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At The New York Times' Hard Fork, Microsoft’s CEO pushes workers to use the right model, not the biggest one.
The Opendoor decision lands as India becomes the world’s largest GCC market, shifting how tech leadership thinks about talent and build-versus-buy.
The ChatGPT maker claims covert influence operations targeted an American debate, but says it found no meaningful impact.
WSJ says OpenAI is considering major model price reductions to lure consumers away from Anthropic.
Smaller, interest-based spaces are coming to Bluesky, built on the decentralized AT Protocol ecosystem.
Two separate PRC playbooks collide: a revived botnet cluster and banned AI-driven social campaigns that tried to steer an AI datacenter debate.
Microsoft’s June patch for Windows 11 is small on paper, but big for latency-sensitive work, search speed, and risk.
Asha Sharma says Helix needs new business models because mass audiences cannot afford thousands for consoles.
Two studies from Writer find both “memory” and “personalization” make models defer to user assumptions in high-stakes tasks.
A new UC Berkeley ALE benchmark tries to measure real agent work, and even the best models still struggle.
The first Laptop 13 Pro batch now ships in July, with later batches potentially slipping into early September.
A hands-on look says Apple’s Siri AI is curt, and the subtext is bigger than manners: it signals how Apple thinks AI should behave.