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Date: 2026-06-27
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SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk's orbital data center hype

Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers . Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of Softbank, argued at a recent shareholder meeting that building data centers in space won’t do much to cut costs and will take too long when “in the battle for AI, the next few years will be far more important than what might happen a decade or so from…

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Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garbage in, garbage out’

Maraget Atwood, the storied author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin , was interviewed as part of the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal. As it usually does at these things, the issue of AI came up, and Atwood didn’t mince words.

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Apple wants permission to buy memory from a blacklisted Chinese supplier

Apple is looking to alleviate some of the pressure on its supply chain by seeking an exception from the Trump administration to buy RAM chips from CXMT, a company blacklisted by the Pentagon over ties to the People’s Liberation Army, according to the Financial Times . The skyrocketing prices of RAM and storage have driven Apple to raise prices on almost…

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Frame (artificial intelligence)

My first exposure to “frames” (the data structure) was when I took my “Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR)” class in college. That class was an elective.

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Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman . Meade also reportedly led the development of the AI-powered smart glasses that Apple plans to launch next year .

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Why is Apple asking me to pay more for Big Tech’s AI obsession?

Tim Cook recently said price increases were “ unavoidable ” and described the company’s pricing as “ unsustainable .” The 16-inch MacBook Pro saw its price go up by $300. The 11-inch iPad Air went from $599 to $749.

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Indie developers got tired of waiting for a new Star Fox, so they’re making their own

Nostalgia remains a powerful force. So much so that, in exploring the echoes of a late-’90s childhood spent skimming the water of Corneria and sneering “cocky little freaks!” in time with a monkey encased in a Gundam suit, I’m simultaneously describing playing Star Fox 64 ( Lylat Wars if you’re nasty) in 1997 and streaming it through Nintendo Switch Online…

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Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic's export ban drags on

On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 reportedly unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropic’s Mythos. That’s the cybersecurity-focused AI model that is reportedly so powerful, the Trump Administration has currently banned it and its more restricted version , Fable 5, from the hands of non-Americans.

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Inside the room where the smart home industry is still betting on Matter

Four years ago, overlooking a canal in Amsterdam, the smart home industry collectively launched Matter , the one interoperability standard to rule them all. Heralded as the solution to the industry’s struggles, Matter was built on open standards and existing technologies and is the result of years of collaboration between traditional rivals, including…

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[AINews] OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra / Luna - restricted to trusted partners

Against the backdrop of ongoing Anthropic-Fable negotiations and a relaxation of Mythos controls, GPT-5.6 was announced today, but with limited access to trusted partners. It is Mythos-beating at a subset of coding agent tasks: But OpenAI took strong pains to explain that this model both Mythos-beating and also not as capable at Cyber as Mythos: GPT‑5.6…

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24 Prime Day deals Verge readers are grabbing before Prime Day ends

There are an overwhelming number of Prime Day deals to sort through, which is why we spend so much time highlighting products we’ve already tested and can stand behind . But our recommendations are only one way to identify a worthwhile deal: another is seeing which products fellow Verge readers actually buy.

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Anthropic’s Mythos 5 is back

After a rollercoaster negotiation process with the Trump administration that dragged on for two weeks, Anthropic’s Mythos 5 is finally back in action — at least, somewhat, for a select group of organizations, according to a letter from the government to Anthropic that was viewed by The Verge . Fable 5, however — the public-facing Mythos-class model —…

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