s System LSI division is developing a dedicated AI accelerator for PCs called Gaia. The company has reportedly supplied early samples to Lenovo and HP for performance testing, with mass production potentially beginning as […] Read more ›
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Нарративный обзор научных статей по теме: как детство влияет на нашу судьбу, какой след оставляет бедность, почему строгий контроль без тепла программирует на обман, и можно ли переписать этот «базовый код». Читать далее Read more ›
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SpaceXAI on Wednesday introduced Grok 4.5, its newest flagship model, with Elon Musk claiming it delivers Claude Opus-class performance at a much lower price. The release marks the company’s latest push into enterprise AI and software development after its $60 ... Read more ›
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AI has become the single most important decision-shaping layer in the startup world. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are now the default routes through which prospective clients size up your products and applicants consider your job postings. Your potential investors are firing off prompts rather than spend time scrolling through several pages of Google search results. ... Read more ›
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A $3.7bn plan to merge the world’s two biggest stock-photo libraries has collapsed. The reason is not America, where regulators waved it through. It is Britain, where a single condition proved a deal-breaker. Getty Images will terminate its merger with Shutterstock, the company said this week. Its board voted unanimously to walk away after the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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For the past few years, progress in generative video and AI avatars has been measured almost entirely in fidelity, with each new model making significant progress in delivering sharper detail, better physics, and smoother motion packaged in longer clips. That race is far from over, but it is starting to miss a more interesting direction. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Cloudflare has set the AI industry a deadline. From September, it will block the crawlers that hoover up content for AI training. Any page that carries ads becomes off-limits, unless the site’s owner says otherwise. The pitch is simple: stop giving the web away for free. The company sits in front of a large share […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, far exceeding the Wall Street consensus of approximately 406,000. Production came in at 451,758 units. The delivery figure represents a 25% year-on-year increase and a 34% jump from Q1, when Tesla reported 358,023 deliveries. The Model 3 and Model Y accounted for 467,762 deliveries, or […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Ford reported a 10.3% decline in US new vehicle sales for the second quarter, selling 549,200 vehicles compared with 612,095 a year earlier. Pure EV sales plunged 40.7% year on year. F-Series truck sales, including the F-150, fell 11% after Ford’s top aluminium supplier suffered two factory fires late last year that disrupted production. Ford […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The venture is focused on delivering enterprise AI deployments using Microsoft’s existing tools, with early partnerships including the London Stock Exchange Group, Unilever, Land O’Lakes, and Accenture. Commercial Business CEO Judson […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Lucid Motors said on Thursday that its chief financial officer, Taoufiq Boussaid, will be leaving the company, the latest in a series of leadership changes under new CEO Silvio Napoli. Alexander De Bock, a veteran automotive finance executive who previously served as CFO of TI Automotive, will replace Boussaid after a transition period that will […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Kling AI, the video generation unit of Chinese tech company Kuaishou, has raised an initial two billion dollars in venture capital funding, the company said on Thursday. Further investors could still join the round, potentially pushing the total to roughly three billion dollars and diluting Kuaishou’s stake to about 68 percent, according to Kuaishou’s statement. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A former software manager at Wisk Aero, Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary, has filed a lawsuit alleging she was fired after raising internal safety concerns about reduced software testing, the Seattle Times first reported. Briahna O’Neill filed the suit in Santa Clara Superior Court, claiming wrongful termination and discrimination. According to the complaint, O’Neill submitted […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to explore manufacturing a custom AI chip, The Information reported on Thursday. The project remains at an early stage, and Anthropic has not yet decided what the chip would be used for, how powerful it would be, or how it would fit into a server, according to the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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