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The Argentina v. France final of the 2022 Men’s World Cup in Qatar was shaping up to be one of the most epic games in soccer history. With just 12 minutes remaining in the extra time added to the game to break a tie, the referee had a critical decision to make—and fast. Lionel Me…

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Anthropic launches Claude Tag, replacing its Slack app with a persistent AI teammate that learns, monitors and works autonomously

Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Tag, a new product that embeds its most advanced AI model directly inside Slack as a persistent, shared teammate that anyone on a team can delegate work to by simply typing @Claude. The product, available today in beta for Claude Enterprise an…

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Stand Up for Research, Innovation, and Education

Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for: America’s scientific and technological leadership Merit-based admissions and affordable education Advances that increase US health, security, and prosperity Our community is standing up for MIT and its mission to se…

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Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.

After betting the firm on Anthropic, Menlo Ventures raises victorious $3B fund

Menlo has created a solid rep for itself as an AI investor, all based on one gutsy $750 million move in 2024.

The Talk Show: ‘Perp Walk for Selfies’

Jason Snell returns to the show for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, his and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast. Sponsored by: Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free daily greens, with co…

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Baidu Unveils Unlimited-OCR: Constant KV Cache Delivers SOTA Performance on Long Documents

Baidu Unveils Unlimited-OCR: Constant KV Cache Delivers SOTA Performance on Long Documents

DeepSeek’s Harness team races to recruit talent in booming AI agent market

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek is rapidly expanding its new Harness team as it pushes itself into the booming AI agent market, joining the high-stakes global race to transform foundational language models into fully autonomous products. Cui Tianyi, the former J…

ECARX’s $266 million Flyme deal: a high-priced bet yet to be proven

On Monday, Nasdaq-listed ECARX announced a full acquisition of Flyme’s software business from Xingji Meizu for RMB 1.8 billion ($266 million). The deal is structured through Hubei Qiguang Technology, a newly established entity spun off from Xingji Meizu, and includes the Flyme Au…

[Update] Turtlemint IPO Closes With 1.2X Oversubscription

Update | June 23, 20:48 IST The IPO of Turtlemint closed with 1.2X oversubscription. The public issue received bids for…

US Anthropic ban is best advert for Chinese AI

Bankers working for JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong must have been miffed when they were shut off from using artificial intelligence (AI) models from Anthropic, a pioneering American firm in the field. Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase pulled the plug in April and la…

Meta is developing a prediction markets app under the project name ‘Arena’: Report

Meta is reportedly preparing to enter the fast-growing prediction markets industry with… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Enterprise-grade AI image generation in 2 seconds is here: Krea 2 Raw and Turbo available as open weights under custom license

While many enterprises have already begun integrating AI-generated images, visuals, graphics and videos into their production workflows — there is also a growing pool of data and subjective commentary indicating AI imagery ultimately looks non-distinct, monotonous, and too unorig…

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Ultra-Wide 0.5× Lenses Have Utility Beyond ‘Photography’

Some follow-up thoughts on my earlier piece, regarding the second-gen iPhone Air’s additional camera lens being a 0.5× ultra-wide, not a 3× or 4× telephoto: Ultimately, it’s the fact that I use my 0.5× lens not so much for photography but for scanning documents and notes, and tak…

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Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero

Superhuman, which also has an AI detection tool as part of Grammarly, has snapped up GPTZero.

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AI-Native Leaders: The Organizational Playbook for Engineering Transformation at Scale

Individual gains do not become organizational gains on their own. This is the playbook for making that leap. Let’s dive in.

A BIOS For Your ESP32-C6

An old-style PC BIOS served the function of a bootloader in loading the operating system kernel, and of an API in providing a set of standard system calls through which …read more

Status Display Keeps Eye on Your Prusa Fleet

Whether you’ve been dragging an old MK2 or MK3 kicking and screaming into the present through the available upgrade paths, or recently picked up a CORE One, pretty much any …read more

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Linux Fu: Upcycling an Old Router

You’re wandering through a thrift store and spot an old router for ten bucks. Worthless, right? But in this case, it was a Google OnHub, which, at the time, was …read more

Lost confidence

RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without pretending to know the unknowable.

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Reviving MSN Messenger’s i-Buddy USB Accessory

Some of our esteemed readers were not yet out of diapers back in 2013 when Microsoft decided to put MSN Messenger out to pasture, but the memories that this instant …read more

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A Custom PCB for the Casio G-Shock

With the PCB fabrication services available to the modern hobbyist, it’s become increasingly common to see replacement boards designed for all sorts of devices. Even so, it’s sometimes still a …read more