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11:32 AM PDT · July 16, 2026 OpenAI’s Sora may have shut down, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids that will allow you to
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Amidst the discussion around game preservation for Xbox and PlayStation gamers in the digital era, one Redditor has created a unique game cartridge system for Steam. The game cartridges are each individual SATA 2.5-inch 128GB SSD drives, which is generally enough to handle most modern games and their updates.
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* Russia moves closer to launching another wave of Rassvet communication satellites * Fresh launch notice points toward another important milestone for the Rassvet network * Russia plans hundreds of satellites to build an independent communications network A recent aviation notice suggests Russia is preparing to launch satellites for its Rassvet communications network
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Roblox announced Thursday a new feature called “Build,” allowing users to design games from their mobile devices using AI. The Build feature lets anyone turn simple text prompts into a basic game without any programming experience. For example, if a user types, “Let’s make a cozy adventure game set
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Whether you’re away for the afternoon or a few weeks, it’s great to be able to check in on your home or pets with a security camera. But what’s not so great is the thought that someone might be checking in on you without your knowledge when
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Could the price of this be the destruction of valuable scientific evidence?Credit: NASA It may sound counterintuitive, but it's actually fairly common in science: The act of investigating something can easily hinder our ability to do so again in the future. Take the Moon, for example. New
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TL;DR Sable raised $45 million from Sequoia and 8VC for Aidan, an AI that runs live product demos and replaces sales development workflows. Sable has raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC to build an AI system called Aidan that runs live product demonstrations, answers customer questions in
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The AI economy has run on a simple habit: rent a model from a big lab. Fireworks just raised $1.5bn to argue the opposite, that every company will build intelligence of its own. The Series D values the San Mateo startup at $17.5bn, it said. Atreides Management, Index
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TL;DR Xpeng launched the L03 across 65 markets with its own Turing AI chips and second-generation VLA driving system on every trim. Xpeng debuted the L03 on Wednesday in Munich, launching its most internationally ambitious electric vehicle simultaneously across 65 markets. The coupe-SUV is built around the company’s
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Most space-hardware startups raise money because they are burning it. SWISSto12 raised $70m while turning a profit, an unusual thing in the satellite business. The Swiss company closed the €61m round days after ESA member states put $84.8m into its HummingSat programme, it said. That is more than $150m
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TL;DR Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and expanding its cloud code execution features from Ultra-only to Pro subscribers. Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, folding one of its most popular AI products into the Gemini brand while keeping it as a standalone tool. The company said
