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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it
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Qube Research & Technologies, one of London’s largest quantitative hedge funds, is doing something that would once have looked heretical for a firm built on code: it is hiring humans to pick stocks. The move, reported by Business Insider, places the fund alongside a small group of systematic managers
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Rubrik, the US data-security company, said it will invest more than $500m in Britain over the next five years and make London its headquarters for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The commitment, announced on Wednesday and worth about £375m, lands as governments across the region press companies to keep
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France’s competition regulator has signalled that its long-running inquiry into Nvidia is drawing to a close, edging the world’s most valuable chipmaker nearer to a formal reckoning over how it wields its grip on the market for artificial intelligence hardware. The company has long been tipped to face
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* NordVPN has launched Message Protection for Android users worldwide, adding SMS screening to its Call and Message Protection suite. * The tool checks incoming texts from unknown senders and pushes a notification when a message looks malicious or suspicious. * Flagged texts open in a safe view that stops links being tapped
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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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Microdramas are such a rage these days that nearly every kind of company in the attention economy space — be they dedicated microdrama apps, social media giants (TikTok and Instagram) or streaming services (Peacock, Amazon Prime and India’s JioHotstar) — is building a product to tap the opportunity. Character.ai, which
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The popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Venture, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch. This round follows a previous $15 million Series A led by Benchmark’s Peter Fenton. All told, the company has now raised $88 million. Ollama,
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Crystal ball: Following predictions that the memory crisis is going to kill off sub-$500 PCs, we're now hearing that budget smartphones could face the same fate. According to Omdia, global shipments
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* Most businesses are struggling to deploy agentic AI effectively, and legacy infrastructure is one of the key reasons, report finds * Google polled IT leaders, with 83% stating that infrastructure upgrades are needed * IT leaders are also concerned about the hidden costs of agentic AI, such as increased power consumption and
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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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We’ve reached the point in modern computing where people are now letting local AI agents browse sites, run commands and handle small tasks without constant supervision, all while tied directly to their home internet connection. Thankfully, somebody eventually noticed this might not be the best arrangement. That somebody was
