iPhone owners object to persistent Apple service promotions in Settings
Reports describe iOS prompts for iCloud+, Apple Music, Apple TV and AppleCare+ that can remain visible without a reliable dismissal option.
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Apple Music prepares 600-capacity concert hall at Battersea Power Station
Apple Music Hall will combine ticketed live shows, broadcasting, radio studios and rehearsal facilities beneath the company's London headquarters.
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Review finds AI can strengthen or weaken student thinking depending on its use
An analysis of 173 studies says classroom AI can support reasoning when it challenges students, but may erode independent problem-solving when used as a shortcut.
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Finnish AI cloud company Verda raises $189 million in Series B funding
The Emergence Capital-led round will finance additional data-centre capacity and software for training and serving artificial-intelligence workloads.
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Developer turns gzip compression into a small experimental text generator
The GziPT experiment uses DEFLATE's preference for repeated byte patterns as a scoring function, then applies beam search to produce continuations without a neural network.
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OpenAI's Navier–Stokes proof meets the prize wording but leaves the central fluid problem open
Mathematicians say the result uses an allowed external force that satisfies one formal option in the Clay problem while avoiding the unforced case researchers most want solved.
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Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro pairs million-token context with fast multimodal inference
Independent benchmark data places the open-weight reasoning model above comparable peers on a composite intelligence index while showing competitive output pricing and high generation speed.
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ECB plans limited investment in tokenized public-sector bonds
The central bank intends to use its own-funds portfolio and settle purchases through Pontes, the Eurosystem's distributed-ledger settlement service.
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Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sharing AI videos of Robin Williams
The filmmaker said a supposed private clip of her late father was an unconvincing synthetic creation and rejected the use of his likeness to promote claims he never made.
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LIVE COVERAGEReview finds AI can strengthen or weaken student thinking depending on its use
An analysis of 173 studies says classroom AI can support reasoning when it challenges students, but may erode independent problem-solving when used as a shortcut.
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PANXEON Blood Test Shows Promise for Earlier Pancreatic Cancer Detection
An early-stage trial found the experimental test detected many stage 1 and 2 cancers, but larger studies are still needed before clinical use.
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Dangote Refinery Opens $1.6 Billion Share Sale to Fund Capacity Expansion
The Nigerian refinery is offering 4.1 billion shares as it seeks capital to double output and broaden ownership across Africa.
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Sony fires Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton after an internal investigation
Sony says the longtime Wheel of Fortune announcer was terminated effective immediately after a probe into unspecified allegations, following an earlier suspension from the show.
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