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Jul 23, 2026 103

Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five ye...

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Jul 23, 2026 121

Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon

If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.

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Jul 23, 2026 102

AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors 

Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs...

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Jul 23, 2026 116

Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.

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Jul 23, 2026 149

Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on or...

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Jul 23, 2026 126

Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and ...

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Jul 23, 2026 123

The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left

On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to pr...

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Jul 23, 2026 89

How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines

Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, a...

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Jul 23, 2026 100

Nvidia bets physical AI can solve healthcare robotics’ data problem

Nvidia’s new Medical Physics Simulation framework treats healthcare robots as physical AI systems that need embodied experience to ...

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Jul 23, 2026 106

I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.

Sure, maybe your clock has a backup battery, but mine has a deployment pipeline!

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Jul 23, 2026 84

Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good

"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.

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Jul 23, 2026 99

AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under AI infrastructure deal

AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under an infrastructure agreement covering tens of billions of dollars’ worth of A...