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Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ready to show off some of its more daring AI coding experiments. But as usual ...

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...

The Newmans are currently being attacked from all sides on The Young and the Restless, and while Victor Newman’s entire focus is on Cane and Phyllis taking over at the moment, Jack Abbott’s closeness ...

Node.js has released updates to fix what it described as a critical security issue impacting "virtually every production Node.js app" that, if successfully exploited, could trigger a denial-of-service ...

Love it or hate it, AI is increasingly becoming integral to the way we work. So, like a lot of employees, you’ve started using it for your assignments. That’s great – unless you’re not clear on what ...

The biggest solar storm in 20 years will hit the Earth on January 19. 2026. Here's how to get the perfect picture of the Aurora Borealis using your iPhone. The Aurora Borealis, also known as the ...

Millions of sunny hours do not help if the lights still don’t come on. In Mauritania, national access to electricity is about 52 percent, in rural areas it falls to just 6 percent. That gap shapes ...

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...

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