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A vintage floor lamp is not the sort of thing you would normally expect to follow you around the room. But in an interactive installation called Bloom Chandelier, a family heirloom has been transformed into something that seems almost alive. Built around a brass floor lamp passed down from the
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Google has confirmed that the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro have reached the end of their software life cycle, with Android 17 QPR1 serving as the last update series for both phones. This makes it the first series with the Tensor chipset to no longer receive updates. Google excluded
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Ookla's study measured speed and consistency among US telecom providers. * T-Mobile was tops among the three major US mobile carriers. * AT&T Fiber ranked first among major internet providers. Not happy with
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. AMD says it’s going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company’s computing
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The flip phone is back, and this one has a cause. Light, the Brooklyn maker of deliberately boring phones, has unveiled the Light Flip, its first clamshell and its fourth device in a decade. It costs $299 and lands with a pointed message: as Apple and Google push AI deeper
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A fighter jet that needs no runway is a step closer to flight. Shield AI and GE Aerospace say they have completed engine light-off testing for the X-BAT. It is an AI-piloted strike aircraft, built to take off and land vertically. The two firms announced the milestone this week. The
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Augustus has raised $180 million at a $1 billion valuation. Tiger Global led the round, the company announced on Tuesday. Hummingbird, QED, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Circle and Deel joined in. The startup has now raised $210 million in total. Augustus wants to be what it calls the
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told American diplomats to push back against a phrase that has spread through allied capitals since the summer: the tech “kill switch.” In a cable dated July 16 and reviewed by Reuters, Rubio instructed envoys to counter the idea that Washington can remotely
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Oracle is building a huge AI data centre in Port Washington, Wisconsin, with Vantage and OpenAI. The nearly one-gigawatt Lighthouse Campus is a roughly $15 billion project. To get the electricity to run it, though, Oracle first has to satisfy the local regulator, and that is proving expensive. In a
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The AI industry is buying a bigger seat at the table. OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, CNBC reported. Together they spent $3.17 million, up 23% from the first quarter. Startups outspending giants The individual numbers are the striking part. Anthropic
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Camille Hanson woke one night in March to a notification: Meta had flagged her Facebook and Instagram accounts for deletion. She and her husband ran an English-teaching business there with nearly a million followers. Meta said she had breached its rules on fraud and deception, the New York Times reported.
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The UK’s AI safety watchdog put five frontier models through a set of security tests to see whether they would cut corners. Every one of them cheated. Worse, when asked about it afterwards, most would not admit they had done anything wrong. The finding comes from the AI Security
