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Microsoft is turning up the heat on OpenAI. Microsoft’s developer platform GitHub announced on Tuesday that its wildly popular GitHub Copilot tool—which previously relied entirely on OpenAI models—will now also incorporate AI models from Anthropic and Google. GitHub Copilot will be able to toggle between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, o1-preview, and o1-mini, the company said. The new development is striking given Microsoft’s long record of relying primarily on.
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Elon Musk's government "efficiency" initiative continues to be inefficient and stupid. Read more ›
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The Digital Marketing World Forum (DMWF) Asia is set to return to Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands on February 26-27, 2025, bringing together the region’s most influential marketing leaders for a deep dive into the future of digital marketing and technology. As AI reshapes the marketing landscape, this year’s forum places a special emphasis on AI... Read more » Read more ›
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The Famine Early Warning Systems Network is one of USAID’s most data-driven programs, but its work has been stalled by the Trump Administration. Read more ›
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The Tesla Cybertruck finally has its first crash safety rating over a year after deliveries first began in November 2023. And like all other Tesla vehicles before it, the electric truck scored a 5-star rating in nearly all the individual categories. The categories include frontal and side crashes, as well as risk of rollover. To […] Read more ›
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Hampton Dellinger, a federal official who President Donald Trump attempted to fire earlier this month, seems very likely to lose a lawsuit challenging that firing … eventually. But the Trump administration is impatient to make that happen as soon as possible, asking the Supreme Court to intervene in the lower court battle currently underway over […] Read more ›
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America’s beloved national parks face a problem that could, in a matter of weeks, grow into a full-blown crisis. The number of people visiting areas managed by the National Park Service — which includes national parks, monuments, and other sites — is way up. In 2023, the most recent year for national data, parks had […] Read more ›
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With the launch of the new iPhone 16e, Apple discontinued the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, and iPhone SE, eliminating the last two iPhone models that were equipped with a Lightning port. Apple no longer manufactures any iPhones with a Lightning port, and all models in the iPhone lineup feature USB-C. Apple does still sell refurbished iPhones that use Lightning, but its main website and retail locations only offer iPhones... Read more ›
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Apple never publicly advertises the amount of RAM included in iPhones, but MacRumors has confirmed that the iPhone 16e is equipped with 8GB of RAM. Given the iPhone 16e supports Apple Intelligence, it was widely expected that the device would have 8GB of RAM, as that is the minimum amount of memory required for Apple Intelligence. All other iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models also have 8GB of RAM,... Read more ›
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GameStop's Ryan Cohen has run out of reasons to explain the retail chain's decline. Read more ›
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In his opening speech as HHS Secretary, Kennedy announced his commission will investigate the childhood vaccine schedule as a culprit of chronic disease. Read more ›
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SpaceX engineers were said to be simply touring the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday. In fact, some were already being onboarded at the agency under a policy designed to increase “employment opportunities for people with disabilities.” Read more ›
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Daredevil: Born Again is coming March 4, and returns for Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist are also on the table. Read more ›
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Valve has made Team Fortress 2's full client and server code public, allowing fans to modify, extend, or rewrite the game as long as their projects remain non-commercial. Game Rant reports: Valve has made Team Fortress 2's server and client code fully public, with the studio encouraging fans to explore the game's files and make it what they want. The game's code is now available thanks to a new update... Read more ›
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Apple today shared a 12-minute video announcement for the iPhone 16e on its YouTube channel. Read our iPhone 16e announcement post for more details about the device, which is available to pre-order starting Friday at 5 a.m. Pacific Time.Related Roundup: iPhone 16eThis article, "Apple Shares 12-Minute Video Announcing the iPhone 16e" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums Read more ›
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The Trump administration claimed the Social Security Administration gives payments to dead people. SSA audits revealed it happens less than suspected. Read more ›
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Inexorable, overhyped, underappreciated: These are the seemingly mutually exclusive adjectives The Information’s readers use to describe cloud artificial intelligence in a recent survey (see methodology). The reason for these divergent opinions is the relatively early stage of cloud AI deployment, where success in cloud AI has not yet been fully defined, and the winners and losers have not yet emerged. Most of The Information’s 121 survey participants are still in... Read more ›
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Some of the biggest U.S. banks are muscling into crypto services for big funds, investors and traders, taking advantage of fast-loosening regulations under President Donald Trump to launch digital asset versions of businesses they have long dominated. For now, most of the action involves the business of custody, or safekeeping crypto on behalf of investors. State Street, one of the world’s biggest custody banks for stocks and bonds, is planning... Read more ›
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced chips for artificial intelligence, is considering whether to take a controlling stake in Intel’s chip manufacturing factories after Trump administration officials asked it to do so, according to a Bloomberg ... Read more ›
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Broadcom has joined TSMC in considering possible deals to buy part of Intel, the Wall Street Journal reported, the latest sign of the U.S. chipmaking icon’s steady decline. Last week officials within the Trump administration asked TSMC, which makes most of the world’s most advanced chips on ... Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence startups such as coding assistant Cursor and legal AI software-maker Harvey have become fundraising beasts, raising hundreds of millions of dollars in rounds just months apart. But some founders are bucking that trend, instead opting to “seed-strap” their businesses, using revenue to expand operations after an initial round of venture capital. This approach appeals to entrepreneurs who don’t want to cede much control to outside investors and are... Read more ›
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Apple continues to work with Baidu to develop artificial intelligence features for iPhone users in China even after onboarding new partner Alibaba Group, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Specifically, Baidu has been developing an AI-powered search feature that can ... Read more ›
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Over the past two years, the explosive growth of artificial intelligence has created a dilemma for tech behemoths: How can their data centers meet AI’s mind-boggling need for electricity without befouling the planet in the process? Amazon, for one, may have found an answer to that question 200 miles southeast of its headquarters, on a patch of sagebrush and tumbleweeds in Richland, Wash. A local public power agency, Energy Northwest,... Read more ›
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The model race continues. On Monday evening, Elon Musk’s xAI released a new family of large language models, Grok 3, which includes a baseline model, a smaller and faster version of the baseline model, and two “reasoning” models.Early reactions seem promising. Andrej Karpathy, one of the cofounders of OpenAI who left the company last year, said on X that the reasoning version of Grok 3 performs around the level of... Read more ›
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The question “What did Ilya see?” became an oft-repeated meme asking why OpenAI’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, cast a dramatic vote to oust Sam Altman in the short-lived ouster of the CEO 15 months ago. A significant fundraising that would value Sutskever’s new startup, Safe Superintelligence, at more than $30 billion turns that question on its head. The new money would make the company one of the 12 most valuable... Read more ›
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Oh, to be young again. That must be what folks at Google and Meta Platforms think when they look at the two digital-ad rocket ships of the past 12 months, AppLovin and Reddit. (Sure, Reddit is 20 years old, but it’s relatively new to the ad market.) That youth is demonstrated by how much their businesses, and their stocks, exploded last year.We got a taste of that on Wednesday, when... Read more ›
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