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The new Sonos Play has become my go-to desk and kitchen speaker
The new Sonos Play can act as a portable speaker inside and outside your home.
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Skoda’s Peaq is a seven-seat electric SUV built to undercut the Kia EV9 and Ioniq 9 on price
Skoda has revealed the Peaq, its first seven-seat all-electric SUV and the most expensive car in the Czech automaker’s 130-year hi…
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Grassroots opposition blocked $130 billion in US data center projects in the first three months of 2026
Grassroots opposition to data center construction in the United States has reached a scale that is starting to reshape where and w…
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Fable 5 was beating GPT 5.5 on every major benchmark. Then the US government pulled it offline.
Anthropic’s Fable 5 spent three days as the most capable AI model ever released to the public. It topped the Chatbot Arena leaderb…
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GM says its autonomous cars will eventually be capable of running as robotaxis too
General Motors shut down Cruise, its $10 billion robotaxi division, in December 2024. Eighteen months later, the company’s chief p…
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Spotify removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes promoting illegal drugs, but only after a senator forced its hand
Spotify has removed more than 57,000 fake podcast episodes and banned 3,500 accounts tied to illegal drug promotion after a US Sen…
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NHS England rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff after trial reports 43 minutes saved per day
NHS England is giving more than 505,000 clinicians and support staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot in what will be the largest A…
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As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future
Tech leaders debate whether the Anthropic episode is a wake-up call for India’s AI ambitions.
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Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand
Meta starts dismantling its $2 billion Manus acquisition after Beijing ordered the deal reversed.
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Amazon’s CEO reportedly triggered the government crackdown that shut down Anthropic’s most powerful AI
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was reportedly the source of security concerns that led the US government to force Anthropic to shut down Fa…
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KPMG pulled its AI report after UBS, the NHS, and others said its claims about them were made up
KPMG has pulled a report titled “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI“ after multiple organisations said the claims it m…
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A Tesla on Autopilot swerved into someone’s garage door in Washington. Police are investigating.
A Tesla driver in Redmond, Washington, claims the car’s self-driving mode malfunctioned before it swerved into a residential garag…
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KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations
Once again, AI proves to be an unreliable source of information about AI.
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Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models o…
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Microsoft is considering spinning off Xbox entirely as the division’s margins hit 3%
Microsoft has not ruled out spinning off its Xbox division into a separate company. The Information reported that options under co…
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OpenAI faces investigation from state attorneys general
It's not clear which states are involved, but they're asking about everything from OpenAI's ad policies to its handling of health …
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This thin under-pillow speaker helped me fall asleep without earbuds
I’ve struggled with insomnia since I was very young. Like many chronic overthinkers, I tend to fall asleep best when my mind is oc…
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Final Fantasy VII Revelation was built in three years because 95% of the team stayed
Final Fantasy VII Revelation, the conclusion to the remake trilogy, will launch in spring 2027. That is just three years after the…
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Windows 11 finally finds files when you type two characters instead of three
Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday update quietly fixes one of Windows Search’s longest-standing irritations. The search box now …
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The FBI built a fake town to train agents for cyberattacks. It has a hospital, a power company, and 200 servers.
The FBI has revealed a 22,000 square-foot replica town on its Huntsville, Alabama, campus built to train law enforcement in simula…
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The FBI built its own replica small town to simulate real-world cyberattacks
Hidden inside a building in Alabama, the FBI has created its own small town as a dedicated cyber training ground for simulating cy…
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Andrew Yang says the next startup wave isn’t building AI. It’s lowering the cost of living.
Andrew Yang thinks the biggest startup opportunity of the next decade is not building AI. It is lowering the cost of living for th…
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DOJ clears Paramount’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without conditions
The US Justice Department has cleared Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring any c…
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CoreWeave joins the Nasdaq-100 just 15 months after its IPO, capping a wild ride from crypto mining to AI darling
CoreWeave, the AI cloud infrastructure company that began life as a New Jersey cryptocurrency mining operation called Atlantic Cry…