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Yam says beta players have spent roughly one million hours collectively, while its players average three hours a day.
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Cyclon says first-batch customers will get a Pixel 8a with its OS while its own hardware remains in development.
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Subvocal claims non-contact sensing decodes nearly invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words per minute.
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KeyframeLabs says the update brings four times the pixels while retaining word-level control over expression.
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Block says the model was trained only on human conversation and can listen while speaking.
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Co-founder Kevin Weil says robotic labs will generate data to train AI models for science.
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Dazzle’s Marissa Mayer argues that photos can signal users’ tastes and reflect what they choose to capture.
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A user suggests small, cheap endpoints around the world could use Starlink as a backbone for Wi-Fi.
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A user calls OpenAI’s product surface area “a disaster” and mocks the phrase “switch to work mode.”
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The Mac and iPhone app says it turns loose thoughts into tasks, begins the work and leaves results for review.
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A user argues that AI-powered search boxes and chat lists aren’t the long-term interface for mass-market AI. They expect messaging with one bot, plus specialized bots for some areas of work and life.
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A builder at Invertix Labs calls the project ESI, for Energy Superintelligence, and says the team’s bet is that energy is the bottleneck to AGI.
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A user argues that chat interfaces dramatically broaden a product’s scope rather than shrink it, and says ChatGPT Live has “no awareness of URLs.”
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Y Combinator general partner David Lieb describes receiving messages from an Uber driver urging ride cancellation.
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Matt MacInnis announces Rippling's AI agent for routine employee IT requests.
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OpenAI CEO prompted the AI from his phone to review chat history and build a coordination site for nine friends.