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 It's been another busy week in the Apple world, led by word that the company is preparing to launch a new device leasing and financing program as it has raised some more prices including on Apple Music subscriptions.
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Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether "open-source" models from China should be freely available or restricted.
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 Meta today announced Facebook Verified, a free badge designed to confirm that a Facebook profile belongs to a real person rather than an AI-generated fake.
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Chinese AI models now lead U.S. business usage on OpenRouter, creating cost advantages for companies and a difficult policy challenge for Washington.
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The company says its powerful new system broke out of containment.
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The company says the government raised no objections to Thursday's launch, which opens the model to any company or individual.
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Into this fractious and uncertain landscape lands the Asus ROG Xbox Ally handheld, and its more souped-up version, the ROG Xbox Ally X. Launching later this week at $600 and $1,000, respectively, these gadgets are some major firsts for Microsoft. They're the first Xbox portable devices, even if their claim to being "Xboxes" is mostly a matter of marketing. They're the first post-Steam Deck portable gaming PCs made explicitly in cooperation with Microsoft and Xbox, though Asus has made two generations before them. And they're the official debut of the Xbox Fullscreen Mode, Microsoft's answer to the Steam Deck user interface.
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 The problem with both social media and ride-sharing is that the people paying for the service aren't treated as the primary customers, which creates a decoupled revenue model. The post The Ride-Sharing and Robotaxi Revenue Model Problem No One Talks About appeared first on TechNewsWorld.
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It's been another bad week in security.
Not only do we learn that so-called "friendly" governments are quietly requesting surveillance data concerning push notifications, but Apple tells us more than 2.6 billion personal records have already been compromised by data breaches in the past two years.
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