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LAS VEGAS — Kroger’s strategy for advancing AI prioritizes removing the barriers that divide the digital shopping world from the physical one, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer Yael Cossett said during a keynote session at Groceryshop last week. “It’s on us to remove that friction, the burden
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* Amazon pledges $20 million to a new Colorado River Basin Collaborative targeting $100 million in two years, with $32 million in commitments so far * Amazon only reported one figure: 2.5 billion gallons of global data center withdrawals, but no basin, warehouse, historical, or power-generation water figures were made public
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Quick Answer: Walmart offers low prices year-round on some of the most popular and beloved electronics. Electronic deals at Walmart span the audio, laptop, TV, smart home and gaming device spectrum, ranging from under $20 for the Merkury Smart Indoor Wi-Fi Camera to $699 for the new MacBook Neo with
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A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI platform Hugging Face. “OpenAI’s actions straightforwardly violated California law,” the suit alleges. The suit was filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science and
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There are plenty of grand ideas about what AI could eventually do for healthcare, whether discovering new drugs or acting as an interactive medical historian for everyone. But a viral Reddit post offers a better, and much simpler vision for AI doctoring. According to the poster, the family was eating
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Google will shut down Gemini's Gems for personal accounts and turn them into Skills on November 17. The company says users can continue using their Gems until then. Google launched Gems in 2024 as custom versions of Gemini. These let users make their own assistants with custom instructions
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The K5 is exceptional in some respects and diabolical in others. Without a doubt, the new Wild Lake silicon is a significant step up from what came before, but it has too few PCIe lanes to be truly useful. But then, if it had those, it might be better than
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TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And during Disrupt Week, that conversation doesn’t stop when the doors to Moscone West close. Our Side Events program brings founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders together across San Francisco for everything from intimate roundtables
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The administration wants America.gov to be the main portal for federal services. Screenshot (America.gov) The US government now has its own AI chatbot. America.gov is an interface for people to ask natural language questions about information and services from federal agencies. The chatbot's web page
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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are joining other business leaders at the White House on Tuesday for a lunch event on artificial intelligence. The event will be hosted by President Donald Trump, together with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House. Thirty-one people have confirmed their attendance, according
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Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with the regions where dots is available and a quote from an early tester. OpenAI said Pro users in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK will not get dots for now. OpenAI has launched dots, AI agents that run
