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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Seventy-three percent of tech job ads require AI skills. * Job seekers need to demonstrate their AI fluency. * Domain expertise remains crucial. More job descriptions than ever are soliciting AI skills, according to a new report
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Today's Picks Trending Stories OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman. By Maxwell Zeff Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression,
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TL;DR Spotify launched a conversational AI for Premium users in the US, Ireland, and Sweden. Users can talk or type to shape playback. Kids’ managed accounts expanded to free tier. Spotify launched a conversational AI feature that lets Premium users type or speak directly in the app to control
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Emergent’s vibe coding platform hit a $1.5bn valuation a year after launch. Its founder says most businesses do not need software, they need a way to turn how they work into it. “Most businesses don’t need any software. They need a way to turn how they actually
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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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In Brief 10:53 AM PDT · July 15, 2026 Amid rising consumer electronics prices and slow demand for new purchases, Android phone maker OnePlus plans to wind down its U.S. and Europe operations this week, according to a report from Bloomberg. The report cited a source saying that OnePlus’
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Suno data obtained in a hacking incident has exposed that the AI music generator was trained by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from online audio platforms, including YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius, 404 Media reports. Given that Suno has avoided revealing what’s in its training datasets and how
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Always AI's Fault: IBM took the unusual step of warning shareholders ahead of its financial results for the second quarter of 2026. Revenue is still growing slightly, but the industry's
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Geopolitical tensions are mounting, and nation states are employing new types of strategies to gain intelligence. A recent Five Eyes warning, for example, accused Chinese military intelligence officers of using professional networking sites and online job platforms to target individuals of interest. In this specific case, the agents pose as
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Google said it has made its largest solar power and battery storage purchase to date. The first two phases of the project, located in Arkansas, will generate enough electricity to power about 6% of the state’s peak demand, the company said earlier this week. Electricity from the project will
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Investment bank cites messy customer data and a product that 'just isn't there'; Salesforce counters by saying it the fastest-growing product in its history Salesforce’s flagship AI agent platform is struggling to convince customers of its value, according to an investment bank. The SaaS giant
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