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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Scaling the AI agents in business is now a focus on accountability and governance. * Half of working hours may be reshaped by the use of AI agents. * Business accountability for AI agents will require humans
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: The fight over data centers is increasingly centered on what these facilities could mean for nearby residents' power bills, water supplies, and quality of life. New research suggests that opposition
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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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Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. The EPA plans to toss out a federal rule requiring public notice and an opportunity to
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Affinity by Canva is a new unified app that combines the former Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher applications into a single platform. Affinity gives you advanced photo editing, graphic design, and page layout tools under one roof. It includes highly requested features such as Image Trace, ePub support, mesh gradients,
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Right now, you can score the Nex Playground console for a nice 20% off. You can also get the Ring Indoor camera for over 40% off. Finally, you can grab the Anker Zolo power bank for almost 20% off, all at Amazon. I’ve been tracking the prices of tech
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This post is co-written with Vianney Bruned, Filippo Giruzzi, Belkiss Saidi, and Carlos Ramirez from Decathlon. Decathlon is one of the world’s largest sporting goods retailers, with more than 100,000 teammates and 400 million users worldwide. The company relies on accurate demand forecasting at scale to support the
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Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 on Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, and a bunch of other games after code for the AI upscaling tech appeared in an early-access build of NBA 2K27. Members of the RenoDX modding channel on Discord reportedly found a
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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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When Salesforce set out to make Agentforce (Salesforce’s AI foundation for agents) highly available (HA) across multiple Availability Zones (AZs), the team faced a gap. Amazon SageMaker AI Inference Components (ICs) could cut GPU costs, but their default placement didn’t guarantee the Multi-AZ resilience Salesforce’s compliance bar
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Enterprises trying to feed PDFs, slides and scanned documents into AI pipelines keep running into the same wall: the tools either miss the structure — tables, charts, layout — or cost too much to run at scale. Cohere released Parse 5 on Thursday, positioning it on price-to-performance, not raw accuracy — the right
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Andreessen Horowitz has closed a $1.1bn fund that will invest exclusively in hardware. The Machine Age Fund, announced on Friday, covers the physical layer artificial intelligence runs on, from chips to the buildings that house them. The mandate takes in chips, memory, networking and storage, and then keeps going.
