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Google must open its ad auctions to rivals and accept years of outside oversight, according to the full decision in the US government’s ad tech case, unsealed on Wednesday. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled on 2 September that Google would not have to sell its AdX ad exchange,
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The Scaleup Europe Fund, a €5bn growth fund backed by the European Commission, is in discussions to invest in the voice AI company ElevenLabs, according to Bloomberg. The report says ElevenLabs aims to raise over $500 million in this funding round. Talks are ongoing, and there is no guarantee a
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“We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer,” OpenAI wrote on Wednesday. The line appears in a new OpenAI post. It sets out how the company will track, investigate and disclose
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Mozilla has partnered with Mistral AI to bring the French company’s models to Smart Window, the AI browsing assistant in beta in Firefox. The two companies announced the deal on Wednesday in a joint post, alongside the feature’s launch in France. Smart Window, introduced by Mozilla in August,
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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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Cisco on Wednesday announced patches for dozens of critical-severity CVEs in Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC), Identity Services Engine (ISE), and Nexus Dashboard. The ISE security updates stand out with patches for 20 CVEs, including 12 critical-severity flaws. Three of the issues have already been publicly disclosed, Cisco warned. Tracked
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Apple is also making the watch easier to navigate with one hand, adding a single-tap gesture to Apple’s existing double-tap and wrist-flick controls. Tap your index finger and thumb together to select widgets in Smart Stack; double-tap lets you scroll through them. A wrist flick can return you to
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When Appleofficially unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Ultra 4, it claimed that its latest generation of smartwatches offered the most accurate heart rate sensing on a wearable, thanks to its redesigned Health Sensing System. Accuracy improvements aside, the new system’s advances have made it possible for
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Now, I typically wear an Apple Watch daily, and have since the wearable launched in spring 2015, but for the past week, I’ve swapped my Ultra 3 or Series 11 for the Apple Watch Series 12. Unveiled at Apple’s September 9, 2026, ‘Surprise and shine’ event, the next-generation
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Alongside the unveiling of the iPhone Duo, AirPods 5, iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, and the Apple Watch Series 12, the Cupertino giant also launched the Apple Watch Ultra 4. There’s no price increase, no major change to the design, and no change to the color options.
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I’ve only just begun my ultrashort throw projector testing for CNET, but Epson’s Lifestudio Grand Plus is an early, if exceedingly expensive, standout. It’s extremely bright and has great color. While the projector’s detail and contrast aren’t quite as good as competitors like the Xgimi
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Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched in November 2022, tech companies have poured billions of dollars into generative AI. Microsoft joined forces with OpenAI for a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment. One of the results of this partnership was the creation of Microsoft’s own AI tool, Copilot. If you’ve spotted Copilot
