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IFA 2026 is underway in Berlin, and the product announcements are already coming fast. The massive European tech show doesn’t officially open to the public until Friday, but press events began earlier this week, giving us an early look at the TVs, laptops, wearables, smart home gear and oddly
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There’s a lot you can make with a high-powered blender, from smoothies and salsa to hummus, pesto and nut butters. Yet while it takes no time at all to whip up tasty concoctions and dips, cleaning up afterward is a different story, especially if your blender pitcher isn’t
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ai and ml OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot After a brief training pause to reflect on the inadequacy of its AI security measures, OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, initially for those in its Trusted Access Program. Assuming all goes well and
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Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Channels with Peter
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Other Video Doorbells to Consider I've tested several other video doorbells. These are the ones that narrowly missed out on a place above. SwitchBot Smart Video Doorbell for $100: I don't love the design of this wide doorbell, but it does come with a wee display
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The new frontier model is particularly competent at agentic, computer-use tasks. Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images A little under two months after releasing its last major model family to the public, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, OpenAI is back with an entirely new one: GPT-6 Astra, what it claims
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6 min read Just now I’ve spent close to a decade watching this industry build conversational AI, first through Chatbots Life, then running the Chatbot Conference. In that time I’ve seen every flavor of “we built an AI” — most of which turned out to be a single prompt
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Oura, the smart ring maker, has filed to go public. The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday shows that Oura’s revenue has jumped substantially in the past year. The company went from $697 million in revenue during the nine-month period that ended June 30 last year
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AI AND ML When the moon is in the seventh house... The chief exec of Hugging Face says he wants to take the platform to 100 million users within the next few years, and Nvidia’s backing could help it get there, despite rejecting an investment offer from the chip
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A shared security 'Nightmare' The disgruntled security researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse (aka Chaotic Eclipse, Infinite Nightmare, and now also MSNightmare) is moving away from their singular Microsoft vendetta and on to other vendors. On Thursday, they dropped a new zero-day bug called FalconFlank that affects CrowdStrike’s
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AI and ML True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues OpenAI says its ChatGPT service is recovering from a limited outage this morning amid similar problems affecting SpaceX's Grok and Anthropic's Claude. It
