Yahoo CEO says micropayments will never be enough for publishers

He spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam. He also said micropayments from AI companies will never pay publishers enough. “The large language models effectively photocopied the entire internet to build their answers…

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VC firm Bessemer now has another $5.75B to invest in (what else?) AI

The firm, which has backed companies such as Anthropic, Cognition, Legora, Perplexity, Ramp, Shopify, and Waymo, dedicated $1.75 billion for seed and early-stage investing and the remaining $4 billion for growth…

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Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop 13-inch is powered by Snapdragon

This promises more performance and better efficiency without changing the lightweight design. The new Surface Laptop 13-inch is a fanless Windows PC with a full-size backlit keyboard, precision touchpad, aluminium body…

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The 2026 Surface Pro 12-inch includes an AI Ink canvas and Snapdragon X2 Plus

The new Surface Pro 12-inch runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus , with Microsoft claiming up to 17% faster Office performance, 60% faster graphics and 95% faster on-device AI compared with previous generations. Battery…

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Microsoft's new Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 13 feature Snapdragon X2 Plus chips

The big change is the new Snapdragon X2 Plus chip, which aims to be a solid update from the slower Qualcomm chips powering those devices last year. As Microsoft's smallest PCs, the key for both the Surface Pro 12 and…

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Microsoft reveals new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop devices

Both will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus chips, which explains the venue choice. (I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that the Snapdragon Summit is held in Hawaii). According to Microsoft, the two…

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XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them

Fire retardant balls dropped by Anduril's Ghost-X drone explode on a fire in a test. Credit: Anduril Industries Wildfire detection from space and firefighting drones featured among the finalists honored in the $11…

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Looking for a powerful convertible laptop? Japan gets a 10.51-inch device with a Core Ultra 5 CPU, and it weighs just 960g

The Note Pro AI uses a Core Ultra 5 125U processor with 12 cores and 14 threads, alongside hardware dedicated to selected AI workloads. At 960g, the laptop combines a 10.51-inch screen with a physical keyboard while…

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Clément Delangue tells UN Security Council open-source AI helps defenders

Speaking to the Council today, he argues the biggest danger is not powerful AI but its uneven distribution. Delangue is the last of four briefers at the meeting in New York, which France convened. His company was the…

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Mop the slop from your LinkedIn feed with a new open-source Chrome extension

Frazier said it’s completely free, doesn’t require any signup, and doesn’t just filter out AI slop, either - it catches garbage written by humans too, actually. The extension relies on nine signs drawn from research by…

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