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ai and ml Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel In the United States, we usually protest datacenters peacefully - picket signs, council meeting comments, and all that - with mixed results. In the Netherlands, activists throw water balloons filled with an acidic mixture at
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Department of Energy Deputy CIO Bridget Carper Arnone speaks at the Government Executive Efficiency Summit on July 16, 2026. Zaid Hamid/Nextgov/FCW July 16, 2026 05:18 PM ET The agency is expanding an enterprise data platform to all department elements and increasingly using artificial intelligence in daily operations.
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Knowledge bases that ground agents and generative AI applications over your enterprise data are hard to build at scale. Teams typically stitch together connectors, parsers, vector stores, knowledge graphs, and retrieval logic, then operationalize all of it for production. Each piece brings its own challenges. You must decide which data
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Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup backed by Alibaba, on Thursday released Kimi K3 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter model that the company says is now the largest open-source AI model in the world, and one that benchmarks show performs neck-and-neck with the most powerful proprietary systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.
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U.S. beverage maker Coca Cola said one of its dairy subsidiaries was hacked and that it’s shutting down its operations for the foreseeable future. The multinational giant said in a disclosure with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its Fairlife dairy company was hit by ransomware
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Fear of explosive diarrhea seems to be scaring customers away from the purveyors of salad in business districts and strip malls across the US. On Sunday, July 11, as news of a massive cyclospora outbreak—possibly linked to contaminated lettuce—made headlines, traffic at Chop’t fell by 7.1
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TL;DR Cohen called physical game sales irrelevant on Bloomberg TV, said collectibles drive GameStop now, and kept steering back to his rejected eBay bid. GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen dismissed the decline of physical video game sales as “totally, totally irrelevant” to the company’s business in an interview on
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TL;DR Google is months behind on its flagship Gemini Pro upgrade as coding falls short, frustrating engineers who are leaving for Anthropic. Google is months behind schedule on delivering the next version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Pro, because the technology has fallen short of internal goals in
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TL;DR S&P cut Oracle to one notch above junk as its AI data-centre bet burns cash and bond investors price in the risk. S&P downgraded Oracle to BBB- on July 9, placing the company one notch above junk status, as a $250 billion data-centre expansion
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* A joint Insider/Der Spiegel/Le Monde investigation published leaked documents showing a Chinese-authored, three-level plan to contain and defeat Starlink * The plan, presented to Russian officers at a secret forum in 2023, highlights a three-level approach to contain and destroy SpaceX's Starlink * A separately signed June 2023
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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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