Published on: 2025-06-08 15:40:00
The big picture: Apple and the European Commission are locked in a standoff over how tech firms should be regulated – a conflict being closely watched by the tech industry, app developers, and consumer advocates. The outcome could set a precedent for how digital marketplaces operate, not only in Europe but globally, as other jurisdictions consider similar measures to promote competition and curb the power of tech giants. Apple is facing a critical deadline in the European Union, with fewer than
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 20:40:00
The big picture: Apple and the European Commission are locked in a standoff over how tech firms should be regulated – a conflict being closely watched by the tech industry, app developers, and consumer advocates. The outcome could set a precedent for how digital marketplaces operate, not only in Europe but globally, as other jurisdictions consider similar measures to promote competition and curb the power of tech giants. Apple is facing a critical deadline in the European Union, with fewer than
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 09:09:34
Two humanoid robots traded punches while fans watched on, in a competition held in Hangzhou, China, on Sunday. The fight was part of the China Media Group World Robot Competition and featured robots developed by Unitree Robotics. The event included both fighting demonstrations and matches, marking a world-first combat sports event featuring humanoid robots.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 06:48:57
Spaced repetition memory system A spaced-repetition memory system combines the Testing effect and the Spacing effect to enable efficient memorization of many thousands of facts (Spaced repetition memory systems are extremely efficient). Some people also use them for a broader set of tasks (see below). Spaced repetition memory systems make memory a choice, but they’re not just for rote facts: Spaced repetition memory systems can be used to develop conceptual understanding. The first consumer sy
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Spaced repetition memory system A spaced-repetition memory system combines the Testing effect and the Spacing effect to enable efficient memorization of many thousands of facts (Spaced repetition memory systems are extremely efficient). Some people also use them for a broader set of tasks (see below). Spaced repetition memory systems make memory a choice, but they’re not just for rote facts: Spaced repetition memory systems can be used to develop conceptual understanding. The first consumer sy
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 20:05:54
Elon Musk has no shame about throwing around money to get what he wants. Or at least, he has no problem making big promises about it. During the 2024 election season, Musk pledged to pay swing-state voters if they signed a petition supporting his pro-Trump PAC. But now, some signees say Musk never actually doled out the money, and they are suing him for millions. Musk’s America PAC promised $47 to start and $100 later to registered swing-state voters if they signed a petition ostensibly support
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 10:55:56
Elon Musk speaks during a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Oct. 27, 2024. Elon Musk's America PAC didn't keep its promise to pay swing state voters who signed a pro-Trump petition ahead of the 2024 election, and who enlisted others to do the same, a new lawsuit alleges. The case, a proposed national class action suit, was filed within the last week in a federal court in the Eastern district of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-06 04:29:00
A hot potato: Once again, the problem of AI being used by students to cheat on exams has reared its head. On this occasion, the University of Waterloo's Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) has decided not to publish its official results, which it usually does, over the belief that AI was used by some participants to write code. Those who do well in the University of Waterloo's CCC are often accepted into the University's prestigious computing and engineering programs, or are even selected to r
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-06 19:29:00
A hot potato: Once again, the problem of AI being used by students to cheat on exams has reared its head. On this occasion, the University of Waterloo's Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) has decided not to publish its official results, which it usually does, over the belief that AI was used by some participants to write code. Those who do well in the University of Waterloo's CCC are often accepted into the University's prestigious computing and engineering programs, or are even selected to r
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 00:29:00
A hot potato: Once again, the problem of AI being used by students to cheat on exams has reared its head. On this occasion, the University of Waterloo's Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) has decided not to publish its official results, which it usually does, over the belief that AI was used by some participants to write code. Those who do well in the University of Waterloo's CCC are often accepted into the University's prestigious computing and engineering programs, or are even selected to r
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 06:00:40
DoorDash is asking the court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Uber in February, calling it meritless and a "cynical and calculated scare tactic." Uber sued the biggest food delivery provider in the US earlier this year, accusing it of putting pressure on restaurants to exclusively use its services. At the time, Uber said that it heard from "restaurants across the country" that DoorDash was charging higher commission rates from restaurants that also sell their food on Uber Eats. It also accused Do
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-03 17:56:33
Longform Creative Writing Benchmark This benchmark evaluates several abilities: Brainstorming & planning out a short story/novella from a minimal prompt Reflect on the plan & revise Write a short story/novella over 8x 1000 word turns Models are typically evaluated via openrouter, using temp=0.7 and min_p=0.1 as the generation settings. Outputs are evaluated with a scoring rubric by Claude Sonnet 3.7. Length The average chapter length (chars). Slop Score The Slop column measures the frequ
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-04 04:25:48
A group of organizations, including nonprofits like LatinoProsperity and labor groups like the California Teamsters, are petitioning California Attorney General Rob Bonta to stop OpenAI from becoming a for-profit entity, The Los Angeles Times reports. OpenAI announced plans to transition to a public-benefit corporation in 2024, and reportedly has two years to pull it off or risk a large portion of the money its raised become debt. The group's primary concerns are that OpenAI "failed to protect
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-15 16:55:05
A former canvasser for Elon Musk’s America PAC operation—which mobilized voters to sign a sketchy “petition” during last year’s presidential election—has sued the billionaire, accusing him and his political organization of failing to pay him at least $20,000. The former canvasser, who is described as a Philadelphia man, hasn’t revealed his real name, for fear of retaliation. “For his safety and security, Plaintiff John Doe is proceeding under a pseudonym,” the suit states. During the president
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-11 19:00:22
In Brief Being a staggeringly successful big tech company does have some downsides: Apple has lost an appeal against a special abuse control regime that Germany’s competition watchdog applied to it last year. The iPhone maker can expect to continue to face bespoke competition controls in a major European market, in addition to other similar laws (such as the EU’s DMA). On Tuesday, Reuters reported the ruling by Germany’s Federal Court of Justice that has affirmed the five-year regulatory desig
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-18 20:33:44
The UK competition watchdog has effectively told Apple that it must allow free and open competition between iPhone web browsers, but at the same time Safari cannot be better than its competitors. Update: The final report is now out, with no change to the CMA’s stance. Apple has responded by stating that making new features available within WebKit “would lead to free-riding” by developers creating competing browsers … A quick recap Things kicked off in the EU, when an investigation concluded
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-20 02:59:52
Robotics firm iRobot, originator of the robotic vacuum Roomba facing stiff competition from lower-priced competitors, told investors Tuesday that there was "substantial doubt" about the company's survival "as a going concern" in the next year or so. Investors took iRobot at its word, and its stock price had fallen nearly 40 percent as of 10:20 am Wednesday from the day before. The dire accounting language and market reaction are nothing new for tech firms, but iRobot's annual report suggests de
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-31 21:33:48
UK competition watchdog drops Microsoft-OpenAI probe 28 minutes ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty OpenAI boss Sam Altman (left) and Microsoft boss Satya Nadella The UK competition watchdog has ended its investigation into the partnership between Microsoft and the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was looking into whether Microsoft's relationship with what is the world's best known artificial intelligence (AI) firm change
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-01 23:57:40
Britain’s competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said Wednesday that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI doesn’t qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the U.K.’s Enterprise Act 2002, the country’s anticompetitive practices law. The full text of the decision will be published shortly, the CMA said. The CMA began investigating Microsoft’s partnership in December 2023. The tech giant is a top investor in OpenAI, having poured nearly $14 billion into
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 20:12:03
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR EU regulators want to see Google Search stop prioritizing Google services over those offered by third parties. Last fall Google tested removing rich hotel booking options from Search, but soon abandoned that effort. Now the EU may be about to formally charge Google for violating Digital Markets Act anti-competition rules. Google’s pretty much always facing legal or regulatory obstacles from somewhere, and over the years we’ve seen the company bob and
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