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Motorola and Swarovski team up for a super fancy Razr

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 12:53:08

Motorola and Swarovski are teaming up to create the crossover they knew we always wanted: a crystal-laden edition of the Razr . For those who just felt that their retro cell phone wasn’t special enough, the fancy new Pantone Ice Melt Razr features a 3D quilted leather-inspired finish with 35 hand-positioned Swarovski crystals, including one larger, 26-facet crystal on the hinge. The Pantone Ice Melt will cost a cool $1,000, though it will include a pair of the Moto Buds Loop . These open-ear bu

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I tested Dell's XPS successor, and it made my $3,000 Windows laptop look bad

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-20 12:09:00

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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US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 12:44:01

A new report out of Taiwan has revealed that the current US administration is tying the reduction on trade of trade tariffs on Taiwan to significant TSMC investment in the US. This investment includes a 49% stake in Intel. 4 Reviews ← exclude selected types The current US administration, led by President Donald Trump, has employed trade tariffs as the primary way to reduce the US's trade deficit with partner countries. However, the US tariff policy has been erratic and unpredictable. These tar

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OpenAI announces two “gpt-oss” open AI models, and you can download them today

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-20 12:00:27

OpenAI is releasing new generative AI models today, and no, GPT-5 is not one of them. Depending on how you feel about generative AI, these new models may be even more interesting, though. The company is rolling out gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since the release of GPT-2 in 2019. You can download and run these models on your own hardware, with support for simulated reasoning, tool use, and deep customization. When you access the company's proprietary models in the c

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OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-20 12:00:21

OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models in over five years. The two language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, can run locally on consumer devices and be fine-tuned for specific purposes. For OpenAI, they represent a shift away from its recent strategy of focusing on proprietary releases, as the company moves towards a wider, and more open, group of AI models that are available for users. "We're excited to make this model, the result of billions of dollars of research, available to

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OpenAI releases a free GPT model that can run right on your laptop

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-12-20 12:00:52

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI is releasing a new open-weight model dubbed GPT-OSS that can be downloaded for free, be customized, and even run on a laptop. The model comes in two variants: 120-billion-parameter and 20-billion-parameter versions. The bigger version can run on a single Nvidia GPU and performs similarly to OpenAI’s existing o4-mini model, while the smaller version performs similarly to o3-mini and runs on just 16GB

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OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-20 12:00:00

OpenAI announced Tuesday the launch of two open-weight AI reasoning models with similar capabilities to its o-series. Both are freely available to download from the online developer platform, Hugging Face, the company said, describing the models as “state-of-the-art” when measured across several benchmarks for comparing open models. The models come in two sizes: a larger and more capable gpt-oss-120b model that can run on a single Nvidia GPU, and a lighter-weight gpt-oss-20b model that can run

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Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.1 with improved software engineering accuracy

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-20 17:43:53

In May, AI firm Anthropic introduced its Claude 4 family of models with a focus on improvements to coding, reasoning, and following instructions. Three months later, Anthropic is back with Claude Opus 4.1, which it says upgrades “agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.” Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.1 improves software engineering accuracy to 74.5%. That compares to 62.3% with Claude Sonnet 3.7 and 72.5% with Claude Opus 4. More specifically, the updated model is better at “in-depth res

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Google's Pixel Watch 4, Fold Pro 10 and Buds 2a are rumored to launch later than the rest of its new gear

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 17:50:20

Google has an event lined up for August 20 and has promised to reveal "new Pixel phones, watches, buds" and more. However, rumors have been swirling that the company won't have many of these products ready to go after being unveiled. Winfuture has reported that the Pixel Watch 4, Fold Pro 10 and Buds 2a will be announced at the Made by Google event, but won't be available until October . The Pixel 10 line of smartphones will reportedly be available on August 28, which is just around a week afte

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Watch AI models compete right now in Google's new Game Arena

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-12-20 17:17:10

Google ZDNET's key takeaways: Google's new Game Arena will allow models to compete in games head-to-head. You can tune in to the Game Arena at 12:30 p.m. ET Tuesday. The goal is to open the door to potential new business applications. As artificial intelligence evolves, it's becoming increasingly difficult to accurately measure the performance of individual models. To that end, Google unveiled on Tuesday the Game Arena, an open-source platform in which AI models compete in a variety of str

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The Age of Bronze and Steel

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 00:18:24

The age of bronze and steel Here's a story I heard last night about 3D printing. (I'm not in the 3D-printing scene. I know people who are, though. And it's an interesting story, what the hell. If I can blog about dirty sea shanties, I can blog about the additive manufacturing industry.) A couple of months ago I retwooted this message about the end of a particular 3D-printed-metal process: Binder jetted steel with bronze infiltration is no more: the last source has discontinued the technology

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FCC Abandons Efforts to Make U.S. Broadband Fast and Affordable

news.ycombinator.com Karl Bode 2025-12-20 16:59:50

Trump FCC Abandons Efforts To Make U.S. Broadband Fast And Affordable from the this-is-why-we-can't-have-nice-things dept Section 706 of the Telecom Act requires the FCC to determine whether broadband is being deployed “on a reasonable and timely basis” to everyone. If the answer is no, the law says the FCC must “take immediate action to accelerate deployment of such capability by removing barriers to infrastructure investment and by promoting competition in the telecommunications market.” Fo

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Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 15:38:36

stagewise The frontend coding agent for production codebases About the project Welcome to stagewise — The frontend coding agent for production codebases 💬 Tell the agent what you want to change 🧠 Click on element(s) to let the agent know where a change should happen 💡 Let stagewise do the magic! Perfect for devs tired of pasting element information and folder paths into prompts. stagewise uses real-time, browser-powered context. Features ⚡ Works out of the box 🧩 Customize and extend fu

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2025 Morgan Plus Four review: Apparently, they do still make them like this

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-20 17:24:41

Lift up either side of the new Morgan Plus Four’s engine decklid and no carburetors or velocity stacks materialize on the engine of this otherwise eminently classic-looking car. The latest generation of Plus Four returns to the American market this year for the first time since 2005. But to make it happen, Morgan spent five years homologating the little roadster with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, technically as a replica. That's why, underneath the left-hand hood, a hilari

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Report: Intel struggles with new 18A process as it cuts workers and cancels projects

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-20 17:37:09

Intel has a lot riding on "18A," its next-generation manufacturing process for silicon chips that the company claims will help it catch up to the lead that competitors like TSMC have built up over the last few years. With 18A, Intel would return to manufacturing its own processor designs in its own factories, including the upcoming Series 3 Core Ultra chips for laptops (codenamed Panther Lake), after manufacturing parts of all other Core Ultra chips with TSMC. Intel is also offering 18A manufact

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Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-12-20 17:00:00

On July 21 at 9 am PT, Anthropic retired Claude 3 Sonnet, a lightweight model known for being quick and cost-effective. On Saturday, in a large warehouse in San Francisco’s SOMA district, more than 200 people gathered to mourn its passing. The star-studded funeral was put on by a group of Claude fanatics and Gen Z founders, one of whom told me he dropped out of college after learning about artificial general intelligence. Attendees included Amanda Askell, an Anthropic researcher who has jokingl

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Google’s Pixel 9A is cheaper than ever right now

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-12-20 17:05:38

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Google Pixel 9A is a midrange phone done right, offering a great balance of hardware, features, and value. Normally it costs $499, but now you can scoop up the 128GB model for an all-time low of $399 ($100 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store. The Pixel A-series has long been our go-to recommendation for a cheap Android phone, and the 9A keeps that streak alive. The device features a 6.3-inch

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GNOME's new AI assistant can even run Linux commands for you - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-20 22:29:57

Pakpoom Makpan/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways Newelle is an AI assistant for the GNOME desktop. It's capable of standard chats and even running commands. However, Newelle does require Flatseal to run commands on Linux. There's a new AI assistant available for the GNOME desktop, and it just reached version 1.0 status. That new AI assistant is called Newelle, and it's already proven to be a worthy contender for your desktop. Newelle isn't just another large language model manager, but a full-bl

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DeepMind thinks its new Genie 3 world model presents a stepping stone toward AGI

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-20 21:10:14

Google DeepMind has revealed Genie 3, its latest foundation world model that can be used to train general-purpose AI agents, a capability that the AI lab says makes for a crucial stepping stone on the path to “artificial general intelligence,” or human-like intelligence. “Genie 3 is the first real-time interactive general purpose world model,” Shlomi Fruchter, a research director at DeepMind, said during a press briefing. “It goes beyond narrow world models that existed before. It’s not specifi

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ElevenLabs launches an AI music generator, which it claims is cleared for commercial use

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-20 22:10:35

The AI audio-generation unicorn ElevenLabs announced a new model on Tuesday that allows users to generate music, which it claims is cleared for commercial use. This move marks ElevenLabs’ expansion beyond its main focus thus far in its three years of existence, which has been building AI audio tools. ElevenLabs is a leader among companies making text-to-speech AI products, and it has expanded into conversational bots and tools that translate speech into other languages. Alongside the launch, E

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Google DeepMind's Genie 3 can dynamically alter the state of its simulated worlds

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 03:00:52

At start of December, Google DeepMind released Genie 2. The Genie family of AI systems are what are known as world models. They're capable of generating images as the user — either a human or, more likely, an automated AI agent — moves through the world the software is simulating. The resulting video of the model in action may look like a video game, but DeepMind has always positioned Genie 2 as a way to train other AI systems to be better at what they're designed to accomplish. With its new Gen

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Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 03:08:52

Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds that you can navigate in real time at 24 frames per second, retaining consistency for a few minutes at a resolution of 720p. Towards world simulation At Google DeepMind, we have been pioneering research in simulated environments for over a decade, from training agents to master real-time strategy games to developing simulated environments for open-ended learning and robotics. This work motivated our development of world models, which are

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DeepMind reveals Genie 3 “world model” that creates real-time interactive simulations

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-21 03:00:36

While no one has figured out how to make money from generative artificial intelligence, that hasn't stopped Google DeepMind from pushing the boundaries of what's possible with a big pile of inference. The capabilities (and costs) of these models have been on an impressive upward trajectory, a trend exemplified by the reveal of Genie 3. A mere seven months after showing off the Genie 2 "foundational world model," which was itself a significant improvement over its predecessor, Google now has Geni

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DeepMind reveals Genie 3, a world model that could be the key to reaching AGI

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-21 03:10:14

Google DeepMind has revealed Genie 3, its latest foundation world model that the AI lab says presents a crucial stepping stone on the path to artificial general intelligence, or human-like intelligence. “Genie 3 is the first real-time interactive general purpose world model,” Shlomi Fruchter, a research director at DeepMind, said during a press briefing. “It goes beyond narrow world models that existed before. It’s not specific to any particular environment. It can generate both photo-realistic

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SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 08:39:57

SimpleW Features Routing API REST (Controller/Method + automatic json serialization/deserialization) Json Web Token Websocket Server Sent Events Static Files OpenTelemetry Documentation To check out docs, visit stratdev3.github.io. Changelog Detailed changes for each release are documented in the CHANGELOG. Contribution Feel free to report issue. License This library is under the MIT License.

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Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold might not go on sale until October

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-21 08:23:33

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is set to take the wraps off the latest additions to the Pixel lineup in just a couple of weeks, but some devices might not be available at launch. A new report from WinFuture suggests that Google is having “supply chain problems” that could push back the

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Pick up Apple's MacBook Air M4 while it's on sale for an all-time-low price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 12:06:39

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 . Whether you need a new MacBook for the upcoming semester or you've just been itching to upgrade from an older machine, now's a good time to buy. Amazon has a sale on the latest M4 MacBook Air that knocks up to 20 percent off many configurations. The base model is where you'll get the

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The 9 Best Chef’s Knives (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Molly Higgins 2025-12-21 12:06:00

Honorable Mentions Photograph: Molly Higgins New West Knifeworks Joy Bauer 6-Inch Chef Knife for $225: Like my New West Knifeworks pick above, this luxe knife is absolutely gorgeous with a bold red and white handle and accompanying embossed leather sheath. Created in collaboration with nutritionist and TV personality Joy Bauer, this 6-inch blade is a Japanese Santoku style, with a downward blade and sturdy top slope made from American-made 440C stainless steel. I found that food stuck to the s

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11 Best Chromebooks of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-12-21 12:30:00

The price for Chromebooks can range wildly, from $150 up to $800, and therefore the specs can vary. Processor: For the best experience, you should avoid older Chromebooks with Intel Celeron processors. The Chromebook Plus specifications offer a good baseline to guarantee speedy performance, and I’d recommend going with at least an Intel Core i3, Core i5, or AMD Ryzen 3 7000 processor. Just watch out for overspending on configurations with Intel Core i7 processors unless you need the extra horse

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We need to relearn how to use AI when it’s on our bodies

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-12-21 12:00:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Gemini has arrived on the wrist. It’s now in the latest Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 series, the Pixel Watch, and rolling out to a handful of other smartwatches. This is big. Huge, even. AI is out here disrupting life as we know it. Now, it’s making the leap from phones and laptops and onto the body. When the Galaxy Watch 8 launched, severa

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Motorola and Swarovski team up for a super fancy Razr

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