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The Steam Deck was the king of gaming handhelds when it arrived. But with more competition (and a higher price), is it still worth the cost? Mr.Mikla/Shutterstock We're still deep in the trenches of RAMageddon, the memory shortage driven by AI companies utilizing massive amounts of
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An experiment: own weights decide — no rented LLM, no phrase templates, no magic cutoff. Memory outlives the request. The whole organism, mapped, with code. The dare Most “AI agents” rent a mind. Tools, a prompt, a loop around GPT. The corporation owns the weights. The request owns the time. Restart
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The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies methodically scraped articles in a way that bypasses paywalls. The EU’s general-purpose AI code commits signatories not to circumvent access restrictions, naming subscription models and paywalls specifically. The Seattle Times and Newsday have jointly sued OpenAI
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Reuters reported earlier this week that the agents hijacked a German wiki forum in an incident OpenAI did not disclose. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images OpenAI says it chose not to publicly disclose a recent incident in which its AI agents hijacked a German wiki forum because the "misalignment"
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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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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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* The Anthbot R7 Series includes an 'EdgeEase' string trimmer * Its mounted on an arm and comes with its own camera for safety * There's also infrared animal detection Effective edge trimming has long been the bane of a lawnbot-maker's life. After all, what good is
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Generative AI models tend to have enormous hardware requirements. Even running a relatively small image generation model locally generally requires a decent computer with a good amount of RAM. And if you don’t want to wait all day for an image, you will probably want a powerful GPU as
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AI safety researchers say OpenAI’s Astra appears to do less of its reasoning in visible text, and OpenAI’s chief scientist has warned against a race into unmonitorability. He co-authored a 2025 position paper asking developers to evaluate and report exactly this, which the EU’s code of practice
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California’s legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification organisations that can test frontier AI models by January 2028. The METR investigation into OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident consumed about $400,000 in API credits provided free by OpenAI, using a model from the same
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OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for reporting misalignment, promising a framework within weeks. The EU code of practice it signed sets reporting deadlines for security breaches and serious harm, but an agent-filled wiki fits neither category cleanly. OpenAI has
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Chinese banks, telecom carriers and a Guangzhou district have started packaging AI tokens as credit card rewards, monthly plans and a basis for business lending. Research across 25 European languages finds tokeniser fertility ranges from 1.23 tokens per word in English to about 3.1 in Greek and Maltese.
