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Elon Musk Is Digging Tunnels Under Nashville

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-26 22:10:47

Somehow, Elon Musk keeps convincing cities to allow him to dig under them. The latest locale to give The Boring Company the rights to displace dirt directly under their feet is Nashville, Tennessee, which announced an agreement this week to allow Musk’s firm to build a 10-mile “loop” that will connect the city’s airport and convention center—an arrangement that has modestly improved traffic flow in Las Vegas while turning the city into a laughingstock of the infrastructure design community. The

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ChatGPT’s new Study Mode is designed to help you learn, not just give answers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-26 22:00:34

The rise of large language models like ChatGPT has led to widespread concern that "everyone is cheating their way through college," as a recent New York magazine article memorably put it. Now, OpenAI is rolling out a new "Study Mode" that it claims is less about providing answers or doing the work for students and more about helping them "build [a] deep understanding" of complex topics. Study Mode isn't a new ChatGPT model but a series of "custom system instructions" written for the LLM "in col

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Anthropic reportedly nears $170B valuation with potential $5B round

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-12-26 22:59:36

In Brief Anthropic is nearing a deal to raise between $3 billion and $5 billion in funding, valuing the large language model developer at $170 billion, Bloomberg reported. Iconiq Capital is leading this funding round, but there’s a possibility of a second lead investor joining the deal. The company has also been in talks with Qatar Investment Authority and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, according to the report. If finalized, the deal would nearly triple Anthropic’s valuation, which w

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OpenAI is launching a version of ChatGPT for college students

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-12-27 03:18:45

A handful of college students who were part of OpenAI’s testing cohort—hailing from Princeton, Wharton, and the University of Minnesota—shared positive reviews of Study Mode, saying it did a good job of checking their understanding and adapting to their pace. The learning approaches that OpenAI has programmed into Study Mode, which are based partially on Socratic methods, appear sound, says Christopher Harris, an educator in New York who has created a curriculum aimed at AI literacy. They might

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Get ready to be embarrassed: YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you’re an adult

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 03:08:32

We’re currently in the middle of a rather regrettable trend taking hold across the globe, as online services increasingly demand that users positively authenticate themselves — or at the very least establish their ages. Over in the UK they’re all having a bunch of fun* (fun not guaranteed) with the Online Safety Act right now, and the US is likely to face a new wave of similar requirements, after a bad Supreme Court ruling last month. Earlier this year, YouTube shared some of its own plans for a

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ChatGPT's new study mode aims to teach students, not do the work for them - and it's free

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-27 03:00:18

Getty Images/Rodrigo Key takeaways ChatGPT's new study mode works through questions with students. It's available to logged-in ChatGPT Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users. Study mode will get improvements in the near future. Since generative AI tools such as ChatGPT launched, a debate has emerged: Will they impede students' education by doing their work for them? OpenAI's latest ChatGPT feature seeks to tackle that issue head-on. OpenAI unveiled study mode in ChatGPT, Tuesday. It's a learning

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The Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 Could Be the Best Laptop to Replace Your Desktop Yet

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-27 03:15:07

2025 The first thing you notice about the Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 is the AniMe lights. The pixelated LEDs (also found on devices like the ROG Phone 9), flowing in a rhythm from a back strip like a scar streaked dashingly across a warrior’s eye, let you know what you’re in for before you even crack open the lid. The Strix Scar 18 is a fine gaming laptop with plenty of enticing qualities and one major flaw. But what makes it so appealing isn’t the dancing lights that are only attractive to moths o

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Google Search is becoming smarter with these AI Mode improvements

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 08:00:12

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s AI Mode is getting a host of new features on mobile and desktop. AI Mode on mobile gets a live video search option, which is accessible through Google Lens. On desktop, AI Mode gets file support and a Canvas option for taking notes while researching. Google’s AI Mode is gradually expanding beyond Search and recently made its way to other apps used to look up information on your phone, including Google Lens and Circle to Search. In doing so, it

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Microsoft Introduces 'Copilot Mode' in Edge

news.ycombinator.com Microsoft Edge Blog 2025-12-27 08:07:12

For decades, the way we’ve used browsers has remained linear: open a tab (or 20), search for something, read a page, repeat. It’s a model that’s worked well, but it hasn’t fundamentally changed. Until now. As AI begins to reshape nearly every facet of digital life, we’re witnessing a turning point in how we interact with the web. Now, it’s worth asking: is your browser working for you as much as it should? This is why today we’re excited to launch Copilot Mode, a new experimental mode in Micros

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The U.S. Could Lose a Crucial Futuristic Telescope to Spain if Trump’s Budget Passes

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-27 08:40:22

Spain has offered to spend up to €400 million ($471 million) to host the Thirty Meter Telescope, an enormous observatory project facing imminent cancellation due to U.S. budget constraints. If Spain strikes a deal, the TMT would be built on La Palma in the Canary Islands rather than on Mauna Kea, a mountain in Hawaii. In 2016, La Palma became the backup location for the observatory in case the primary site in Hawaii didn’t work out as an option, according to the TMT International Observatory. N

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Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-12-27 08:10:42

Mark Zuckerberg is on a warpath to recruit top talent in the AI field for his newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs. After trying to gut OpenAI (and successfully poaching several top researchers), he appears to have set his sights on his next target. More than a dozen people at Mira Murati’s 50-person startup, Thinking Machines Lab, have been approached or received offers from the tech giant. (Murati, for those who don’t remember, was previously the chief technology officer at OpenAI.) One o

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The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid

wired.com Javier Carbajal 2025-12-27 08:52:21

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only the virus but also the prolonged period of stress, isolation, loss, and uncertainty that the pandemic caused. A new scientific study, published this month in Nature Communications, has revealed that the pandemic may have accelerated brain aging in people even if they were never infected with the coronavirus. Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK analyzed brain im

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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge US defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-27 03:05:34

In the summer of 2021, Dimitrios Kottas made a move that would be unfathomable to most Silicon Valley engineers: after leaving his coveted position as an engineering manager at Apple’s Special Projects Group, he packed up his life in California and moved back to Athens to start a defense company. Three and a half years later, his startup, Delian Alliance Industries, has set up solar-powered surveillance towers that monitor some of Greece’s borders around the clock and detect wildfires on remote

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Adobe adds new AI-powered image-editing features to Photoshop

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-27 04:00:00

Adobe is bringing more AI-powered image-editing and enhancement features to Photoshop using its Firefly models. The company said today that it is rolling out an image-upscaling feature, an object blending, and an upgraded object remover to Photoshop. The company said that the Generative Upscale feature will enhance an image up to 8 megapixels. This is useful for restoring details to old photos, upscaling images for prints, or adopting assets for various platforms. In 2024, Adobe teased a featu

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OpenAI launches Study Mode in ChatGPT

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-27 09:00:00

OpenAI announced Tuesday the launch of Study Mode, a new feature within ChatGPT that aims to help students develop their own critical thinking skills, rather than simply obtain answers to questions. With Study Mode enabled, ChatGPT will ask users questions to test their understanding, and in some cases, refuse to offer direct answers unless students engage with the material. OpenAI says Study Mode is rolling out to logged in users on ChatGPT’s Free, Plus, Pro, and Team plans starting Tuesday. T

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Microsoft Edge now an 'AI-powered browser' with Copilot Mode

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-27 12:02:39

Microsoft has introduced Copilot Mode, an experimental feature designed to transform Microsoft Edge into a web browser powered by artificial intelligence (AI). As the company explained on Monday, this new mode transforms Edge's interface, with new tabs showing a single input box that combines chat, search, and web navigation functions. Once Copilot Mode is enabled, the AI assistant will be able to analyze all open browser tabs with the user's permission, comparing information and assisting wit

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2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 11:30:23

The 2025 Developer Survey is the definitive report on the state of software development. In its fifteenth year, Stack Overflow received over 49,000+ responses from 177 countries across 62 questions focused on 314 different technologies, including new focus on AI agent tools, LLMs and community platforms. This annual Developer Survey provides a crucial snapshot into the needs of the global developer community, focusing on the tools and technologies they use or want to learn more about.

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Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 12:15:24

✨ Xorq is an opinionated framework for cataloging, sharing, and shipping multi-engine compute as diffable artifacts for your data in flight. ✨ Xorq helps teams build declarative, reusable ML pipelines across Python and SQL engines like DuckDB, Snowflake, and DataFusion. It offers: 🧠 Multi-engine, declarative expressions using pandas-style syntax and Ibis. using pandas-style syntax and Ibis. 📦 Expression Format for Python in YAML, enabling repeatable compute. for Python in YAML, enabling repe

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Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-12-27 17:00:00

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 More developers than ever before are using AI tools to both assist and generate code. While enterprise AI adoption accelerates, new data from Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey exposes a critical blind spot: the mounting technical debt created by AI tools that generate “almost right” solutions, potentially undermining the productivity

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Photoshop's newest AI tool makes it easy to upscale old photos

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 16:59:43

Adobe is rolling out a series of new Photoshop tools in beta that it claims will eliminate "tedious steps, reduce friction, and make precision editing faster and more intuitive." The new features include Generative Upscale for desktop and web, allowing you to enhance images by up to 8 megapixels before losing quality. This tool can be used for things such as improving photos you want to print or updating older files. According to Adobe, this feature has been one of the most requested among its

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I tested Dell's XPS successor, and it beat my $3,000 Windows laptop in almost every way

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-27 17:00:00

Dell Premium 16 ZDNET's key takeaways The Dell Premium 16 starts at $1,800. This is a premium laptop capable of handling heavy workloads, especially graphic design, thanks to its top-notch hardware. However, it does share some of the same issues as its predecessor, like its tendency to run warm and power-hungry battery. View now at Dell I've been dying to get my hands on the new Dell Premium 16, mainly because it is a follow-up to the Dell XPS 16, a laptop that I reviewed back in early 2024 a

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This Linux app alerts you when an app tries to connect to the internet - and why that matters

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-27 17:06:36

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET OpenSnitch is a Linux port of the popular MacOS app Little Snitch. This app is essentially an application firewall that tracks network requests from apps, so you can create rules to block or allow those requests. Why is that important? Also: 7 things every Linux beginner should know before downloading their first distro Say, for example, that you've installed a Linux app that shouldn't require internet access (those do still exist). You're using tha

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Photoshop's New AI Tool Wants to Help You Spend Less Time Relighting Photos

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 16:00:06

Photoshop is getting a new dose of generative AI, Adobe announced Tuesday. Three new Firefly-powered editing tools are rolling out now, including a new photo harmonization tool, a new upscaling feature to make images sharper and updates to its AI eraser. Adobe users got a sneak peek at the harmonize tool at last fall's creator conference, Adobe Max, when it was known as Project Perfect Blend. Adobe Applied Research Scientist Mengwei Ren told CNET at the time that the tool uses AI to create new

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Microsoft in talks to maintain access to OpenAI’s tech beyond AGI milestone

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-27 17:44:10

Microsoft is reportedly in advanced talks with OpenAI for a new agreement that would give it ongoing access to the startup’s technology even if OpenAI achieves what it defines as AGI, or advanced general intelligence. If the deal goes through, it would clear a key hurdle in OpenAI’s transition toward becoming a fully commercial enterprise. The companies have been negotiating regularly, and they could come to an agreement in a few weeks, Bloomberg reports, citing three anonymous sources. The rep

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Microsoft adds Copilot Mode to Edge browser, brings AI chat and voice control

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-27 22:17:00

What just happened? Microsoft is taking a bigger swing at everyday AI integration with the launch of Copilot Mode in its Edge browser. Now available on Windows and Mac, the update marks a significant step in Microsoft's push to embed AI directly into the browsing experience, making tasks like research, comparison shopping, and online navigation faster (to be seen), and voice-enabled. Copilot Mode blends chat, search, and navigation in a single input field. Rather than relying on users to manage

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FBI seizes $2.4M in Bitcoin from new Chaos ransomware operation

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-27 22:52:41

FBI Dallas has seized approximately 20 Bitcoins from a cryptocurrency address belonging to a Chaos ransomware member that is linked to cyberattacks and extortion payments from Texas companies. The crypto was seized on April 15, 2025, and was traced to an affiliate named "Hors," who is suspected of launching the attacks against the companies. "The seized funds were traced to a cryptocurrency address allegedly associated with a member of the Chaos ransomware group, known as 'Hors,' who has been

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This new Photoshop feature can boost image resolution in just one click, thanks to AI

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-27 22:00:18

Adobe / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Adobe Photoshop is a powerful photo-editing tool; however, learning how to use it can be daunting at first. As a result, Adobe has been sprinkling in AI features that make it easier to do more with a single click -- and today's drop is no different. Also: The best graphic design software of 2025: Feature-packed, professional tools On Tuesday, Adobe launched two new generative AI features in beta, powered by Adobe Firefly: Harmonize and Generative Upscale.

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I use Edge as my default browser - but its new AI mode is unreliable and annoying

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-12-27 22:39:00

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Microsoft's on a relentless quest to embed its Copilot AI into every software product it owns. That campaign takes another big step forward with the addition of some new generative AI features in the company's Edge browser. The latest release beefs up the capabilities of Copilot Mode, the chat-based search interface for Edge, on Windows PCs and Macs. You can use natural voice commands to navigate pages, and the chatbot can see all the open tabs in the c

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Photoshop just made it shockingly easy to edit objects and people into photos

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-27 22:00:00

Adobe is launching some new generative AI features for Photoshop that make it easier than ever to convincingly add or remove people and objects in photographs. An update rolling out today introduces AI image upscaling, improved object removal, and an automatic composition tool that can seamlessly blend new elements into images in just a few clicks. The “Harmonize” compositing feature builds on the Project Perfect Blend experiment that Adobe showcased last year. When you add a new object to a ph

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Adobe adds new AI-powered image editing features to Photoshop

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-27 22:00:00

Adobe is bringing more AI-powered image editing and enhancement features to Photoshop using its Firefly models. The company said today that it is rolling out an image upscaling feature, an object blending, and an upgraded object remover to Photoshop. The company said that the Generative Upscale feature will enhance an image up to 8 megapixels. This is useful for restoring details to old photos, upscaling images for prints, or adopting assets for various platforms. In 2024, Adobe teased a featu

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