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Big AI Had a Point When It Said It Needed to Be Told What Is Not Okay
We live squarely in the time the AI CEOs were warning us about.
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Expect Claude Fable 5 to Be Turned Back on in a Matter of Days, Report Says
Anthropic's most advanced publicly available AI model will reportedly be unleashed by the White House this coming week.
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Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI
Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.
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Here’s a Clue About SpaceX’s Actual Revenue-Generating Plans
It's mobile phone service.
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Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices, Drops High-End Storage Model From Lineup
Microsoft’s Xbox blog: Effective August 1, 2026, we will be updating prices worldwide. The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model. Last October, we increased XBOX console price by $20-…
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Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on
New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.
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Apologies online fail more often than apologies in person, and the reason has less to do with sincerity than with what digital distance removes from the conversation
Studies of organizational conflict have found that apologies delivered in person are perceived as more sincere and more effective at restoring trust than the same content delivered through text or email. Research into mediated communication points the same direction: the leaner t…
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MediaTek Emerges as Major Challenger in Optical Interconnect Chip Market
MediaTek enters the optical interconnect chip market with CPO technology and Micro LED optical solutions, challenging Broadcom and Marvell's duopoly in the AI data center optical chip sector.
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New-Age Tech Stocks: Meesho, Smartworks Rally; ideaForge, EaseMyTrip Tumble
It was a mixed week for new-age tech stocks, with 23 of the 57 stocks gaining in a range of…
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One European company owns Ray-Ban, Oakley, the shops that sell them and the insurer that pays for them, and the reason glasses are so expensive is not the secret 80 percent monopoly of internet legend but something quieter and much harder to break
Around 26.5 billion euros in revenue in 2024, about 200,000 employees, and a description, from its own lenders, as the most integrated group in the optical market. That is EssilorLuxottica, a French-Italian conglomerate that most shoppers have never heard of and yet encounter con…
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Many who were raised in the 1960s and 1970s learned to tell what kind of evening it would be from the weight of a parent’s footsteps in the hall, and 6 adult habits often trace straight back to that early watchfulness
She was nine years old, standing in the upstairs hallway of a house in 1973, listening. The front door had just opened. She could not yet see her father, but she did not need to. The keys went down on the hall table — softly tonight, not the way they sometimes went down — and ...…
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Apple requests US clearance to source chips from China’s blacklisted CXMT: Report
Apple is trying to get approval from the Trump administration to buy… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Requiem For Long Wave, As The BBC Goes Silent
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Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California
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IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
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Cramming a Mini-ITX Gaming PC into a 3D Printed Steam Machine Sized Case
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EP220: RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
RAG connects LLMs to your data and there are three different ways to do it.
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Bringing Swift To The Apple II
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Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
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Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)
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