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In Brief 9:30 AM PDT · September 27, 2026 Saturday Night Live took on the AI industry’s recent warnings of doom last night, as cast member Jane Wickline offered her impression of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Weekend Update host Michael Che — who sounded a little uncertain about how to
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Since the inaugural ceremony in 1984, the MTV Music Video Awards, aka the VMAs, have provided hundreds of culture-defining moments. From Madonna rolling around on the floor in a wedding dress during the very first broadcast to Kanye West stealing Taylor Swift’s microphone in 2009 to Beyoncé’s 2011
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Maximize your stride with the streaming service’s AI-powered feature. Spotify Spotify launched its dedicated Fitness hub earlier this year, another move that shows how streaming service is looking to go beyond music and podcasts. Now, with the addition of Running Mode, it's more obvious than ever. The
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You can plug recent Pixel phones into a monitor to get a desktop-style interface. Elvard project/Shutterstock For years, the idea of smartphones connected to a monitor offering a desktop experience has fascinated manufacturers, developers and (to some extent) consumers. But hardware experiments like Asus' PadFone and the Motorola
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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Autonomous vehicle technology is not yet ubiquitous or mainstream. Readers here
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The fusion reactors, the liquid-cooled servers and the 600-kilowatt server racks are all humming in race to keep the AI boom running. Everyone here knows by now that AI's real choke point is power, not chips. But less acknowledged is the absurdly aggressive tech-stack now being constructed to
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TL;DR: Skeleton loaders tell users that content is coming instead of leaving them staring at a blank screen. This guide shows how to build three practical Shadcn skeleton components in React: a profile card, a data table, and a list with icons. Each one uses the base Shadcn Skeleton
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When I started learning more seriously about documentation for AI systems, I noticed something I had probably been ignoring for a long. A lot of documentation problems are not really writing problems but are consistency problems. The API is PlatformClient on one page and platformClient in an example on another.
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Part 1, Your AI Agent Doesn't Need to See Every Tool, argued for hiding low-level tools behind domain functions like investigate_delivery_issue() that hide the API calls underneath. Part 2, Not Every Step Needs an LLM, went inside those functions and separated work that belongs in code
