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Most people have used a chatbot. Far fewer have used an AI agent — and that gap is quickly becoming the real dividing line in how much value people get from this technology. A chatbot answers a question. An agent does something: it plans a few steps, uses tools, and carries
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A from-scratch transformer, ~250 lines of Python, and one Unicode lesson that humbled me. GitHub repository link I’ve understood transformers “at a high level” for a while now. Attention, embeddings, the usual diagram with the arrows. But I’d never built one. And there’s a specific kind of
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. First look: AMD used its IFA 2026 keynote to introduce the Threadripper Halo Station, a liquid-cooled workstation designed for running AI models with more than one trillion parameters locally rather than through a cloud
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Labor Day has historically been one of the best times to pick up a new TV. Labor Day sales are live, and stores like Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and Samsung have slashed prices on everything from inexpensive 4K sets to high-end OLED and mini-LED models. Our shopping experts are tracking
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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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There's a lot to like about Lord of the Rings: War In The North Legacy Edition, especially if you played the original version. With 60fps framerate support for newer consoles and quality-of-life improvements like autosaves, slicing your way through orcs, barrow-wights, ettens, and encountering Tolkien characters not seen
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The difference comes down to what happens when the power goes off, but that’s only part of how modern memory works. Remitski/Getty Images Computer specs often use the word "memory" for several different technologies, which can make volatile and non-volatile memory sound more complicated than they
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Ecovacs makes some of the best robot vacuums we’ve tested here at CNET, and for a long time, their unique combo T90 Pro Omni was our top choice for its incredible versatility. The new Ecovacs Deebot X12S OmniCyclone is a bit more iterative than its predecessor, the X12, but
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Labor Day has historically been one of the best times to pick up a new TV. Labor Day sales are live, and stores like Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and Samsung have slashed prices on everything from inexpensive 4K sets to high-end OLED and mini-LED models. Our shopping experts are tracking
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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
