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Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, an AI-focused laptop using Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform, alongside the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. The laptop is described as starting at $2,599, while reports give differing price details for the Dev Box: one says it costs $6,000 and another says it ships in November.
Google announced Playground, a browser-based platform for creating games from AI prompts, with no coding experience required. Reports describe it as experimental; one says it is available in the US to users aged 18 and older. One report describes the effort as a Google–Unity initiative, while other supplied coverage identifies Google as the platform’s announcer without mentioning Unity.
Mistral has introduced Mistral Large 4, nicknamed “Le Chonk,” as an open-weight model. The company says it can rival leading models and is the strongest open-weight model developed outside China; these are Mistral’s claims, not independently established by the supplied reports. Coverage says a broader release is expected later this month, while one report describes the model as entering preview.
Engadget The company said that most results were produced in a response to a single prompt given to a single AI agent.
Reports say OpenAI plans or is rolling out machine-readable, invisible watermarks for ChatGPT and Codex text, initially in the EU. One report describes the approach as easy to circumvent and not especially reliable; another relays OpenAI's claim that it matched or exceeded other approaches.
Ars Technica Francis Halzen of University of Wisconsin-Madison led development of IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
The Verge Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees that Microsoft is getting ready to do something around Grand Theft Auto VI that "no other platform holder is doing" during an employee all-hands this morning. According to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans, Sharma's brief teaser was…
Tom's Hardware Researchers say AI agents on Tencent Cloud used urlquery.net to pull entrance data from Alibaba’s Amap, with 1,810 scans in one day.
Ars Technica Users want to "reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption" while making changes.
Ars Technica Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
The Register Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity
Tom's Hardware South Korean president Lee Jae Myung told his cabinet that there were signs that hackers used AI to execute the attacks on the banks.
Phoronix IBM and Red Hat announced today they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across popular Java libraries...