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Last weekend the season finale of House of the Dragon ran for seventy-five minutes. I decided that was long enough to build an agentic chatbot. That was my goal. And I was determined to make it. So I watched the episode on one screen with a terminal open on the
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Two weeks. That’s how long I lasted. I signed up for Claude Pro with the same excitement I get every time a new tool shows up promising to make my day easier. And for about 5 days, it delivered. Then the honeymoon ended on a Tuesday, mid-task. First, the
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AI can make social media safer for kids by verifying age, detecting harmful content, redesigning recommendations around wellbeing instead of engagement, identifying harmful content patterns, and enabling independent algorithm audits. The goal isn't less technology. It's better technology designed for children. We spent two decades teaching
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NewsGuard is currently monitoring 3,749 AI-generated content farms across 16 languages. The figure was, as one would expect, smaller last month and will, of course, be greater next month. The main point is that it has definitely become cheap to publish large amounts of plausible text. The thing that
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The SEO industry can't agree on a name for what happens after an AI agent lands on your site. Some call it ASO, Agentic Search Optimization. Others call it ADO, Agentic Discoverability Optimization. Neither term is settled, and neither is a good pick. ASO already belongs to App
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An under six-month regulatory rollout, 8% budget utilisation and a forward-looking bet on programmable finance are giving Pakistan an unusually different global technology story. For decades, Pakistan’s global technology story has usually been framed around potential: a young population, a large digital workforce and strong adoption, but institutions struggling
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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For a deep and thorough way to brush and water-floss your teeth, the Dyson CameraJet offers a unique and effective solution. It includes a 100k pixel macro lens camera that can identify gaps between teeth in real time, to trigger a conical shaped jet spray to blast away plaque. The
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Dyson is once again expanding its line of personal care products with a device that focuses on your teeth instead
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Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning BORK! BORK!BORK! There was a time when catching a bus meant knowing how the local network worked: a dog-eared timetable or encyclopedic knowledge of routes and numbering systems was required before you even got
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Hyperscaler AI vendors have ambitious plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars, and, on some counts, trillions, on new AI data centers over the next five years. Constraints on energy, memory, and AI chips tend to grab the headlines. Yet these plans also come at a time of growing
