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In today's Techpresso:
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🏭 Microsoft unveils an AI “super factory” 🎮 Valve announces three new products 🧠 OpenAI unveils GPT-5.1: smarter, faster, and more human 🫠 Russia's first humanoid robot falls during its debut ⚙️ Google will allow “experienced users” to install Android apps from unverified developers 🛒 Google will let users call stores, browse products, and check out using AI 🎁 + 15 other news & articles you might like 🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
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🏭 Microsoft unveils an AI “super factory”
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- Microsoft is launching an AI “super factory” in Atlanta, a two-story complex designed for model training that will house hundreds of thousands of densely packed Nvidia GPUs for its partners.
- The one-million-square-foot facility uses a liquid-cooling system and is part of the Fairwater network, connected by 120,000 miles of new fiber-optic cables to reduce latency between data centers.
- Alongside the company's own operations, the site’s enormous computing power will be available to prominent AI firms, including OpenAI, Mistral AI, and Elon Musk's xAI for their projects.
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🎮 Valve announces three new products
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- Valve revealed the Steam Machine, a 6-inch cube console for the living room that runs a Linux-based OS and doubles as a computer with a KDE Plasma desktop environment.
- The company also announced the Steam Frame, a standalone virtual reality headset that functions as its own PC and is reportedly able to stream any game from a user's Steam library.
- A new Steam Controller was unveiled with magnetic thumbsticks, trackpads, a gyroscope, and grip buttons; it is designed for the Steam Machine but also works with PCs and laptops.
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🧠 OpenAI unveils GPT-5.1: smarter, faster, and more human
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- OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.1, introducing a "Thinking" model for complex topics and an "Instant" model that is warmer, more conversational, and better at following very precise user instructions.
- The GPT-5.1 Thinking model adjusts its speed, answering simple questions about twice as fast while taking more time to provide a more thorough analysis for difficult technical topics.
- New personalization features let users select one of eight communication styles, including Friendly or Cynical, and fine-tune how concise replies are or how often emojis should appear.
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🫠 Russia's first humanoid robot falls during its debut
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- Russia's first AI-powered humanoid robot, named AIdol, malfunctioned and toppled forward during its debut at a Moscow tech forum, landing flat on its face while walking across the stage.
- The company's CEO explained the incident was caused by a calibration error in the robot's balance and motion control algorithms, which engineers will now fine-tune before its next demonstration.
- AIdol features a silicone face with 19 servomotors to show emotions and is constructed with 77 percent domestically produced components as a result of Western sanctions on advanced imports.
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⚙️ Google will allow “experienced users” to install Android apps from unverified developers
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- Google is developing an advanced flow allowing experienced users to accept the risks and install Android apps from developers who have not completed the mandatory identity verification process.
- A new developer account type for students and hobbyists is also being created, which bypasses full verification requirements but limits app installs to a small number of devices.
- This installation flow for unverified software will include safeguards to protect users from scams, along with clear warnings to ensure they fully understand the risks before proceeding with installation.
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🛒 Google will let users call stores, browse products, and check out using AI
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- Google’s conversational shopping in AI Mode lets you describe desired items, with the system pulling suggestions and comparisons from billions of product listings that also show sponsored results.
- The “Let Google Call” feature is an agentic AI that can phone local stores on your behalf to ask about item stock and current promotions, then sends you the information.
- A new agentic checkout will monitor an item's price for you, confirm you still want to buy it when the cost drops, and then complete the purchase using Google Pay.
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Microsoft to Use OpenAI’s Custom Chip Work to Help In-House Effort
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Apple launches Digital ID on iPhone and Apple Watch
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Cisco delivers strong Q1, starts to capture AI infrastructure spend
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OpenAI fights NYT demand for 20 million private ChatGPT conversations
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EU investigates Google over ‘demotion’ of commercial content from news media
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Inside Microsoft’s New AI ‘Super Factory’
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China's Baidu unveils new AI processors, supercomputing products
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Microsoft says Windows is becoming an agentic OS, but users simply hate the idea
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Airbnb tests letting users order groceries through Instacart
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Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick
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Apple could make billions of dollars of extra commission from WeChat deal
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OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft
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Elon Musk says Tesla’s robot could follow people around to stop crime
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Trending
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helm v4.0.0: a tool that helps users define, install, and upgrade applications running on Kubernetes.
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Continuous Autoregressive Language Models: this paper introduces a method for language models to generate text in a continuous space rather than from a fixed set of discrete tokens.
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ShaderGlass: a Windows overlay that applies visual effects, like retro TV filters, to your desktop, games, or videos in a floating window or full-screen.
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Jasmine: A Simple, Performant and Scalable Jax-Based World Modeling Codebase: the paper introduces a new software codebase built with JAX for creating AI world models that are designed to be simple, fast, and scalable.
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LLM Output Drift in Financial Workflows: Validation and Mitigation: this paper shows that language model outputs change over time in financial tasks and offers methods to detect and counteract these changes.
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