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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. App Spotlight: Quo for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your
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During a Y Combinator event on Tuesday night, Sam Altman had what YC partner Tyler Bosmeny called a “mic drop moment.” Altman offered $2 million worth of OpenAI tokens to every startup in the current class in exchange for equity in the startup. In other words, he promised that OpenAI
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In Brief 2:29 PM PDT · May 20, 2026 Earlier this month, Anthropic surprised the AI world with a deal to buy 300 megawatts worth of compute — securing the entire output of the Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee. Turns out, compute at that scale isn’t cheap. Anthropic
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Loading the player… Slapping “AI” on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest for an eSports gamification loyalty startup without those two letters in the spotlight, it got us wondering how the conversation even
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This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewerVictoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. This week’s issue is a special early edition tied to The Verge’s Google I/O coverage. You can
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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. App Spotlight: Quo for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your
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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. App Spotlight: Quo for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your
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Less than a week after completing the largest tech IPO of 2026, Cerebras Systems is making its most aggressive play yet to dominate the fast-growing AI inference market. On Monday, the Sunnyvale-based chipmaker announced that it is now running Kimi K2.6 — a trillion-parameter open-weight model developed by Beijing-based Moonshot
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* Dolby AC-4 was the preferred codec of multiple audio pros * Better than existing Atmos audio without high bandwidth requirements * Peacock is upgrading but other streamers haven't announced any plans One of the biggest differences between streamed movies and 4K Blu-ray is the sound quality: even the most expensive
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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. App Spotlight: Quo for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your
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AI was front and center in nearly every announcement at Google I/O, but some features are more useful than others. 4 min read Google’s annual I/O developer conference, which kicked off on Tuesday in Mountain View, California, was full of announcements of new AI features, hardware and
