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Today’s Strands puzzle was a little puzzling. A few answers are tough to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle Today’s Strands theme is: Coming in hot. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Incendiary. Clue words
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We need bots, but do they need us? Not a whole lot, if Grok Bot can do everything it purportedly can. SpaceXAI introduced the new AI agent platform this week and says it can do it all — message each other, do group chats, share work and even answer to an
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The revelation that Apple’s iCloud Private Relay feature hasn’t been as secure as Apple says has spawned a lawsuit against the iPhone maker. Last week, a blog post by Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk exposed a vulnerability in how iCloud Private Relay, in some circumstances, doesn’t
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TL;DR The GDC 2026 survey shows 28% of game developers were laid off in two years and 36% now use generative AI. Former Boston Dynamics engineer Robert Brownstein runs Gnarled Helix, a ~10-person indie studio that used AI-assisted development to prototype a chess-resource-management game in days after spending years
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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No more needles. Until the Google Pixel Watch 5 arrived as part of Google's Made by Google 2026 event, the only way most people could monitor their blood sugar's responses to food and exercise with smart tech was to use a continuous glucose monitor, or CGM.
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In Brief 3:24 PM PDT · August 12, 2026 Fermi, the AI nuclear power firm, has named a new CEO more than three months after firing co-founder Toby Neugebauer from the top executive post. Fermi said Wednesday it has hired Lee McIntire, an independent member of the company’s board
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Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated. Anthropic rolled out this new policy to satisfy the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which now requires tech companies to label content that has been
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An AutoFlight 'Prosperity' electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is demonstrated during a flight presentation organized by Alatau Advanced Air Group (AAAG) in cooperation with China's AutoFlight at the Kazanat Hippodrome in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 24, 2026. Kazakhstan is preparing to become the first
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending Neocloud operator CoreWeave remains bullish about its prospects, claiming that changing patterns of AI use will create sustained demand for its cloud services. The New Jersey firm is among the most prominent rent-a-GPU businesses spawned by demand
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ai and ml Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions A new project aims to build a shared, open source AI training dataset that anyone can contribute to, much like an open source software project. It aims to make training data
