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For years, manufacturers have invested billions of dollars in automation, software, sensors, cloud platforms, and now AI (artificial intelligence). Yet many are still asking the same question: Why is digital transformation taking so long? The answer might just be a lack of interoperability. That message came through loud and clear
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * If you want a gorgeous GNOME desktop, install Aura Glass. * This glassy desktop can be installed on GNOME 48, 49, and 50. * Aura Glass is supported on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and CachyOS. I love
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Dive Brief A lack of clarity on organizations’ AI policies and trainings are compounding employee concerns about the technology, a SurveyMonkey and CNBC survey found. Published Aug. 18, 2026 Dive Brief: * Employees and students preparing to enter the job market report time-saving benefits from using AI, but some fear 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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Wesley Lapointe for The Washington Post via Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 18, 2026 04:00 PM ET A health data sharing superhighway “allows SSA to access complete, structured medical records within seconds or minutes for claimants, helping to significantly reduce disability claim processing times,” an
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Robin Williams’ children are taking over their father’s Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI
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Google is launching Gemini in Chrome for Android, the tech giant announced Tuesday. Originally teased back in May at the Google I/O conference, the AI features are now available on mobile, following their launch on the Chrome desktop browser earlier this year. Gemini in Chrome allows you to quickly
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its
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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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If you're up on the latest Intel leaks, you'll be well aware that the company's upcoming Nova Lake processors are expected to take the fight to AMD in a major way with Intel's own implementation of a 'big cache' design,
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Agents have evolved from simple chat applications to autonomous, long-running systems that dynamically discover and compose dozens of tools per task without human oversight. On the other side, service and content providers are moving from human-centric subscription-based, one-size-fits-all pricing to pay-per-use, per-execution models where costs are often a few cents.
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OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has halted “a significant number” of training workloads and evaluations for its forthcoming frontier artificial intelligence model—codenamed Astra—while it implements new procedures meant to address cybersecurity risks. The ChatGPT maker says it is introducing a number of new monitoring, security, and alignment requirements
