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This Solar-Powered Robot Pool Skimmer Is $180 Off Right Now for the End of Summer

Save $180: Keeping your pool clean usually means spending time skimming leaves every day, especially during the summer. The Beatbot iSkim automates that chore with solar-powered operation, smart navigation and app controls, letting you spend more time swimming and less time cleaning. At $319, it’s $180 off its original price of $499 and only $20 away from its record low price.

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Beatbot iSkim robot pool skimmer

The Beatbot iSkim is designed to keep your pool’s surface clean around the clock without constant attention. It uses both solar charging and a built-in 10,000mAh battery to provide up to 28 hours of cordless cleaning before needing a reup. A large nine-liter filter basket captures leaves, bugs, pollen and other floating debris, reducing how often you need to empty it. Smart obstacle avoidance helps the robot navigate around ladders, walls and other things while cleaning efficiently across the...

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Beyond Venture Capital: Why family offices are becoming AI’s most influential investors

Over the past 12 months, I have become increasingly convinced that one of the most underappreciated shifts in the artificial intelligence ecosystem is financial. While much of the market remains focused on OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and the latest model releases, a quieter transformation is taking place in the investor base

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An analysis links violent AI ‘slop’ to ‘brain rot’ and violence in children

Awarning that AI “slop” is fuelling cognitive decline and violent tendencies in children has ricocheted across the internet this week, carried by headlines that present the harm as settled fact. The document underneath is more modest, and far more uncertain, than the coverage implies. The source is a report published

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CISA orders a three-day patch after a flaw in the Ray AI framework comes under active attack

America’s cyber-defence agency has added a single vulnerability in Ray, the open-source framework that powers a large slice of the world’s AI training and inference, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, confirming that the flaw is being used in real-world attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency made

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How many cars’ worth of CO2 will US data centres really emit?

A new study out of Cornell has handed the AI industry’s climate critics a fresh statistic to wield, and the internet has duly rounded it up. Planned US data centres, one widely shared headline announced, are set to produce as much carbon dioxide as 24 million cars. The figure

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Beyond Venture Capital: Why family offices are becoming AI’s most influential investors

An analysis links violent AI ‘slop’ to ‘brain rot’ and violence in children

CISA orders a three-day patch after a flaw in the Ray AI framework comes under active attack

How many cars’ worth of CO2 will US data centres really emit?