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OpenAI just bought the team behind Apple Shortcuts

In a surprise announcement, OpenAI says it has acquired Software Applications Incorporated — makers of the Mac app called Sky.

If that sounds a bit generic, the company was recently founded by the team behind Workflow , which Apple bought and turned into Shortcuts.

Earlier this year, Software Applications Incorporated previewed a new Mac app called Sky. (Sky is also the name of the that was discontinued for sounding like Scarlett Johansson.)

Unsurprisingly, Sky showed off how modern AI could be used to enhance automation and improve workflows on the


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Canonical Academy Announced For New Ubuntu Linux Certifications

In addition to announced Snap-based silicon-optimized AI large language models , Canonical used the ongoing Ubuntu Summit 25.10 virtual event to announced Canonical Academy. Canonical Academy is their new effort for badges/certifications around Ubuntu Linux.

Canonical Academy is described the Ubuntu publisher as:
"a new platform that enables individuals and enterprises to validate their open source skills with qualifications designed and maintained by the engineers behind Ubuntu. The first available track is the SysAdmin track, which includes four exams that test practical expertise with
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Canonical Begins Snap'ing Up Silicon-Optimized AI LLMs For Ubuntu Linux

Canonical's new push for their Snap app packaging/sandboxed format on Ubuntu Linux is for AI large language models (LLMs). Making it more interesting though is that they are working to deliver silicon-optimized AI LLMs for your hardware and to make it easily deployable for Ubuntu sers.

Canonical has begun rolling out optimized inference Snaps as a new means of deploying AI LLMs on Ubuntu-powered devices. The hope is that with the likes of sudo snap install deepseek-r1 --beta you can be easily
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The ChatGPT Atlas browser still feels like Googling with extra steps

This week, OpenAI debuted its long-rumored AI browser that aims to put its AI chatbot at the center of the internet. The browser, called ChatGPT Atlas, is entering a space that's already occupied by Perplexity's Comet and Google Gemini in Chrome. OpenAI is likely betting that putting ChatGPT front and center is enough to draw […]

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OpenAI teases a string of updates for its AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas

Less than two days ago, OpenAI came out swinging in the fight for the future of the internet with the release of ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser it hopes will topple Google Chrome. Adam Fry, OpenAI’s Atlas leader, says the team is already “heads down making it better” and teased a bunch of new […]

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I deployed a network scanner that feeds my LAN statistics into Home Assistant

It's perfect for building Home Assistant automations using LAN data

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OpenAI launches its ChatGPT Atlas browser

ChatGPT Atlas brings AI browsing to macOS – Windows version coming soon! OpenAI has officially released its ChatGPT Atlas web browser, which aims to challenge Google Chrome with tight AI integration. Currently, the browser is only available for macOS, though versions are planned for Windows, Android, and iOS. With Atlas, OpenAI aims to transform web […]

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Ray AI Engine Pulled Into The PyTorch Foundation For Unified Open AI Compute Stack

Announced today at the PyTorch Conference was word that the Ray AI compute engine is becoming a project hosted by the PyTorch Foundation.

The Ray AI compute engine was started by Anyscale for scaling AI workloads from laptops to hundreds of nodes or GPUs in the cloud. Ray focuses on being able to parallelize Python and handle any AI or machine learning workload while jiving not only with PyTorch but other popular software like TensorFlow, HuggingFace, Sci-Kit, XGBoost, and other libraries/integrations.

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Will DeepSeek’s new model break the ‘long-context’ bottleneck holding back LLMs?

DeepSeek’s new artificial intelligence model that converts images into text is not just a document parsing tool but a potential preview of its next generation of large language models (LLMs), according to AI experts.

Released on Monday, DeepSeek-OCR is technically an optical character recognition (OCR) model – an AI system that uses computer vision to convert images into machine-readable text. Common applications include smart vehicles and document scanners.

The Hangzhou-based start-up cited the model’s industry-leading scores on

The DeepSeek app’s welcome page is seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, January 28, 2025. Photo: AP

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas AI browser, LLM can browse the internet for you and even complete tasks — initial release for macOS, with Windows, iOS, and Android to follow soon after

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)

OpenAI just announced a new AI-powered browser that integrates its ChatGPT LLM right into the app. During a livestream, the company unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, coming first to macOS, with Windows, iPhone, and Android support to follow.

Introducing ChatGPT Atlas - YouTube
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