This Silicon Valley city is quietly becoming Robot Row. Here’s who’s clanking around.

The USB ecosystem is in the midst of another transition that will affect how laptops, desktops, storage devices, displays, and peripherals connect in the second half of the decade. USB4 Version 2.0, Thunderbolt 5, and a refreshed certification program converge around higher throughput, expanded power delivery, and an attempt to simplify a standard that has…

The Trump administration is split over how to respond to the rapid rise of China’s leading AI models, according to multiple people familiar with deliberations. The debate is broadly divided between parts of the White House, which has pushed for stricter controls on Chinese AI that may soon rival the most powerful US models, and…

LG is reportedly pulling a McAfee pop-up ad from a controversial app that some of its monitors have stealthily installed on connected computers. An example of the pop-up ad is seen in a still from Gamers Nexus’ video. Credit: Gamers Nexus/Windows/YouTube The app, LG Monitor App Installer, installs itself through a Windows Update alongside monitor…

The line in the response object You call the API. You pass model: “claude-fable-5”. You get back a completion, a token count, and a field that reads “model”: “claude-opus-4-8”. Nothing errored. Nothing retried. The request was classified before generation began, matched a sensitive category, and was handed to a different set of weights entirely. Anthropic…

Brian Barrett: Vision Pro. Zoë Schiffer: The Vision Pro. Thank you so much. Brian Barrett: You don’t think about Vision Pro every day? Zoë Schiffer: No. I have to say that it lived and died very quickly, and I haven’t thought about it since. But I think the issue, and this has been true for…

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