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Waymo Heads to Toronto, Its Snowiest Test Yet, Aiming for Riders in 2028
Waymo got Ontario’s OK to start mapping and testing in Toronto, its first Canadian city, with first public rides targeted for 2028.…
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Nvidia’s RTX Spark Laptops Arrive With 128GB of Memory and a $2,599 Floor
Nvidia’s first Windows laptop superchip pairs a Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace Arm CPU and up to 128GB of unified memory.…
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Tesla’s Roadster Finally Shows Up With SpaceX Thrusters and a 2028 Promise
Nine years after the first tease, Tesla finally showed its second-gen Roadster, complete with SpaceX cold-gas thrusters and a $250,000 reservation tier.…
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Microsoft’s MAI-Base-2 Is a 2.8 Trillion-Parameter Bid to Need OpenAI Less
Microsoft AI finished pre-training MAI-Base-2, a mixture-of-experts model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, trained on 16,000 GB200s in 38 days.…
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TSMC’s Q3 Is So Good It’s Almost Boring: $46.7 Billion and a 66% Gross Margin
The world’s chip foundry posted 50.9% revenue growth, a 51.1% net margin, and guided even higher for Q4 as 2nm ramps. The…
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Linus Torvalds Used Claude Code on the Linux Page Cache. Reviewers Found a Race
Torvalds posted his first LLM-assisted patch series, a page-cache fix that hit 23x read throughput in a synthetic test. Kernel reviewers found…
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151 Apps, Including WeChat and Taobao, Tell ByteDance’s Phone Agent to Keep Out
ByteDance’s Doubao Phone Assistant can tap through apps for you. As its opt-out window closed, 151 apps, from WeChat and Alipay to…
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OpenAI Gives GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 3 Months to Live in the API
Five GPT-4-series snapshots leave OpenAI’s API on January 14, 2027, with gpt-6-luna as the suggested replacement. That’s 3 months’ notice, half the…
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Gemini 4 Argon Is Here, and Google Wants It Doing Your Hardest Homework
Google’s new frontier model ships everywhere at once, with a 1M-token input-output limit, an intro price that doubles after November 30, and…