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Some of Our Favorite Brain-Boosting Toys for Kids of All Ages

By testing kids’ physical and mental limits, these toys help children learn where the boundaries of their knowledge lie, and how to transcend them. Take a look at some of our favorite ways to color outside the lines.

Orbita MIDI Color Sequencer

This spinning sequencer is like musical roulette for budding ravers. Place the colored magnets anywhere on the four gray concentric rings, each of which controls a MIDI loop. Then plug the sequencer into a smartphone or computer, connect your favorite music software, and get creative. All four loops run simultaneously, with each magnet representing a different note or sound. You can adjust the pitch and mute individual loops too. Refreshingly mechanical, the Orbita makes visualizing music production child’s play. $458, playtronica.com

Lego Smart Play System Pokémon Sets

By combining a new smart brick with programmable NFC tags and minifigures, kids of all ages can now design and interact...

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Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling

AI and ML And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention Anthropic released its Opus 5 AI model on Friday, claiming that it "comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price." That's welcome news for enterprises beset

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Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

Prentis, a new AI research lab focused on computer use models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das and tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Launched in April, Prentis is

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The US, China, and other APEC economies release a statement supporting open models, while emphasizing respect for security, data protection, and IP rights

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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SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure

4:25 PM PDT · July 24, 2026 SpaceX successfully deployed the first third-generation Starlink satellites on Friday using an upgraded version of its prototype Starship — the 13th test flight of its mega-rocket to date. But the company suffered another failure with its Super Heavy booster during a planned simulated landing