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[Sponsor] Day One Journal
Day One recognizes that many people struggle with journaling not because they can’t write, but because they don’t know how to begin or what a “good” journal entry about their day looks like. That’s why we built Daily Chat, a guided reflection experience that helps you talk throug…
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The AI jobs debate just got messier
A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the rhetoric that AI kills junior jobs.
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How the U.S. Engineered Its Sovereignty
In 1839, J.M.W. Turner painted The Fighting Temeraire. The old warship, once a hero of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, glides like a ghost across the canvas, towed by a small steam tug belching smoke on its final voyage to the ship-breakers. The image shows a clear moment of cha…
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Agent confidence on the technical frontier
Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and technology leaders are looking to agentic AI to drive the meas…
MIT Technology Review
Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users
Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.
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The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings
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. The inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more that it can obscure or corrupt. …
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Why Kunlun Chip Demands 'Bundled' Chip Procurement from Investors Before Its IPO
Baidu's AI chip subsidiary Kunlun Chip is requiring IPO investors to commit to chip purchases ahead of its listing, a strategy reflecting both confidence and market dynamics in China's AI semiconductor race.
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China’s cooling, e-commerce giants see sales surge as scorched Europe scrambles for relief
A heatwave sweeping across Europe has triggered a massive surge in sales for Chinese home appliances, with e-commerce giant Alibaba recording triple-digit growth for air conditioners and fans on its overseas platforms. On AliExpress, Alibaba’s international retail site, the June …
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It's Not Just Phones — Even Routers Are Getting More Expensive Due to the Chip Shortage
The AI-driven DRAM shortage is rippling beyond smartphones to routers, smart home devices, and consumer electronics as HBM production consumes memory manufacturing capacity.
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Apple questions credibility of India’s App Store antitrust probe, alleges watchdog copied rivals’ claims: Report
Apple has intensified its legal battle with India’s antitrust regulator, accusing the… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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OpenAI’s Broadcom chip shows Big Tech is moving beyond Nvidia, and the timing matters more than any single chip announcement
The hyperscalers are quietly dismantling the architecture of their own dependency.
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CXMT and Tencent reportedly reach $2.94 billion DRAM supply agreement
According to a Reuters report, Chinese DRAM maker CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) has signed a long-term supply agreement worth more than RMB 20 billion ($2.94 billion) with Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings, ahead of CXMT’s planned listing on Shanghai’s STAR Market. Ci…
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Crunchbase Data: Q2 Brought The Most Billion-Dollar Startup Exits Since 2021
Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more are now more numerous than at any point since the 2021 market peak, Crunchbase data shows. The trend we’re seeing for the second quarter of 2026 includes both the largest venture-backed exit of all time and a bevy of other comparatively…
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Simon Says… Buy This OpenAI Mechanical Keyboard Thingy
It's a collaboration between OpenAI and Work Louder. It does something or other with Codex.
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Watch out, Amazon: The Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival
Kobo users can now automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph, making it easier to track books, reading stats, and challenges without relying on Amazon’s Goodreads.
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US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
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The Terrifying 2011-Era Case of Max Planck’s Retracted Papers
In the world of scientific publishing there are many reasons why a paper can be retracted, but generally there is an obvious and clearly communicated reason for doing so. Thus …read more
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Making a Magnetic Core Memory USB Drive
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European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage
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South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots
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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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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.
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.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
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