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Erin McNulty had been missing for weeks when her mother, Linda, sat down on a chair in her living room, exhausted. Linda had put in her usual seven-day workweek at the antiques shop she runs near Burlington, Vermont. She’d spent her free evenings driving around, trying to track down
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Aug 14, 2026 6:00 AM The WIRED Guide to Expanding Your Mind From the multibrained octopus to the bitty brain organoid, we’re all just inference engines making flawed bets on the future. Here are the five insights your brain will need to survive. Read MoreAfter Testing Hundreds of
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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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If you use ChatGPT regularly, you may want to check your inbox. OpenAI has started sending emails to users in India informing them that ads are coming to ChatGPT, bringing its advertising test to another major market after it initially launched in the US. Aishwarya is your go-to guide for
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Agentic AI’s prolific use of tokens can create sizeable, unexpected costs for organizations. But saving on token costs without factoring in risk can be a fatal step. As upfront prices for flagship artificial intelligence models continue to shrink, organizations have begun to wise up to the hidden costs they
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VPN Super Unlimited presents an interesting contradiction. It’s backed by executives from Rakuten, Dropbox, and Electronic Arts, yet it delivers notably bare-bones functionality. Desktop apps conspicuously lack kill switches, split tunneling is Android-only, and promised features like V2Ray remain unimplemented. Still, it proved a relatively reliable unblocker in testing,
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I didn't set out to build a Breakout clone, but that's what I — or really Claude, under my direction — did, and it took less time than it takes to watch a half dozen cat videos. Here's how it started. Claude was having issues. Anthropic&
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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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In real estate, the photos are the product. A buyer scrolling a results page won’t read your description if the cover image looks like it was shot on a flip phone. A detail page that ships a 4MB hero over LTE loses them before scroll. Doing images well usually
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I was on a call with a client a few weeks ago. They run a media company. We were building their AI system. Connecting data sources. Writing skills. Getting the team ready to use the thing at scale. We were about to connect calendar and email. Then they stopped me.
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It’s the 2nd week of Shipaton and I thought it was a good time to take a moment to document my progress on the submission. Note: This is the 2nd post about my work towards shipping an app for the Shipaton 2026 hackathon. If you want to read from
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The FCC has expanded its national-security Covered List to include foreign-made humanoid robots and robot dogs, joining previously restricted Chinese telecom equipment from firms like Huawei and ZTE. New models with cameras, sensors, and network connectivity are covered over surveillance and remote-access concerns, along with foreign-made power inverters, which connect
