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TL;DR China’s National Vulnerability Database has flagged multiple versions of Anthropic’s Claude Code as containing a security “back door” that could send user locations and identifiers to remote servers without consent. Anthropic says the code was an experiment to stop illicit model distillation, and that its policy
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TL;DR US lawmakers introduced a cluster of AI bills in the days around 4 July, pulling in two directions at once. Some would deploy AI for paediatric cancer research, tax-fraud detection, border surveillance, and federal prize challenges. Others would restrain it, with mandatory chatbot safeguards for minors, metadata labelling
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TL;DR OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 release (Sol, Terra, Luna) is winning praise from users in mainland China who reach the blocked service via VPNs, despite costing several times more per token than Zhipu’s GLM-5.2 or DeepSeek V4. Their argument is that per-token pricing is the wrong metric:
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TL;DR A Verasight survey of 1,690 US adults found 69% support forcing AI companies to transfer 50% of their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund, the policy at the heart of Bernie Sanders’s American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. The shift tracks a labour market where
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TL;DR AI executives insist demand is “almost unlimited”, with Pat Gelsinger naming energy as the only real limiter and Lumentum reporting products sold out five years ahead. Yet chip and data-centre stocks keep lurching, because a ~60% year-to-date rally in the PHLX chip index prices in flawless execution: Samsung
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The most visible race in brain-computer interfaces involves surgery. But one of China’s most valuable neurotech firms is deliberately not competing in it, CNBC reports. BrainCo, based in Hangzhou, builds devices that read the brain from outside the skull. Headbands and caps pick up electrical signals through the scalp,
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TL;DR Amazon has cut more than 57,000 corporate jobs since 2022, about 16% of that workforce, including roughly 16,000 in late January and 14,000 three months before. Laid-off staff have landed in a saturated market where searches that once took four months now stretch to twelve
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TL;DR The assumption that the biggest AI model wins is breaking down, with enterprises now choosing models by task, cost, and control rather than leaderboard rank. Driving it are model bills running to millions a month, the rise of model routing, and specialised task-specific agents, which Gartner expects in
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Highly anticipated: CUDA has become so embedded in high-performance computing that most developers treat it as inseparable from Nvidia hardware. A small London startup is trying to change that by making CUDA code run
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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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Brad Bourque Brad Bourque is a tech journalist and commerce writer based out of Portland, Oregon. He’s contributed to sites like Digital Trends, Business Insider, and WIRED. SteelSeries has the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless gaming headset on sale for $239.99 (currently between $300 and $350 at other retailers)
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The 8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller is an excellent alternative to the official Switch 2 N64 pad. It's got a more contemporary controller silhouette, ditching the charming yet awkward trident-like design of Nintendo's own. You won't find much use for it with modern titles thanks
