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I made an epic trek across four countries to answer one question: Why is the world going mad for a plushie monster?

The Brompton Electric G folding e-bike I reviewed last year is now available to buy in the US starting at $4,950. While it looks like a regular Brompton, it’s been scaled up with 20-inch wheels and an extended wheelbase that improves the ride…

What MLPerf Inference Actually Measures? MLPerf Inference quantifies how fast a complete system (hardware + runtime + serving stack) executes fixed, pre-trained models under strict latency and accuracy constraints. Results are reported for the Datacenter and Edge suites with standardized…

With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools—and legal right—to fulfill this EPA function.

Overview Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open, JSON-RPC–based standard that formalizes how AI clients (assistants, IDEs, web apps) connect to servers exposing three primitives—tools, resources, and prompts—over defined transports (primarily stdio for local and Streamable HTTP for remote). MCP’s…

The Epic Games Store has seen an uptick in downloads since the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) prompted Apple to streamline its process for installing third-party app marketplaces, according to a new blog published by Epic. Stats shared by the…

A new database will make Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models.

The late English writer Douglas Adams is best known as the author of the 1979 book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But there is much more to Adams than what is written in his Wikipedia entry. Whether or not…

How do you make an LLM agent actually learn from its own runs—successes and failures—without retraining? Google Research proposes ReasoningBank, an AI agent memory framework that converts an agent’s own interaction traces—both successes and failures—into reusable, high-level reasoning strategies. These…

Roland has largely decided sit out the analog synth renaissance of the last decade. But it’s (belatedly) making amends for that error with the launch of the TR-1000 Rhythm Generator. Unlike previous instruments that tried to cash in on Roland’s…