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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * The Apple Upgrade Program lets you lease devices through Klarna for 24 or 36 months. * The device isn't yours to keep at the end of the term, unless you pay an additional fee.
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Claude Mythos entered the chat in April, and just a few short months later, it's hard to remember a time when Anthropic's frontier AI model didn't dominate cybersecurity discussions. Yet, plenty of unanswered questions about Mythos remain. In just a single month, Mythos reportedly
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Comcast on Monday announced Xfinity Shield, a home-security platform that taps into Xfinity Wi-Fi in new ways. It adds WiFi Motion, which uses compatible Xfinity Wi-Fi routers to detect movement in the home without cameras or dedicated motion sensors. WiFi Motion and other Shield features are available at no additional
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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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It’s back-to-school season, and Google is getting in on the academic action. The company announced on Wednesday that a dedicated student hub, featuring a suite of AI study tools, will now be available on its Gemini AI assistant and through Google Search. The dedicated study hub can be found
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Another day, another new AI agent harness is released. Only this time, it's one that aims to solve a growing enterprise problem as AI agents proliferate: enabling greater developer control of agents and tools, while reducing cost. TrueFoundry, a San Francisco B2B machine learning startup co-founded in 2021
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Stripe confirmed on Wednesday that it was buying OpenRouter. While the company didn’t disclose the deal price, sources told the New York Times that it paid $7.5 billion. That’s a huge step up from OpenRouter’s $1.3 billion valuation in May. To put that price in
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Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET 9.0 Pros & Cons * Emergency satellite connectivity * $350 (starting) price * Dual-band GPS * Hands-free Gemini voice assistant * Battery lasts just over 24 hours (41mm) * Screen is prone to scratches Editors’ note: The Pixel Watch 5 is now available starting at $400, $50 more than the Pixel
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SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about an acquisition, Bloomberg reports, and Cognition did not engage. Chief executive Scott Wu replied publicly that his company is “not for sale and we haven’t been talking.” SpaceX approached the AI coding company Cognition about buying it, according to Bloomberg, and Cognition
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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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We want faster and faster computers, and light is the fastest thing in the universe. Therefore, light-based computers should be awesome. Right? Not quite. Computing isn't always about data arriving fast. Sometimes it's about arriving on cue. We have learned how to force light to calm
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Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET 9.0 Pros & Cons * Emergency satellite connectivity * $350 (starting) price * Dual-band GPS * Hands-free Gemini voice assistant * Battery lasts just over 24 hours (41mm) * Screen is prone to scratches Editors’ note: The Pixel Watch 5 is now available starting at $400, $50 more than the Pixel
