DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.
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DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.
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Disney is testing a new AI-powered tool for Disney Plus that uses a natural language search, a voice query, or a suggested prompt to create a customized row of show and movie recommendations. Disney P...
Tomorrow Science Korean lunar orbiter snaps first pics of the SpaceX Falcon 9 crash site on the moon NASA believes the crater left by the rocket is around 60 feet wide. By Matt Tate Aug. 7, 2026 1:29 ...
ByteDance is reportedly training an AI model with roughly 10 trillion parameters as it tries to close the gap with leading frontier systems such as Anthropic's Mythos. The model is still in early pre-...
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What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, h...
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
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Microsoft Edge is ending support for the Manifest V2 extensions platform, which will cut off the uBlock Origin adblocker and others like it, just like Google Chrome did earlier this year. According to...
Hackers employing AI in their tactics are finding ways to exploit vulnerabilities that didn't even exist before.
Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.
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Looking to spend a weekend inside with a good binge? Gruv has The Lord of the Rings trilogy on 4K Blu-ray marked down to $49.99, just below Amazon’s price and only a little bit higher than the all-tim...
There's no evidence the truck will be a cheap EV truck, but what if it were?
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Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to b...
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Following the release of its premium and very expensive $650 The Collexion headphones in May, Sony could be taking its 1000X line of wireless noise-canceling headphones in a cheaper direction next mon...