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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Apple Maps has ads now

Ads have started popping up in Apple Maps, following Apple's announcement in March that it would let businesses pay for top spots. They're appearing on my iPhone as the first entry in the "suggested places" section in search, but Apple says they'll also show up at the top of search results. According to 9to5Mac, the […]

AI · The Decoder

Sam Altman says OpenAI will have AGI by the end of 2026 if you accept his definition

OpenAI's leadership believes AGI is within reach, according to a TIME report. The company's upcoming model Astra already works as an automated research intern, according to chief scientist Jakub Pachocki. Altman expects it to be "the first model where the model actually invents new things in a way that matters." The article Sam Altman says OpenAI will have AGI by the end of 2026 if you accept his definition appeared first on The Decoder .

Society · NPR Top Stories

States try new tactics to bring down high hospital prices

Indiana is the latest state to experiment with limiting what hospitals can charge, to try to get a handle on high health costs.

World · Al Jazeera

US inflation remains sticky in July

Inflation has worsened since the US and Israel attacked Iran, sending energy prices spiralling.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring punches above its weight class

The "everyday" GT3 delivers, despite looming regulations and an ever-inflating price tag.

Developers & Open Source · ollama/ollama Releases

v0.33.1

What's Changed MLX: Qwen3.8 Flash Next support cmake: make external compat patches idempotent MLX and llama.cpp update mlxrunner: add structured output support mlxrunner: avoid Metal GPU timeouts when loading models from slow storage New Contributors @pd95 made their first contribution in #17948 Full Changelog : v0.33.0...v0.33.1-rc1

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

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Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

How Much Code Do Developers Really Let Agents Write?

“100% of my code is written by [insert whichever AI coding agent is popular right now]!”You’ve probably heard this claim many times this year. We wanted to find out how many developers have actually fully outsourced code writing to agents and how the share of agent-generated code differs across regions, tech stacks, and seniority levels. […]

Society · NPR Top Stories

Judge clears the way for Postal Service work on Trump's mail-in voting order for now

A federal judge in Boston canceled a nationwide ruling that blocked U.S. Postal Service work on President Trump's order to limit mail-in voting for the midterm election. But a new block may come soon.

Developers & Open Source · Chrome Releases

Early Stable Update for Desktop

The Stable channel has been updated to 153.0.8010.12/.13 for Windows and Mac as part of our early stable release to a small percentage of users. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log . You can find more details about early Stable releases here . Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues. Srinivas Sista Google Chrome

Business · CNBC Technology

Jim Cramer calls the Meta settlement a 'big break,' says the stock reaction is 'ridiculous'

"Somehow the narrative has turned to say that it was not good for Meta. That's insane," Jim Cramer said Wednesday.

World · Al Jazeera

At least 50 injured as fireworks explode into crowd at Spanish festival

At least 50 people were injured after several fireworks exploded among a crowd at a festival in northern Spain.

World · Al Jazeera

Why Hormuz remains high risk for ships despite US claims of mine-clearing

Analysts say mine clearance alone is unlikely to make shipping 'safe' in the Strait of Hormuz.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’

Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a new addition to the Gemini family that follows the launch of 3.5 Live Translate, and comes as we're still waiting for Google to release the Gemini 3.5 Pro model that it […]

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future

"Most" Xbox One and Series X games are compatible; discs will still work after being claimed.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Claude Desktop can now easily run Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi models — after Ollama’s first effort stalled

Open-weight model runner Ollama has reintroduced an integration with Claude Desktop that lets users connect Anthropic’s app to models served The post Claude Desktop can now easily run Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi models — after Ollama’s first effort stalled appeared first on The New Stack .

Developers & Open Source · Chrome Releases

Chrome Beta for Desktop Update

The Beta channel has been updated to 153.0.8010.12 for Windows, Mac and Linux. A partial list of changes is available in the Git log . Interested in switching release channels? Find out how . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues. Chrome Release Team Google Chrome

World · Deutsche Welle

No, this wasn't a "completely normal summer", despite far-right climate denial

Some political messaging denies the role of human-caused climate change in this summer's extreme heat. The science tells a different story.

World · Deutsche Welle

Tim Curry, of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' dies at 80

The gender-bending role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter put Curry on the map in 1975. He then went on to play a number of villainous roles like Gomez Addams, Pennywise and Bill Sikes, but also Mozart and William Shakespeare.

Developers & Open Source · Visual Studio Code Updates

Visual Studio Code 1.136

Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.136 Read the full article

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

FBI Disrupts China-Linked QTFY Infrastructure Used to Steal Data From U.S. Organizations

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company (南京鑫玖维网络科技有限公司).&

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

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Business · CNBC Technology

Apple sets iPhone launch event for Sept. 9, first under new CEO John Ternus

Analysts expect the company to launch new iPhones and Apple Watches at the event, including the company's first folding phone

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Google’s new legal AI exposes a bigger battle over the enterprise stack

Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal this week, a purpose-built agentic AI solution to automate legal workflows, including contract The post Google’s new legal AI exposes a bigger battle over the enterprise stack appeared first on The New Stack .