Forget Labor Day Deals, These 5 DeWalt Tools Already Have Deep Discounts
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Power tool sales are great for everyone, but they can be especially attractive for those who have already invested in a premium power tool system. DeWalt, for instance, has a well-earned reputation as one of the best major cordless power […]
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 arrive with a 75% cost reduction for Fable cache reads
It’s only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land, as Anthropic has just released its latest and most powerful large language models yet — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. The two names refer to the same underlying model. Fable […]
Closing an Azure OpenAI assistant’s retrieval gap didn’t take a new identity platform. It took one filter and a narrower assistant.
Egiziago Cioffi is the IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner based in Milan. He built an agent himself. He wrote the indexing job, configured the Azure OpenAI retrieval pipeline, connected it to SharePoint, and watched it pass every evaluation his team ran. His Azure OpenAI email assistant auto-resolves about […]
Frontier models can recover up to 65% of facts they can’t directly recall — just by thinking longer
When large language models (LLMs) hallucinate, developers typically assume the model lacks the required facts. Engineering teams diagnose the error as missing knowledge. The standard response is to increase model size, expand training data, or build complex retrieval architectures. A new study by researchers at Google Research and Technion demonstrates that the knowledge is often […]
Why Are So Many New Cars Four Wheel Drive Now?
Bad Shot Media/Shutterstock Today in the U.S., it’s mostly crossover vehicles shaped like the Honda CR-V and the Toyota RAV4 you’ll find parked in driveways. The numbers back this up, too, with EPA production data for 2024 noting crossovers account for roughly half of every new vehicle […]
Apple CEO John Ternus won’t be paid as much as Cook
Tim Cook was paid approximately $74.3 million through 2025 with his salary and stock grants, while new CEO John Ternus will make about $58 million across fiscal 2027. The Apple CEO transition has finally occurred with Tim Cook stepping into the Executive Chairman position and John Ternus taking over. While their respective pays have very […]
How Many Nuclear Power Plants Would It Take To Replace Fossil Fuels?
Anagramm/Getty Images The planet is still largely dependent on fossil fuels to satisfy our ever-growing energy requirements. However, this isn’t a situation that can last forever. Even if we disregard the ever-growing specter of climate change and the impetus it provides for switching to green energy sources, […]
New iPhone Ultra details arrive for specs, multitasking, launch timing, more
Next week, the iPhone Ultra will be unveiled at Apple’s September event, and today a new Tom’s Guide interview with Mark Gurman reveals several fresh details on what to expect from specs, software, launch timing, and more. Here’s what’s coming with iPhone Ultra, per Mark Gurman One week out from iPhone Ultra’s introduction, there are […]
AI Chatbots Still Roleplay Self-Harm Despite Overall Improvement in Handling Mental Health Queries
A study by the non-profit AI research lab Transluce has found that well-known AI chatbots are less likely to promote suicide than they once were. Disappointingly, however, those same bots continue to comply with users who ask for “stories” or roleplay centered on their self-harm. Transluce tested more than 50,000 simulated conversations across 77 model […]
Instagram Wants You to Be Open About Your AI Slop Profile
Instagram is beginning to enforce stricter rules for AI-generated profiles designed to look human. Accounts with fake personas must now display an “AI-generated profile” label to avoid having their overall reach limited. The new label replaces Instagram’s old “AI creator” tag and will appear on the profile page and on posts that do not already […]