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Save $20: Take advantage of this early Black Friday deal, and you can grab the SpeakOn AI communicator for just $109 rather than the usual $129. That’s a $20 discount available when you enter the discount code BFCM20 at checkout. As if that wasn’t enough of a deal,
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Apple recently launched its more powerful, but pricier 4th generation Apple TV 4K, with the ability to run the new and improved Siri AI. Now it appears as if the company is bringing the feature to older versions of the streaming box, going all the way back to the 2nd
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In Brief 11:37 AM PST · November 13, 2026 Agent management startup LangChainhas raised a $300 million Series C at a $3B valuation led by CapitalG, with participation from investors including Singapore’s GIC, DFJ Growth, IVP, and Sapphire Ventures, the company announced on Friday. That’s more than double
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Speech-to-text inference is computationally intensive. Each audio file triggers a pipeline of deep learning models (acoustic models, language models, and post-processing stages) running on NVIDIA GPUs to meet latency requirements. At scale, this means thousands of GPU instances running continuously. AssemblyAI needed a way to run GPU-intensive inference workloads cost-effectively
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In brief: Nintendo is once again trying to crack down on rampant piracy on the Switch. This time, the company is targeting GitHub by forcing the Microsoft-owned service to remove several pages hosting potentially
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Featured Podcasts Machine Gods: The 10 Biggest Losers from Jensen Huang's Fall + The METR Report That Scared Us The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future. Subscribe to Machine Gods. The
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This is for spending analysis and not for making purchases. Google just announced that Gemini users can now connect the chatbot to their bank accounts via integration with Google Wallet. This is not a shopping platform in which chatbots buy stuff on command, like Meta Muse. Rather, it's
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Sorry, Margaret, your email is working again. After a widespread outage shut down Microsoft 365 services for businesses, governments, and tens of millions of other users around the world, the essential cloud services are now (mostly) back online, according to the company’s status page. The outage debacle began around
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* Shadow AI is growing in the workplace, with 29% of Gen Z workers admitting to using it * 26% of Gen Z workers feel their colleagues will view secret AI use negatively * Meanwhile, 35% of the same group feel dishonest for using AI The use of AI in the workplace is
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Featured Podcasts Machine Gods: The 10 Biggest Losers from Jensen Huang's Fall + The METR Report That Scared Us The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future. Subscribe to Machine Gods. The
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FOIA teams are under growing pressure as workloads expand and many programs face staffing constraints, technology changes and other resource limitations. In fiscal year 2025, federal agencies received about 1.7 million FOIA requests, marking a 13% increase from FY2024 and the highest number on record. The Department of Justice
