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Several AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington debates how the U.S. should respond to allegations that Chinese AI labs are stealing intellectual property
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This post is co-written with Chris Dickens from OpenAI. Developers building agentic coding, long-horizon reasoning, and high-volume inference workloads want frontier models they can call through familiar APIs, without operating separate model infrastructure. OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. The three models
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Building a deep learning-based explainable next-best-product recommendation system helps banking institutions predict which product a customer needs next. Banks hold vast amounts of customer data, including transaction histories, product ownership records, demographic profiles, and behavioral patterns. Translating this data into actionable, personalized product recommendations remains a significant challenge. Traditional rule-based
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* Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says Sony's plan to end physical game disc production won't have a major impact on the industry * Guillemot says there are pros and cons to the decision * He says, "I think it will not disturb the industry too much" Ubisoft
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Hugging Face is probably not a name you'd heard before this week, but you likely caught the big news about OpenAI's model escaping its sandbox and to launch a cyberattack on the company. In short, Hugging Face — which is kind of like the equivalent of GitHub
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* Prime Video and Netflix are planning new AI-generated homepages * Netflix revealed its 'GenPage' tests ahead of a new Prime Video report * Viewers aren't convinced that homepages are moving in the right direction You're about to see a lot more generative AI in your streaming
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Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW July 24, 2026 11:25 AM ET The agreement merges Oracle's product and licensing services into one contract, which the Defense Department estimates will result in at least $441 million in savings. * Defense * Industry The Pentagon
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Amazon is folding its Luna cloud gaming platform directly into Prime Video, giving hundreds of millions of streaming subscribers instant access to playable games on their TVs and mobile devices. Can we get a free tier next? Previously, the company operated three largely disconnected divisions: Amazon Game Studios developing video
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AMD has officially unveiled the Zen 6 generation of Epyc server CPUs, codenamed Venice. Sporting a new socket and up to 256 Zen 6c cores, these new chips are going to be far faster than their predecessors, TechPowerUp reports. AMD even calls them the best CPUs for agentic AI, taking
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Many of us only open Meta’s original social media app to browse listings on Facebook Marketplace. Now, sellers are getting a new standalone app to help manage their listings, Meta announced on Friday. The app is called Seller, and it’s available now to download on iOS and Android.
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Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis has spent years convincing the world that artificial general intelligence will be one of humanity’s greatest achievements. His latest essay on X.com is no less gushing about AI in many ways: “This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Most Chromebooks ship with only 8GB of RAM, which is enough for some people, but certainly not enough for me. Multitaskers who
