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Startup Founder Apologizes After Offering Interviews to People Who Got Tattoos
A LinkedIn post boasting about the stunt quickly sparked online backlash.
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AI price wars: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% as model competition shifts toward cost
To quote an ancient Jedi Master "Begun, the AI price wars have!" OpenAI is sharply reducing the prices of two models in its GPT-5.6 frontier series, cutting GPT-5.6 Luna, the smallest and fastest model in the series, by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra, the mid-tier model, by 20%, while add…
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Detect Dark Matter’s Mark From Your Backyard
If you’re wondering what dark matter is, you’re not alone. Astronomers don’t know. But they’ve determined that this invisible material must be far more abundant than the stars and nebulas that they can see. They’ve surmised as much from observing the gravitational effects of all …
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Mastercard spent decades training its fraud system to see bots as thieves. Now bots are the ones doing the buying.
Every time a Mastercard gets tapped, the network has less than a tenth of a second to judge how likely the purchase is to be fraudulent. It made that call across 175 billion transactions last year. Now the buyer on the other side of that judgment is starting to change, and Greg U…
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The Fix for Food Waste Comes With a Major Catch
Composting has incredible climate benefits, but implementing it nationwide could introduce a harmful pollutant to farmland, new research suggests.
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The lineage behind 69% of open models was never verified. Cisco just fingerprinted almost 900 for free
A security team approving an open-source model for production today starts with a repository page. The page lists the model name, the license, and a tag identifying the base model it descended from. That tag is a string the uploader typed. Hugging Face does not require uploaders …
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International tech
Ant Group spin-offs pursue independent growth with strategic capital moves
The three independent spin-offs of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group are accelerating their capital-raising efforts, forging distinct financial paths after gaining operational autonomy in 2024. Ant Digital Technologies is preparing a financing round ahead of its initial public offe…
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SEBI Rolls Out ‘GARUDA’ Framework To Expedite Fund Launches
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has released a new framework to simplify and expedite the launch of…
inc42.com
With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook
Governments can now deploy top-tier AI locally, bypassing costly U.S. cloud rentals.
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China’s top court finds patent lawsuits against Unitree Robotics malicious
China’s Supreme People’s Court has found that two patent lawsuits brought against Unitree Robotics over its Go2 and A2 robot dogs constituted malicious litigation. The cases concerned a patent titled “An Electronic Dog,” with the court ultimately rejecting the plaintiff’s infring…
technode.com
OpenAI is offering significant discounts on smaller models in bid to boost enterprise sales
ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has announced some of the most significant price cuts… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Sarvam Takes On Claude, Codex With Cheaper, India-Hosted Coding Agent
Amid the string of announcements made during its Epoch 2026 conference, AI unicorn Sarvam unveiled a new AI coding agent…
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A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication
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How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.
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Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
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Fixing a JMicron-Based M.2 USB Enclosure That Stopped Working
As useful as USB-to-M.2 SSD adapters are, sometimes you come across a bit of a dud. A case in point is the Orico-branded TCM2-C3 that features both an attractive clear …read more
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