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Microsoft's PlayFab game services division said it is cutting prices for its networked player game services such as game chat and data comms.
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Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including âhundredsâ of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. Read more âș
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Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Hereâs how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. Read more âș
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Renee Nicole Good sat idling in her car Wednesday, observing an ongoing ICE operation. The 37-year-old then attempted to drive away, reportedly at the instruction of one federal agent on scene. In response, another ICE officer shot her to death. It is possible that we still lack some significant context for Goodâs killing. But her [âŠ] Read more âș
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The sanctioned government narrative of the Minneapolis shooting diverts wildly from video footage of the incident shared online. Read more âș
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Online detectives are inaccurately claiming to have identified the federal agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minnesota based on AI-manipulated images. Read more âș
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Shares of the large language model developer jumped more than 50 per cent on Friday Read more âș
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The events that led to a federal officer in Minneapolis killing Renee Nicole Good have not been universally interpreted. On a visit to Texas on Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the incident as an âact of domestic terrorism.â She said Good was attacking ICE officers and that she âattempted to run them over [âŠ] Read more âș
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In the fast-moving world of AI development, it is rare for a tool to be described as both "a meme" and AGI, artificial generalized intelligence, the "holy grail" of a model or system that can reliably outperform humans on economically valuable work. Yet, that is exactly where the Ralph Wiggum plugin for Claude Code now sits. Named after the infamously high-pitched, hapless yet persistent character on "The Simpsons," this newish... Read more âș
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Joining the ranks of a growing number of smaller, powerful reasoning models is MiroThinker 1.5 from MiroMind, with just 30 billion parameters, compared to the hundreds of billions or trillions used by leading foundation large language models (LLMs).But MiroThinker 1.5 stands out among these smaller reasoners for one major reason: it offers agentic research capabilities rivaling trillion-parameter competitors like Kimi K2 and DeepSeek, at a fraction of the inference cost.The... Read more âș
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For decades, we have adapted to software. We learned shell commands, memorized HTTP method names and wired together SDKs. Each interface assumed we would speak its language. In the 1980s, we typed 'grep', 'ssh' and 'ls' into a shell; by the mid-2000s, we were invoking REST endpoints like GET /users; by the 2010s, we imported SDKs (client.orders.list()) so we didnât have to think about HTTP. But underlying each of those... Read more âș
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Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems â trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest B200 graphics processors.The model, called NousCoder-14B, is another entry in a crowded field of AI coding assistants, but arrives at a particularly charged moment: Claude Code, the agentic... Read more âș
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xAI has launched Grok Business and Grok Enterprise, positioning its flagship AI assistant as a secure, team-ready platform for organizational use. These new tiers offer scalable access to Grokâs most advanced models â Grok 3, Grok 4, and Grok 4 Heavy, already among the most performant and most cost-effective models available in the world â backed by strong administrative controls, privacy guarantees, and a newly introduced premium isolation layer called... Read more âș
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A new study from researchers at Stanford University and Nvidia proposes a way for AI models to keep learning after deployment â without increasing inference costs. For enterprise agents that have to digest long docs, tickets, and logs, this is a bid to get âlong memoryâ without paying attention costs that grow with context length.The approach, called âEnd-to-End Test-Time Trainingâ (TTT-E2E), reframes language modeling as a continual learning problem: Instead... Read more âș
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The arms race to build smarter AI models has a measurement problem: the tests used to rank them are becoming obsolete almost as quickly as the models improve. On Monday, Artificial Analysis, an independent AI benchmarking organization whose rankings are closely watched by developers and enterprise buyers, released a major overhaul to its Intelligence Index that fundamentally changes how the industry measures AI progress.The new Intelligence Index v4.0 incorporates 10... Read more âș
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Nvidiaâs $20 billion strategic licensing deal with Groq represents one of the first clear moves in a four-front fight over the future AI stack. 2026 is when that fight becomes obvious to enterprise builders.For the technical decision-makers we talk to every day â the people building the AI applications and the data pipelines that drive them â this deal is a signal that the era of the one-size-fits-all GPU as... Read more âș
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AI is evolving faster than our vocabulary for describing it. We may need a few new words. We have âcognitionâ for how a single mind thinks, but we don't have a word for what happens when human and machine intelligence work together to perceive, decide, create and act. Letâs call that process intelition. Intelition isnât a feature; itâs the organizing principle for the next wave of software where humans and... Read more âș
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When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen â it takes notes.For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. What began as a casual sharing of his personal terminal setup has spiraled into a viral manifesto on the future of software development, with industry... Read more âș
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