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Into the Omniverse: Manufacturing’s Simulation-First Era Has Arrived
Manufacturing’s traditional design-build-test cycle rested on a single assumption: Real-world testing was the only reliable test environment.
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Quoting Matthew Yglesias
Five months in, I think I've decided that I don't want to vibecode — I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money. — Matthew Yglesias Tags: agentic-engineering, vibe-coding,...
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The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not
WIRED spoke with Bloomberg's chief technology officer about the big, chatbot-style changes coming to the iconic platform for traders.
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Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back
Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating Opinion The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices increase.…
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‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue
Headcounts, however, are mostly holding up AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants…
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China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.…
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Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis
The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end Microsoft is closing the AI buffet offered to GitHub Copilot customers, acknowledging that it can’t sell AI like Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp.…
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Adaptive Ultrasound Imaging with Physics-Informed NV-Raw2Insights-US AI
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What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns!
What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns! Richard Si describes an excellent set of upgrades to Python's default pip tool for installing dependencies. This version drops support for Python 3.9 - fair enough, since it's been EOL since October. macOS still ships with python3 as...
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Canonical lays out a plan for AI in Ubuntu Linux
One of the most popular Linux distributions is about to get an influx of AI features. As reported by Phoronix, Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Ubuntu developer Canonical, shared a blog post on Monday detailing plans to add AI features to the Linux distro over the next year. As the post states, the...
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microsoft/VibeVoice
microsoft/VibeVoice VibeVoice is Microsoft's Whisper-style audio model for speech-to-text, MIT licensed and with speaker diarization built into the model. Microsoft released it on January 21st, 2026 but I hadn't tried it until today. Here's a one-liner to run it on a Mac with uv, mlx-audio (by...
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The missing step between hype and profit
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In February, I picked up a flyer at an anti-AI march in London. I can’t say for sure whether or not its writers meant to riff on South Park’s underpants gnomes....
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Rebuilding the data stack for AI
Artificial intelligence may be dominating boardroom agendas, but many enterprises are discovering that the biggest obstacle to meaningful adoption is the state of their data. While consumer-facing AI tools have dazzled users with speed and ease, enterprise leaders are discovering that deploying AI...
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Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces ‘Palestine’ in designs
One of Canva's new AI features has been caught replacing the word "Palestine" in designs. The Magic Layers feature - which is designed to break flat images out into separate editable components - isn't supposed to make visible alterations to user designs, but it was found by X user @ros_ie9 to...
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Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space
Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on hand With AI demand growing, Facebook parent Meta is looking for new ways to power its datacenters, with one ambitious project pledging to send solar power down from orbit. Another agreement offers Meta the...
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An open-source spec for orchestration: Symphony
Learn how Symphony, an open-source spec for Codex orchestration, turns issue trackers into always-on agent systems—boosting engineering output and reducing context switching.
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Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space
Overview Energy's first contract with Meta is a small step toward a future of space-based solar power.
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The AI-designed car is taking shape
The auto design world is full of advanced 3D visualization tools and VR sculpting platforms, but your average new car still enters the world as a sketch. Those sketches traditionally see endless iteration and refinement from all angles before being turned into 3D models by hand, some dying in the...
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Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot
Microsoft Copilot now heading into ‘Official Sensitive’ work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trial HMRC is betting big on Microsoft Copilot, rolling it out to tens of thousands of staff after a Whitehall trial estimated it saved each user roughly 26 minutes of time per day.…
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It's time to make agentic automation scalable
Enough experimentation, already. WorkHQ promises real-world agentic benefits Sponsored Post IT landscapes are a little like archaeological digs. There are layers of automation that can't communicate, blocking any serious multi-agent workflow. Fragmented systems prevent automation, systems, people,...