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Patreon CEO Jack Conte doesn’t believe ‘AI replaces humans,’ but says the technology has ‘fundamentally transformed the tech industry.’ by Emma Roth Jul 23, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC Image: The Verge Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and
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As artificial intelligence moves out of the cloud and into vehicles, robots, and industrial equipment, the processors powering those systems are being asked to do much more than traditional embedded chips ever could. They need to run complex AI models locally, drive high-resolution displays, and offer real-time hardware control, all
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TL;DR Xbox is testing ad-supported cloud game streaming. Amazon is integrating Luna into Prime Video for all Prime subscribers. Both are pivoting after years of low cloud gaming adoption. Microsoft and Amazon announced new cloud gaming strategies on the same day, each acknowledging in different ways that the category
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For twenty years, the deal between Google and the web was simple. Publishers let Google crawl their pages. Google sent readers back in return. That bargain is breaking. Reddit is the latest, and loudest, sign. Its shares fell about 9% on Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the
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TL;DR AMD will invest up to $5B in Anthropic and deploy 2GW of MI450 GPUs. Claude will accelerate ROCm development. First GW ships H1 2027. Anthropic already uses MI355X GPUs. AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday that commits AMD to invest up to $5 billion in
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Travis Kalanick is back, and Uber is helping to fund him. The founder Uber forced out in 2017 has raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, an industrial-AI and robotics company he has built in near-total stealth for years. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. Its co-founder Ben Horowitz is joining 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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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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My favorite interviews over the course of my career have involve people I'd never normally get the chance to speak to in everyday life. So far this year that's involved two former FBI agents, but Dr. Sarita Robinson — who you can see in Pompeii: Out of
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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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I unexpectedly spent a lot of time sick in hospitals and doctors’ offices this summer, so, as a reporter covering AI, I was well-prepared to stress-test the new version of ChatGPT Health. ChatGPT Health is a specialized experience inside the chatbot, designed with solid privacy restrictions and safety guardrails to
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: The number of app submissions to Apple's App Store has risen sharply in 2026, with almost 560,000 new apps reportedly added to the platform between January and June.
