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Jarmo Piironen/Getty Images ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW August 21, 2026 03:33 PM ET Legislation introduced this week seeks to police the use of algorithmic price-setting for home rentals and rein in how the federal government influences new data center construction. * Tech Bills of the Week Monitoring
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include “largely shutting down” a Vision Pro gaming team
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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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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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Nvidia published some interesting new research on Friday suggesting it’s the harness, more than the underlying model, that is far more important when asking an AI to do long-horizon tasks. The tldr: simply by using a custom harness tweaked to handled memory well and including a “supervisor” boss-like component,
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Programmers find AI tools addictive, but exhausting. * Coding speed can be lost due to delays in fixing AI-written code. * AI programming tools can lead to programmer workaholism and burnout. Yes, yes, we get it. Thanks
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Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and Olivier Lacombe, a product director
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Aptera has partnered with Shanghai’s Launch Design on a manufacturing programme worth up to $44mn, covering tooling, testing and pilot production. Aptera pays two-thirds of the costs, while its latest filing reports $10.1mn in cash and substantial doubt about continuing as a going concern. Aptera has finally found
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Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro organisation and 100 from Siri and software teams, largely shutting the headset’s gaming unit. The company says it is realigning teams and will create new roles. Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs across the teams
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A new project from Genki, last mentioned here for its Nintendo Switch 2 mockups, has taken Kickstarter by storm, promising a best-in-class pro controller for PC and Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 players. This project is called the Genki Manta, and at time of writing it's already reached $404,
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Reports indicate Sonos is readying new hardware as soon as this fall. * Also expected is a major AI-powered upgrade to Sonos Voice Control. * An upgraded voice assistant is necessary to compete with smarter assistants like
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We've tested over 100 mini PCs, and with back-to-school season now in swing, I've spotted plenty of deals under $600 on these compact machines that are pitch-perfect for dorm rooms and home offices, providing the performance needed for studying and working. So, I've rounded
