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TL;DR Google unveiled major Gemini app updates at I/O 2026, including a personalised Daily Brief digest, a Neural Expressive redesign, and a cloud-based AI agent called Spark. The app now has 900 million monthly users, and the new features position Gemini as a proactive assistant rather than a
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TL;DR US banking regulators are pausing some cyber examinations of the largest banks to give them time to address vulnerabilities exposed by Anthropic’s Mythos AI model. The Fed and OCC are letting institutions focus on patching flaws while conducting their own Mythos trials, as Wall Street mobilises hundreds
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TL;DR GitLab is cutting 7% of its workforce, reducing its country footprint by 30%, and flattening management layers in a sweeping restructuring for what CEO Bill Staples calls the “agentic era.” The company plans to reorganise R&D into 60 autonomous teams and deploy AI agents internally, while
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TL;DR H2O.ai has launched tabH2O, a foundation model for tabular data announced at Dell Technologies World 2026. The model uses in-context learning to deliver predictions from structured datasets via a single API call, eliminating traditional model training, feature engineering, and persistent data storage. It is pre-integrated into the
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TL;DR Discord has enabled end-to-end encryption for all voice and video calls by default, using its open-source DAVE protocol. The move means not even Discord can access call content, making it a major privacy win at a time when Meta and TikTok are moving away from encrypted messaging. Discord
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TL;DR OpenAI is joining the C2PA open standard and partnering with Google to embed invisible SynthID watermarks in its AI-generated images. The company is also previewing a public verification tool, though the measures only apply to OpenAI’s own products and will not affect imagery from other AI tools.
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Two of the biggest bottlenecks in aging research are deciding which genetic pathways to test and making sense of the vast data those experiments produce. Biologists Omar Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg are using Co-Scientist to help them blast through both. Their lab runs huge genetic screens that flip thousands of
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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At first, the winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 2026 enjoyed the envy of their peers. But since their works of fiction earned this distinction, these authors have found themselves facing harsh scrutiny from the literary community, with several accused of enlisting generative artificial intelligence to write
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I am dying to know how much money Plex is about to make the next six weeks charging people to stream their own video from their own homes. Today, it’s giving every prospective customer until July 1st to lock in a lifetime subscription at today’s rates — before it
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Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Tuesday's
