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Tesla offers a $350 retrofit turn signal stalk after removing it from the Model 3

Leave it to Tesla to charge its customers for a feature it purposely left out. The company is now selling an almost $350 retrofit turn signal stalk for its Model 3 cars after removing from the initial model. Instead, it used buttons to activate the turn signal. As of now, the add-on is only available in the Chinese market. But, Model 3 drivers will need to shell out another 2,499 yuan ($348) to get a normal part of almost every car. However, there's a slight catch: The turn signal stalk is only

Intel 80286 emulator for Raspberry Pico

🕹️ Pico-286 Project The Pico-286 project is an endeavor to emulate a classic PC system, reminiscent of late 80s and early 90s computers, on the Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040/RP2350 microcontroller). It aims to provide a lightweight and educational platform for experiencing retro computing and understanding low-level system emulation. 🖥️✨ ⭐ Key Features 🧠 8086/8088/80186/286 CPU Emulation: At its core, the project emulates an Intel cpu up to 286 family. At its core, the project emulates an Intel

Google Translate Reportedly Adding AI Integration, Duolingo-Like Game Elements

Google Translate could soon get some major AI enhancements, like the ability to select different AI models and a game-like practice mode, according to a report from Android Police on Monday. Android analyst AssembleDebug looked into the Google Translate app's latest build, version 9.15.114, and found what appears to be new changes to the user interface. At the top, there's a new model selector, Fast and Advanced. Fast would presumably be for quick translation tasks, like deciphering menu items.

This one 15-inch MacBook Air sale is really worth taking a look at, here’s why

With every new Apple product launch, deals slowly crop up over time – and the MacBook lineup is no exception. The best deals tend to come after a model is no longer the latest and greatest, and there’s currently an unbeatable M3 MacBook Air deal that’s hard to pass up on, and once it sells out, there likely won’t be any more to go around. Apple released the new M4 MacBook Air in March, and since then, retailers have been trying to move inventory of older M3 models. For the most part, they have

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Hugging Face: 5 ways enterprises can slash AI costs without sacrificing performance

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Enterprises seem to accept it as a basic fact: AI models require a significant amount of compute; they simply have to find ways to obtain more of it. But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to Sasha Luccioni, AI and climate lead at Hugging Face. What if there’s a smarter way to use AI? What if, instead of striving for more (often unn

Nvidia releases a new small, open model Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 with toggle on/off reasoning

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Small models are having a moment. On the heels of the release of a new AI vision model small enough to fit on a smartwatch from MIT spinoff Liquid AI, and a model small enough to run on a smartphone from Google, Nvidia is joining the party today with a new small language model (SLM) of its own, Nemotron-Nano-9B-V2, which attained the highes

The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work

How AI researchers accidentally discovered that everything they thought about learning was wrong 18 Aug, 2025 The lottery ticket hypothesis explains why massive neural networks succeed despite centuries of theory predicting they should fail Five years ago, suggesting that AI researchers train neural networks with trillions of parameters would have earned you pitying looks. It violated the most fundamental rule in machine learning: make your model too large, and it becomes a glorified photocop

iOS 26 beta 7 adds toggle for new battery notifications

iOS 26 adds a brand new Adaptive Power mode to extend your iPhone’s battery, and in today’s beta 7 release there’s a Settings toggle for notifications. Here’s how it works. Adaptive Power notifications can now be enabled or disabled Adaptive Power is a new battery mode coming in iOS 26. It acts as a more moderate alternative to Low Power Mode, impacting performance far less but also bringing fewer battery savings. Here’s how Apple describes it: When your battery usage is higher than usual, i

GPT-5 is supposed to be nicer now

In Brief OpenAI announced late Friday that it’s updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.” The company recently launched the much-anticipated GPT-5 in a process that CEO Sam Altman admitted was “a little more bumpy than we’d hoped for,” with some users complaining that they preferred the previous model, GPT-4o. OpenAI is trying to address some of those complaints with this update, with changes that it says are “subtle” but will make GPT-5 “more approachable now.” “You’ll notice

Deals: M4 Mac mini $499, 24GB M3 MacBook Air $500 off, AirPods, portable SSD, more

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break Apple deals are kicking off the M4 Mac mini. Alongside ongoing deals on the heavily upgraded models, Amazon has now dropped the entry variant down to $499 shipped with the 512GB model at $110 off the list price. From there, we move over to some seriously discounted M3 MacBook Air models – the 15-inch 24GB and the 13-inch 24GB are both $500 off the list price and $400 under the MSRP on the comparable M4 models. Everything else awaits down below. Amazon just knocked t

Google Translate prepares speed vs accuracy modes for translation (APK teardown)

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on new features for Google Translate, including a new AI model picker. The model picker will let users choose between “Fast” and “Advanced” models, allowing them to choose between quick translations or more accurate ones powered by Gemini. Only English-Spanish/French pairs are supported so far for the Advanced model. Google has been working on several major new features for Google Translate. These include AI-enabled translations, a r

Microsoft is finally improving Windows 11’s dark mode

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft first introduced a dark mode option in Windows 10 in 2016, but there were still plenty of areas of the operating system that looked like a mish-mash of light and dark modes. Nearly a decade later, the latest preview build of Windows 11 now includes even more darkened UI elements.

Anthropic's Claude AI now has the ability to end 'distressing' conversations

Anthropic's latest feature for two of its Claude AI models could be the beginning of the end for the AI jailbreaking community. The company announced in a post on its website that the Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models now have the power to end a conversation with users. According to Anthropic, this feature will only be used in "rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions." To clarify, Anthropic said those two Claude models could exit harmful conversations, like "requests

Anthropic: Claude can now end conversations to prevent harmful uses

OpenAI rival Anthropic says Claude has been updated with a rare new feature that allows the AI model to end conversations when it feels it poses harm or is being abused. This only applies to Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, the two most powerful models available via paid plans and API. On the other hand, Claude Sonnet 4, which is the company's most used model, won't be getting this feature. Anthropic describes this move as a "model welfare." "In pre-deployment testing of Claude Opus 4, we included a pr

Changing these 12 settings on my Android phone extended its battery life by hours

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I've spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, but growing up with only budget models meant I was constantly tweaking device settings to squeeze every bit of juice out of their batteries. Thanks to this micromanaging, I successfully pushed the batteries on all my past smartph

Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3

💜 Wan | 🖥️ GitHub | 🤗 Hugging Face | 🤖 ModelScope | 📑 Paper | 📑 Blog | 💬 Discord 📕 使用指南(中文) | 📘 User Guide(English) | 💬 WeChat(微信) Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models We are excited to introduce Wan2.2, a major upgrade to our foundational video models. With Wan2.2, we have focused on incorporating the following innovations: 👍 Effective MoE Architecture : Wan2.2 introduces a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture into video diffusion models. By separating the denoising

We Hit 100% GPU Utilization–and Then Made It 3× Faster by Not Using It

We recently used Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B to embed millions of text documents while sustaining near-100% GPU utilization the whole way. That’s usually the gold standard that machine learning engineers aim for… but here’s the twist: in the time it took to write this blog post, we found a way to make the same workload 3× faster, and it didn’t involve maxing out GPU utilization at all. That story’s for another post, but first, here’s the recipe that got us to near-100%. The workload Here at the Daft

IQ Tests Results for AI

Does this site show that AIs are biased? As of 2023, every major AI is economically left-wing and also relatively socially libertarian. Some AIs are much more like that than others, however, with Claude tending towards being one of the most moderate models, and Google’s Bard being one of the most extreme-left models. An AI’s political bias is shaped by two main things:

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OpenAI is improving ChatGPT voice mode

ChatGPT's Voice mode is already pretty good, but OpenAI is working on a new feature that will allow you to control how Voice mode actually works. As you can see in the screenshot below, OpenAI has added "Voice speed" to the ChatGPT web app settings for voice mode. This means you can control how fast ChatGPT can speak. You can lower it to 0.5x or make it as far as 2.0x. There is a slider that allows you to specify the ChatGPT pace. These options are currently hidden. Also, OpenAI has added "c

OpenAI prepares Chromium-based AI browser to take on Google

OpenAI is testing an AI-powered browser that uses Chromium as its underlying engine, and it could debut on macOS first. My sources tell me that OpenAI has already started updating ChatGPT to power the Chrome rival. OpenAI is building an AI-powered tab selection, a new tab page, and a feature that allows the browser to do the browsing for you. It could be similar to Copilot mode in Edge. OpenAI already has Agent mode in ChatGPT. For those unaware, Agent mode in ChatGPT is powered by a Linux t

AI apps are like music

This is a mental discussion I have been having for the last two months. It is about pricing in AI. I have one actionable recommendation: Kill that damn model picker. I have been coding a specific AI app. Exciting stuff. Product is obvious. I even got a plan for distribution from day 1. Or day 0. Everything clicks. Except one thing. Pricing. It's tormenting me. The Cursor Problem or is it? Everyone describes AI apps the same way: "Cursor for X." Fair enough. Cursor nailed something import

GPT-5's Voice Mode Can Hold a Decent Conversation, but Please Don't Talk to ChatGPT in Public

Sitting in the lobby of the auto body shop waiting for a repair estimate, I realized I'd forgotten my earbuds. Normally, that's not a major issue, but I was talking to my phone. And I wasn't talking to another person. I was talking to ChatGPT. It felt as embarrassing as asking Siri a question from across the room or joining a Zoom meeting sans headphones in an open office. I'm testing the advanced voice mode that comes with GPT-5, OpenAI's latest version of the generative AI model behind ChatGP

OpenAI Progress

As an AI language model, I can't express personal desires, emotions, or thoughts like a human would. However, in the spirit of your question, I can suggest some interesting questions or topics that a conversation with a future AI model might encompass: New advances and capabilities: I might ask about any major leaps in AI technology since my training data, such as groundbreaking developments in natural language processing, computer vision, or reinforcement learning. Addressing the AI alignment

Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation

The perception is that model improvement seems to be stagnating. GPT-5 wasn’t the step change that people were expecting. Yet, models continue to improve on reasoning benchmarks. Recently, both OpenAI and Google models were on par with gold medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 (IMO). At the same time it’s still difficult to make AI agents work for relatively simple enterprise use cases. Why is there such a disparity in model performance between problem domains? Why are mode

This researcher turned OpenAI’s open weights model gpt-oss-20b into a non-reasoning ‘base’ model with less alignment, more freedom

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI’s new, powerful open weights AI large language model (LLM) family gpt-oss was released less than two weeks ago under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — the company’s first open weights model launch since GPT-2 in 2019 — but developers outside the company are already reshaping it. One of the most striking examples comes from Jack Morr

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Sam Altman Admits OpenAI "Totally Screwed Up"

It has been a very long week for OpenAI, whose hotly anticipated GPT-5 model launch landed with a large thud. The company chose to shut down all previous models in favor of its new one, a controversial move that triggered sheer outrage among fans who had grown attached to GPT-4o, a prior model with a "warmer" personality. Within roughly a day of the drop, CEO Sam Altman changed course and allowed paid subscribers access to GPT-4o once more. It was a prescient move, and one that belied his own

Brands might be cooling on satellite features, and that’s bad news for cheaper Androids

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Chinese brands are scaling back satellite communication and keeping it for top-end models only. A reliable tipster says past high-end sat-com flagships sold poorly and were dropped. This could make global brands less likely to bring the feature to affordable phones. Satellite communication has been one of the most talked-about phone features in the past couple of years, and it’s no longer just for emergencies. Just this week, our APK teardown showed h

Imagen 4 is now generally available

We're excited to announce that Imagen 4, our most advanced text-to-image model, is now generally available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. This release marks a significant step forward in text-to-image generation quality, with substantial improvements in text rendering over our previous models. The Imagen 4 family: A model for your creative needs In addition, we're thrilled to launch Imagen 4 Fast, our new model built for speed, which is now available alongside the powerful Imagen 4

Developers Say GPT-5 Is a Mixed Bag

When OpenAI launched GPT-5 last week, it told software engineers the model was designed to be a “true coding collaborator” that excels at generating high-quality code and performing agentic, or automated, software tasks. While the company didn’t say so explicitly, OpenAI appeared to be taking direct aim at Anthropic’s Claude Code, which has quickly become many developers’ favored tool for AI-assisted coding. But developers tell WIRED that GPT-5 has been a mixed bag so far. It shines at technica

Open-Sourced AI Models May Be More Costly in the Long Run, Study Finds

As more businesses adopt AI, picking which model to go with is a major decision. While open-sourced models may seem cheaper initially, a new study warns that those savings can evaporate fast, due to the extra computing power they require. In fact, open-source AI models burn through significantly more computing resources than their closed-source rivals when performing the same tasks, according to a study published Thursday by Nous Research. The researchers tested dozens of AI models, including