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The Apple iPad Mini with A17 Pro chip has dropped to its lowest price in 30 days on Amazon, now available for $649.99, a 13% discount from its original $749.99 price. The deal coincides with Amazon Prime Day, offering sa…
Shopify's head of engineering Farhan Thawar confirmed the company scrapped its internal AI token leaderboard after employees engaged in 'tokenmaxxing'—burning tokens to climb rankings rather than for useful tasks. Shopif…
A new service called ccMarvin lets users email marvin@ccmarvin.com to receive AI-powered research, portfolio tracking, and custom newsletters. The tool functions as a virtual research analyst, capable of monitoring news,…
Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park is hiring at least 300 more employees as part of its $1 billion expansion, which includes a new restaurant, sports bar, doughnut shop, hotel rooms, pool, and theater. The casino aim…
Online spending across all US retailers hit $8.3 billion on the first day of Amazon Prime Day, beating Adobe's estimate of $7.9 billion. Adobe expects total online spending to reach $26.3 billion over the four-day event,…
Riviera Partners, an Insight Partners-backed executive search firm, acquired Lateral Labs, an AI startup recruiter founded by former OpenAI recruiter Rob Infantino, to expand its AI and machine learning talent search cap…
Facebook announced on Wednesday it is reimagining its Creator Studio tool as a standalone AI companion app to help creators grow audiences, as Meta competes with TikTok and YouTube. The app, currently in testing, include…
EXL's subsidiary Clairvoyant AI agreed to acquire iMerit for up to $310 million, including $170 million upfront and $140 million in earnouts. The deal, expected to close in Q3 2026, adds iMerit's Ango platform and Schola…
Dashboards are visual interfaces that aggregate key metrics and data visualizations from multiple sources into a single screen, enabling users to monitor performance against specific goals. Modern dashboards query data d…
Figma announced Code Layers and Figma Make at Config 2026, turning its design canvas into a coding environment that directly competes with AI coding tools like Cursor and Replit. The new features allow designers to clone…
Fastly developed a capacity planning model using the Gini coefficient, a macroeconomic metric for inequality, to predict edge infrastructure needs. The model outperformed machine learning approaches by treating traffic i…
World, a crypto and digital identity project backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is expanding access to AgentKit, a framework that links AI agents to verified human identities via World ID. The platform helps businesses dis…
PC Guide editor Shaun Conroy, who has built and tested hundreds of PCs, has identified five prebuilt gaming PC deals on Amazon Prime Day that offer exceptional value and record-low pricing, including models from CyberPow…
A developer has created a small LLM that runs inside MIT's Scratch by compiling the llama2.c inference code to Scratch blocks using llvm2scratch. The project, called LLM from Scratch, allows users to generate text token-…
A peer-reviewed critique in Nature reveals that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough, claiming observation of Majorana particles, was based on Python programming errors. Dr. Henry Legg of the University of St. Andrews f…
Gartner predicts that by 2028, AI coding costs will surpass the average developer's salary due to surging token consumption and consumption-based pricing. Many organizations lack visibility into these costs, risking budg…
Home Depot is integrating AI across its operations, including a new AI assistant called Magic Apron and a customer service system built with Google Cloud, to enhance shopping and worker efficiency. The retailer has appoi…
DeepSeek's open-source reasoning model, which matched top closed systems on math and coding benchmarks, can be run locally via Ollama, but most users will only access smaller distilled versions, not the full headline mod…
Chunking strategies determine which slices of a document reach an AI model's context window, directly shaping retrieval accuracy. A 2026 benchmark found recursive 512-token chunking reached 69% accuracy versus 54% for se…
Elon Musk's xAI, now under the SpaceX umbrella, launched Grok Imagine Video 1.5 in early June 2026, offering 720p video generation with synchronized audio and competitive API pricing. The expansion comes as OpenAI retrea…