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Tom Oberheim at 90: “I can never retire, first of all”
Four days before his 90th birthday, Tom Oberheim recalls staying awake in his Atlanta hotel room in 1979, unable to sleep while…
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The fight against AI data centers is just beginning
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AI agents win at Slay the Spire 2 after researchers replace growing chat logs with structured memory
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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Makes The Technical Case For Human-Centered AI Built On Customizable Model Weights
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AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It’s Stupid and Bad, Research Finds
Fiction generated by artificial intelligence is easy to spot because the output often lacks complex story structures and…
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OpenAI staffer maps out which of GPT-5.6 Sol’s five reasoning levels fits which task complexity
OpenAI employee Vaibhav Srivastav has published a guide detailing how the five reasoning tiers of GPT-5.6 Sol correspond…
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Behind the Blog: The Promise of the Internet
Jason Kottke is writing this post from Heathrow Airport while on a layover before returning to the US.…
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CVC private equity now has a majority stake in DistroKid, music distribution
CVC Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in DistroKid, while Insight VC retains a significant minority position.…
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Quoting Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel, writing for The Verge, argues that building practical augmented reality glasses requires continuous video recording and…
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“Kill complexity”: Maono launches no-nonsense audio interfaces aimed at content creators
Maono has released the P1 and P2 hybrid audio interfaces to address the workflow challenges faced by creators…
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Splice has expanded Spitfire Audio’s Originals virtual instrument range with four new libraries
Splice has announced four new Spitfire Audio Originals libraries alongside an upgrade to the full fidelity of the…
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Instagram’s Adam Mosseri: If you don’t like AI, ‘then you shouldn’t have it in your feed’
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, stated during a podcast interview that users who dislike artificial intelligence should simply…
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The Fed wants AI investor Marc Andreessen to help figure out if AI can tame inflation
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to advise the Federal Reserve on how artificial…
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OpenAI kills its Atlas browser after just eight months and folds everything into ChatGPT
OpenAI has discontinued its Atlas browser project less than eight months after its launch in October 2025. The…
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Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days
Bun has completely rewritten its core engine in Rust, abandoning Zig after the previous language caused persistent memory…
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A New Experiential Gallery Just Might Change Your Mind About AI Art
“We are literally in a renaissance,” says the artist Refik Anadol when asked about the current state of…
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Google Research Introduces SensorFM: A Wearable Health Foundation Model Pretrained on One Trillion Minutes of Sensor Data
Google Research has released SensorFM, a foundation model for wearable health data trained on 1 trillion minutes of…
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Beyerdynamic’s DT 270 Pro are the best monitoring headphones you can buy on a budget
Beyerdynamic have released the DT 270 Pro for £89, positioning them as the most affordable option in their…
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Profiling in PyTorch (Part 3): Attention is all you profile
Profiling in PyTorch (Part 3): Attention is all you profile This is the third post in a series…
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Robot Dogs, Teslas, and Rescue Helicopters: The UN AI Summit Was a Lot
Dodge past the live coding demos, the obstacle course of gadgets, and the people walking with glowing green…
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Meet LingBot-World-Infinity: An Open Causal World Model With An Agentic Harness
Robbyant, the embodied-intelligence unit within Ant Group, has released LingBot-World-Infinity. This causal video generation model functions as an…
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Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness
Fidji Simo has stepped down from her full-time position as OpenAI‘s chief of AGI work to become a…
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Microsoft’s carbon emissions went up 25 percent last year
Microsoft’s 2026 sustainability report confirms that the company’s carbon emissions rose by 25 per cent in 2025, reaching…
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Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
Anthropic is now one of SpaceX’s largest customers as of July 2026. Elon Musk confirmed this shift publicly…
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OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is ending Atlas, the artificial intelligence browser it launched in October, while shifting its focus to integrating…
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Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators’ Work for AI Training
Patreon has partnered with Cloudflare to stop AI training crawlers from scraping content on the site. This network-level…
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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna): A Three-Tier Model Family With Programmatic Tool Calling in the Responses API
OpenAI has made the GPT-5.6 family generally available, replacing the single-model approach with a three-tier structure. The suite…
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Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
Anthropic researchers have identified a hidden layer of activity inside Claude Opus 4.6 that reveals what the model…
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Meet Nemotron Labs 3 Puzzle 75B A9B: A Compressed Hybrid MoE LLM Delivering 2.03x Server Throughput
NVIDIA AI has released Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B, a compressed version of the Nemotron-3-Super model designed to increase server throughput. The…
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Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI
Google has introduced a new disclosure label within its My Ad Center to indicate when advertisements were created…
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Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1
Meta released a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the field…
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How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?
OpenAI has released Sol, a new frontier model, to the public. It is now considered at least as…
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Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI
Google is rolling out a new feature to help people understand when an ad they see was made…
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Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5
Anthropic subscribers will pay extra to use Claude Fable 5 starting July 12. The company is ending the…
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Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September
Meta is set to begin manufacturing its new AI processors in September, Reuters reported after accessing an internal…
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How to stop Meta’s AI image generator from using your Instagram photos
Meta launched Muse Image on Tuesday. The new tool lets users generate original images, edit photos, and create…
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The $28 Million Mistake That Inspired Estonia’s AI ‘Fuckup Finder’
Estonia lost €24 million in gambling tax revenue because a single word in a new law was wrong.…
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Marshall unveils new Auracast-enabled Action IV and Stanmore IV Bluetooth speakers
Marshall has released the Acton IV and Stanmore IV Bluetooth speakers, updating its home audio range with improved…
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Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger
Microsoft has confirmed that its monthly Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 will soon contain a greater number…
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The 1X Neo Robot Has Freaky Fast Fingers
Five-fingered hands have arrived for a home robot that can wash them and grip odd shapes. 1X, a…
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FL Studio 2026 has arrived: here’s everything you need to know
Image-Line has released FL Studio 2026, the latest version of the digital audio workstation that introduced a major…
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Numark launches two new controllers perfect for anyone who wants to start DJing
Numark has released two new DJ controllers, the Party Mix III and the MixTrack Go, designed for beginners…
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Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI
Anthropic has launched a new dashboard for its Claude chatbot that tracks user activity and gently nudges people…
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Say hello to Claude Wrapped
Anthropic has launched a new reflection feature for its Claude chatbot that generates annual usage reports similar to…
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Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding
Meta has released the Muse Spark 1.1 model via a new API to allow developers to integrate advanced…
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LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests
LinkedIn longform posts are 41 percent AI-generated, while X stands at roughly 33 percent New data from Pangram…
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Farmers Finally Get a John Deere Right to Repair Agreement That Doesn’t Screw Them Over
On Wednesday, John Deere agreed to broaden access to tractor and farm equipment repairs under a new antitrust…
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How Lightning in a Bottle 2026 made room for ambient music at 2am
Julianna Barwick was on stage at 2:15 am on 25 May in Bakersfield, California, using a Boss RC-50…
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FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer
Image Line’s FL Studio 2026 update allows Gopher, its built-in AI assistant, to perform specific audio tasks rather…
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Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie
Character.AI has launched c.ai Series, a new platform for short-form, episodic vertical videos generated almost entirely by artificial…
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Character.ai enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist
Character.ai is launching three original microdrama series, joining a market already crowded with apps and social platforms chasing…
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Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund
Nandan Nilekani is stepping down as a general partner at Fundamentum Partnership as the firm prepares to raise…
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“For decades, achieving apex results meant owning the right gear – this changes the equation completely”: Heritage Audio unveils new all-tube channel strip, TUBESTRIP
Heritage Audio has launched the TUBESTRIP, a new channel strip that combines a preamp, equaliser, and two compressors…
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AlphaTheta’s new XDJ-AN makes the leap from bedroom DJ to club booth a whole lot easier
AlphaTheta has released the XDJ-AN, a two-channel controller priced at €1,149 (including VAT) or $1,199 in the US.…
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OpenAI’s AI beats every human at AtCoder, a top competitive programming contest
An OpenAI system defeated every human competitor at the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026, solving all five problems…
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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B: A Compressed Hybrid MoE LLM Delivering 2.03x Server Throughput at Matched User Throughput
NVIDIA has released Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B, a compressed version of Nemotron-3-Super designed to increase server throughput by 2.03x while maintaining…
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Datalab Lift vs the Field: How a 9B Schema-First Extractor Compares with NuExtract3, LlamaExtract, Marker, and Docling
Datalab’s Lift is a focused document extraction tool with a specific promise: give it a PDF or image…
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Google AI Studio Adds Import from GitHub to Build a Deployable App
Google AI Studio is rolling out an ‘import from GitHub’ feature inside its Build mode. It takes a…
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Introducing GPT‑Live
OpenAI has updated the model powering the voice mode in the ChatGPT iPhone app. The previous system relied…
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Rewriting Bun in Rust
Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner has been promising this blog post (since May 9th) about his Zig…
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Robbyant Releases LingBot-VLA 2.0: An Open-Source 6B Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Model for Cross-Embodiment Robot Manipulation
Ant Group’s Robbyant has launched LingBot-VLA 2.0, an open-source Vision-Language-Action model designed to let robots manipulate objects across…
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POST playlist: a mix of new music for sleepless nights
The latest POST playlist for Refuge Worldwide focuses on new music, with a specific spotlight on Lebanon despite…
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Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%
Roberto Serrano, an economics professor at Brown University, replaced a standard written assessment with a mandatory in-person final…
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Netflix AI Team Cuts Wide-Partition Read Latency from Seconds to Milliseconds by Splitting Cassandra Partitions Per ID
Netflix engineers have reduced read latency for wide Apache Cassandra partitions from seconds to low double-digit milliseconds by…
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