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For next week’s big iPhone event, don’t expect the usual playbook. Apple’s new CEO John Ternus just took the helm, and reports say he’ll reveal a brand new flavor of iPhone: One that folds — and could cost twice as much. I’ll be at the Apple
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Travis Larchuk is the producer for The Vergecast and Version History. OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that “the AGI era” is here now. Today on The Vergecast, we’ve got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week. First,
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It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled
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Memory lifecycle policies help long-running agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore stay effective by systematically managing what they remember and forget. Your agent generates memories from every conversation it conducts. If you don’t actively manage these memories, your agents will accumulate outdated context, which can degrade response quality and create
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The third and final round of CNET’s Big Guessing Game is now closed, which completes our contest. We’ll be back after Apple’s “Surprise and shine” event on Wednesday, Sept. 9 to share the final answers and determine the winners The CNET Group’s Big Guessing Game contest
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It’s that time of year, and the Labor Day deals are starting to flow. There are discounts on all kinds of things, and best of all, you don’t have to spend a lot of money or buy things that you don’t really need. CNET’s shopping experts
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It seems like the Garmin Fenix 9 (and the ultra-premium Garmin Fenix 9 Pro) has just been unveiled, but we're already seeing price crashes on the previous generation, the Garmin Fenix 8. The Labor Day sales are in full swing, and Amazon is offering some lowest-ever prices on
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Tesla’s private Cybercab event has come and gone, and it was very different from the large, loud, live-streamed events the company usually puts on – an odd choice for the launch of a product CEO Elon Musk has spent years building towards. In fact, it doesn’t even appear that
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The normally genteel world of international space policy turned ugly this week as several prominent US space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and Starcloud—pulled out of a high-profile French space summit organized by the country’s president, Emmanuel Macron. Politico first reported the diplomatic turmoil, saying
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“They let go of the bird” Saying X is “formerly Twitter” in App Store lets Musk block use of Twitter name. On Thursday, Elon Musk’s X won a court order blocking Operation Bluebird from launching a new app taking over the Twitter name. In his opinion, Chief Judge Colm
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In recent years, there has been a broader trend in Silicon Valley of tech companies diverging from conventional governance norms, making it harder for shareholders and the public to hold them to account. Anthropic and OpenAI, the two major AI labs, have both designed unusual company structures, with self-appointed “guardians”
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Making a connection Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice. On Friday, researchers announced the completion of a map of every neuron in the brain of a male fruit fly. The “connectome” provides a tool that can accelerate neurobiology research. But it also
