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23andMe's New Owners Inherit a Lawsuit Alleging the Company Paid Ransom and Hid the Scale of Its 2023 DNA Breach
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Groq Is Raising $650M and Quietly Pivoting Away From Hardware
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A decade-old server chip can run a 26-billion-parameter AI model — no GPU required
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An OpenAI Model Cracked a Math Problem That Stumped Humans for 80 Years
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AWS Is Reportedly Adding Grok to Bedrock. Nobody Asked For It.
Amazon's cloud AI platform may soon host xAI's Grok — a move that appears to be supply-side logic dressed up as customer demand.
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A billion AI agents walk into a power grid — and Postgres may be part of the answer
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SurrealDB Says It Beats Postgres, Mongo, and Redis. Read the Fine Print.
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Apple Isn't Building Smart Glasses to Beat Meta — It's Building Them to Replace Your Optometrist's Display Case
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AMD's Contrarian Computex Play: Stop Buying New Things
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Chrome and Safari still dominate — but a new wave of browsers is making a serious case for your address bar
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A 4-Billion-Parameter Image Model That Runs on Your Laptop — If the 1-Bit Bet Pays Off
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 cuts fast-mode pricing by 67% — and its own system card flags a troubling new behavior
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Accenture Is Buying Ookla, the Company Behind Speedtest
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The Oldest Trick in Distributed Systems Is Still the One Engineers Keep Forgetting
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