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Trump Call Briefly Interrupts Nvidia Company Meeting

Trump Call Briefly Interrupts Nvidia Company Meeting

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang stepped away from an all-hands meeting to take a brief call from President Donald Trump, according to employees who witnessed it.

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Study Finds Psilocybin Makes Brain Activity More Responsive to Immediate Experience

Study Finds Psilocybin Makes Brain Activity More Responsive to Immediate Experience

A neuroimaging study found that psilocybin loosened conventional brain-network boundaries while strengthening patterns linked to what participants were doing at the time.

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Running a Local Language Model Offers Privacy With Hardware Trade-Offs

Running a Local Language Model Offers Privacy With Hardware Trade-Offs

Free language models can run on personal computers without sending prompts to the cloud, though performance depends heavily on memory, graphics hardware and model size.

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Technology Companies Warn Organizations Have Months to Prepare for AI Cyberattacks

Technology Companies Warn Organizations Have Months to Prepare for AI Cyberattacks

OpenAI, Anthropic and more than 100 other companies called for urgent defensive preparations as AI-enabled attacks add to a week of significant security and privacy developments.

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Nepalis cling to hope for missing, three days after disaster

Nepalis cling to hope for missing, three days after disaster

Desperate families in Nepal ran their fingers down long lists of rescued people pasted on a wall on Saturday, clinging to hope three days after devastating floods swept down the valley.

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Norway mourns passing of King Harald as son King Haakon VIII ascends throne

Norway mourns passing of King Harald as son King Haakon VIII ascends throne

Flags across Norway flew at half-mast on Saturday as the country opened a new chapter in its history under King Haakon VIII, a day after the death of his 89-year-old father Harald.

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Norris extends McLaren stay until 2030

Norris extends McLaren stay until 2030

Reigning F1 world champion Lando Norris has committed his long-term future to McLaren after signing a contract extension that will keep him at the team until 2030.

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Morning Roundup: Cycling Classic Returns as Cruise Port Opens and Plant Library Grows

Morning Roundup: Cycling Classic Returns as Cruise Port Opens and Plant Library Grows

Philadelphia Cycling Classic Weekend is almost here — and you can enjoy it, too

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Philadelphia Burlesque Show Honoured Tim Curry Weeks Before His Death

Philadelphia Burlesque Show Honoured Tim Curry Weeks Before His Death

On August 2, Dr. Frank N. Furter, Wadsworth, Pennywise and more put on a special one-night show.

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Cowbells Mark Return of Philadelphia Cycling Classic for Carpenter Family

Cowbells Mark Return of Philadelphia Cycling Classic for Carpenter Family

John Carpenter and Julie Heberle have collected over 70 bells following Robin Carpenter’s professional career. They’ll use them to make some noise near the Manayunk Wall.

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