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* Minisforum still has no release date for its long-promised M2 Pro mini PC * The cheaper M2 mini PC sacrifices flagship graphics power for lower entry pricing * A tiny 520-gram desktop now handles local AI models without relying entirely on cloud processing At CES 2026, Minisforum unveiled the M2 Pro mini
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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. Microsoft launched Teams’ Together Mode during the pandemic to give the illusion of a bunch of people sitting in a conference room together, even if
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Confronting a Lying AI I recently wrote a piece called “True Confessions Meets AI.” This article continues the discussion with a focus on the ability of AI to lie. In recent months there’s been a growing number of reports about AI (artificial intelligence) giving misleading and false answers to
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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 Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.
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Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The Siri relaunch is widely seen as Apple’s big chance to reestablish its relevance in artificial intelligence. As part of that effort,
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Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their closing arguments this week, and now it’s up to jurors to decide whether OpenAI did anything wrong as it’s transformed into a slightly-more-for-profit organization. But as Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I noted on the latest episode of TechCrunch’
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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the de facto standard for grounding large language models (LLMs) in private data. The standard architecture — chunking documents, embedding them into a vector database, and retrieving top-k results via cosine similarity — is effective for unstructured semantic search. However, for enterprise domains characterized by highly interconnected
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* Kioxia’s new SSD reaches storage speeds previously reserved for enterprise hardware systems * Kioxia XG10 Series doubles sequential performance compared with the earlier XG8 generation * The XG10 Series combines PCIe 5.0 speeds with enterprise-style encryption security support Kioxia has introduced its XG10 Series SSD, bringing PCIe 5.0 storage
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The company is banking on privacy being its AI differentiator. by Terrence O'Brien May 17, 2026, 6:40 PM UTC Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing
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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 Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.
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TL;DR OpenAI merged ChatGPT, Codex, and its API under Brockman, killing side projects to focus on one agentic platform before its IPO. OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has permanently taken charge of the company’s product strategy, merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a single product
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TL;DR Soderbergh used Meta’s AI for 10% of his Cannes Lennon documentary. Critics slammed it. He says the real problem is everyone else not disclosing. Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio
