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The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.

Three Players From the Japanese Men’s National Team vs. 100 School Children

I know there’s been a lot of exciting World Cup action this week, but this 2018 clip from Japan is the best soccer video I’ve seen a long while. ★

Roundtables: Longevity’s Next Frontier: “Reprogramming” Your Body

Listen to the session or watch below Billions of dollars are flooding into efforts to reverse aging as scientists explore ways to return cells to a younger state. But how far off are these experimental treatments? Will they really work? Watch a conversation exploring longevity’s …

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Google's Gemini Omni Flash hits the API, turning enterprise video production into a conversation

For most enterprises, a 90-second training video or a product explainer has never been an easy ask. It means a well planned brief, an internal film crew or an outside vendor, a shoot, an edit, and a round of revisions. Change one line of on-screen text due to a legal review and t…

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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 at a steep discount to its top model as the company races toward a blockbuster IPO

Anthropic today released Claude Sonnet 5, a new AI model that the company says delivers near-flagship performance at mid-tier prices — a move designed to give cost-conscious enterprise developers access to powerful agentic capabilities just as the San Francisco-based AI lab barre…

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Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip

Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.

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Too many options breed hesitation, regret, and less satisfaction in the end

I have a decision sitting open that I should have closed days ago. Before I get to that, the research is worth laying out, because it reframes what I thought was just my own quirk. Psychologist Barry Schwartz, in his 2004 book The Paradox of Choice, argued that past a certain poi…

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X launches hosted MCP server to offer easier integration for Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants

X has introduced a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, allowing AI… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Indian Startup Funding Slips 9% To $5.2 Bn In H1 2026

Despite persistent global macroeconomic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions, investor interest in the Indian startup ecosystem remained largely intact in the…

A wealthy Italian town spent 2024 cracking down on unapproved air conditioners while its mayor defended the rules as necessary to protect the view — and neighbors reporting neighbors became its own small scandal

Portofino is a village of fewer than 500 permanent residents on the Ligurian coast, roughly an hour southeast of Genoa. It is also, by most measures, one of the most recognisable places in Europe. A tight crescent of coral and ochre buildings around a harbour so precisely compose…

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DeepSeek to launch V4 in mid-July with new peak-time API pricing

The DeepSeek team announced on Monday that the official release of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled for mid-July. According to the company, the new version builds on the existing preview release with further feature enhancements and performance upgrades. It will come standard with a 1-mi…

Zhipu AI's Trillion Valuation Calls for a Market Rethink of MiniMax

China's two publicly listed AI model companies — Zhipu AI and MiniMax — now face a valuation gap exceeding 7x, raising critical questions about whether the mark...

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

A few hours ago, Chinese delivery app company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on GitHub, Hugging Face, and its native platform, unmasking the model as the computational engine behind "Owl Alpha," the anonymous stealth model that has spent the last two months commanding gl…

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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship in 6-3 Decision

Josh Marshall, writing at TPM (gift link): As you’ve seen, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of birthright citizenship by a 6 — or perhaps 5½ — vote margin. See Kate Riga’s report on the majority decision and Josh Kovensky’s piece on the dissenters’ goal of doing awa…

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★ The Supreme Court Rules That Law Enforcement’s Use of ‘Geofence Warrant’ Was a ‘Search’ (But May Be Moot, Technically, Since 2024)

Amy Howe, writing at the ever-excellent SCOTUSblog: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that when law enforcement officials used a “geofence warrant” — a warrant that instructed Google to provide location data for cellphone users who were near a particular place during a specific t…

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How Airspeed Sensors Work

When you’re driving your car, you’re probably regularly looking at the speedometer to make sure you comply with the local speed limits. The method by which it works is simple …read more

Microsoft’s Topological Quantum Computing Claims Once Again In Question

A central problem with the arguably overhyped field of quantum computing remains the difficulty in objectively ascertaining performance and new developments, as much here relies on indirect measurements. Such is …read more

Bite Into Strange Sounds With NOISFERATU

The NOISFERATU is an open source generative textural sound synthesizer, or as creator [Robert Heel] puts it, “a sound designer’s dream and audiophile’s worst nightmare”. NOISFERATU offers 45 different sound …read more

Retro Gear and the Mystery of Cables Melting Into Cases While in Storage

The phenomenon of cable-shaped indents in the plastic cases of retro systems is one that’s probably painfully familiar to many a collector of such systems. Although in these situations neither …read more

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How AI Agents Manage Memory and Avoid Forgetfulness

In this article, we will try to understand how that architecture gets built, from the constraint that forces it to exist all the way to the tradeoffs that follow.

Building a Micrometer-Level Displacement Sensor with 3D Printed Parts

Every experienced machinist knows the value of taking regular measurements. If one works carefully and checks dimensions frequently, it’s possible to make a part much more precise than could be …read more

Claude Sonnet 5

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