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This blog post is the third of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry. The first postset out the three decisions that systems
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* Analysis of more than 500,000 used EV battery tests reveals long-term health * The Hyundai Ioniq 5 emerges as one of the strongest performers * The study also reveals huge variation between individual cars A new study, which has looked at 500,000 independent EV battery health tests, has revealed which
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Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Channels with Peter
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Wordle fans, start marking your calendars for hump day. On Wednesday, the New York Times introduced a weekly drop of five to six new puzzles created by the newspaper’s puzzle constructors and editors. The new puzzles aren’t daily but will be released every Wednesday in a group and
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If you have handed over your driver’s license, passport, or other form of identity document to verify your information in the real world, like at a bar, a weed store, or when booking a car rental, there’s a good chance it’s now been stolen in a suspected
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Dell's Alienware gaming brand has emerged as one of the leading vendors catering to gamers looking for legitimately high-end displays with real gaming chops in the last several years. The firm's got three fancy new monitors for us to talk about, and you can actually buy
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In Brief 12:25 PM PDT · September 2, 2026 Delivery Hero’s board has signed off on Uber’s $15 billion takeover offer and recommended shareholders approve the deal, which would create one the largest on-demand food delivery platforms in the world. After reviewing the offer, Delivery Hero’s supervisory
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AI Agents can be incredibly useful, but their autonomous actions can be incredibly dangerous if not adequately controlled. Max Brin is developing a product he describes as an ‘AV for AI’. The analogy with antivirus can be a little confusing since this product is nothing like a traditional antivirus – but
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Wonderful has closed a $550M Series C at a $5B valuation led by Insight Partners with Salesforce participating, eighteen months after being founded and six months after a $150M round at $2B. Its press release is datelined Amsterdam while Israeli technology press covers it as an Israeli company. Wonderful has
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Circular has announced the Ring 3 Pro and Ring 3 Slim at IFA in Berlin, adding contactless payments and haptic alerts, with no price or release date given. The Pro’s ECG and atrial fibrillation detection is described as FDA cleared, and EU medical device rules require a separate conformity
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* Saildrone announced on 20th August that its Surveyor Unmanned Surface Vehicle fired two Lockheed JAGM missiles off Hawaii during RIMPAC 2026, the first missile launch from an unmanned USV * Fire control ran through the Navy's remotely operated ARES system with a carrier strike group, so the boat sailed
