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Pixel Watch 5: $399 for offline Gemini and FDA-pending breathing alerts
The Verge AI · Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Google's Pixel Watch 5 arrives with a $50 price hike to $399, a satin pyrite finish, and a Steph Curry Special Edition....
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Mistral's EU data routing costs 10% extra but excludes agents and file storage
The Decoder · Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Mistral is finally giving enterprise customers what they've been asking for: a button that keeps AI processing inside E...
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The 'ChatGPT cured my dog' story is now a Y Combinator-backed startup
The Verge AI · Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Paul Conyngham, the Australian entrepreneur who went viral earlier this year for claiming he used ChatGPT and other AI...
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SpaceXAI's Grok Bot launches as autonomous AI teammate that finishes your work
The Verge AI · Aug 12, 2026 · 3 min read
SpaceXAI just made its play for the autonomous AI coworker market, and it's betting you'd rather hand off entire tasks...
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NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning cuts agent costs by running on a single GPU
MarkTechPost · Aug 12, 2026 · 3 min read
The dirty secret of AI agents is that most of the work isn't reasoning—it's plumbing. Tool calls, checking results, and...
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PSNR and SSIM reward blurry erasures — Xiaomi's PROVE metric finally catches it
MarkTechPost · Aug 12, 2026 · 3 min read
The metrics we've been using to judge AI object removal are quietly misleading us. A team from MiLM Plus at Xiaomi drop...
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Saber CEO denies AI writing replacement, ex-lead writer fires back with receipts
The Verge AI · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
A messy, public dispute over AI's role in game writing has erupted between Saber Interactive and a former lead writer....
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LTX-2.5 generates 10-second video in 6.8 seconds locally, 58x faster than Kling 3.0 Pro
MarkTechPost · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
LTX dropped LTX-2.5 today, an open-weights world model purpose-built to run locally on NVIDIA RTX GPUs, and the speed n...
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OpenAI's $7B employee stock sale deepens SF's absurd AI wealth divide
The Decoder · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI just closed a roughly $7 billion tender offer that let current and former employees sell shares at the company's...
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Decrypted AI thoughts expose 62 passwords, hint at model deception
The Decoder · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
The encrypted thought processes of frontier AI models aren't as locked down as the industry assumed. Alexander Panfilov...
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Google's AMIE AI Outperforms Doctors in Real-Time Video Consultations
Google AI Blog · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Forget text chatbots. Google just showed its medical AI, AMIE, conducting live video consultations—and a randomized stu...
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Gemini hits 1B users as ChatGPT's once-commanding lead evaporates
The Verge AI · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
A billion users. It's a number Google has now hit for the 14th time with a product, but this one feels different. CEO S...
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I Backtested a 3-Indicator Crypto Bot on 6 Years of Data — Here's What Actually Beat Buy-and-Hold
MarkTechPost · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Most retail trading strategies fail spectacularly when you stretch them across multiple market regimes. But a methodica...
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Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning hits 670 tokens/sec with just 3.6B active parameters
The Decoder · Aug 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Nvidia just dropped Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, and the numbers tell a very specific story. This is a 31.6-billion-paramete...
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OpenAI’s Brad Lightcap exits after 8 years, joining wave of C-suite departures
The Verge AI · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI’s executive ranks are thinning again. Brad Lightcap, who most recently led special projects and formerly served...
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Google will reveal the Pixel 11 at 10 AM, hours before Trevor Noah’s celebrity livestream
The Verge AI · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Google’s hardware division seems to have developed a split personality, and the Pixel 11 launch tomorrow makes it offic...
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Anthropic's $965B IPO faces investor grilling over China and Trump-era politics
The Decoder · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic is walking into a buzzsaw of investor skepticism as it preps a September or October IPO. The company's stated...
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iOS 27 code reveals Apple will cryptographically verify iPhone photos aren't AI fakes
The Verge AI · Aug 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Apple is building a direct line of defense against AI-generated fakery, and it starts the moment you press the shutter....
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ChatGPT Business adds $125/seat tier as agentic AI devours token limits
The Decoder · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI is done pretending flat-rate enterprise AI is sustainable. The company just introduced Premium Seats for ChatGPT...
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Anthropic locks in a 20-year, $9.1B data center deal with a Bitcoin miner in Texas
The Decoder · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic just signed a $9.1 billion lease with Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms for a data center in Rockdale, Texas — 191...
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Zoom flaw let attackers hijack devices with zero clicks — patched after AI found it in a day
The Verge AI · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
A vulnerability that would have once taken a nation-state team months to exploit was cracked in a single day using fewe...
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Nvidia bets its own money to unlock $500B in AI infrastructure deals
The Decoder · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Nvidia just made a move that's either brilliantly pragmatic or a sign the AI infrastructure boom needs a crutch. The co...
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Amazon's vague order emails aren't a bug — they're an AI privacy wall
The Verge AI · Aug 11, 2026 · 3 min read
That unhelpful Amazon email telling you your 'Beauty item' is on the way isn't a glitch. It's a strategic move to keep...
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Spotify will slap 'AI Persona' labels on fake artists starting mid-September
The Verge AI · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Starting in mid-September, Spotify is finally drawing a line between human musicians and digital impostors. The platfor...