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-NASA and IBM found it was particularly adept at identifying areas on the lunar surface where there might be ice. -The price hike on the Trump phone was first reported by The Verge, which also noted that the provider didn't make an announcement about it and just quietly updated its website. -FT is the country's second-largest teachers union and is describing the deal as a "first of its kind" effor...

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-The US accused DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of extracting "billions of tokens across millions of exchanges/requests" from American models, including Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok, since 2024. -Suno's v6 series consists of three models: v6, v6-wild and v6-mini. The first of those is Suno's new flagship offering. -OpenAI announced that...

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-Samsung and TSMC will join Intel in adopting ASML's latest High NA extreme ultraviolet lithography chip fab machines. -You Can See Everything is the latest bizarre chapter in Holmes' story from directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. -Based on the limited info in the teaser, it's hard to say exactly what Retroid's upcoming multi-display gadget will look like. Learn more about your ad choice...

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-A flashy demo video the company released alongside the launch shows Astra handling everything from 3D modeling to building slideshows, and often taking care of multiple tasks across different domains at the same time. -It has always seemed like the Vision Pro was pointing toward a very interesting hypothetical future and was just waiting for the right situation to come along. A complex surgery is...

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-A group of climbers set out to climb Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County, California thinking it would only take them eight hours, because that's what Google's Gemini chatbot told them. - Mayor Mamdani said this move was made to protect "human connection" in classrooms, suggesting that kids should develop problem-solving and social skills via teachers and peers instead of chatbots. -A service ca...

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-Along with continuing to make its synonymous action cameras and run its subscription and cloud services, GoPro plans to move into defense, government, robotics and aerospace sectors. -The BT subsidiary Openreach is in the process of replacing its legacy copper network with full-fiber broadband, with plans to connect 30 million residences by the end of the decade. -Meta's release comes less than a...

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-This feature could prove very useful if you get bumped off your original flight, say due to your earlier reservation getting delayed or due to a cancellation, and transferred to a later schedule. -Santos allegedly bought contracts on Kalshi indicating that he would not attend this year's State of the Union speech after weather disrupted his travel plans. -According to the FTC, Amazon made billion...

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- Google explained that it updates Maps "to reflect name changes in official government sources." -A treasure trove of Steam data has been leaked, which seemingly contains everything that was published on Steam between 2003 and 2013. -NASA says that the Roman Space Telescope will be a discovery machine that will bring us closer than ever before to answering humanity's most profound questions...

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-X said that 200 accounts out of the 200,000 were posting comic strips, images and text about AI data centers in a manner that "could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy." -PayPal was worth as much as $320 billion at its highest market value during the height of the COVID pandemic. -Bluesky, unlike X and other platforms, doesn't allow people to have private accounts....

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-The report goes into how the different systems in OpenAI's training system failed and what behaviors from the agents it was testing resulted in those failures. - Meta executives were reportedly influenced by startups, including some they observed in Asia, that had structured themselves around AI. -The company says Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is more adept at speech-to-text than earlier models, wit...

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-SpaceX said the Louisiana facility will be massive with five launch complexes, each with two launch pads. -A now-abandoned plan would have allowed companies to immediately know that they were dealing with a masked address, making the feature essentially useless. -One bit of internal research that surfaced during the trial Tuesday was from a 2023 slide deck prepared by Instagram designers and othe...

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