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This post shows how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant built with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2. Many quick-service restaurants spread ordering across an app, a website, a phone line, and the counter. Each of those is a separate system to build and run. Each one also
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Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters Fraudsters have found a new use for ASCII smuggling, typically used to hide malicious prompts intended for AI models, in an old-school attack method: email phishing. Microsoft uncovered a massive phishing campaign using invisible Unicode tag characters that peaked at
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AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk Machine learning researchers have a new and expensive option for doing local AI. AMD just raided its spare parts bin and cobbled together a DGX Station rival boasting up
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AI and ml Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases Anthropic has blueprints for building e-commerce bots that shop on behalf of clients. That's not something many consumers want at the moment, but the AI biz this week published a set
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: Windows critics have long complained about the operating system's bloated default software stack and its steady stream of notifications. Microsoft seems to be acknowledging the issue to stay popular
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While the Labor Day sales are usually a bigger event for appliances, furniture, and outdoor goods to prep for fall, there are actually dozens of tech deals out there as well. And one big category is laptops, where savings of up to $900 are available at Best Buy, Amazon, Dell,
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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. Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned
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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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In Brief 2:12 PM PDT · September 4, 2026 Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company founded just two years ago, has said it may go public as early as later this month. Ahead of that expected IPO, the company is reportedly in talks to raise an additional $3.5 billion.
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Following its launch last November, I spent several weeks testing Withings’ BeamO, a three-in-one, FDA-cleared device that functions as a stethoscope, an electrocardiogram and a thermometer. One of my takeaways was that while the device is great for measuring your temperature and listening to your heart and lungs, these readings
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On Thursday, Tesla made its Cybercab robotaxi available to riders in Austin, Texas. Soon after, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was investigating the launch. Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the Cybercab in October 2024, noting the vehicle would go into production “before 2027.” Production indeed kicked off
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Disney v. FCC FCC tells court it is “open-minded” about whether ABC should lose licenses. A Disney store on August 27, 2026 in London, England. Credit: Getty Images | Mike Kemp The Federal Communications Commission yesterday urged a court to dismiss a Disney lawsuit and let the FCC continue a proceeding
