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In Brief 4:58 PM PDT · July 13, 2026 X has made a “tweak” to its algorithm to boost the visibility of posts to users’ “mutuals” — the people they follow who follow them back, head of product, Nikita Bier, said Monday. “We noticed this data was missing from the algo
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Singapore-based video generation startup PixVerse said today that it has closed its Series C extension, with a total of $439 million raised in the round. The company told TechCrunch that, with the new tranche of funding, its valuation has crossed over $2 billion. With the cash, the company aims to
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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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Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors at a $1.5 billion valuation, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. The company is raising at least
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All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Learn more. Summer is firmly here and the temperatures are feeling borderline apocalyptic in much of the northern hemisphere. Why not avoid the
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* QinetiQ testing of SuperDielectrics' water-based zinc cells showed up to 13x longer high-power cycle life, 100C discharge in 36 seconds, and zero thermal runaway * The company is pitching its solution to AI datacenters as a 'shock absorber' that can deal with power requirement spikes safely and reliably
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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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If you signed up for an Amazon Prime subscription, there's a good chance that you did it for one of two reasons: 1) the fast and free shipping or 2) the video streaming. It's OK. I'm "guilty" of it myself. But unless
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The update also expands Gemini-powered voice search and reporting -- though a new motorcycle mode skips the US for now. 3 min read Waze, Google's other navigation app, has announced a batch of updates this week that will make it "less chatty," encourage drivers to talk
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If you're on a grandfathered plan, it will soon be automatically forced onto a newer plan that could cost more. 4 min read T-Mobile customers who've been cruising along on old phone plans are about to be migrated to the carrier's latest plans, whether
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You can test Siri AI, faster performance and Apple's latest iPhone features months before the official release. 3 min read Apple released the first iOS 27 public beta on Monday, and if you have a compatible iPhone, you can download it right now and get an early look
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Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Monday'
