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IBM releases a new mainframe built for the age of AI | TechCrunch
IBM is releasing the latest version of its mainframe hardware that includes new updates meant to accelerate AI adoption.The hardware and consulting company on Monday announced IBM z17, the latest version of its mainframe computer hardware. This fully encrypted...
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States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Industry Is Fighting Back – Slashdot
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New Mexico's legislature passed bills last week that would ban consumer products containing PFAS, joining a small but growing number of states taking action against these persistent "forever chemicals." If signed by the governor, the legislation would prohibit...
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Something Else for Europe and the U.S. to Disagree About: ‘Free Speech’
President Trump and Europe are clashing over tariffs, the war in Ukraine and the very purpose of the European Union’s existence. But they are also divided over free speech — with potentially far-reaching implications for how the digital world...
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How TidalX AI is Transforming Fish Farming: Are We on the Brink of an Aquaculture Revolution?
Deep within a rugged fjord in Norway, our team huddled around an enclosed metal racetrack, full of salt water, that stood 4 feet off the ground on stilts. We called the hulking metal contraption our “fish run.” Inside, a...
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These 12 Eye-Opening Graphs Reveal the State of AI in 2025
If you read the news about AI, you may feel bombarded with conflicting messages: AI is booming. AI is a bubble. AI’s current techniques and architectures will keep producing breakthroughs. AI is on an unsustainable path and needs radical...
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DeepSeek readies the next AI disruption with self-improving models
Barely a few months ago, Wall Street’s big bet on generative AI had a moment of reckoning when DeepSeek arrived on the scene. Despite its heavily censored nature, the open source DeepSeek proved that a frontier reasoning AI model...
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In ‘Milestone’ for Open Source, Meta Releases New Benchmark-Beating Llama 4 Models – Slashdot
It's "a milestone for Meta AI and for open source," Mark Zuckerberg said this weekend. "For the first time, the best small, mid-size, and potentially soon frontier models will be open source."Zuckerberg anounced four new Llama...
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‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in Britain
The mischievous posters began appearing all over London in the past two months.On the side of an East London bus stop, one of them shows Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, emerging from a Tesla’s roof with his hand...
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Can Using the Light Phone III Help Cure ‘Brain Rot’?
Dear readers, I have a confession: I am suffering from an ailment that the younger ones call “brain rot,” the inability to think deeply after too much scrolling on my phone. These days, it’s tough to even finish a...
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Google Gemini’s best AI tricks finally land on Microsoft Copilot
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Microsoft’s Copilot had a rather splashy AI upgrade fest at the company’s recent event. Microsoft made a total of nine product announcements, which include the agentic trick called Actions, Memory, Vision, Pages, Shopping, and...
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Trump 100 days: President celebrates by touting his record and blasting foes
Morgan Gisholt MinardBBC NewsReporting fromin Warren, MichiganHelena HumphreyReporting fromin Atlanta, GeorgiaUS President Donald Trump has celebrated the 100th day...