One of my favorite laptops to recommend, the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x, is discounted by $250 to $900. This high-end configuration of the laptop has never been this cheap. That’s a pleasant surprise in an industry suffering from an ongoing memory shortage without signs of slowing down. Just look at these specs: 16 GB of
Anthropic is working on an open-source system to verify which AI model produced a given output, according to a blog post published Tuesday. The system, called FlashProve, is built to provide what researchers call “provable inference” – a cryptographic proof, essentially a mathematical guarantee, that a given output came from a specific model. It’s meant
House Democrats are trying to force the White House to turn over President Donald Trump’s conversations with AI chatbots, including when he consulted Elon Musk’s Grok about deposing Venezuela’s former president Nicolás Maduro at the start of the year. In a joint letter to Trump last week, Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, and Rep.
It’s the midterms! Here’s a fun fact for you as you head to the polls: Gas prices today are the highest ever recorded for a US Election Day. The national average for a gallon of gasoline is $4.12 and $6.28 for a gallon of diesel, according to GasBuddy. Meanwhile, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is
You may be searching for the best air purifiers for allergies, pets, mold, wildfire smoke, or exhaust—such as from cars or industrial buildings—to protect yourself and your home from potentially harmful air pollutants, especially as the seasons change. As winter creeps in and the outside air gets colder, having a good air purifier for your
Also, the micromobility startup spun out of Rivian in 2025, quietly started and then walked away from an electric two-wheeler pilot project in Kenya earlier this year, as it sought to focus its resources on its consumer e-bike and autonomous vehicle ambitions, TechCrunch has learned. The project received grant funding from the Shell Foundation, an
