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Early adopters of Meta’s Muse have been speculating that the reason the AI works so well is because it’s OpenClaw under the hood, wrapped in a more consumer-friendly package. Meta now says those comparisons aren’t entirely off-base. According to an X post by Nat Friedman, head of
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Patricia and James Poitras ’63, longtime MIT supporters, have launched a fellowship program for graduate students and postdocs studying major mental illness, expanding their MIT philanthropy to directly support early-career scientists. The commitment establishes 50 two-year fellowships through the Poitras Center for Psychiatric Disorders Research at MIT’s McGovern Institute
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Both OpenAI and Anthropic dropped new models on Tuesday, each highlighting enhanced speed while being cheaper overall compared to predecessors. Anthropic said its new model, Opus 5.5, matches the capabilities of Fable 5.1 but cuts the cost by nearly 40% compared to Opus 5. OpenAI’s models, GPT-6
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Slow Horses is the gift that keeps on giving. I say this for a number of reasons, aside from the obvious, which continues to put Sir Gary Oldman on my TV screen. Beyond that, Apple TV‘s spy thriller is a well-written, engaging and often funny series that gives a
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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
