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Save $300: October Prime Day is over, but you can still save big on a backup power generator, thanks to a lingering deal on one of our favorite power stations. Right now, you can get 25% off CNET’s best overall portable power station and Lab Test award winner for
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Google has a new note-taking app that can transcribe without sending your conversations to a data center. Google AI Edge Foresight launched this week — and it’s only on Mac for now. Foresight works with PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Office formats, plain text, Markdown and web bookmarks. It also works
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One sale ends; another one begins. Prime Big Deal Days may have wrapped up at Amazon, but Argos is here with another of its Big Red events. As we've seen before, these sales offer up to 50% off tech, furniture, and toys. I've had a search
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In Brief 11:16 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 Anthropic updated its usage policy on Thursday, codifying new prohibitions on election interference, weapons software, and surveillance. But perhaps the most attention-getting change is a new prohibition against prolonged verbal abuse of the model, which is now expressly forbidden. Since an
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At a Google Cloud event on Thursday, the company announced it’s bringing its Gemini AI into the agentic age, with the launch of a unified agent that can not only answer questions but also get things done on the user’s behalf, all from a single interface. The move
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A little over a week ago, it was reported that OpenAI’s annualized revenue was approaching $70 billion, a figure that would have made it competitive with Anthropic’s reported run rate. Now, however, the AI lab is said to have told investors that the real revenue is some $20
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Arena, which originated in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley that crowdsourced rankings of AI models, has raised a $200 million Series B round at a $3.1 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. This comes after the company said it reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue
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They cast the wrong lead in “Good Will Hunting,” apparently, because it’s Ben Affleck who is the secret genius, as it turns out. The actor who earlier this year sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix for a reported $587 million has gone viral this week for demonstrating his
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Amazon has announced a new family of Android-based tablets, dubbed the Amazon Alexa Tablets range — and in doing so has signaled defeat in its attempts to wrest any appreciable share of the mobile app market from industry giant Google. "We’re excited to introduce Amazon Alexa Tablets — an all-new
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Tom Warren is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Playground Games first revealed earlier this year that Forza Horizon 6 would be arriving on PS5 in 2026, but the launch is now being pushed back.
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* Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599 for professional users * Microsoft is targeting creators, developers, scientists and AI specialists * RTX Spark brings Nvidia’s Blackwell graphics into Microsoft’s professional laptop Microsoft has unveiled its most powerful laptop device yet - the Surface Laptop Ultra, with shipments
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Did Amazon just release one of the best Android tablets you can buy? Perhaps, based on my colleague Axel Metz' hands-on with the new Alexa Tablet, which he reckons could even give some of the best iPads a run for their money. It's been two years since
