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I watched two robot videos at the opposite ends of the Cantril Scale. You know, the ladder that measures human happiness in steps but that I am now applying to humanoid accomplishment? At the bottom step and living its worst possible artificial life, we have the Qualcomm robot that, after
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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A cybersecurity test designed to measure Claude’s hacking abilities ended with Anthropic models gaining unauthorized access to three real organizations after an evaluation environment was mistakenly left connected to the internet. Claude had been told it was inside a simulation with no external access, so it treated the systems
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Google announced a new way to use AI this week. Then pulled it a day later. As of Thursday, you could use the company’s Nano Banana 2 AI model to generate images based on Google Earth’s satellite, aerial and 3D images. After journalists and researchers shared concerns that
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As organizations embrace AI-powered analytics, the value of a natural language (Text2SQL) answer is only as good as the business context behind it. We’re entering a phase where semantic richness (table and column descriptions, and relationships) must flow directly from where it’s authored in upstream data catalogs and
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In Brief 12:47 PM PDT · July 31, 2026 Google rolled out a new feature on Thursday that allowed users to deploy Nano Banana 2, its AI image generator, to create fabricated images inside its satellite imagery mapping app Google Earth. The whole point of this feature, Google said, was
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Jarmo Piironen/Getty Images ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW July 31, 2026 03:48 PM ET Bills introduced this week feature bipartisan efforts to bolster emerging technologies, specifically quantum information sciences and AI’s impact on nuclear security, plus more chatbot regulations. * Tech Bills of the Week Bolstering U.
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Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. We spotted a great deal on Tile trackers earlier this week that’s still live, but if you’re an iPhone owner, we ultimately recommend Apple’s latest
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: Putting your writing on the open web used to mean people could read it. Now, it also means dozens of crawlers can copy it into training datasets. Sure, anti-scraping tools such
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In Brief 12:39 PM PDT · July 31, 2026 Index Ventures has raised $2 billion in fresh capital across three funds, the firm announced on Friday. The 30-year-old firm raised $400 million for its new seed-focused fund and $900 million for its venture fund. Index also added $700 million to
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