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In early 2025 I was interviewing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei when he explained why, despite the company’s repeated acknowledgments that AI could yield catastrophic results, people seemed largely unperturbed. “There is compelling evidence that the models can wreak havoc,” he said. But, he added, those dangers were still theoretical.
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Major super PACs associated with AI labs and investors have poured close to one million dollars into incumbent Republican Mike Rounds’s South Dakota senate race, seeking to shape the outcome of a noncompetitive race amid a critical national debate over AI regulation. Rounds has been the beneficiary this cycle
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The Apple Watch Series 12 is officially available, and Best Buy offers an excellent trade-in deal that lets you get the smartwatch for as little as $199. The feature-packed Apple Watch 12 is $399 for the 42mm GPS-only model, but if you have an older smartwatch to trade in, Best
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* This new Act, with overwhelming, bipartisan support, could soon be enforced on a per-state basis * 100MW+ data centers would have to pay for new power generation and grid infrastructure * Public Citizen says the bill doesn't address other "consumer and community impacts" With energy consumption now one
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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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The app you use to trade stocks increasingly wants to be the app you use to manage your financial life. Investing, banking, credit, crypto, retirement, prediction markets, and AI-powered trading are converging. At the same time, consumers expect financial products to be as intuitive and responsive as the best technology
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Best Buy is currently discounting several hundred dollars from the sleek and sexy (as far as a laptop can be sexy) ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14, which is packing a gorgeous 3K OLED display with a 120Hz rate. Also of note, despite the premium panel, the sale price makes this one
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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Anyone shopping for a Windows laptop with a $1K budget should head to Best Buy, where for the rest of the day
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In brief: Aside from concerns about human extinction or a massive financial bubble, one of generative AI's biggest controversies is how tech giants train their models. While OpenAI and Microsoft claim that
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Robotic fish are useful because they can go places that conventional underwater vehicles cannot. They can swim through vegetation without worrying about snagging a propeller, move through shallow water, and get close to wildlife without causing much of a disturbance. But a robotic fish designed for a narrow creek usually
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A small caveat before I begin - this is not a token-cost story. Is throttling AI budgets actually fixing anything? Enterprise controls such as prompt-length limits and per-seat token caps can help to cap the bill, but it's a short-term prescription for a case of token shock. In
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Moving homes has traditionally been a physically demanding and stressful experience. Packing an entire household, coordinating transportation, keeping track of belongings and hoping that everything—particularly the fragile and valuable items—reaches safely leaves considerable room for uncertainty. For Indian homeowners, however, this experience is beginning to change. AI, automation
