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Burger King Is Handing out $2.50 Whopper Jr.'s for the Fourth of July — How to Get Yours

The chain is offering $2.50 burgers to loyalty members in honor of America's 250th anniversary Burger King Burger King is offering $2.50 Whopper Jr.'s to Royal Perks members exclusively through its ...
Business Insider

What is GLM-5.2? Another open-source Chinese AI model has Silicon Valley's attention.

A new AI model from China is generating the kind of buzz not seen since DeepSeek's R1 announced China as a serious threat to American chatbot hegemony over a year ago. Silicon Valley's online echo ...
The New York Times

NHL offseason trade board 2.0: Latest on all the top targets as action heats up

Vincent Trocheck raised eyebrows this week by hiring a new agent, Pat Brisson. Emilee Chinn / Getty Images Some eyebrows were raised this week by the fact that Vincent Trocheck has hired veteran agent ...
VentureBeat

Z.ai’s open-weights GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on multiple long-horizon coding benchmarks for 1/6th the cost

Today, Chinese AI startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) announced the immediate release of GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model (LLM) engineered specifically to dominate "long ...
ZDNet

I tried AnduinOS 2.0, and it may be the easiest way to ditch Windows for Linux

AnduinOS 2.0 beta is available, and it's something special. This desktop distribution is fast, clean, and private. You can download and test the latest release now ...
Wall Street Journal

Inflation Heated Up to 4.2% in May, as Energy Costs Continued to Bite

While corporate America is thriving, consumers and the broader economy are being left behind. WSJ’s Aaron Back explains what that might mean for new Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh. Photo: Photo illustration ...
CNBC

Consumer prices rose 4.2% annually in May, highest in three years

The consumer price index rose at a seasonally adjusted 0.5% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate at 4.2%, both in line with expectations. The core CPI accelerated 0.2% for the month and ...
NBC News

Inflation jumps to 4.2%, the highest since early 2023

Inflation surged in May to the highest level since early 2023, as Iran war-related fuel costs worked their way through the broader economy. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...
SiliconANGLE

As Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8, it raises $65B in new funding

Anthropic PBC today introduced a new large language model, Claude Opus 4.8, that’s significantly better than its predecessor at complex coding tasks. The company announced the LLM alongside another ...
VentureBeat

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment

On benchmarks, Opus 4.8 is a step up rather than a leap. It scores 88.6% on SWE-bench Verified (vs. 87.6% for Opus 4.7), 69.2% on the harder SWE-bench Pro (vs. 64.3%), and 74.6% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 ...
Android Authority

I tried Snapseed 4.0, and it's the Android camera app I didn't know I needed

Snapseed 4.0 is now available on Android after a couple of months of waiting. For long-time users, it’s more than just a simple update with bug fixes and performance improvements. Google went to work, ...
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Diablo 4 3.1.1 Patch Notes

The 3.0.2 Patch for Diablo 4 has arrived, bringing with it a number of balance updates, additions, improvements and bug fixes to the base game and its expansions. This page acts as a comprehensive ...