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Anthropic says roughly 950 Claude agents spent 21 hours and 210 million tokens narrowing 200,000 DNA sequences to one new enzyme system named ART. The filtering ran almost entirely in software, the part of the setup builders can copy.
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The same survey puts overall opposition at 61 percent among 1,503 likely voters, and New York's pause on large data-centre permits has not moved, so the people siting capacity are negotiating local politics in both parties.
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A San Francisco antitrust complaint says liability, regulation and competitive self-interest already force each lab to be careful, so no agreement among rivals on pace is needed. Meta's chief executive said much the same two days earlier.
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Andrew Bosworth told an Instagram AMA that a small number of bad actors are shaping the conversation about Meta's glasses. The Information reports a camera-free version, codenamed Luna, arrives at Connect on 23 September.
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The company published the number days before its Connect 2026 show, alongside ten directions that name the cluster hardware, memory systems and chip method it sells. The agent share is the part a budget has to absorb.
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Viabot's $24m Series A funds a sweeper whose route-planning cameras and lidar also identify loitering, with staff pulled in only when the machine notifies them. Deployments include retailers, universities and healthcare sites.
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Phone recording has been available at Storyworth since 2013, but the automated transcript only arrived in 2024. Two formats added in early 2026 hand the follow-up question to software or to a relative.
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Siri Recap summarises a wearer's conversations, and there is no audio file at the end of it. The attorneys Bloomberg asked about it say a state eavesdropping charge would reach the wearer.
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Business Insider, citing eight current and former employees, reports that Google's cofounder holds no executive title while making technical calls on Gemini from a desk the new DeepMind SVP shares. Google declined to comment.
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Capgemini's survey of 1,300 executives found 93% have taken the sovereignty question to the board, while only 14% can see across their own dependencies, an imbalance that makes the retreat from full independence an exercise in arithmetic, not strategy.
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Bloomberg says the model would stream worlds at about 20 frames a second with 50 milliseconds of latency. That is one frame of headroom, and every minute a Pico user spends inside one is compute somebody has to pay for.
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Uber ended Nigeria and Uganda with no notice to riders or drivers, and the FCCPC is now asking what it still owed customers when the app stopped. EU platform rules would have set a 30-day notice period; Nigeria's law does not.
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ARC Prize ran GPT-6 Astra under two scaffolds and published both, 62.7% through its own minimal interface and 99.9% through OpenAI's Provider Adapter, which cost less. An eval that leaves the harness loose is scoring plumbing.
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Bloomberg says executives have discussed an American majority shareholder. G42 already pulled Huawei gear out of its racks and wired US-specified monitoring into its own data centres, and each concession came with an expiry date.
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The FTC and 22 states say Amazon charged the full winning bid about 80% of the time while describing a second-price auction, so every target CPC built on that promise relied on a control input nobody had verified.
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The limits scale with device RAM and land on Pixel first with Android 17. The part that will get attention in planning meetings is the threat to Play Store visibility, which turns memory profiling into release work.
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The 26 August announcement listed the Senate, the Federal Reserve and NASA among a Chinese group's victims. By 28 August they were targets, and any team that opened an incident on day one was hunting a claim the affidavit did not contain.
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MIT's committee says models can credibly do essentially every written assignment it sets, which turns the problem from dishonesty into the missing human interactions that education and training products were built to sell.
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His memo wants an AI tax, jobs reserved for people and new institutions to manage the transition. Europe left the tax out of its 2017 robotics vote, so the part that travels is his claim that the industry crossed its own safety lines.
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PwC has US data center spending more than doubling by 2027. Deloitte's posting data shows crews arriving from outside the trades, and mentoring capacity is quietly the input that decides the schedule.
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