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Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its commercial chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year

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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Sources: DeepSeek execs told potential investors in its ongoing $10B round that it will prioritize groundbreaking AI research over short-term commercialization

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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Italian police dismantle a piracy network that streamed paid content from Netflix and others via an app called Cinemagoal with annual subscriptions of €40-€130

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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8 Best Robot Pool Cleaners Out of 20 We Tested

No piece of equipment makes pool ownership more enjoyable than an automatic cleaner. Take it from this pool owner -- if you don't have one, you definitely want one. To find the best pool robot vacuum, we spent much of spring testing 20 of the latest models to

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Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he requested information from Kalshi and Polymarket on their efforts to prevent insider trading

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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Best Vacuum Cleaner (2026): Cordless Vacuums, Robot Vacuums, Dysons

* Courtesy of Ryobi 18V One+ Performance Hand Vacuum For a cheaper handheld vacuum, the Ryobi 10V One+ is a powerful small hand vacuum that WIRED reviewer Molly Higgins says is the best one she has tried that’s under $100. This handheld is lightweight and powerful, and it comes with

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The 13 Best Fans to Buy Before It Gets Hot Again (2026)

Zafro Coozi Tower Fan for $90: This is an interesting tower fan with a hidden digital display and a cheery little electronic tune when you turn it on and off, reminiscent of a Samsung washing machine. It's a little bit quieter than Dreo's Nomad One, but

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Driverless car startup Bliq.ai says it has received approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia, the first authorization of its kind in the EU

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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Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race

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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Sora shutdown leaves Critterz at the Cannes market without its model

The OpenAI-backed family animation that was meant to prove generative AI could ship a real movie has missed its festival window, in part because the video model it was built on no longer exists. Critterz, the OpenAI-backed animated feature that was being positioned as the first mainstream commercial film made

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US and Canadian authorities arrest 23-year-old Jacob Butler, known online as “Dort”, for allegedly operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet, which infected ~2M devices

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. Zoho Creator is now HDS certified — Zoho Creator is now HDS certified, running on EU

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We're Solving the Wrong Problem for LLMs and AI Overall

Part two of an accidental series. A few weeks ago, I wrote about LLMs having amnesia: I wrote about LLMs and memory and the a16z continual learning essay, and I got the response I usually get when I write something like that and post on Linkedin: a bunch of people