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Rivian has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government in an attempt to claw back a “full refund” on tariffs it paid under President Trump’s “Liberation Day” taxes, which the Supreme Court later ruled unconstitutional. The automaker joins a long line of companies seeking such refunds. In April,
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Earlier this year, three leading LLMs, including OpenAI's GPT-5.2, took part in a test that showed all three had a willingness to start a nuclear war. One might have thought something like this would have made Congress take some sort of action. Fast forward to this week
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A huge debate is brewing in Silicon Valley over the proliferation of Chinese-made artificial intelligence tools, particularly “open-weight” AI systems that, by some measures, can compete with or even outperform some of the best US models. My WIRED colleague Hugo Lowell has written about the Trump administration’s internal debate
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* The RingConn Gen 3 is now available to buy * It offers features such as sleep apnea tracking, and up to 14 days of battery life * To celebrate, RingConn has entered a partnership with Warner Bros. The RingConn Gen 3 has arrived. After going up for pre-order in May earlier this
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* Windscribe said Bill C-22 won't change its privacy policies * The bill would require service providers to retain user metadata * Canada's Senate is set to discuss Bill C-22 in September A Reddit user recently put a blunt question to Windscribe: is paying for a Canada-based VPN a
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Midjourney, an AI lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star, according to Bloomberg. The deal terms were not disclosed. Co-Star, which reportedly has about 4.3 million monthly active users, is mostly used to help people determine their astrological birth
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As demand for local, privacy-focused artificial intelligence continues to surge, enterprise developers and researchers are searching for hardware capable of running heavy Large Language Models (LLMs) without relying on potentially costly cloud APIs or power-hungry server racks. Enter MSI's new Pro Max Edge AI+, a mini PC that
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Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture cosmic 'bullets' streaming from V445 Puppis, a unique stellar explosion in the Milky Way firing clumps of gas into space at a blistering 20 million miles per hour. When V445 Puppis erupted in late 2000, it instantly stood out
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Digital manufacturing specialist HeyGears has launched a crowdfunding campaign for what it is positioning as the world's first desktop full-color 3D and ultraviolet (UV) printer: the HeyGears G1X. "Most desktop UV printers only print on surfaces or simple textures. They can't create 3D objects from
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Open hardware specialist MNT Research, the firm behind the Reform family of laptops and an upcoming ultra-compact desktop, has launched its latest device: a standalone version of the ortholinear keyboard and trackball originally designed for the Pocket Reform. "Equipped with a micro-optical trackball, the MNT Pocket Reform Standalone Keyboard
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Boox’s new Tile lineup will take on Xteink’s popular e-readers that are small enough to stick on the back of an iPhone
