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- How to automate evaluations to score, explain, and flag quality issues
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💰 Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion
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- Perplexity is offering to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion after a court ruling suggested the company might have to divest the browser following a major antitrust loss.
- The AI-powered search company itself does not have the funds for the purchase, as investors currently value the firm at only $14 billion and have provided around $1 billion in total.
- Reuters reports that the all-cash offer is funded by an assortment of venture funds, showing how much capital is available in the artificial intelligence sphere for a cash-poor firm to bid.
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🧠 Sam Altman and OpenAI take on Neuralink
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- Sam Altman is co-founding a new brain-to-computer interface company called Merge Labs, with sources saying that funding could come largely from OpenAI’s own ventures team.
- The new venture will compete against Elon Musk’s Neuralink, which is already testing implantable computer interface chips that let people with paralysis control devices using their thoughts.
- Sources familiar with the deal report that Merge Labs is expected to be valued at $850 million, but talks are still early and OpenAI has not yet committed.
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🕵️ US secretly puts trackers in China-bound AI chips
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- The U.S. government is secretly inserting location trackers into select shipments of advanced AI chips to catch smugglers before the hardware is illegally rerouted to destinations like China.
- These trackers have been found hidden in packaging or directly inside servers from Dell and Super Micro, containing the targeted AI hardware produced by both Nvidia and AMD.
- Aware of the risk, some China-based resellers now routinely inspect diverted shipments for hidden devices, with one smuggler warning another in a message to "look for it carefully."
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⏪ OpenAI restores GPT-4o as the default model
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- Following significant user backlash to its deprecation last week, OpenAI has now restored GPT-4o as the default choice in the model picker for all of its paid ChatGPT subscribers.
- The company also introduced new "Auto", "Fast", and "Thinking" settings for GPT-5, giving people direct options to bypass the model router that was meant to simplify the user experience.
- Sam Altman acknowledged the rough rollout, promising more customization for model personality and giving plenty of advance notice before the company considers deprecating GPT-4o in the future.
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📰 Google now lets you set preferred news sources
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- The new “Preferred Sources” tool lets U.S. and India users choose specific news publications, which will then show up more frequently in the “Top Stories” section of their search results.
- Articles from selected outlets get a boost in “Top Stories” and also appear in a new, dedicated section called “From your sources,” giving them prominent placement on the results page.
- Google is giving publishers official guidance on how to persuade their audiences to add them, letting outlets directly leverage their existing brand loyalty to gain visibility within Search.
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🎙️ AirPods could get live translation with iOS 26
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- The newest iOS 26 developer beta 6 includes references for a real-time translation function, letting AirPods wearers hear speech from another tongue converted directly into their own native one.
- An image inside the beta suggests English, French, German, and Portuguese as the first choices, with support confirmed for the upcoming AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 models.
- This capability would expand on similar tools in Apple’s Phone, Messages, and FaceTime apps and could become mainstream due to the company's large wireless headphone market share.
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⚛️ IBM, Google claim quantum computers are almost here
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- IBM published its quantum computer blueprint and now claims it has “cracked the code” to build full-scale machines, with the company’s quantum head believing they can deliver a device by 2030.
- While Google demonstrated error correction using surface code technology that needs a million qubits, IBM pivoted to low-density parity-check codes which it says require 90 percent fewer qubits.
- The competition is expanding as IonQ raised $1 billion to target 2 million physical qubits by 2030, while Nvidia’s CEO sparked investor rallies in other quantum computing stocks.
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