Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 5.5 packs more brains for fewer bucks

It's 30% faster and 40% cheaper than Opus 5.

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BMW’s new iX3 gets an early loyalty discount

The 2027 iX3 is just arriving at dealerships, and BMW wants to keep drivers with the brand by offering an early loyalty discount.…

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Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run

Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 "agentic operating system" runs in the cloud but operates locally…

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Apple Maps blurring alleged detention centers in China, claims local laws require it

The data provider for Apple Maps in China has reportedly begun blurring more than just military facilities, leaving Apple in the wake of another potential mapping-related scandal. Apple Maps may have another controversy on its hands After decades of building…

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Google Home speakers are baffling owners with pulsating lights that won’t go away

The LED lights stuck in an endless pulsing loop and no one knows why.

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ChatGPT-6 Sol and Luna are here: Pricing and benchmarks data

GPT-6 Sol and Luna launched on Tuesday, allegedly with less propensity for mistakes.

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The AI boom runs on tens of millions of workers nobody has figured out how to pay, Papaya Global wants to fix that.

Ask an AI lab where its workforce is and you get a map, not an address. Researchers in London and Zurich. Engineers in Tel Aviv and Bangalore. Robotics technicians at sites that did not exist a year ago. And underneath all of it, the people who label the…

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Security firm finds naming AI agents after Seinfeld characters helps bots join the team

Not that there's anything wrong with it

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Tim Cook meets EU chief Ursula von der Leyen as bloc pushes new child safety rules

Keeping with Apple’s pledge that Tim Cook would remain involved in Apple’s government relations around the world after stepping down as CEO, he met this week with Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Here are the details.…

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Cities across US oppose Trump FCC plan to preempt local broadband rules

Cities defend permit requirements, say ISPs aren't building networks fast enough.

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Quick tip: How to make Windows 11 apps always open maximized

Windows 11 now allows you to always open every (supported) app maximized. Here's how to enable that option:

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Your PSU still follows a color-coding standard that’s decades older than your PC, but there's a reason why

The importance of using a quality power supply is obvious to even new PC builders. It's the component that protects your expensive hardware from potentially devastating electrical shenanigans. What's way less obvious is the underlying make-up of the wires…

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Motorola Signature 27 officially gets a North American launch in the ‘coming months’

Following a tease at Snapdragon Summit, Motorola has confirmed that its Signature 27 flagship is officially coming to North American markets, but with a bit of a wait.…

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Discord rolls out its revised age verification policy

It will offer several privacy-focused options for users who aren't automatically confirmed as adults.

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Apple retires the Apple Park Visitor Center’s unique AR experience

Earlier this summer, Apple closed a portion of the Apple Park Visitor Center as it worked to “improve our store.” That space has now reopened, and the big change is that Apple has removed the augmented reality experience that let visitors use custom iPads to…

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Waymo now offering transit rewards to riders

Google-owned Waymo is partnering with transit agencies to offer riders rewards for riding buses and trains.

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Cyera raises $400M more amid AI agent security push

Cybersecurity startup Cyera Ltd. today announced that it has raised $400 million in funding from Goldman Sachs. The investment bank provided the capital as an extension to a Series G round that closed in June. The latter deal valued Cyera at $12 billion. The…

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Good Lock, bad lock screen: Weird bug messes with clock placement following One UI 9 update

Good Lock isn't doing enough locking for some users, but Samsung is on the case.

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Google has a fix in the works for its Nest Doorbell identity crisis

Funny, you don't sound like my normal Nest Doorbell.

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Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI GPT-6 Sol & Luna both launch today with lower costs

Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching new model updates today, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol & Luna both being announced within roughly an hour of each other.…

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Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000

Alexandr Wang has set Meta’s new AI agent a simple target. Meta’s chief AI officer asked on X whether Muse could “make you $1000”, launching a hashtag challenge a few days after Muse went live on 8 September. The replies have been generous with dollar…

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Saudi Arabia’s new Exobot EVs make the Cybertruck look normal

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is mostly known for its global dominance over petroleum production and oil reserves - not necessarily cars and auto manufacturing, and certainly not electric vehicle production. So it was a little surprising on Monday when a Saudi…

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Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record – video

Six-year-old Lian Yunzhi broke the women’s 3x3 average world record twice at two World Cube Association-certified competitions in Wuhan and Guangzhou, according to state broadcaster CCTV on Monday. She posted averages of 4.52 and 4.27 seconds, after solving…

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The Motorola Signature 27 is ‘the most advanced smartphone Motorola has ever created’ — and it’s powered by the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset

Motorola has announced its most powerful phone ever, the Signature 27, at Snapdragon Summit 2026.

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OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna cut prices in half but barely move the needle on performance

With GPT-6 Sol and Luna, OpenAI adds two cheaper models that deliver their predecessors' performance at half the token price and take aim at Anthropic's pricier offerings. Independent analyses find little gain in actual intelligence, though, and OpenAI likely…

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Cairn and Furi creator’s games are all so different that ‘there’s a chance our next game is an MMO match-3 about friendship,’ jokes creative director, Emeric Thoa

I spoke to The Game Bakers' creative director, Emeric Thoa, about the approach the team takes to creating its games and learnt why they're happy taking creative risks to build a smaller but more dedicated audience.

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Motorola Signature 27 is a proper flagship with Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6

Alongside Qualcomm’s latest announcements, Motorola has officially shown off the Motorola Signature 27, a true flagship offering that’s set to launch before the end of this year.…

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Qualcomm intros Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6: World's first 2 nm chips that break the 5 GHz barrier

Qualcomm has unveiled the 2 nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, promising 5 GHz Oryon Prime Core CPU speeds alongside major gains in graphics, AI, imaging, efficiency, and connectivity. The Extreme model adds enhanced on-device…

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Motorola’s first Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 phone is hard to ignore

Expected sometime this year.

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Motorola debuts premium Signature 27 flagship with brand-new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme

No details yet on price or release date

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