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They look like something from Teenage Engineering or IKEA. Mat Smith for Engadget Surprisingly, CMF (nor its sister brand Nothing) has only now tried its hand at portable speakers. Naturally, it had to do it differently and the result is two different speaker options, both shaped like cute, vivid milk
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There’s been a lot of concern voiced over recent months about how inter-dependent AI leaders financing models appear to be. As consultancy ISG noted earlier, this “circular financing” doesn’t look remotely healthy: The cloud providers are investing in the model companies, the model companies are committing significant portions
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SolarWinds, a leading provider of AI-powered observability, incident response, database management and ITSM software, today announced the launch of Avior™, a standalone, goal-oriented agentic AI system purpose built for mission-critical IT environments. Built on the SolarWinds platform, Avior will help IT teams securely define goals, coordinate specialized agents, and track
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India’s business landscape is undergoing unprecedented digital transformation driven by world-class public digital infrastructure, rapid cloud adoption, and a massive engineering ecosystem. Local enterprises are investing aggressively in Artificial Intelligence (AI), with 94% of Indian businesses participating in a Deloitte study expecting their AI spending to increase over the
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Right now, the SanDisk Desk Drive is the cheapest way to get fast storage at an affordable price in a compact form factor. Something you can carry around easily, making it particularly useful for professionals, creators and anyone looking to manage huge files (or large number of small files). SanDisk
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A bearing costs a few hundred dollars. The line it sits inside can cost far more every minute it stops. That asymmetry is the quiet economics of modern manufacturing. For India’s manufacturers, the stakes are rising in step with ambition. Make in India and the production-linked incentive schemes are
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Anthropic’s head of international told Bloomberg TV in Dublin that open alternatives to its models carry more risk by definition. That is a broader claim than the one Dario Amodei set out in July, when he wrote that open-weight models without dangerous capabilities are a public good. Anthropic’s
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Bumble has agreed to be acquired by Ithaca Holdings in an all-cash deal valuing the dating app at about $1.3 billion, the companies said on Tuesday. Ithaca will pay $6.05 per Bumble Class A share, about 138% more than the stock’s closing price on October 9, before
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Anthropic has opened an office in Singapore, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the government. Neither comes with a figure or a headcount. The memorandum covers AI safety, security and model evaluation, research on adoption, and responsible adoption across the public and private sectors, the
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A senior Microsoft cloud boss has asked team leaders to find ways to cut costs by at least 20%, The Information reported, citing people who know about the plans. We have not independently verified the report, and Microsoft disputes it. “Azure leadership has not directed teams to develop cost-cutting plans,
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The US Justice Department has charged 14 people over a North Korean job scam, announced on Tuesday. North Korean IT workers used stolen names to get remote jobs at more than 70 US firms. The workers earned about $3 million, which went to North Korean groups under US sanctions, prosecutors
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Britain’s online safety regulator, Ofcom, says it still has concerns about how well X removes illegal hate and terror content. This comes even though X is now reviewing these reports more quickly. In May, X promised to review posts reported through its UK illegal content tool within 24 hours
