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Richard Sutton thinks the AI industry’s answer to running out of training data is a mistake, and he has picked a blunt word for it. “ That’s just a big mistake,” he said of the turn to synthetic data on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast, published on Tuesday
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Alphabet priced its first Australian dollar bond on Wednesday at A$5.5bn, about US$3.9bn, roughly 10% more than the market had pencilled in when the deal was trailed at the start of the week. It is the largest corporate bond sale ever done in the Australian market.
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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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The US this week announced charges against 17 members of the Iran-based company Mabna Institute for hacking into hundreds of organizations in the US and abroad. According to a 14-count superseding indictment, Mabna Institute was founded in 2013 to help universities and research organizations in the country steal non-Iranian scientific
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The most important aspect of the new ChatGPT for Teens feature will probably also annoy teenagers the most. If they ask it to do their homework for them, the chatbot is supposed to recognize it, and will instead steer the student toward figuring it out themselves rather than produce 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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ZDNET's key takeaways * The Hisense U8QG is available from 55-inch to 100-inch, with most models currently on sale. * It offers arresting HDR picture quality and brightness. * However, this set lacks some premium features like four HDMI ports and an ultra-thin frame. jun / 2025 Follow ZDNET: Add us as
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* Current iPhones could fall in value by 30% once new models launch * As such, owners should sell them now if they're planning to upgrade soon * You may be able to lock in a price now but keep using your phone until the iPhone 18 series lands If you
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Hope you didn't want to read those.Credit: Alexander Spatari/Getty Images Decades after becoming the internet's first major bookseller, Amazon is now buying rare books to scan and destroy them. It joins the likes of Google and Anthropic, which have reportedly been buying up physical
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The first commercial TVs were five to seven inches long and displayed grainy black-and-white pictures. Now, the best TVs can reach a whopping 98 inches (or more) and feature color technology that creates rich, realistic images with individual pixels, AI
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DataVita secures funding to expand datacenter capacity, while Dell brings some desks Datacenter operator DataVita has secured £300 million ($406 million) to expand its campus in Scotland's Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone, while Dell is moving into the area – albeit only into a regional office. The AI Growth Zone,
