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Plug-in solar systems are easy to set up and can save consumers money on their power bills, but they’re still illegal in many states. Utah was the first to legalize backyard and plug-in solar, but other states have since caught on, and more are working on their own pathway to legalization.

Meta’s new commercial terms allow its web scrapers, bots, and agents to crawl websites “associated with” Meta business accounts, including news publishers, according to a report by Nieman Lab.

On Thursday, Anthropic announced that it will “give employee-like access” to six evaluators from METR, a third-party nonprofit that tests frontier models.

Teams shipping AI agents at scale keep running into the same pattern. Even agents built on top-tier models like Fable and Astra struggle to carry out complex, end-to-end tasks inside a specific product consistently enough to deploy. So teams grind out evals for the workflows that matter most, often hundreds or thousands of hand-written cases,…

Apple held a “Welcome Home” event on October 13, where it unveiled seven new smart home products. The small event wasn’t livestreamed, but Apple quietly dove headfirst into the smart home market with its first smart panel: the Apple HomeView.

For as much as Ring has carved itself a spot in the home security market, the brand still doesn’t have a smart lock — though that’s about to change. A new Ring Smart Lock was just announced this week, expanding the Ring ecosystem and Alexa devices.

After over 500 million downloads, years of requests from the open-launched their beta desktop App, Unsloth Studio. Unsloth which makes it faster, easier, and more affordable to fine-tune and run AI models, including locally on your own hardware. The app centralizes features in one spot with Unsloth Studio so users can now use a dashboard…

NVIDIA announced a new 64GB configuration of DGX Spark — from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI — its GB10-powered desktop AI system. It gives developers a way to start with one system for local models and agents, then cluster two 64GB units for 128GB of memory across the cluster and more compute when…

Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited deal is finally back ahead of the October Prime Day sale: Right now, you can sign up to get Kindle Unlimited totally free for your first three months — down from the usual price of $11.99 a month. If you own a Kindle and haven’t tried Unlimited yet, I highly recommend taking…

Once a physical AI product is in the field, the compute problem changes shape. Fleet data starts arriving faster than a team can label it, every retraining cycle has to be validated before it ships to hardware, and the sim-to-real loop stops being a research exercise and becomes a release process. That is the stage…