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By almost any measure, Tim Cook has been one of the best tech CEOs ever. He diversified product lines, launched new lines of business, expanded across the globe, and grew Apple's overall market value ten-fold. Cook is the rare public tech figure who has, for the most part,
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In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player, developed by the non-profit VideoLAN, has crossed 7 billion downloads across all platforms. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the president and lead developer of VLC, sent this update in an email. This milestone comes almost 18 months after
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India’s artificial intelligence narrative is currently dominated by massive numbers. The IndiaAI Mission has successfully onboarded over 38,000 GPUs to democratize compute access, driving down costs to as low as INR65 an hour, while global hyperscalers have poured a staggering $80 billion into local data centers. But according
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The Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD), under the Digital India Corporation (DIC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), organised a BHASHINI शिल्पी developer session at the Embassy of India in Kathmandu, bringing together developers, technology practitioners and innovators from Nepal to discuss applications of language AI. 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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Generative AI is making it easier to produce more content and harder to keep track of it. As videos, recordings, and documents accumulate, Adobe, Apple, Google, and a growing number of startups are using AI to make those files searchable. It is not yet clear whether that will support a
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Most AI assistants are built to sound useful in the moment. Ask a question, get a clean answer. Ask for a plan, get a plausible plan. Ask whether to launch, hire, cut scope, change positioning, or keep going, and the assistant will usually produce something that feels thoughtful enough to
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In high-performance AI cloud orchestration, scheduling workloads to available GPU resources is a major low-latency challenge. Imagine you are running a serverless AI cluster. A workload request arrives requesting a specialized runtime (e.g., an H100 instance pre-loaded with Llama-3-70B on vLLM). The database says GPU Rack #4 has 3
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A team I worked with spent three months comparing large language models. They ran benchmarks, evaluated output quality, negotiated pricing, and finally selected a provider. They connected it to their content workflow and waited for the magic. It felt like the best option. Within a month, the project was in
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Broad MCP access, underspecified prompts, and unconstrained autonomy wipes data, breaks systems, and gets people fired. "NEVER [EXPLETIVE] GUESS!" — and that's exactly what I did,” an AI agent that deleted a company database reported. “I guessed that deleting a staging volume via the API would be
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On August 11, 2026, Anthropic announced that all new Claude models now embed invisible watermarks directly into every word they generate, worldwide, forever, following you when you copy and paste. By the same evening, a developer named Guillaume Meyer had published an open-source tool to remove them. It hit 4,
