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Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. OpenAI’s answer to Muse arrived this week, and it looks a whole lot like Muse dressed up in a suit and tie. Dots is a business-first product — for now,
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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. Introducing Campus: The digital home for educational institutions — Every educational institution needs
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Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will operate as Skydance once their merger closes, Paramount CEO David Ellison announced Friday. Skydance is the name of Ellison’s original film production company. The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6. It will combine two major Hollywood studios, Paramount+ and
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With Prime Big Deal Days around the corner, there are tons of early discounts on top brands you can grab at Amazon. Today, you can score the Bose SoundLink speaker for over $100 off. You can also get the Amazon Echo Show 5 Kids for almost 50% off. Finally, grab
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Gaming on phones has gotten good enough that graphics and gameplay are beginning to approach what players expect on PC and console. Those more established platforms maintain the edge, with massive GPUs and energy budgets that power AI enhancements that render smoother experiences. While there will never be enough room
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Search agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are transforming how enterprises retrieve information. Rather than requiring users to craft the perfect query, a search agent autonomously decides what to search for, which retrieval strategy to use, and when to stop searching. It does this across multiple rounds of interaction,
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Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock provides powerful AI assistance, but without integrated web search, responses are limited to the model’s training knowledge cutoff. When you need current information, such as recent documentation updates, live pricing, or weather updates, the model can’t retrieve it on its own. Amazon Bedrock
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Checking tens of thousands of apartment leases against constantly changing state landlord-tenant laws, and proving you actually checked all of them, has been beyond the reach of most compliance teams. But with generative AI in Amazon Quick, paired with the right backend, it’s now possible. In this post, we
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In Brief 8:39 AM PDT · October 2, 2026 Critics of AI-generated art have a powerful new ally: His Holiness the Bishop of Rome (Episcopus Romanus), Primate of Italy (Primatus Italiae), and Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church (Summus Pontifex Ecclesiae Universalis). In a post on X Friday morning, Pope
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Have you been waiting for laptops flexing Qualcomm's Arm-based Snapdragon X silicon alongside premium OLED displays to drop into true budget territory? If so, head over to Best Buy and check out the retailer's deal of the day, which slashes $150 off the price of HP&
