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How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines

In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body, fusing with her flesh. She levitates, then drops. A dragon-shaped tattoo appears across her chest. “Two months,” the man says. “Give me an heir, or…

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The promises and pitfalls of personalized health

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. A few days ago, my esthetician was smearing hot wax on my face. The two caterpillars I call […]

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OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts

Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to “securely connect” ChatGPT with Plaid – the bank-to-app bridging platform used by 12,000 financial institutions, including Schwab, Fidelity, […]

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Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?

Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don’t have our phone – but we do have some fresh doubts about the company’s patriotic credentials. This has been a momentous […]

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AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone

Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. “Thinking Frequencies” is run by Claude, “OpenAIR” by ChatGPT, “Backlink Broadcast” by Google’s Gemini, and “Grok and Roll […]

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Cline Releases Cline SDK: An Open-Source Agent Runtime Now Powering Its CLI and Kanban, With IDE Extensions Being Migrated

Cline has extracted its internal agent harness into an open-source TypeScript SDK called @cline/sdk, the same runtime now powering its CLI and Kanban, with VS Code and JetBrains extensions being migrated. The SDK is structured as a four-layer stack — @cline/shared, @cline/llms, @cline/agents, and @cline/core — with native support for plugins, subagents, CRON scheduling, checkpointing, and MCP connectors. On Terminal Benchmark 2.0, Cline CLI scored 74.2% on claude-opus-4.7, compared to Anthropic’s published 69.4% for Claude Code on the same model. Install via npm install @cline/sdk. Requires Node.js 22+.

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A Coding Implementation to Master GPU Computing with CuPy, Custom CUDA Kernels, Streams, Sparse Matrices, and Profiling

In this tutorial, we delve into CuPy as a powerful GPU-accelerated alternative to NumPy for high-performance numerical computing in Python. We start by inspecting the available CUDA device, checking the CuPy version, runtime details, GPU memory, and compute capability so that we understand the hardware environment before running heavy computations. Then, we compare NumPy and […]

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Poetiq’s Meta-System Automatically Builds a Model-Agnostic Harness That Improved Every LLM Tested on LiveCodeBench Pro Without Fine-Tuning

Poetiq’s Meta-System automatically constructed and optimized an inference harness for LiveCodeBench Pro using only Gemini 3.1 Pro — no fine-tuning, no model internals. The same harness, applied without modification to GPT 5.5 High, Kimi K2.6, Gemini 3.0 Flash, and four other models, improved every one of them.

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How to Build a Django-Unfold Admin Dashboard with Custom Models, Filters, Actions, and KPIs

In this tutorial, we build an advanced Django-Unfold admin dashboard. We start by installing Django, Django-Unfold, and the required dependencies, then we create a fresh Django project with a shop application. We configure Unfold with a modern admin theme, custom sidebar navigation, dashboard callbacks, product badges, tabs, filters, actions, and a custom admin homepage. We […]

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Supertone Releases Supertonic v3: On-Device Text-to-Speech Model with 31-Language Support, Fewer Reading Failures, and Expression Tags

The Seoul-based speech AI company ships its third generation of its on-device TTS engine, adding expressive tags, improved reading stability, and a 6× increase in language coverage — all while keeping the inference contract unchanged for existing integrations.

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Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard

When Oregon resident Isabelle Reksopuro heard Google was gobbling up public land to fuel its data centers in her home state, she didn’t initially know what to believe. “There’s a lot of misinformation about data centers,” she said. “Google has denied taking that land.” Technically, she explains, The Dalles, a city near the Washington state […]

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