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Amazon has agreed to a $17.5 billion delayed-draw term loan led by Citigroup, the latest in a borrowing spree fuelled by its race to build AI infrastructure. The cash is available through the end of September. Each draw has a three-year repayment window. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, HSBC, and We
OpenAI said a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to China attempted to stir up local opposition to US data centres by posing as Americans and posting AI-generated content about rising electricity costs. The company nicknamed the campaign “Data Center Bandwagon” and said the accounts were likely tied
Seattle-based drinkware maker MiiR is suing Tesla for allegedly copying the lid design and overall look of its stainless steel tumbler. The lawsuit, filed May 28 in US District Court in Seattle, alleges Tesla’s On The Road Tumbler infringes a design patent covering MiiR’s tumbler lid and mimics the
The White House is negotiating with key senators to bundle federal preemption of state AI laws with three online safety bills, Axios reported. Senator Marsha Blackburn is leading the effort to finalise legislative text. The package would block state AI regulation for three years in exchange for pass
Microsoft President Brad Smith has responded to the wave of graduating students booing AI at commencement ceremonies with a 3,000-word essay that acknowledges their concerns and offers no concrete changes. Published on Microsoft’s official blog on Tuesday, the essay called the backlash a “powerful w
Stockton, California, has approved a $3.15 million investment in police drones that can respond to 911 calls in as little as 30 seconds. The city council voted 7-0 to expand its contract with Flock Safety, adding a drone-as-first-responder platform to the automatic licence plate readers the company
Apple and Jon Prosser’s attorney have asked the court to set aside the default entered against him last October, which may give him another chance to formally respond to the complaint. Here are the details. more…
Anthropic has published two policy frameworks calling for governments to have the legal authority to block dangerous AI deployments and for economic safeguards to protect workers as AI reshapes the labour market. The Advanced AI Framework covers safety regulation. The Economic Policy Framework addre
The ShinyHunters hacking gang claims to have compromised the Oracle PeopleSoft servers of more than 100 organizations, including many universities.
The Mobi Fold is an $80 Bluetooth mouse with a silicone-wrapped hinge.
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Today, AT&T announced Unlimited Day Pass, a new daily plan for iPads with cellular connectivity. It's a no-contract, no-subscription affair - you just pay for a daily pass each day you need it. You get unlimited data for $3 per day. Your first day pass is free courtesy of AT&T (only one per customer
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Some engineering problems are only painful because they happen so rarely. Even with a coding agent, the frustration still feels the same. I’ll wrestle with a tool that isn't my daily driver, hit a wall of errors, finally find a resolution, and then I neglect to note the solution because the problem
Ask Claude, GPT, and Gemini the same question and you get three different answers — and So I built PolyHelper: send one prompt, it runs across many models at once and shows where Three modes: Convergent — one answer + how strongly the models agreed Divergent — the perspectives side by side Artifact
The biggest lessons I learned from open source contributions weren't found in the code itself. Communication, collaboration, and workflows matter more than I expected. Part of it was because I assumed that contributing meant writing code. As a self-taught developer, that felt intimidating. The other
A 1990s Nobel-adjacent therapy, a webcam, and 21 hand keypoints — recreating the mirror-box illusion for phantom limb pain, no hardware required. In the 1990s, neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran discovered something remarkable: amputees suffering phantom limb pain often felt relief just by seeing thei
Camouflage has always been graded by human eyes. But the thing hunting for you in 2026 is increasingly a detection model — so test against that. Surveillance is automated now: drones, trail cameras, perimeter systems — most of what "sees" runs an object-detection network. Which makes traditional cam
Training a network from scratch in raw NumPy, quantizing it to int8, and running it as ~80 lines of dependency-free JavaScript — with a parity test proving the browser matches Python to 1e-6. Digit recognition is the "hello world" of ML — that's exactly why I used it. The model isn't the point. The
Every hand-tracking demo shows you 21 dots. The interesting part is what nobody shows: turning dots into numbers someone can act on. Run any modern hand-tracking model and you get 21 beautifully stable landmarks per hand at 30 FPS. Impressive — and by itself, worthless. No client has ever paid for d
