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Let's answer the question in the headline right away: probably not. But it's worth thinking about why that might be the case, despite this being an interesting idea in some regards. Amid all the chatter about integrating AI into enterprise and productivity applications to get things
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Asia In brief PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more! China’s Cyberspace Administration last week published draft regulations governing the behavior of AI agents and suggested humans should always retain the ability to review decisions taken by software.
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Four years of Marketing Plus, four years of simplifying marketing operations — Why and how? Exactly
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Sam Rutherford for Engadget The idea of installing a software update on your fridge already feels kind of weird, let alone one centered around improving its AI capabilities. But that's exactly what's happening to Samsung's line of Bespoke refrigerators this week, and to my
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AI + ML Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease its computing burden, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical KETTLE We've been experimenting with LLMs for a while here at The Register, and if you ask our systems editor Tobias Mann and senior reporter
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Four years of Marketing Plus, four years of simplifying marketing operations — Why and how? Exactly
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There is a fundamental difference between a coder and a software engineer, and the rise of artificial intelligence has finally exposed exactly where that boundary lies. A coder is a translator. Their primary skill is taking a set of English requirements and converting them into machine-readable syntax. A software engineer,
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Community-led growth is a system-based approach where customers become the primary drivers of distribution, engagement, and retention through ongoing participation loops instead of traditional paid acquisition funnels. For years, growth was treated as a math problem. Increase spend → increase traffic → increase revenue. That model worked when attention was cheap and
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If you grew up on a diet of Terminator films, as I did, you’ve been conditioned and prepared to expect unstoppable machines. I remember seeing the T‑800 of 1984, and that was terrifying enough, and by the time we got Judgement Day in 1991, James Cameron had introduced
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Why the AI Race Is Quietly Becoming a Design War As a data engineer and system integrator, I used to think the toughest challenges lived in SQL, schemas, and pipelines. Lately, I’m convinced the real bottleneck has shifted in the AI race, design is becoming the new code. When
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3 months ago, I published an article here on HackerNoon. "680 Hours, 4 Rebuilds, and Getting Fired." It was about building a system monitor on a dying laptop during warehouse shifts in the Netherlands, getting fired 3 days before Christmas, and refusing to let the project die. That
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A hands-on look at long-horizon AI agents — and why this technology will matter whether you're running a Fortune 500 or a five-person startup. I tried something this past week. I wired up an AI agent — my local vLLM serving Nemotron-3 Nano Omni alongside a cloud-hosted GLM-5.1 — handed
