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If you’ve ever tried asking Siri anything on your Apple Watch, you’ve probably been met with its all-too-familiar “Here’s what I found on the web” response. Happy to report, those days are finally coming to an end. I put both the old and the new version of
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Creators of AI-generated images on real estate sites have gained a powerful political enemy: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The city administration recently released a Rental Ripoff Report (PDF) based on testimony from 2,400 renters, with one section addressing the proliferation of fake or misleading listings that have
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Opus 5 targets coding, knowledge work, and agent workflows. * Anthropic says it uses fewer tokens for similar quality. * Developers get faster output and smarter tool controls. To the surprise of no one, Anthropic has released
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Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you
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Weeks after Anthropic’s latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 “comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5
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Shokz’ more affordable clip-style earbuds retain some of the charm of the pricier models upon which they're built, with a solid fit and good battery life, plus a very similar audio package too. You’ll miss some bells and whistles of higher-end open earbuds in this particular ear-cuff
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An apparent Indian government effort to remove GitHub repositories for Jack Dorsey’s offline Bluetooth-powered messaging app Bitchat has raised questions about the legal basis for targeting open-source software because of how it works. The issue with Bitchat came to light after Dorsey posted on X on Friday what he
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On Friday, Anthropic launched its Opus 5 model, the newest version of its long-standing heavyweight model. While smaller than Fable 5, the model will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases. Notably, Opus 5 actually outperforms Fable 5 on a number
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For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company as valuable as Google, he says, or he fails and ends up on the streets. He started coding at 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and cold-DM’ed
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet met with ZTE to deepen cooperation in digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI) PARTNER CONTENT: Focusing on 5G deployment, AI integration, and ICT talent development to drive the nation's digital transformation ZTE announced that Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet, Prime Minister of
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ai and ml Feature launches a day after lawsuit alleges chatbot advice contributed to near-fatal embolism OpenAI is expanding its healthcare footprint by encouraging users to connect Apple Health data and supported medical records to ChatGPT - one day after a user sued the company, alleging the chatbot's
