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People will have to surrender their devices for safekeeping before they’re allowed in court.
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-As GeekWire noted, Microsoft seems to be moving in the opposite direction of where it wants to go in order to achieve its goal.

-OpenAI describes its latest offering as something of a general purpose productivity agent.

- Big Ben's clock mechanic says he programmed his Playdate to help check the timing for the iconic clocktower's bells to ring.
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We’re expecting an updated family of foldables including not one but possibly two versions of the Galaxy Z Fold 8.
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-SpaceXAi says Grok 4.5 is its smartest model yet, built specifically "to excel at coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work." It was trained across tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs on datasets full of coding, science, engineering and math information.

-The US Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is demanding action from autonomous car makers after identifying "a clear pattern of driverless AVs interfering with law enforcement and other first responders" over the past months.

-There are now 100 sheep grazing at the solar farm that powers Volkswagen's manufacturing plant in Poznań, Poland.
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