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Though the new iPhone Duo might’ve captured a lot of headlines for its foldable design, the iPhone 18 Pro remains Apple’s standard-bearer due to its top-of-the-line camera, superb features and excellent battery life. One of the more impressive new features this year is the camera’s variable aperture,
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Save $50: Even though the official sale is still a couple of weeks off, Prime Big Deal Days is already delivering discounts on unlocked Android phones, and the TCL NxtPaper 70 Pro has dropped to a new record-low price. With $50 off, now’s a great time to grab a
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In response to the ZCode product security issues reported by the community, we have completed the necessary remediation and sincerely apologize to all our users. Z.ai posted that on Monday, on ZCode’s official account. The Beijing company, formerly Zhipu, put the coding tool’s source code on GitHub
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, below the $5 and $25 that Opus 5 has carried since July, and says it performs similarly to the more expensive Fable 5.1 on most work. It is the first
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Quantum hardware roadmaps often include timelines, but they rarely answer the questions that matter most to a chief information officer: which problems will this solve, when will it happen, and at what cost? Zapata Quantum, a Boston-based quantum software company, believes it has created a tool to help with these
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While the CAC summoned all 7 companies namechecked by Anthropic’s report, the probe quickly zeroed in on DeepSeek and Moonshot due to the examples the report detailed. Jing Yang wrote that on Tuesday, about her own story. She and Qianer Liu reported for The Information that the Cyberspace Administration
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Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public. Xiaomi opened its MiMo-V2.6 announcement with that line on Tuesday. The phone and electric car maker released two open-weight models, Pro and Flash, under an MIT licence. The weights are on Hugging Face. The benchmark firm Artificial Analysis scores MiMo-V2.6-Pro
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OpenAI says it will let third-party groups run technical safety assessments while models are being trained and evaluated rather than only before launch, and is in talks with groups including METR and Redwood Research. It has named no partner and set no access terms, ten days after Sam Altman promised
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I think a lot of it is marketing, to overemphasize the proposed capabilities. Max Junestrand said that in Amsterdam on Tuesday. He was asked about the summer’s run of incidents in which AI agents hacked other companies. The warnings that followed deserve a pinch of salt, the Legora co-founder
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TL;DR BioCompute wants to store the world’s cold data in DNA. Its contrarian bet is that reusing the medium, not manufacturing it, is how the cost finally comes down. And it has the early numbers to back the claim. The math behind the data storage problem is brutal.
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* The US could have a 157,000 shortage of semiconductor and microelectronics workers by 2030 * International chip makers are reportedly bringing in workers as a temporary measure * Worker salaries aren't the issue, but competition with other sectors might be New analysis from the SEMI Foundation has revealed the
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DJI built its name on drones, but nowadays it has firmly established itself in multiple other content creator gadget markets too. That includes mics. The brand makes a selection of microphones, including two models released this year. Our testers have been extremely impressed with all of them — so much so,
