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Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door

warning: may contain V8-like sounds

The 0–60 time is impressive, the miles/kWh number even more so.

This is the new Mercedes-AMG GT 63 4-Door Coupé, and this time it's entirely electric. Credit: Mercedes-AMG

At a star-studded event that closed downtown Los Angeles’ Sixth Street Viaduct last night, Mercedes and AMG unveiled the next generation of performance electric vehicles. The new four-door GT Coupe arrives in the midst of a pivotal period, the result of an almost experimental process that seems to take two steps forward and one step back quite regularly. In many ways, the all-electric AMG leaves previous plans in the past by effectively bringing the record-setting Concept AMG GT XX to series production, with many firsts for Mercedes supporting the abandonment of internal combustion power, including new axial motors from YASA and F1-derived battery cells.

Fittingly, then, Mercedes brought out its F1 team’s personnel, as George Russell presented...

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OpenAI wants upfront cash for guaranteed AI capacity

AI + ML OpenAI floats buy-before-your-try AI availability guarantee Nice AI workloads you have going, it'd be a shame we ran out of stock OpenAI is now offering its customers a guarantee that it will actually provide the service it's selling if customers need more AI sauce.

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Intel's CEO reveals early hiring challenges as bankruptcy concerns deterred top talent

When Lip-Bu Tan took over as Intel CEO, the company's balance sheet was so dire that potential recruits turned him down flat, worried they'd be joining a chipmaker on the verge of going bust. Speaking at the JP Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference on

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Even Claude agrees: hole in its sandbox was real and dangerous

Another day, another AI bug silently fixed with no CVE and no public disclosure Two now-patched bypass bugs in Claude Code’s network sandbox put users at risk, and one of these allows baddies to send anything inside the sandbox - credentials, source code, other private data - to any

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Masters of the Universe final trailer brings the '80s nostalgia

The first trailer dropped in January and gave us He-Man’s origin story. When he was 10 years old, Adam Glenn, prince of Eternia and our future He-Man, crash-landed on Earth—the home planet of his ex-astronaut mother, Queen Marlena, who sent him there for protection from the forces of

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