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Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work

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The ultimate military-industrial complex nightmare? Ukraine preps drone-killing laser which can destroy targets 3 miles…

* Trident reportedly destroys reconnaissance drones from distances reaching 1.5 kilometers away * Ukrainian developers claim the laser weapon costs far less than Western systems * The Trident laser reportedly damages aircraft optics, electronics, and structural components effectively Ukrainian company Celebra Tech is putting the final touches on a Trident laser weapon

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AI IQ is here: a new site scores frontier AI models on the human IQ scale. The results are already dividing tech.

For decades, the IQ test has been one of the most familiar — and most contested — yardsticks for human intelligence. Now, a startup project called AI IQ is applying the same metaphor to artificial intelligence, assigning estimated intelligence quotients to more than 50 of the world's most powerful language

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I found an Easter egg that teases the next Dark Pictures game hidden within Directive 8020 — here's how to…

Contains spoilers forDirective 8020. At long last, Supermassive Games' new release, Directive 8020, is available to play, and there are plenty of things to explore. In our review, we described it as"Dark Pictures' most ambitious entry yet," due to the inclusion of many new features,

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Instagram Introduces Instants, Meta's New Private Photo Sharing App

Instagram has a new app called Instants that lets you share unedited photos with your closest friends that'll disappear once viewed. Sound familiar? Meta announced Instants on Wednesday, an Instagram-integrated tool that lets you photo dump to your mutual followers and friends. Instants won't let you

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Best Home Pet Cameras of 2026: Remote Check-In and Much More

Feeling separation anxiety from your pet when you're at work or away traveling? There's a high-tech answer for that in today's pet cameras -- they're a little like security cams, but specifically designed to watch over pets instead. That includes pet recognition,

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Ring Brings Its Retinal 2K Resolution to Spotlight and Floodlight Cameras

Ring announced security camera upgrades on Wednesday that add higher Retinal 2K resolution to its Ring Spotlight and Ring Floodlight models. These cameras now feature LED-powered panels for illuminating outdoor areas, with higher resolutions and two distinct designs. All other main Ring camera devices have already been upgraded to 2K

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Alexa Replaces Rufus as Amazon's AI Shopping Assistant

Why You Can Trust CNET Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement The new Alexa for Shopping feature can use data about the customer to help

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Anthropic butts in to small business, promises help with payroll and other core tasks

AI + ML But Pro or Max biz users should know that the company may train its AI on your data Anthropic is pushing into the small business space with a set of new plug-and-play tools designed for those without a tech team budget, but be warned: Depending on your Anthropic

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Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures

And neither AI nor international conflict are helping There's good news and bad news when it comes to datacenter uptime. According to a recent report from the Uptime Institute, bit barns have actually gotten more resilient over the past five years. However, the report suggests that those datacenter

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Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that'

Right-clicking could go the way of the 3.5-inch floppy at the Chocolate Factory Google doesn't design mouse traps, so it's trying to design a better mouse. Google DeepMind announced a research effort to transform the standard computer mouse cursor into a context-aware, AI-powered tool, marking

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AWS patched Quick auth bypass, says customers weren't using control

Most users put up with AWS the way you put up with the DMV. I say this with love, but it's hard to disagree that the UI is awful. The console is a UX time capsule if time capsules weren't allowed to ever look like other