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Of Course ‘Widow’s Bay’ Is a Comedy, and Apple TV’s Head of Programming Knows It
The hit series just scored 19 Emmy nominations for making viewers scream with fright *and* laughter.
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AI has collapsed the cyber response window — resilience now starts before the attack
Presented by Rubrik Enterprise cybersecurity is facing a fundamental speed problem. Frontier AI models are now enabling autonomous attacks that can move from initial access to full system breakout in as little as 27 seconds. That’s faster than any human-operated security workflo…
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The ELIZA Archaeology Project
The ELIZA Archaeology Project: ELIZA is the original and highly influential chatbot that launched the genre of human-computer interactions using text-based agents. It was created at MIT in the 1960s as part of Project MAC by it’s [sic] designer and programmer, Joseph Weizenbaum. …
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Slack’s Slackbot can now pull your CRM data, generate charts, and send DocuSigns — all from a chat message.
Five years and $27.7 billion after Salesforce acquired Slack, the two products are finally starting to function as a single system. On Wednesday, Slack launched an integration that connects Slackbot — the personal AI agent built into every workspace — to the entire Salesforce pla…
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‘Dune: Part Three’ Had Its Very Own Psychedelic Film Unit
Director Denis Villeneuve talked about some of the French Canadian influences on his new film, out in December.
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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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DeepSeek and Zhipu AI Begin Self-Developing AI Chips — The Endgame Is No Longer Just Models
DeepSeek and Zhipu AI join OpenAI and Anthropic in developing custom inference chips, signaling a structural shift where leading AI labs pursue in-house silicon to cut costs and reduce GPU dependency.
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DeepSeek begins in-house AI chip development to cut reliance on NVIDIA, sources say
In recent years, as generative AI has shifted from model training toward large-scale inference, an increasing number of AI model developers have turned their attention to underlying hardware. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has launched an in-house AI chip project focused on inferenc…
technode.com
Milo Drive Bags $2.4 Mn To Scale Electric Mobility Platform
Electric mobility startup Milo Drive has raised $2.4 Mn (about ₹22.9 Cr) in a seed funding round co-led by Caret…
inc42.com
XAG Unveils Aerial and Ground Agricultural Robots for Fully Autonomous Crop Protection
XAG new X Series agricultural robots and RM80 mowing robot tackle the last mile of farm automation, from autonomous spraying to self-charging and mixing chemicals.
pandaily.com
Behind the Delivery Riders: Meituan Quietly Built a Trillion-Parameter AI Model
Meituan LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter model trained entirely on domestic AI chips, reveals how food delivery data is powering frontier AI research.
pandaily.com
Apple signs $30Bn Broadcom chip deal until 2031
Apple has announced a multi-year chip supply agreement worth more than $30… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Good Judgment Beats Good Prompts
2026.04 - "Judgement is the last human skill AI can't replace". Everyone is saying it. I am trying to understand it. I want you to get good at it. Let's get philosophical and practical.
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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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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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Linux Fu: The Local Phonebook
I’ll admit it: I miss the simplicity of /etc/hosts. There was something elegant about it. You wanted laserprinter to mean 192.168.1.40, so you opened a text file and wrote: 192.168.1.40 …read more
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 874: Really, We Do PDFs
This week Jonathan chats with Andrea Gallo about RISC-V! What does it mean for RISC-V to be an Open ISA? Where is RISC-V popping up, and what’s the new frontier? …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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Hacking Amazon Echo Show 8 3rd Gen via UART and eMMC
Even with Amazon’s Echo Show devices running Linux in the form of the Android-derived FireOS, using them for non-Amazon approved purposes can be a chore at best. In the case …read more
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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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This DIY Time Server is More Accurate Than You Need
You almost certainly don’t have an application for the sort of accurate timekeeping that’s made possible by this enhanced version of [Cristiano Monteiro]’s satellite-backed time server. By his own admission, …read more
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