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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol just ran at 750 tokens a second, and it wasn't on Nvidia

OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 Sol running on Cerebras wafer-scale hardware at up to 750 tokens per second. Here's why the chip matters more than the ...

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AI

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a frontier model running on Cerebras at 750 tokens a second

OpenAI is previewing GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras hardware at up to 750 tokens a second, moving frontier inference off Nvidia GPUs. Here is why the speed ...

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AI

A Brown University professor made students sit a real exam. Half the class failed.

A professor at Brown University, one of America's eight Ivy League institutions, became so concerned about students submitting AI-generated work that ...

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Computing

DeepSeek is building its own AI chip to break free of Nvidia

DeepSeek is building its own AI chip aimed at inference to cut its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei. Here is what the move means for the wider chip race.

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Computing

Samsung's Q2 earnings guidance points to a chip recovery that is actually happening

Samsung Electronics has released its earnings guidance for the second quarter of 2026, and the figures are worth paying attention to even before the ...

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Computing

Oomwoo is a robot vacuum you 3D print yourself, and it never touches the cloud

Oomwoo is an open-source robot vacuum built from a Raspberry Pi, 2D LiDAR and a 3D-printed chassis, running fully offline with native Home Assistant ...

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Computing

Netflix pioneered binge-watching. Now its own success might be its biggest problem

There is a certain satisfaction in watching a company grapple with consequences of its own making.

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Gaming

Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios and it signals something bigger

Microsoft's gaming division is not having a quiet summer.

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Reviews

A laptop GPU just topped the Steam Hardware Survey for the first time

The June 2026 Steam Hardware Survey shows a laptop graphics card leading the GPU chart for the first time in the survey's history, alongside Windows ...

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Computing

iOS 27 beta lets you change how Siri sounds, and it is more useful than it sounds

Apple has quietly added something genuinely interesting to the latest iOS 27 beta: the ability to customise how Siri speaks to you.

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Computing

Intel's Crescent Island AI chip starts sampling this year, aimed straight at Nvidia

Intel confirmed its new Crescent Island AI data centre chip will begin sampling in the second half of 2026, part of a broader push to challenge ...

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Gadgets

Garmin's new budget Forerunner undercuts its own lineup, and it's the pick of the week

Garmin's newest entry-level Forerunner runs $249.99/£219.99/AU$399, upgrading meaningfully over the Forerunner 55 while staying well under Garmin's ...

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Computing

FCC moves to kill the rule that made ISPs show you their real fees

If you have ever signed up for broadband only to discover the actual monthly bill is notably higher than the advertised price, you will already ...

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Security

Cloudflare just gave every website a switch to cut AI off from its content

Cloudflare's new AI crawler policy blocks training and agent bots on ad-funded pages by default from September 15, 2026, unless site owners opt out.

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Reviews

The Ayaneo Next 2 costs up to $5,300, and that's not a typo

Ayaneo's flagship handheld gaming PC starts at $3,600 and tops out at $5,300 for 128GB of RAM and 2TB of storage, built around a two-year-old AMD ...

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Security

The 'first' AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human to pull it off

Everyone has been bracing for the moment AI goes fully rogue in the cybercrime world.

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Computing

Trump memecoin investors lost 3.8 billion dollars. Here's the full picture.

The numbers are in, and they are stark. An analysis published this week found that investors in the Trump memecoin collectively lost 3.8 billion ...

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Gadgets

How AR glasses like the Xreal R1 fake a 171-Inch screen without a headset

How do AR glasses work? Xreal's R1 projects a 171-inch virtual display at 240Hz from lenses the size of normal spectacles. Here's the optics behind ...

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Gaming

GTA VI pre-orders are live and the hype machine is in full effect

It's finally happening. Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders are now live, and the gaming world has responded with the kind of collective enthusiasm that ...

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Computing

Google's Fitbit Air is a screenless, 12-Gram band with a week of battery

Google's Fitbit Air ditches the screen for a 12-gram band with about a week of battery life.

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Space

Astronomers found a third galaxy with almost no dark matter

A third galaxy with little to no dark matter has been confirmed with the Keck Observatory, sitting in a strange linear chain that standard models ...

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AI

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new users - and it's about AI

Amazon has announced it will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk, its long-running crowdsourced labour platform.

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AI

AI schools for rich kids: Inside the tutoring trend splitting education

There's a new status symbol among a certain set of American parents, and it's not a particular school or a tutor with Ivy League credentials.

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Computing

The White House quietly deleted thousands of energy conservation pages during a heatwave

The timing is the kind of thing that would seem heavy-handed in a political thriller, but it happened in reality.

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Space

NASA launched an emergency mission to save the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth

The Swift Observatory has been one of NASA's most productive space telescopes since its launch in 2004.

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