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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses
Would you pay $20 a month for access to AI hardware you already own? That appears to be one of Meta's next bets. This week, it quietly announced that your glasses' Conversation Focus feature will...
Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return
After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access...
Dish files for bankruptcy, but not shutting down
Dish, the company that operates Dish TV and Sling TV, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy," as reported earlier by Reuters. The plan will allow the EchoStar-owned company to continue to wind down...
Anthropic’s new Sonnet 5 model is better at the tasks that are running up enterprise bills
Anthropic trained its newest Sonnet model to excel at agentic tasks, which have been causing a headache for the company's enterprise customers and power users.
Amazon fined $2.25 million for failing to help identity theft victims
The Federal Trade Commission fined Amazon $2.25 million to settle claims that the company failed to help customers who fell victim to identity theft, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In its...
Why Elon Musk is so obsessed with this violently xenophobic Armie Hammer movie
Elon Musk, left, and Armie Hammer, right. | Left: Kayla Oaddams/WireImage via Getty. Right: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic via Getty. A violent anti-migrant propaganda movie titled Citizen Vigilante was a...
Netflix used AI to put Gene Wilder’s voice into a new reality show
So much for magic.
Trump’s quest for untrammeled power just got a big boost
Justice Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts talk on the steps of the Supreme Court in June 2017 in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty Images Just what President Donald Trump needed: more...
Acer’s Swift Go 16 is a lot of laptop for $900
The Acer Swift Go 16 AI has a massive trackpad. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge As high memory and storage prices have driven up the cost of everything from consoles to computers,...
Acer’s Swift Go 16 is a lot of laptop for $900
The Acer Swift Go 16 AI has a massive trackpad. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge As high memory and storage prices have driven up the cost of everything from consoles to computers,...