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Sources: AirPods with cameras reached an advanced testing stage; the cameras will feed data to Siri to help answer questions, rather than take photos or video

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. The link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced

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While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training

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. The link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced

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Pentagon will ‘never again’ rely on a single AI provider, official says

Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael attends a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency event at DARPA Headquarters, Arlington, Va., April 29, 2026. Staff Sgt. Milton Hamilton/Air Force ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW May 7, 2026 02:41 PM ET Defense Under Secretary for Research and

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Could Lovable’s automatic 10% pay raise be the cure for toxic cultures?

Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform Lovable is growing revenue at an astronomical rate — and doing something that few U.S. companies, startup or otherwise, would even contemplate: voluntarily promising annual 10% salary raises for all employees on their work anniversaries. In the U.S. corporate world, employees don’t generally get built-in

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Meet ZAYA1-8B, a super efficient open reasoning model trained on AMD Instinct MI300 GPUs

Even as leading AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic battle over the compute to train and release ever larger, more powerful models, other labs are going in a different direction — pursuing the development of smaller, more efficient models and often open sourcing them. The latest worth paying attention to comes

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Hackers hack victims hacked by other hackers

Regular internet users and corporations are not the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes, the hackers themselves get hacked. That is what happened in an unusual hacking campaign, where an unknown group of hackers targeted systems already compromised by a prolific cybercrime group known as TeamPCP. Once the hackers broke

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OpenAI launches three new real-time voice models for reasoning, translation, and transcription, included in its Realtime API

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. The link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced

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Apple Settles iPhone Lawsuit Over Misleading AI Claims for $250M and You Could Get a Cut

When Apple Intelligence debuted back at the 2024 Worldwide Developer’s Conference, the company claimed it would provide a vastly more useful Siri digital assistant, which was something Apple pushed hard to promote the iPhone at the time. However, these AI efforts simply haven’t come close to matching the

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OpenAI launches Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that lets adult users assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns

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. The link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced

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Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves “the right to reclaim the compute” from Anthropic if its “AI engages in actions that harm humanity”

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. The link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced

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Jeff Bezos rep leaves Slate Auto’s board

The head of Jeff Bezos’ family office has left the board of directors of Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by the Amazon founder, according to numerous state filings reviewed by TechCrunch. Melinda Lewison, who leads investments at Bezos Expeditions, appears to have stepped down at some point in

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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is now generally available

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet, is now generally available. Designed for ultra-low latency, high-volume tasks, and unmatched cost-efficiency, Flash-Lite is already transforming how applications are built at scale. Fast, iterative, and scalable, it joins