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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Get ready for more AI characters in Fortnite. Developer Epic Games is going to let Fortnite creators publish experiences featuring characters with AI-powered voices starting on July
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Beware of fab makers bearing press releases Talk is cheap and TSMC’s plan to bolster its US expansion by another $100 billion is just that — talk. Riding high on yet another quarter of AI-fueled sales, which topped $40 billion, Taiwanese foundry giant TSMC announced plans this week to increase
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AI and ML Models demand trust without offering verification The AI supply chain is, in some ways, even more vulnerable to poisoning than that of traditional software. Katie Paxton-Fear, a lecturer in cybersecurity at Manchester Metropolitan University and staff security advocate at Semgrep, managed to install a backdoor in an
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ai and ml Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel In the United States, we usually protest datacenters peacefully - picket signs, council meeting comments, and all that - with mixed results. In the Netherlands, activists throw water balloons filled with an acidic mixture at
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Department of Energy Deputy CIO Bridget Carper Arnone speaks at the Government Executive Efficiency Summit on July 16, 2026. Zaid Hamid/Nextgov/FCW July 16, 2026 05:18 PM ET The agency is expanding an enterprise data platform to all department elements and increasingly using artificial intelligence in daily operations.
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Knowledge bases that ground agents and generative AI applications over your enterprise data are hard to build at scale. Teams typically stitch together connectors, parsers, vector stores, knowledge graphs, and retrieval logic, then operationalize all of it for production. Each piece brings its own challenges. You must decide which data
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Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup backed by Alibaba, on Thursday released Kimi K3 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter model that the company says is now the largest open-source AI model in the world, and one that benchmarks show performs neck-and-neck with the most powerful proprietary systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.
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Fear of explosive diarrhea seems to be scaring customers away from the purveyors of salad in business districts and strip malls across the US. On Sunday, July 11, as news of a massive cyclospora outbreak—possibly linked to contaminated lettuce—made headlines, traffic at Chop’t fell by 7.1
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TL;DR Google is months behind on its flagship Gemini Pro upgrade as coding falls short, frustrating engineers who are leaving for Anthropic. Google is months behind schedule on delivering the next version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Pro, because the technology has fallen short of internal goals in
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TL;DR S&P cut Oracle to one notch above junk as its AI data-centre bet burns cash and bond investors price in the risk. S&P downgraded Oracle to BBB- on July 9, placing the company one notch above junk status, as a $250 billion data-centre expansion
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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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Artificial intelligence has changed the economics of UX design. With tools like Figma Make, Copilot, and increasingly capable design assistants, teams can generate layouts, components, flows, and interactive prototypes in a fraction of the time it once took. Work that previously required days can now be accomplished in hours—or
