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President Trump has signed off on a plan to fire Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, though insiders caution that the plan is not final and could change, according to several media reports. News of the planned axing comes from inside sources who spoke with The Wall Street Journal,
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* A simple test can see how well you can recognize lossy formats using your own music choices * Beyond a certain point most people can't easily tell the difference * High-quality lossless is still the most future-proof format With music, how good is good enough? When you're listening
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San Francisco real estate has never been very accessible. But the record sales happening right now in the city’s high-end market are testing the upper limits of what even this famously unaffordable city thought was possible. Consider a six-bedroom, 5,700-square-foot home in Cow Hollow, one of San Francisco’
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Voice agents have been expensive to run and painful to orchestrate, not because the models can't handle conversation, but because context ceilings forced enterprises to build session resets, state compression, and reconstruction layers into every deployment. OpenAI's three new voice models are designed to reduce that
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Dario Amodei is not the kind of CEO who talks loosely about numbers. The Anthropic co-founder and chief executive, a former VP of research at OpenAI with a PhD in computational neuroscience from Princeton, has built a reputation for measured public statements — particularly around the financial performance of a company
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* Micron's expansion could more than double its daily water consumption levels * Environmental disclosures reveal large daily discharge volumes back into the system * Residents and farms depend on the same aquifers as industrial users Micron is expanding its semiconductor manufacturing operations in Boise, Idaho, with a $50 billion investment
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. 11 Benefits of a POS system for retail businesses — Imagine it's a busy
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* ChatGPT is introducing a new Trusted Contact feature * Your contact gets alerted if the AI detects safety concerns * The feature works on top of existing well-being features We know that some people are having pretty intense conversations with AI chatbots, and ChatGPT developer OpenAI has now added a new Trusted
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 8, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,Nazi Germany surrendered & World War II was over in 1945, and we present you with these top quality stories. From The Event
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Zoomex hosted a two-part X Space around its “Speed You Can Trust” theme, bringing Formula 1 and crypto trading into one conversation. Fernando Lillo, Marketing Director at Zoomex Exchange, led the sessions with Haas F1 Team driver Ollie Bearman, CryptoRover, and WallStreetBets. The discussion centered on performance under pressure. Racing
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Stream-T1: Test-Time Scaling for Streaming Video Generation Overview * Stream-T1 applies test-time scaling to streaming video generation, allowing the model to improve quality by using more computation at inference time * The approach generates video frames sequentially while maintaining temporal consistency across the stream * Test-time scaling means the model can spend extra
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In Part 1, I talked about the high-level "magic" happening on your wrist. How Apple uses neural networks and math to guess your VO2Max even when you’re just walking around the block. But if you're like me, "trusting papers" isn't enough.
