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OpenAI declared the AGI era on the strength of a 99.9% score. Run the same model through the benchmark’s own software, and it scores 62.7%. The gap is not a rounding error or a rival’s complaint. It comes from the organisation that built the test. ARC
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Uber has put $100m into a company that just hired Anthony Levandowski. His theft of Google’s self-driving secrets cost Uber a fortune, and it helped end Travis Kalanick’s time as chief executive. The company is Atoms, Kalanick’s new venture. Rafe Rosner-Uddin reported the arrangement for the Financial
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A mathematician holds a five-year grant to formalise Fermat’s Last Theorem. It has been done for him in eleven days, and he says the result tells us nothing about mathematics. Anthropic published the proof on Friday. Dozens of Claude agents wrote 13 million lines of Lean code and proved
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In 2022 Kenya adopted a ten-year national plan to move its graduates into online outsourcing work. OpenAI released ChatGPT the same year. Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur set out what happened next, reporting from Nairobi for the New York Times with Edwin Okoth. At its peak early this decade, researchers
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Henna Virkkunen told Axios at the G20 innovation ministerial that the US and the EU keep arriving at similar AI protections, Europe by regulating in advance and America through courts and state law. She made the argument at the summit where Washington launched the Carolina Principles urging governments not to
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Shweta Ganjoo is a Chief Content Producer at HT Tech. She has over 10 years of experience covering technology, during which time she has focused on consumer tech devices, AI, social media, gadgets, and tech policy, delivering authoritative and reader-focused insights across India’s fast-evolving digital ecosystem. She began her
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The Fairphone 6 Plus feels like an extremely average midrange Android phone and I couldn’t be more thrilled. The mission has always been admirable. Fairphone seeks out ethically sourced materials and offers a high degree of repairability for its devices. But the phones themselves required a lot of sacrifices,
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The big Labor Day shopping weekend is underway, and there are tons of deals to be found across a whole range of categories. It’s easily one of the biggest shopping events of the year — right up there with Black Friday and Prime Day, and the 2026 edition is proving
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The weekend may be nearly over, but there is still time to save big on a range of gaming laptops, desktop PCs, monitors, and more during Best Buy's Labor Day sales event, which ends on Monday. We're seeing hundreds of dollars off several gaming PCs from
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As long as you've got a connection to the internet, Wikipedia, maps, streaming media, and AI assistants are only a browser tab away. Lose that connection, though, and all of those services disappear. Michael Klements wondered how much of that experience could be recreated without relying on the
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* Part of Flock's software interface has been made public * There are various AI-powered search tools available to police officers * The system includes warnings about potential mistakes Flock is battling a growing backlash against its network of license plate readers and cameras — with some 120,000 or so installed
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You might be better off sorting through your 12,000 emails yourself, but you do you. Cheng Xin/Getty Images When you stop to think, it's incredible how far AI has come in the past four years. From repeatedly failing the "how many r's are
