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Synaptics’ Astra SR200 chips bring Google Coral NPU technology to smart glasses, cameras, and other edge AI devices. Image generated by ChatGPT. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships. This might affect product placement on our site, but not the content of our reviews. See our Terms
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ChatGPT can now do more than tell you what to do online; it can take over parts of the work itself. OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT’s integration with Google Chrome, allowing the assistant to use information from open tabs and, through Work mode, interact with webpages to perform tasks such
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We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships. This might affect product placement on our site, but not the content of our reviews. See our Terms of Use for details. Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 laptops, but getting the operating system to boot is only part
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Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM that generates 1,068 tokens per second. Image: Inception Delays add up when an AI agent needs multiple model calls to complete a task. Inception introduced Mercury 3 on Oct. 19, claiming faster text generation and competitive benchmark performance against models from OpenAI
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Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599.99, making it one of the company’s most expensive laptops. Its biggest selling point is something most conventional laptops cannot offer: up to 128GB of unified memory designed to support demanding AI workloads. Announced in October 2026, the Surface Laptop
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AI models that have a pro-China lean may systematically generate more vulnerable code when writing applications for Western organizations, cybersecurity firm Hirundo has discovered. The fact that geopolitical triggers lead to more vulnerable code being produced by Chinese AI is not new: CrowdStrike reached a similar conclusion in November 2025,
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These days, you hear it everywhere—especially when someone reviews your proposal, evaluates your draft, or critiques your article: “Ohhh! It was made by AI! I knew it! I could do that too. Anyone can.” The dismissal arrives instantly. The assumption behind it is simple: if an AI contributed words
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In July 2026, Telegram began inviting some of its contest participants into a private Serverless test. The pitch is straightforward: put your bot's code and database on Telegram's infrastructure. On October 6, Mini App hosting joined the package, so the interface can live there too. I
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Power access is shaping where new campuses rise, when they come online, and the networks connecting them. In June 2024, construction began on the Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas. Within a year, its first two buildings had been energized. By September 2025, Crusoe said the site was running early training
