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‘Searching for SmarterChild’ Kickstarter
After reading my posts earlier today about ELIZA, the first “hit” chatbot from the 1960s, DF reader AP sent me a link to the Kickstarter page for Searching for SmarterChild, a project from documentary filmmakers Lindsey Sitz and Zan Gillies to make a movie about SmarterChild, an …
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Truecaller clashes with India’s telecom regulator over anti-spam rules
The caller ID company says users are increasingly ignoring and blocking calls from India's dedicated business number series.
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STEM Needs Leaders From Every Generation at the Table
Working in isolation, especially for leaders, is rapidly becoming an outmoded idea. The modern era is defined by rapid technological advancements and increasingly complex, collaborative global challenges. In this environment, leadership can no longer be approached as an individua…
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Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B
The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.
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OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice upgrade that lets ChatGPT talk more like a person
OpenAI on Wednesday launched GPT-Live, a pair of new voice models that fundamentally redesign how people talk to ChatGPT — replacing the company's existing Advanced Voice Mode with an architecture that can listen and speak simultaneously, much like an actual human conversation. T…
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The Download: worms fight pollution, and geoengineering faces reality
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a ra…
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General Intuition just raised $320M on a thesis that sounds absurd — that video game data, not real robot telemetry, will produce the GPT of embodied AI
General Intuition, a startup building what it describes as a foundation model for embodied AI, has raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation on the thesis that robotics is approaching the same inflection point language AI crossed with GPT-3. The company's approach — trainin…
siliconcanals.com
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first AI model built with Cursor, featuring advanced legal and finance capabilities
SpaceXAI has introduced Grok 4.5, its most advanced AI model to date… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Honasa Consumer Projects 30% YoY Growth In Q1 FY27
BPC major Mamaearth’s parent Honasa Consumer expects to post a 30% YoY growth in its operating revenue during the quarter…
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Apple’s iPhone Ultra initial China inventory estimated at around one million units
Apple’s first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Ultra, has entered mass production, according to supply chain sources. Foxconn has reportedly begun large-scale hiring to support production of the new device. Chinese tech blogger Dingjiao Digital said the first batch of inventory fo…
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People who wash a mug the moment they set it down aren’t tidier by nature — they’ve figured out, often without articulating it, that some small tasks get heavier the longer you leave them alone
Washing a mug the moment you set it down isn't about tidiness — it's a small, repeatable act of self-management that hijacks the brain's avoidance circuitry before it has a chance to fire. The psychology of why the tiniest completions carry disproportionate weight.
siliconcanals.com
Data centers should benefit the cities that power them
Cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America must ensure AI infrastructure development benefits local communities and leads to sustainable economic growth.
restofworld.org
SpaceX's Grok 4.5 launches at half the price of rivals — here's why that could rattle Anthropic and OpenAI
Elon Musk's SpaceX released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, the first artificial intelligence model the company has trained specifically for coding and autonomous agents — and the first tangible product of its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup Cursor, completed just weeks a…
venturebeat.com
‘PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR’ — Chatbot on Chatbot Action Circa 1973
Back in the primordial days of AI, PARRY was an ELIZA-style chatbot created by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby to simulate the words of a paranoid schizophrenic. Someone had the genius idea to connect it to ELIZA (a.k.a. “DOCTOR”). Vint Cerf published the transcript as an RFC in 1973,…
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Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said emergency scenes are not "edge cases."
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C64 Finally Gets the SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For
If you think RAM is expensive now, try putting yourselves in the shoes of a Commodore engineer, circa 1981. RAM was eye-wateringly expensive by modern standards, and Jack Tramiel wanted …read more
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An Analog Synth For The Modern World
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in less than a week. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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IBM Home Director: Home Automation in 1996
Back in the 1990s IBM had a pretty sizeable presence in the PC market, including its rather spiffy Aptiva series of PCs. Naturally their PCs had to feature heavily in …read more
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Die Casting Comes Home
You don’t normally think of die casting as something to do at home. Pressurized fluids demand respect at all times, which is perhaps in part why we see most projects …read more
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Pi 5 Becomes ALSA-Compatible TOSLINK Sound Card
This is one of those hacks that makes you stop in your tracks and say, “wait, you can do that!?” — before realizing, oh, yes, of course you can do …read more
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ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: How They Differ
In this article, we will look at the various architectural forks the teams building these models encountered and the decisions they took.
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The Agent Loop: How AI Goes From Answering Questions to Doing Things
In this article, we will walk through that progression. We will also look at how an agent is structured, what choices the model makes on every turn, what scaffolding holds it together, and when an agent is actually the right pattern to reach for.
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