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- HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Show Gets A Release Date Update, First Harry Photo
We have a release date window for HBO's Harry Potter show, and the first shot of Harry's new actor in costume.
- The Dreck Equation: A Drake Equation For Mapping The Hidden Universe Of Federal Regulation
The Dreck Equation reveals the hidden layers of federal regulation—guidance, grants, contracts, antitrust, PPPs, IoT shenanigans—shaping the economy beyond visible notice-and-comment rules
- Travel Food Retailer SSP Sees Debut Indian IPO Decline In Value
First-day trading for Travel Food Services Limited, a joint venture with K Hospitality Corp., was weaker than both parties would have liked.
- Goldman Sachs doesn’t have to hire a $180,000 software engineer—meet Devin, its new AI-powered worker
Goldman is ushering in a ‘hybrid workforce’ era where humans and AI coexist. Its newest autonomous employee, Devin, joins the nearly 12,000 existing software engineers at the company.
- House too hot? Energy bill already too high? This UK professor says smearing yogurt on your windows can cool your home
It can make a difference of more than 6 degrees, he says.
Technology
- New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering
Grok 4's "reasoning" shows cases where the chatbot consults Musk posts to answer divisive questions.
- Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 N offers more sound, more shifts, more smiles
Hyundai appears to be nailing the "make a fun electric car" brief right now.
- Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
Brothers-in-law use construction knowledge to compete against Comcast in Michigan.
- The Download: California’s AI power plans, and and why it’s so hard to make welfare AI fair
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. California is set to become the first US state to manage power outages with AI California’s statewide power grid operator is poised to become the first in North America to deploy artificial intelligence…
- California is set to become the first US state to manage power outages with AI
California’s statewide power grid operator is poised to become the first in North America to deploy artificial intelligence to manage outages, MIT Technology Review has learned. “We wanted to modernize our grid operations. This fits in perfectly with that,” says Gopakumar Gopinathan, a senior advisor on power system technologies at the California Independent System Operator—known…
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