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Google’s Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-09-15 00:53:19

AI companies are battling to dominate the industry, but sometimes they’re also battling in Pokémon gyms. As Google and Anthropic both study how their latest AI models navigate early Pokémon games, the results can be as amusing as they are enlightening — and this time, Google DeepMind has written in a report that Gemini 2.5 Pro resorts to panic when its Pokémon are close to death. This can cause the AI’s performance to experience “qualitatively observable degradation in the model’s reasoning cap

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The best instant cameras you can buy right now

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-09-15 08:30:00

Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, you can capture a moment in a photo that you can see and touch almost immediately. Images captured by an instant camera aren’t as pristine or perfect as those produced by modern digital cameras, but their soft images and imperfections are often a big part of the allure. Yet not all instant cameras

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Google launches production-ready Gemini 2.5 AI models to challenge OpenAI’s enterprise dominance

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-09-15 16:55:56

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Google moved decisively to strengthen its position in the artificial intelligence arms race Monday, declaring its most powerful Gemini 2.5 models ready for enterprise production while unveiling a new ultra-efficient variant designed to undercut competitors on cost and speed. The Alphabet subsidiary promoted two of its flagship AI models—G

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Google’s updated Gemini 2.5 Flash pricing is good news and bad news

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-15 20:03:45

TL;DR Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is rolling out in preview. The stable versions of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro are also rolling out. The cost of input for Flash has gone up by $0.15, but the output has been reduced by $1.00. Google introduced Gemini 2.5 earlier this year, with Pro (experimental) being the first model in the series. A couple of months later, the company rolled out a faster model in early access, known as Gemini 2.5 Flash. Now the firm has an update on these two models and is launching

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Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

news.ycombinator.com Tulsee Doshi 2025-09-15 21:06:05

We designed Gemini 2.5 to be a family of hybrid reasoning models that provide amazing performance, while also being at the Pareto Frontier of cost and speed. Today, we’re taking the next step with our 2.5 Pro and Flash models by releasing them as stable and generally available. And we’re bringing you 2.5 Flash-Lite in preview — our most cost-efficient and fastest 2.5 model yet. Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro generally available Thanks to all of your feedback, today we’re releasing stable version

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Google’s Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-Lite

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-16 08:58:55

Google has announced a big expansion of its Gemini AI model family today. After months of tweaking and tuning, the high-power Gemini 2.5 Pro is leaving preview and is ready for developers to build on. Meanwhile, Google is offering a peek at its upcoming high-efficiency model, known as Gemini 2.5 Pro Flash-Lite. Try as it might, Google can't get away from confusing model names. Google's AI aspirations have been looking up in 2025 with the debut of Gemini 2.5. These models showed a marked improve

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We're expanding our Gemini 2.5 family of models

news.ycombinator.com Tulsee Doshi 2025-09-16 12:06:05

We designed Gemini 2.5 to be a family of hybrid reasoning models that provide amazing performance, while also being at the Pareto Frontier of cost and speed. Today, we’re taking the next step with our 2.5 Pro and Flash models by releasing them as stable and generally available. And we’re bringing you 2.5 Flash-Lite in preview — our most cost-efficient and fastest 2.5 model yet. Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro generally available Thanks to all of your feedback, today we’re releasing stable version

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6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-09-15 06:00:00

In just a few months, Donald Trump’s second presidential term has drastically reshaped the United States federal government and moved to consolidate the power of the executive branch. At the behest of the president, numerous federal agencies have undertaken aggressive, invasive initiatives to crack down on immigration, police speech, investigate political opponents, curtail US public health efforts and emergency preparedness, and more. With so much happening at once, numerous organizations and

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Borderlands 4 recommended specs call for an RTX 3080 and 32GB RAM

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-16 16:22:00

A hot potato: Now that people are no longer angry over Borderlands 4 possibly costing $80 (it's actually $70 for the standard edition), something else is causing plenty of outrage: the game's PC requirements. Asking for an RTX 3080 as the recommended GPU does seem excessive, and even the minimum specs are higher than expected. Borderlands 4's system requirements on its Steam page are certainly higher than one would expect. Even the bare minimum requirements, where we usually see ancient and/or

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Gemini preps a ‘Saved info’ rebrand as work on chat history search continues (Updated: Beta)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-16 19:25:18

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has recently updated Gemini with a boatload of in-development UI tweaks. Some include dropping the “Gemini” name from headers, and rebranding “Saved info.” We also see further progress on multiple changes to the way you view and access chat history. Update 2: June 17, 2025 (09:25 AM ET): The updated sidebar is now rolling out in beta with Google app v16.23.69. AssembleDebug / Android Authority However, the ability to search past conversation

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Apple Slashes 2024 M4 Mac Mini Price Below Black Friday, Feels Like a Surprise Clearout Sale on Amazon

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-09-17 04:10:18

The Mac Mini blew away the computing world when it debuted in 2005 — a Mac desktop computer with all of the processing power and cool features of its larger siblings, but at a fraction of the size. In a time when huge desktop towers were still common, the Mac Mini showed that bigger most definitely does not always mean better. See at Amazon Fast forward 20 years, and the Mac Mini is doing it all over again. The most recent redesign of the Mini dropped last year, and it’s somehow smaller and ev

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MiniMax-M1 is a new open source model with 1 MILLION TOKEN context and new, hyper efficient reinforcement learning

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-09-17 20:46:47

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Chinese AI startup MiniMax, perhaps best known in the West for its hit realistic AI video model Hailuo, has released its latest large language model, MiniMax-M1 — and in great news for enterprises and developers, it’s completely open source under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning businesses can take it and use it for commercial applications a

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Gemini overlay tries out a new look with a splash of Google colors (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-19 00:46:24

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A teardown of the Google app’s recent beta shows Gemini’s overlay UI may soon adopt Google’s brand colors. It replaces Gemini’s current two-tone colors with Google’s trademark red, blue, green, and yellow colors. The colors accent the mic button and highlight the chat box for interacting with Gemini. Google has gradually refined how Gemini appears over the past few months. The assistant’s interface has become more polished, and more integrated, with feat

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Apple's Mac Mini M4 is back on sale for $499

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 04:15:24

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . There's no denying that getting a high-quality computer is going to set your finances back a bit. So, when one of them gets discounted we want to scream it from the rooftops. Such is the case today with a solid sale on Apple's 2024 Mac mini (M4). Right now, the newest Mac mini is avai

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Gemini will auto-summarize your PDFs now and tell you what to do next

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-19 04:50:55

VINCENT FEURAY / Contributor / Getty Last year, Google introduced the ability for Gemini in Drive to interact with PDF files, summarizing a long document into digestible paragraphs. Gemini now has some new tricks related to PDFs stored in Drive, going beyond just a basic summary. Google introduced PDF summary cards for Gemini, Thursday. When you open a PDF stored in Drive, Gemini will proactively summarize the file's contents and suggest next actions like "Draft a sample proposal" or "List int

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Mac Mini won't power on? Apple will fix it for you - for free

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-19 08:24:00

Michael Gariffo/ZDNET Apple has revealed that a small percentage of Mac Mini computers won't power on. If you're one of the unlucky owners, don't worry, as a free fix is afoot. Which models are affected? Published on Friday, a new Apple support article, as spotted by MacRumors, offers the key details. The power issue affects 2023 Mac Mini machines with an M2 chip manufactured from June 16, 2024, to November 23, 2024. Though the company didn't explain how or why the problem popped up, it did p

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Race to mine metals for EV batteries threatens marine paradise

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-18 15:29:33

Race to mine metals for EV batteries threatens marine paradise 1 day ago Share Save Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Share Save Global Witness The Raja Ampat archipelago in Indonesia is sometimes referred to as the 'Amazon of the Seas' Stark images, captured from a drone by environmental campaigners and shared with the BBC, appear to show how nickel mining has stripped forests and polluted waters in one of the most biodiverse marine habitats on Earth. The Raja Ampat archipelago -

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The best Mini ITX PC cases of 2025: Expert recommended

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-19 16:00:36

I'm old enough to remember when PCs were huge, looming units. They had to be big to hold all the components that made up a PC. As gaming PCs became a thing, these were even bigger because the high-end components generated a lot of heat. In turn, the heat had to be dissipated with copious amounts of airflow. Thanks to Moore's law, components have become smaller and more efficient, to the point where even a gaming PC can fit into a surprisingly compact case. Also: The best portable power stations

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Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-19 15:14:24

In Brief Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls. Bloomberg reports that Taiwan’s International Trade Administration placed the two companies and their subsidiaries on an updated list of entities designated as strategic high-tech commodities. That means Taiwanese businesses will need government approval before they can ship anything to either company. As a result, Huawei and SMIC will lose acces

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How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router

news.ycombinator.com About Oleg Kutkov 2025-09-19 13:40:07

The Starlink Mini terminal is designed as a compact, all-in-one solution with an integrated Wi-Fi router. While this design is ideal for typical consumer use, certain applications—such as custom networking setups, embedded installations, or power-constrained environments—may benefit from removing the internal router entirely. In this article, I’ll detail the process of physically removing the built-in Wi-Fi router board from the Starlink Mini, allowing the terminal to operate solely via Ethernet

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Apple will repair some Mac minis powered by M2 chips for free

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 13:00:48

If you have a new-ish Mac mini that has recently conked out, you are not alone. Apple has just launched a worldwide service program for the 2023 Mac mini with M2 chips, because "a very small percentage" of them are having power issues and may no longer turn on. The company didn't say what was causing those power issues. While Mac minis powered by M2 chips were first released in 2023, the affected units were made between June 16, 2024 to November 23, 2024. Some of those computers may be nearing t

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The iPad Mini is 20% off, making my favorite portable tablet even easier to recommend

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-09-19 12:00:20

ZDNET's key takeaways The iPad Mini 7 is available for $499 but is currently $100 off. The compact iPad Mini 7 has gone everywhere with me this past week, fitting easily into bags and purses without weighing them down. Aside from the more powerful A17 Pro chip, the iPad Mini 7 isn't much of an upgrade (especially for 6th-gen users), plus its display tops out at 60Hz. $399 at Amazon $499 at Apple $499 at B&H Photo-Video more buying choices The iPad Mini 7 is currently $100 off at Amazon, start

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Beyond GPT architecture: Why Google’s Diffusion approach could reshape LLM deployment

venturebeat.com David Chen 2025-09-19 14:48:11

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Last month, along with a comprehensive suite of new AI tools and innovations, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion. This experimental research model uses a diffusion-based approach to generate text. Traditionally, large language models (LLMs) like GPT and Gemini itself have relied on autoregression, a step-by-step approach where each

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Apple launches Service Program for M2 Mac mini power issues

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-09-19 16:51:54

Apple has launched a new Service Program today for a “No Power Issue” affecting a small number of M2 Mac mini users. Affected users are eligible to have their Mac mini repaired at no charge. Apple says that the problem impacts a “very small percentage” of M2 Mac mini units that were manufactured between June and November 2024. The company explains: Apple has determined that a very small percentage of Mac mini (2023) devices with the M2 chip may no longer power on. Affected devices were manufa

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Gemini in Google Drive gets right to the point with automatic PDF summaries

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 12:50:10

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini can now read PDFs in Google Drive and create a summary card for quick viewing. The feature comes with buttons users can click to make Gemini take action on the PDF, such as creating a draft proposal. The update is rolling out now to all Workspace users. Google Drive has been getting a lot of Gemini love recently. Google added the ability for Gemini to browse your files and even watch videos for you. Now, Google is rolling out a new feature that gi

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Nvidia to exclude China from its revenue and profit forecasts

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-21 00:34:03

In Brief Nvidia doesn’t think the U.S. will backpedal its chip export restrictions to China anytime soon. The chipmaker is so convinced of that fact that it’s not going to include the Chinese market in its revenue and profit forecasts, CEO Jensen Huang told CNN on Thursday. Huang said he’s not counting on the Trump administration reversing its chip export controls and that it would be a nice “bonus” if they did. The Trump administration introduced licensing requirements for Nvidia’s H20 chip

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Google’s Gemini AI will summarize PDFs for you when you open them

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-21 04:48:19

Google is rolling out new Gemini AI features for Workspace users that make it easier to find information in PDFs and form responses. The Gemini-powered file summarization capabilities in Google Drive have now expanded to PDFs and Google Forms, allowing key details and insights to be condensed into a more convenient format that saves users from manually digging through the files. Gemini will proactively create summary cards when users open a PDF in their drive and present clickable actions based

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Trump administration throws wrench into $42 billion broadband rollout

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-21 21:15:00

The big picture: In a sudden policy shift, the Trump administration has thrown a wrench into the nation's largest broadband expansion effort, forcing states to overhaul plans to distribute $42 billion in federal funding aimed at closing the digital divide. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has put the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program on pause, unveiling sweeping new rules last week that require states to rethink how they allocate grants to Internet service providers. T

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, June 13

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 18:35:00

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. So, there's kind of a dad joke in today's NYT Mini Crossword. 4-Across is "dessert wine," and 6-Across is "desert whine." You can almost hear the rimshot from here. Thankfully, today's puzzle is no joke; it's pretty simple. But you could still get stumped. Need some help

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The best mini gaming PCs of 2025: Expert recommended

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-21 20:51:12

PCs have been through a number of evolutions in terms of size, transforming from hulking machines to something no bigger than a hardback book that packs enough power to handle the most demanding workloads. The same has happened with gaming PCs, and with their increased power and cooling demand, it's amazing just how much power and performance can fit into such a small package. Also: The best cheap gaming PCs you can buy If you don't have the space in your life for a huge gaming rig, a mini gam

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