<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>zPlatform AI News</title><description>The latest AI news, updated daily. Top stories from 30+ AI sources.</description><link>https://zplatform.ai/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership</title><link>https://deepmind.google/blog/google-deepmind-and-a24-announce-first-of-its-kind-research-partnership/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://deepmind.google/blog/google-deepmind-and-a24-announce-first-of-its-kind-research-partnership/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:25:43 GMT</pubDate><category>google</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>The only AI glossary you’ll need this year</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/03/artificial-intelligence-definition-glossary-hallucinations-guide-to-common-ai-terms/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/03/artificial-intelligence-definition-glossary-hallucinations-guide-to-common-ai-terms/</guid><description>The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:20:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>NVIDIA AI Introduces ASPIRE: A Self-Improving Robotics Framework Reaching 31% Zero-Shot on LIBERO-Pro Long Tasks</title><link>https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/03/nvidia-ai-introduces-aspire-a-self-improving-robotics-framework-reaching-31-zero-shot-on-libero-pro-long-tasks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/03/nvidia-ai-introduces-aspire-a-self-improving-robotics-framework-reaching-31-zero-shot-on-libero-pro-long-tasks/</guid><description>NVIDIA&apos;s ASPIRE writes and refines robot control programs, then distills validated repairs into a reusable skill library. It gains up to 77 points on LIBERO-Pro and transfers zero-shot to unseen…</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:32:47 GMT</pubDate><category>nvidia</category><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>The browser wars aren’t about search anymore, here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/03/as-the-browser-wars-heat-up-here-are-the-hottest-alternatives-to-chrome-and-safari-in-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/03/as-the-browser-wars-heat-up-here-are-the-hottest-alternatives-to-chrome-and-safari-in-2026/</guid><description>We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:43:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>A device that revives eyeballs from dead donors could make eye transplants possible</title><link>https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/03/1140148/a-device-that-revives-eyeballs-from-dead-donors-could-make-eye-transplants-possible/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/03/1140148/a-device-that-revives-eyeballs-from-dead-donors-could-make-eye-transplants-possible/</guid><description>It’s not easy to transplant a whole human eye. The surgery is difficult. And the eyes themselves start to degenerate as soon as they’ve left the body. When surgeons attempted it a few years ago, the…</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:34:37 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs</title><link>https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961311/anthropic-claude-science-ai-drug-development</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961311/anthropic-claude-science-ai-drug-development</guid><description>At the event &quot;The Briefing: AI for Science&quot; earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new &quot;AI workbench for scientists&quot; that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment,…</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:56:52 GMT</pubDate><category>anthropic</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start</title><link>https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-unionization-talks-are-off-to-a-rocky-start/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-unionization-talks-are-off-to-a-rocky-start/</guid><description>During negotiations on Wednesday, employees voiced frustrations with what they consider an unwillingness among executives to engage meaningfully with the prospect of unionization.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>google</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>The Download: a smoking “endgame” and a new Elizabeth Bear story</title><link>https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/03/1140134/the-download-uk-smoking-ban-elizabeth-bear-story/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/03/1140134/the-download-uk-smoking-ban-elizabeth-bear-story/</guid><description>This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m…</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:10:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered</title><link>https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961265/midjourney-medical-ultrasound-scanner-behind-the-scenes-video</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/961265/midjourney-medical-ultrasound-scanner-behind-the-scenes-video</guid><description>Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scanner. It still hasn&apos;t shown much proof it works. The AI startup, best known for generating images, released a behind-the-scenes video of its…</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:49:10 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Mistral AI Releases Leanstral 1.5: An Apache-2.0 Lean 4 Code Agent Model Solving 587 of 672 PutnamBench Problems</title><link>https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/03/mistral-ai-releases-leanstral-1-5-an-apache-2-0-lean-4-code-agent-model-solving-587-of-672-putnambench-problems/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/03/mistral-ai-releases-leanstral-1-5-an-apache-2-0-lean-4-code-agent-model-solving-587-of-672-putnambench-problems/</guid><description>Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5, a free Apache-2.0 code agent model for Lean 4. It saturates miniF2F and solves 587 of 672 PutnamBench problems. The 119B mixture-of-experts activates 6.5B…</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:20:26 GMT</pubDate><category>mistral</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>This GoPro Hero13 Black Action bundle is $100 off (and it&apos;s perfect for documenting summer adventures)</title><link>https://www.zdnet.com/article/gopro-hero13-black-action-bundle-july4-deal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/gopro-hero13-black-action-bundle-july4-deal/</guid><description>You can pick up a GoPro camera bundle for under $400 at Best Buy during the July 4th weekend.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:00:44 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Designing a Schema-Guided Invoice Intelligence Pipeline with lift-pdf for Accounts-Payable Extraction, Validation, and Ledger Generation</title><link>https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/03/schema-guided-invoice-intelligence-pipeline-with-lift-pdf/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/03/schema-guided-invoice-intelligence-pipeline-with-lift-pdf/</guid><description>In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end accounts-payable extraction pipeline with lift-pdf, using synthetic invoice PDFs as controlled test documents and a structured JSON schema as the target…</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:25:33 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporting it anyway.</title><link>https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/03/1140036/uk-tobacco-ban-might-not-work-children-smoking/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/03/1140036/uk-tobacco-ban-might-not-work-children-smoking/</guid><description>As the parent of two little girls, I often think about how their childhood is different from mine. The seven-year-old is learning about AI at school. The five-year-old is given internet-based…</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>My canvas art TV gets endless compliments, and it&apos;s cheaper than Samsung&apos;s Frame TV</title><link>https://www.zdnet.com/article/hisense-canvas-s7-july-4-deal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/hisense-canvas-s7-july-4-deal/</guid><description>The Hisense Canvas Art TV is on sale for $350 off during July 4th weekend.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:57:57 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>I found the 20+ best 4th of July phone deals: Save big on Galaxy, Pixel, iPhone, and more</title><link>https://www.zdnet.com/article/july-4-phone-deals-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/july-4-phone-deals-2026/</guid><description>Score big Fourth of July savings on flagship smartphones from Samsung, Google, Apple, and more.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:31:05 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>The best July 4th TV deals: Up to 50% off Samsung, Sony, and more</title><link>https://www.zdnet.com/article/july-4-tv-deals-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/july-4-tv-deals-2026/</guid><description>This weekend marks America&apos;s 250th birthday, which means you&apos;ll save big on TV deals from top brands, all thoroughly vetted and tested by our experts.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:00:48 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>I&apos;ve been reviewing laptops for years: These are the 15+ best July 4th laptop deals right now</title><link>https://www.zdnet.com/article/july-4-laptop-deals-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/july-4-laptop-deals-2026/</guid><description>The Fourth of July weekend brings tons of sales on top laptops we&apos;ve reviewed, from Apple, Acer, Lenovo, and more.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:30:47 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>This E Ink tablet replaced my iPad and Kindle - and it&apos;s 30% off on Amazon right now</title><link>https://www.zdnet.com/article/tcl-nxtpaper-11-plus-july-4-deal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/tcl-nxtpaper-11-plus-july-4-deal/</guid><description>If you&apos;re in the market for a tablet, look no further than the TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus, especially at this price for the Fourth of July.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:14:14 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>The best July 4th deals: Save on Anker, Garmin, Apple, and more</title><link>https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-july-4-deals-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-july-4-deals-2026/</guid><description>Fourth of July weekend is here, and there are plenty of deals to celebrate, on everything from TVs to laptops to useful gadgets.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:45:15 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/mark-zuckerberg-tells-staff-that-ai-agents-havent-progressed-as-quickly-as-hed-hoped/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/mark-zuckerberg-tells-staff-that-ai-agents-havent-progressed-as-quickly-as-hed-hoped/</guid><description>At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:38:10 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/jersey-mikes-ipo-illustrates-how-bad-the-ai-hype-has-become/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/jersey-mikes-ipo-illustrates-how-bad-the-ai-hype-has-become/</guid><description>Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike&apos;s IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But lo and behold.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:11:59 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>funding</category></item><item><title>Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/meta-quietly-launches-vibe-coded-gaming-app-pocket/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/meta-quietly-launches-vibe-coded-gaming-app-pocket/</guid><description>Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:44:02 GMT</pubDate><category>meta</category><category>tools</category></item><item><title>Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/anthropic-is-discussing-a-new-custom-chip-with-samsung/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/anthropic-is-discussing-a-new-custom-chip-with-samsung/</guid><description>The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:31:09 GMT</pubDate><category>anthropic</category><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>Joyride Through July With 12 Games Coming to GeForce NOW</title><link>https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-july-2026-games-list/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-july-2026-games-list/</guid><description>Summer is heating up, and GeForce NOW is taking players along for the ride. Start the month with Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains, bringing a galaxy far, far away to the iconic board-game…</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:00:23 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Please stop the AI confidence theater</title><link>https://www.elenaverna.com/p/please-stop-the-ai-confidence-theater</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.elenaverna.com/p/please-stop-the-ai-confidence-theater</guid><description>Article URL: https://www.elenaverna.com/p/please-stop-the-ai-confidence-theater Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774414 Points: 229 # Comments: 247</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:51:17 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Achieving operational excellence with AI</title><link>https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1140045/achieving-operational-excellence-with-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1140045/achieving-operational-excellence-with-ai/</guid><description>Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity in the chaos, a structured way to bring order to messy, sprawling operations.…</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:37:08 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/openai-proposed-donating-5-of-its-equity-to-a-us-sovereign-wealth-fund/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/openai-proposed-donating-5-of-its-equity-to-a-us-sovereign-wealth-fund/</guid><description>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the…</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:20:51 GMT</pubDate><category>openai</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Meet WebBrain: An Open-Source, Local-First AI Browser Agent That Reads Pages and Automates Tasks in Chrome and Firefox</title><link>https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/02/meet-webbrain-an-open-source-local-first-ai-browser-agent-that-reads-pages-and-automates-tasks-in-chrome-and-firefox/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/02/meet-webbrain-an-open-source-local-first-ai-browser-agent-that-reads-pages-and-automates-tasks-in-chrome-and-firefox/</guid><description>WebBrain is a free, MIT-licensed AI browser agent for Chrome and Firefox. It reads pages, extracts data, and automates multi-step tasks through Ask and Act modes. Run it on local models like…</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:55:47 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>tools</category></item><item><title>Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/microsoft-launches-its-own-ai-deployment-company-with-2-5-billion-commitment/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/microsoft-launches-its-own-ai-deployment-company-with-2-5-billion-commitment/</guid><description>Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:53:00 GMT</pubDate><category>microsoft</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Teaching AI to run with the turbines</title><link>https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1138433/teaching-ai-to-run-with-the-turbines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1138433/teaching-ai-to-run-with-the-turbines/</guid><description>Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential use cases are unfolding far from consumer-facing tools. In…</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:51:44 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Can Cursor Remain a Platform for OpenAI and Anthropic’s Models Inside SpaceX?</title><link>https://www.wired.com/story/can-cursor-remain-an-open-platform-inside-of-spacex/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.wired.com/story/can-cursor-remain-an-open-platform-inside-of-spacex/</guid><description>Cursor hopes to continue offering third-party AI models after it&apos;s acquired by SpaceX, testing the relationships between frontier AI labs.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:01:20 GMT</pubDate><category>openai</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>How Amazon Bedrock catches AI-generated phishing</title><link>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-amazon-bedrock-catches-ai-generated-phishing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-amazon-bedrock-catches-ai-generated-phishing/</guid><description>Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose a new challenge for security teams managing email…</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:55:41 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Best practices for multi-turn reinforcement learning in Amazon SageMaker AI</title><link>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/best-practices-for-multi-turn-reinforcement-learning-in-amazon-sagemaker-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/best-practices-for-multi-turn-reinforcement-learning-in-amazon-sagemaker-ai/</guid><description>In this post, we share best practices for reliable multi-turn RL training. We cover how to build a training environment you can trust, set up an external evaluation, design a reward aligned with the…</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:50:23 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>The Download: a startup has a solution for AI’s groupthink problem</title><link>https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1140027/the-download-ai-groupthink-llms/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1140027/the-download-ai-groupthink-llms/</guid><description>This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is…</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:10:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/yep-were-using-openclaw-to-date-now/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/yep-were-using-openclaw-to-date-now/</guid><description>Ben Guez has &quot;a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs,&quot; thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trials.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Interfaze Ships diffusion-gemma-asr-small, an Open-Source Diffusion ASR Model Transcribing Six Languages via DiffusionGemma’s Parallel Denoising Decoder</title><link>https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/02/interfaze-ships-diffusion-gemma-asr-small-an-open-source-diffusion-asr-model-transcribing-six-languages-via-diffusiongemmas-parallel-denoising-decoder/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/02/interfaze-ships-diffusion-gemma-asr-small-an-open-source-diffusion-asr-model-transcribing-six-languages-via-diffusiongemmas-parallel-denoising-decoder/</guid><description>Interfaze open-sourced diffusion-gemma-asr-small, a multilingual ASR model that transcribes via diffusion, not autoregression. It adds audio to Google&apos;s frozen DiffusionGemma using a ~42M-parameter…</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:24:23 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom</title><link>https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/960588/openai-government-5-percent-stake-trump</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/960588/openai-government-5-percent-stake-trump</guid><description>OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the…</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:23:27 GMT</pubDate><category>openai</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders’ target</title><link>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-floats-giving-us-5-stake-to-win-over-ai-haters/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-floats-giving-us-5-stake-to-win-over-ai-haters/</guid><description>Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:12:25 GMT</pubDate><category>openai</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>NVIDIA Unlocks AI Compute at Scale, Inviting Partners to Power the AI Infrastructure Buildout</title><link>https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-unlocks-ai-compute-at-scale-capital-partners-to-power-ai-infrastructure-buildout/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-unlocks-ai-compute-at-scale-capital-partners-to-power-ai-infrastructure-buildout/</guid><description>As AI moves from model development to production inference, compute demand is accelerating and shifting toward continuously operating AI factories that generate tokens at scale. This shift requires…</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:34:48 GMT</pubDate><category>nvidia</category><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>Fable 5 just set a new AI freelance work performance record - but it can&apos;t replace humans yet</title><link>https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-fable-5-freelance-work-performance-record/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-fable-5-freelance-work-performance-record/</guid><description>The newly reinstated Anthropic model topped charts for automating work. Here&apos;s what that means for the future.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:29:26 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Why California’s carbon manure math doesn’t add up</title><link>https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1139981/why-californias-carbon-manure-math-doesnt-add-up/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1139981/why-californias-carbon-manure-math-doesnt-add-up/</guid><description>Something stinks in California’s climate policies. 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Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech</title><link>https://www.wired.com/story/why-meta-is-charging-a-subscription-for-on-device-smart-glasses-features/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.wired.com/story/why-meta-is-charging-a-subscription-for-on-device-smart-glasses-features/</guid><description>You bought the hardware. 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We prepare a Colab environment, enter our OpenAI API key at…</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:38:34 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>The 10 most popular products ZDNET readers bought last month (including during Prime Day)</title><link>https://www.zdnet.com/article/most-popular-products-zdnet-readers-bought-last-month-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/most-popular-products-zdnet-readers-bought-last-month-2026/</guid><description>From gadgets to streaming, these are the top tech gadgets and useful items our readers actually purchased in June.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:42:07 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Meet Alibaba’s Page Agent: A JavaScript In-Page GUI Agent That Controls Web Interfaces With Natural Language Through the DOM</title><link>https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/02/meet-alibabas-page-agent-a-javascript-in-page-gui-agent-that-controls-web-interfaces-with-natural-language-through-the-dom/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/02/meet-alibabas-page-agent-a-javascript-in-page-gui-agent-that-controls-web-interfaces-with-natural-language-through-the-dom/</guid><description>Alibaba&apos;s Page Agent runs as client-side JavaScript inside the webpage. It reads the live DOM as text, then clicks and types from natural-language commands. 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Here&apos;s how to set spend limits, enable hard caps, and avoid surprise AI bills.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:51:00 GMT</pubDate><category>openai</category><category>tools</category></item><item><title>Inside Genebench-Pro</title><link>https://openai.com/index/genebench-pro/case-studies</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://openai.com/index/genebench-pro/case-studies</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Introducing GeneBench-Pro</title><link>https://openai.com/index/introducing-genebench-pro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://openai.com/index/introducing-genebench-pro</guid><description>Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>research</category></item><item><title>Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug</title><link>https://openai.com/index/core-dump-epidemiology-data-infrastructure-bug</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://openai.com/index/core-dump-epidemiology-data-infrastructure-bug</guid><description>OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Microsoft&apos;s new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server in the enterprise</title><link>https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-azure-linux-4-0-could-replace-windows-server-in-enterprise/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-azure-linux-4-0-could-replace-windows-server-in-enterprise/</guid><description>Microsoft&apos;s Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:41:00 GMT</pubDate><category>microsoft</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash</title><link>https://deepmind.google/blog/start-building-with-nano-banana-2-lite-and-gemini-omni-flash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://deepmind.google/blog/start-building-with-nano-banana-2-lite-and-gemini-omni-flash/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:02:40 GMT</pubDate><category>google</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>NVIDIA and Partners Build in America, for America</title><link>https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-and-partners-build-in-america-for-america/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-and-partners-build-in-america-for-america/</guid><description>NVIDIA and its partners are investing in American manufacturing, supply chains, energy grids and skilled workforces so the U.S. can produce the infrastructure needed for better healthcare,…</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:00:47 GMT</pubDate><category>nvidia</category><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity</title><link>https://openai.com/index/mapping-ai-jobs-transition-eu</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://openai.com/index/mapping-ai-jobs-transition-eu</guid><description>A new OpenAI report maps how AI could reshape jobs across the EU, highlighting which occupations may face automation, growth, or workflow changes.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Protect your right to run local AI</title><link>https://righttointelligence.org/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://righttointelligence.org/</guid><description>Article URL: https://righttointelligence.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768951 Points: 515 # Comments: 182</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:54:03 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>I tried Brave&apos;s new stripped down Origin browser, and now it&apos;s my top Chromium-based pick</title><link>https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-origin-browser-hands-on/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-origin-browser-hands-on/</guid><description>If you like the idea of Brave&apos;s browser security, but all of the other features just get in your way, the developers have created a solution for you.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:00:56 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/spacex-has-an-ai-device-prototype-and-it-sure-sounds-phone-ish/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/spacex-has-an-ai-device-prototype-and-it-sure-sounds-phone-ish/</guid><description>SpaceX reportedly showed investors a &quot;handset-like&quot; AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:54:18 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/ashton-kutcher-leaving-sound-ventures-to-launch-new-vc-firm-with-morgan-beller/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/ashton-kutcher-leaving-sound-ventures-to-launch-new-vc-firm-with-morgan-beller/</guid><description>Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher&apos;s new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies, the infrastructure…</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:47:22 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>HP Inc. launches Frontier strategic partnership with OpenAI</title><link>https://openai.com/index/hp-frontier-partnership</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://openai.com/index/hp-frontier-partnership</guid><description>HP Inc. scales its OpenAI Frontier partnership to deploy AI across customer experiences, software development, and enterprise operations.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>openai</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn’t ready for it</title><link>https://www.theverge.com/tech/959503/google-home-speaker-review-gemini-for-home</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.theverge.com/tech/959503/google-home-speaker-review-gemini-for-home</guid><description>Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling second act. Beyond music, timers, and controlling your lights, they&apos;ve struggled to justify taking up space on the kitchen…</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:20:52 GMT</pubDate><category>google</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/cloudflares-new-policy-pushes-ai-companies-to-pay-for-publishers-content/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/cloudflares-new-policy-pushes-ai-companies-to-pay-for-publishers-content/</guid><description>Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:48:37 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.</title><link>https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/01/1140003/llms-are-stuck-in-a-groupthink-rut-this-startup-is-trying-to-get-them-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/01/1140003/llms-are-stuck-in-a-groupthink-rut-this-startup-is-trying-to-get-them-out/</guid><description>Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and…</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:35:16 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/venice-ai-becomes-a-unicorn-with-65m-series-a-as-its-privacy-first-ai-platform-takes-off/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/venice-ai-becomes-a-unicorn-with-65m-series-a-as-its-privacy-first-ai-platform-takes-off/</guid><description>Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:25:23 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>funding</category></item><item><title>Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/gemini-spark-googles-agentic-assistant-is-now-available-on-mac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/gemini-spark-googles-agentic-assistant-is-now-available-on-mac/</guid><description>Google&apos;s 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:20:19 GMT</pubDate><category>google</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Builders Stage agenda revealed: Practical strategies for scaling startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/builders-stage-agenda-revealed-practical-strategies-for-scaling-startups-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/builders-stage-agenda-revealed-practical-strategies-for-scaling-startups-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/</guid><description>The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together 10,000+ founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations. and Q&amp;A on what it takes to build and…</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/meta-like-spacex-looks-to-turn-excess-ai-compute-into-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/meta-like-spacex-looks-to-turn-excess-ai-compute-into-cash/</guid><description>Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google…</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:43:07 GMT</pubDate><category>meta</category><category>other</category></item><item><title>Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return</title><link>https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958964/anthropic-claude-fable-5-is-back</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958964/anthropic-claude-fable-5-is-back</guid><description>After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access…</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:11:31 GMT</pubDate><category>anthropic</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>The Download: Anthropic launches Claude Science, and California’s carbon manure math</title><link>https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/01/1139996/the-download-anthropic-claude-science-california-carbon-manure/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/01/1139996/the-download-anthropic-claude-science-california-carbon-manure/</guid><description>This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an…</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:10:00 GMT</pubDate><category>anthropic</category><category>models</category></item><item><title>Hugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AI</title><link>https://huggingface.co/blog/cerebras-gemma4-voice-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://huggingface.co/blog/cerebras-gemma4-voice-ai</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>industry</category><category>other</category></item></channel></rss>