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Source: The Verge So, you’re thinking of buying a smart ring. Well, some good news. Picking the best of the lot is incredibly easy right now. The “bad” news is that, as far as trustworthiness and reliability, your choices are somewhat limited, as this is still a niche and emerging gadget category. Smart rings are…
Source: Venture Beat OpenAI launched a new family of AI models this morning that significantly improve coding abilities while cutting costs, responding directly to growing competition in the enterprise AI market. The San Francisco-based AI company introduced three models — GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano — all available immediately through its API. The new…
Source: The Verge Nvidia has brought some of its chip production stateside. On Monday, Nvidia announced that it has started producing its Blackwell AI GPUs at TSMC’s plant in Phoenix, Arizona, while companies within the state package and test them. Additionally, Nvidia announced that it’s teaming up with the electronics manufacturers Foxconn and Wistron to…
Source: The Verge Want a premium pair of earbuds without having to pay a premium price? Right now, Sony’s noise-canceling WF-1000XM5 are on sale at Amazon and Target for $179.99 ($120 off), their best price to date. It’s possible Sony could release the WF-1000XM6 sometime later this year, but for now, few wireless earbuds offer…
Source: The Verge The Star Wars strategy game announced in 2022 finally has a name: Zero Company, as EA revealed today. A website about the game describes it as a “single-player turn-based tactics game,” includes an image, and says that a “first look” will be shown at Star Wars Celebration Japan on April 19th. Bit…
Source: Venture Beat Nvidia said it is working with its manufacturing partners to design and build factories that, for the first time, will produce Nvidia AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. Together with leading manufacturing partners, the company has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test Nvidia Blackwell…
Source: The Verge OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.1, a successor to the GPT-4o multimodal artificial intelligence model launched by the company last year. During a livestream on Monday, OpenAI said GPT-4.1 is better than its GPT-4o reasoning model “on just about every dimension.” Two smaller model versions are also included in this rollout: a lightweight GPT-4.1…
Source: Venture Beat Xaba, a startup building synthetic brains for industrial robots with zero code, announced it has secured a $6 million seed investment led by Hitachi Ventures. The Toronto startup said the extension to its seed round will accelerate the deployment of AI-powered robotics and cognitive industrial control systems. Hitachi Ventures led the round…
Source: The Verge After weeks of speculation, Warner Bros. Discovery has officially announced the first cast members who will appear in its upcoming Harry Potter TV adaptation. The casting confirmations, focused around some of the most notably adult characters from the Harry Potter novels, are one of the most reassuring signs of life for the…
Source: Venture Beat Comcast is introducing the option to choose a five-year price guarantee when customers sign up for a new Xfinity Internet package. Read Full Article
