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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * The latest version of Claude Mythos has already advanced. * External researchers found that it achieved several firsts in testing. * AI capabilities may be improving much faster than anticipated. Anthropic's Claude Mythos, which the
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TL;DR Revolut is launching a private banking unit in the UK and Europe this summer with a £500,000 threshold, filling the mass-affluent gap left by Coutts’ £3 million minimum, as the £4.5 billion-revenue fintech assembles the product architecture of a universal bank ahead of a potential $200
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TL;DR HMRC has awarded a £175 million, ten-year AI contract to London-based Quantexa to detect tax fraud, fix errors, and close the £46.8 billion tax gap, marking a deliberate shift toward British AI sovereignty after more than £900 million in contracts with American firm Palantir across UK government
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TL;DR Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have sold seven million pairs and command 82% of the market, yet a mounting privacy crisis surrounds the product. Women are being secretly filmed in public with little legal recourse, Kenyan data workers reported reviewing graphic footage captured by the glasses, and two
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TL;DR Recursive Superintelligence, a startup founded by former leaders from Meta AI, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Salesforce AI, has emerged from stealth with $650 million in funding at a $4.65 billion valuation. Led by Richard Socher and co-founded by ex-Meta FAIR director Yuandong Tian, the company is pursuing
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* Product Finder * Smartphones Overview Pros/ConsReviewsPrice: $1,899 The Motorola Razr Fold may be the company's first book-style foldable, but its flip-phone prowess has clearly come in handy here. The phone is gorgeous and speedy, with surprisingly great cameras, especially when zooming. The price is a bit steep
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* Wordfence disclosed two flaws in Avada Builder, a WordPress plugin with around 1 million active installs * CVE‑2026‑4782 (Arbitrary File Read, medium severity) requires subscriber‑level access; CVE‑2026‑4798 (SQL injection, high severity) exploitable unauthenticated * Patches released in April and May 2026; users advised to update to v3.
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Arcade machines are large, heavy, and take up a lot of space. Even though they're fun and have a cool retro look, they can definitely feel out of place in people's homes. And that’s fair – not everyone wants their living room to look like a
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A fake job interview is now being used as bait to steal crypto wallets, browser credentials, and sensitive files from both Windows and macOS users. Researchers at Dr.Web say the malware campaign revolves around a trojan called JobStealer, which disguises itself as a video conferencing app during the hiring
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OpenAI's ChatGPT app for Mac just experienced a security breach involving two employee devices, according to a report by 9to5Mac. The company is issuing a software update to users that's rolling out now, but won't arrive for everyone until June 12. The why of
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This post was co-authored with Neevash Ramdial, Technical Marketing leader at Stream Building production-grade voice agents that feel natural and responsive is a complex engineering challenge. You must orchestrate speech-to-speech models, manage low-latency audio streaming, and handle connection lifecycle. You also need to deliver consistent experiences across web, mobile, and
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Improving bot accuracy in Amazon Lex starts with handling how customers communicate naturally. Your customers express the same request in dozens of different ways, combine multiple pieces of information in one sentence, and often speak ambiguously. The Assisted NLU (natural language understanding) feature in Amazon Lex helps you improve bot
