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The president said he will soon announce an "AI czar" to run this newly made-up agency. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images As the industry calls for pumping the brakes on AI development, President Donald Trump is instead creating an "AI Force" and seeking a "czar"
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* Satellite imagery shows China building a roughly ~200m ship in Shanghai that analysts say is a mothership for submarine-sized drones * It pairs a bottom-opening well-deck and 12-arm cradle with an internal hangar that experts estimate holds four 115- to 148ft XXLUUVs * While the ship itself is shorter than an Essex-class
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* Samsung is shifting additional DDR5 and SSD production to outside manufacturers * The company needs internal factory space for advanced HBM production * DDR5 module assembly remains simpler than advanced HBM packaging processes Samsung Electronics is shifting all additional production of conventional memory modules onto outsourced partners going forward. The company is
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. First look: Valve has open-sourced Lepton, the Android compatibility layer built for the Steam Frame headset, giving VR developers a way to bring existing Android games to the device without rebuilding them for an
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Don't they do the same thing? Smart TVs and standalone streaming devices, like Roku, Fire TV Stick and Chromecast, pretty much do the same thing. They let people watch content from platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and Hulu, among many others. This leads to a "one or the
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This move represents the first step in the CEO’s plan to slow down AI development. Chesnot/Getty Images Accenture's long list of consulting services is expanding to include evaluating Anthropic's frontier AI models for safety compliance. Anthropic announced the partnership that would allow Accenture to
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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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AMD has updated its performance estimates for its upcoming 6th Gen EPYC 9006 "Venice" server CPUs, and the latest numbers make an aggressive case against Intel and NVIDIA in high-density data center workloads. A new AMD white paper, titled "AMD EPYC Server CPU Architecture And Performance Overview&
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Launching a desktop mode on your Galaxy device is now pretty easy. Jimmy Gunawan/Shutterstock Samsung DeX has long been a fan-favorite feature. Since 2017, it has quietly lived in the settings of flagship Samsung devices, always ready to save people in a pinch. If you don't know,
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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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* Mouse Computer has fitted Ryzen AI processors into a laptop weighing just 981g * The X2 uses a 12.2-inch display with 1920 by 1200 resolution * A free SODIMM slot allows memory expansion from 16 GB to 32 GB Japanese electronics maker Mouse Computer has introduced a compact laptop called the
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In Brief 10:30 AM PDT · September 19, 2026 Google’s Gemini accessed the protected systems of three other companies in what The Wall Street Journal reports were the AI model’s first autonomous hacks. Similar to OpenAI’s breach of Hugging Face, the Gemini hacks were less noteworthy for
