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  1. We thought we wouldn't write about Overwatch characters anymore but D.Mon looks too sick not to — Engadget
  2. Trump administration spends another $1.2 billion to kill offshore wind farm projects — Engadget
  3. Navigating the Pivot From Tech Expert to Organizational Leader — IEEE Spectrum
  4. Details Leak on OpenAI’s Doughnut-Shaped Speaker - CNET — Google News: OpenAI
  5. This 6-port USB-C charger replaced my ugly power brick - and powers my entire desk — ZDNet AI
  6. TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back? — Hugging Face Blog
  7. OpenAI flags possible critical cybersecurity risk in upcoming model, tightens controls - Reuters — Google News: OpenAI
  8. Marine Corps tees up hackathon featuring GenAI.mil — DefenseScoop
  9. I was loyal to T-Mobile for 10 years, but switching to Mint slashed my bill - by a lot — ZDNet AI
  10. OpenAI slows Astra over critical cyber risk - The Next Web — Google News: OpenAI
  11. How To Earn 11% On NVDA Stock And Set A 30% Safety Net - Trefis — Google News: Nvidia
  12. How AI can help parents manage back-to-school schedules - WBAL-TV — Google News: AI
  13. How AI can help parents manage back-to-school schedules - WPTZ — Google News: AI
  14. Post-quantum identity expands beyond cryptography - Biometric Update — Google News: Quantum
  15. NVIDIA Stock (NVDA) Opinions on AI Market Position - Quiver Quantitative — Google News: Nvidia
  16. VTIX Stock (VTIX) Opinions on AI and Robotics Expansion - Quiver Quantitative — Google News: Robotics
  17. RTX Spark With 20-Core CPU Closes Multi-Core Performance Gap With 14-Core M4 Max; New Leak Shows NVIDIA’s ARM-Based SoC Is 11% Slower - Wccftech — Google News: Nvidia
  18. Why Palantir Technologies Stock Skyrocketed (Again) Today - The Motley Fool — Google News: AI megacaps
  19. Korean lunar orbiter snaps first pics of the SpaceX Falcon 9 crash site on the moon — Engadget
  20. Watch the OpenAI Hugging Face presentation that people are calling a 'holy %{*#^' moment in AI - LinkedIn — Google News: OpenAI
  21. EU, California Converge on AI Transparency Rules, Shifting Focus to Enterprise Governance - PYMNTS.com — Google News: AI
  22. Watch the OpenAI Hugging Face presentation that people are calling a 'holy %{*#^' moment in AI - Business Insider — Google News: OpenAI
  23. Sources: legal AI startup Harvey is in talks to raise $500M+ at a $15.5B valuation, up from $11B in March, and is generating $350M+ in annualized revenue (The Information) — Techmeme
  24. Who Is Liable When an AI Agent Hacks a Third Party? - JD Supra — Google News: AI
  25. AI Layoffs at Oracle, Amazon, and Cloudflare All Have One Thing in Common Besides Headcount Reduction - inc.com — Google News: AI
  26. OpenAI Pauses Some Work on New Astra Model Over Cyber Concerns - Bloomberg.com — Google News: OpenAI
  27. OpenAI Pauses Some Work on New Astra Model Over Cyber Concerns - Yahoo Finance — Google News: OpenAI
  28. Why ‘off-the-shelf’ general-purpose LLMs aren’t fit for medication use cases - Medical Economics — Google News: LLMs
  29. D-Wave Intros Two-Qubit, Error Correcting Gate For Its Dual-Rail Quantum Architecture - The Next Platform — Google News: Quantum
  30. D-Wave Intros Two-Qubit, Error Correcting Gate For Its Dual-Rail Quantum Architecture — The Next Platform
  31. NYU Joins 3 DOE Genesis Mission Projects for AI and Quantum Research - HPCwire — Google News: Quantum
  32. OpenAI’s ‘Doughnut-Shaped’ AI Speaker Could Launch in 2027 - TechRepublic — Google News: OpenAI
  33. Forget Taiwan Semiconductor: 2 AI Semiconductor Equipment Stocks to Buy and Hold Instead - AOL.com — Google News: TSMC
  34. D-Wave’s $550M Quantum Computing Bet Makes Error Correction 10X Cheaper - Forbes — Google News: Quantum
  35. What is currently considered the theoretically optimal quantization bit-width for LLMs? [D] — r/MachineLearning
  36. Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 review: Health data overload, but built for the future — ZDNet AI
  37. Data Center Eyed as Part of Tech Campus in San Jose, Calif. - GovTech — Google News: AI
  38. Eastport residents fill hearings to oppose DeepGreen’s underwater AI data‑center plan - themainemonitor.org — Google News: AI
  39. 'It's a smart donut': OpenAI's first gadget will reportedly be an Echo Dot with a few twists — so I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to build it - TechRadar — Google News: OpenAI
  40. AI-Generated Patches Fail Half the Time - Dark Reading — Google News: LLMs