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A look at Opera's Neon, a $20-per-month agentic AI browser that can take over browsing tasks, but its three built-in AI chatbots can be confusing and unreliable (The Verge)

A look at Opera's Neon, a $20-per-month agentic AI...

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Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20 required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)

Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it...

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Q&A with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)

Q&A with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized ...

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X is testing a new way of opening links without fully covering an X post, allowing users to see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

X is testing a new way of opening links without fu...

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X plans a Handle Marketplace for Premium+ and Business subscribers to search for and request inactive usernames; rare handles can cost from $2,500 to $1M+ (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

X plans a Handle Marketplace for Premium+ and Busi...

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A look at the Crylock ransomware scheme, orchestrated by a Russian couple who targeted as many as 400,000 victims and earned over €64M in BTC over eight years (Financial Times)

A look at the Crylock ransomware scheme, orchestra...

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OpenAI's Broadcom deal shows how the AI startup is diversifying its chip suppliers, including Nvidia chips for training and Broadcom chips for inference (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI's Broadcom deal shows how the AI startup is...

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OpenAI researchers delete X posts claiming a GPT-5 math breakthrough after pushback from Hassabis, others; LeCun says they were "hoisted by their own GPTards" (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

OpenAI researchers delete X posts claiming a GPT-5...

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China says the NSA has been hacking its National Time Service Center, which provides high precision time services for the government and others, since 2023 (Bloomberg)

China says the NSA has been hacking its National T...

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Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions to the American Federation of Teachers to build AI training hubs aimed at educating 400,000 teachers (Jocelyn Gecker/Associated Press)

Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing mil...

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ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China...

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A study of 311 AI-generated eighth-grade civics lesson plans in Massachusetts suggests they fall short of inspiring students or promoting critical thinking (The Conversation)

A study of 311 AI-generated eighth-grade civics le...

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A look at some US energy companies linked to AI infrastructure, such as Sam Altman-backed Oklo, whose stocks have soared despite having little to no revenue (Jinjoo Lee/Wall Street Journal)

A look at some US energy companies linked to AI in...

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Counsel Health, which uses a medical AI chatbot and human physicians to provide virtual care, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and GV (Emma Beavins/Fierce Healthcare)

Counsel Health, which uses a medical AI chatbot an...

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Paris-based Upciti, which offers city operations software and hardware to over 150 municipalities in 17 countries, raised a $20M Series A led by Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Paris-based Upciti, which offers city operations s...

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Boston-based OneLayer, which offers zero-trust security and device management for private 5G and LTE networks, raised a $28M Series A led by Maor Investments (Dan Jones/Fierce Network)

Boston-based OneLayer, which offers zero-trust sec...

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Prisma Photonics, which develops AI-based tech for monitoring infrastructure using existing optical fiber networks, raised $30M, taking total funding to $80M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Prisma Photonics, which develops AI-based tech for...

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Sources: Chinese companies including Ant Group and JD.com pause plans to issue stablecoins in Hong Kong after instructions from regulators not to move ahead (Financial Times)

Sources: Chinese companies including Ant Group and...

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