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Anthropic researchers detail natural language autoencoders, which convert LLM activations, the numbers encoding a model's thoughts, into natural language text

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Perplexity’s Personal Computer is now available everyone on Mac

Perplexity’s Personal Computer, its answer to OpenClaw and other local AI agents, is now available to all Mac users via its desktop app, the company announced on Thursday. As a reminder, Personal Computer is an expansion on Perplexity’s general-purpose, multi-model digital worker dubbed, confusingly, Perplexity Computer. “Personal Computer,

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Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production

Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Apple’s rumored AirPods with cameras are nearing a stage where the company will test early mass production, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. Currently, Apple testers are

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Sources: Ramp told investors it is raising $750M co-led by Iconiq Capital and GIC at a valuation of $40B+ before the investment, up from $32B in November 2025

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Perplexity Opens Up Its Personal Computer AI Assistant To All Mac Users

Last month, Perplexity sought to better compete with the likes of Claude Cowork and get out ahead of Apple's delayed, generative AI-powered version of Siri by bringing Personal Computer to macOS. The AI assistant was previously only available to those on Perplexity's $200 per month Max

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EU legislators reach a deal to postpone restrictions on high-risk AI until December 2027 and to exempt the use of AI in industrial applications from the AI Act

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Sources: AirPods with cameras reached an advanced testing stage; the cameras will feed data to Siri to help answer questions, rather than take photos or video

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While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training

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Pentagon will ‘never again’ rely on a single AI provider, official says

Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael attends a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency event at DARPA Headquarters, Arlington, Va., April 29, 2026. Staff Sgt. Milton Hamilton/Air Force ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW May 7, 2026 02:41 PM ET Defense Under Secretary for Research and

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Meet ZAYA1-8B, a super efficient open reasoning model trained on AMD Instinct MI300 GPUs

Even as leading AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic battle over the compute to train and release ever larger, more powerful models, other labs are going in a different direction — pursuing the development of smaller, more efficient models and often open sourcing them. The latest worth paying attention to comes

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Hackers hack victims hacked by other hackers

Regular internet users and corporations are not the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes, the hackers themselves get hacked. That is what happened in an unusual hacking campaign, where an unknown group of hackers targeted systems already compromised by a prolific cybercrime group known as TeamPCP. Once the hackers broke

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OpenAI launches three new real-time voice models for reasoning, translation, and transcription, included in its Realtime API

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