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TL;DR OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 release (Sol, Terra, Luna) is winning praise from users in mainland China who reach the blocked service via VPNs, despite costing several times more per token than Zhipu’s GLM-5.2 or DeepSeek V4. Their argument is that per-token pricing is the wrong metric:
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TL;DR A Verasight survey of 1,690 US adults found 69% support forcing AI companies to transfer 50% of their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund, the policy at the heart of Bernie Sanders’s American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. The shift tracks a labour market where
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TL;DR AI executives insist demand is “almost unlimited”, with Pat Gelsinger naming energy as the only real limiter and Lumentum reporting products sold out five years ahead. Yet chip and data-centre stocks keep lurching, because a ~60% year-to-date rally in the PHLX chip index prices in flawless execution: Samsung
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TL;DR Amazon has cut more than 57,000 corporate jobs since 2022, about 16% of that workforce, including roughly 16,000 in late January and 14,000 three months before. Laid-off staff have landed in a saturated market where searches that once took four months now stretch to twelve
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TL;DR The assumption that the biggest AI model wins is breaking down, with enterprises now choosing models by task, cost, and control rather than leaderboard rank. Driving it are model bills running to millions a month, the rise of model routing, and specialised task-specific agents, which Gartner expects in
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Highly anticipated: CUDA has become so embedded in high-performance computing that most developers treat it as inseparable from Nvidia hardware. A small London startup is trying to change that by making CUDA code run
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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. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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What’s new today GPT‑5.6 is generally available in Microsoft Foundry, alongside the Asia-Pacific Data Zone, and hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service. AI only creates value when it shows up in real systems—systems that are reliable, observable, and aligned to business outcomes. More than 100,000
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If you’re reading an Oura Ring 5 review at The Verge, you likely fall into one of two camps: newcomers looking for a smartwatch alternative, or Oura users pondering an upgrade. In the case of the former, this is a great casual health tracker and the best smart ring
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The PC gaming landscape has changed dramatically in the last handful of years. We've seen the slow and steady move away from native (purely rasterized) performance and onto the crutch of AI-powered upscaling technology. Whether Nvidia DLSS, Intel XeSS, or FSR 4, Multi-Frame Generation, or "fake frames&
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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the data center buildout, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepbackhere. How it started Years before the AI
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There's no mistaking the growing momentum behind small-scale, low-cost solar panel installations: panels you can plug into a standard wall outlet, without the expense, time, or paperwork of a full rooftop installation. Now widely established in Europe (where the tech is best known as 'balcony solar'
