OpenAI President Says It Reached AGI with Astra - DTNS 5347

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2:57Jenn Cutter: This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, September 4th, 2026. The 4th of September. We tell you what you need to know, give you important context, and help each other understand. Today, OpenAI says we have reached AGI. And it also appears another rogue agent hacked another site in Germany. Yeah, I mean, you know, that's just the world we live in. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm Jen Cutter. Let's start with what you need to know with those big stories. Yeah, so we knew Astra was coming. OpenAI has been talking about how it reached this critical security thing and all of that. And now some people have it, not me.

3:36Jenn Cutter: OpenAI released a new model called GPT-6 Astra to partners in its Daybreak program. That is the program that gives its most capable models to trusted partners first as a bit of a safety measure, while it continues to fine-tune the guardrails against misuse. It has guardrails. Even the daybreak people have to have guardrails. But they just want to make sure before they give it to the unwashed masses. Although I took a shower today, so I'm just masses. Anyway, a version with security guardrails for us is planned as long as you want to fork over and pay. Paid subscriptions will get it in the, quote, coming days.

4:13Jenn Cutter: Both versions, the Daybreak version and the one that the rest of us will get, have security measures developed after they determined that it qualified as critical in its ability to discover zero-day exploits. In fact, Astra received a perfect score on ExploitBench, which, if you're not thinking too hard about it, sounds like a good thing. Oh, perfect score. Good job, Astra. that means that it can be used to exploit things perfectly gpt 5.6 got a 78.5 percent on exploit bench it also probably means we need a new benchmark for this uh if it aced it uh so astra will be able to be used for code review and patching but it will refuse to create proof of concept exploits because it's too good at it uh the model was reviewed by the u.s government but I wouldn't read too much into that.

5:03Jenn Cutter: That's not really a rigorous review. They kind of tell the U.S. government, hey, this is the model. If we don't hear from you in 30 days, we're going to put it out. And that's kind of what happened. It's more like a safety stamp. They didn't see anything that was obviously concerning, so they didn't stop it. OpenAI President Greg Brockman, however, said he believes Astra qualifies as AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, which is the term for something that is generally smarter than humans. There's not really a widely agreed benchmark on this. It's a I know it when I see it kind of thing. And Brockman thinks he sees it.

5:37Jenn Cutter: He said, I quote, I leave it up to the reader to decide for themselves if this qualifies for them. I think we're there. OpenAI says Astra's agentic capabilities can use a computer like a human. They gave a lot of examples. Video game development, electrical engineering, bunch of scientific uses. Fully interacting with and manipulating Excel spreadsheets. Those are just some of the things it can do with minimal human oversight. It's supposed to be very good at complex multi-step tasks. A lot of times agents, if you give them too many steps, they start to run out and then they come back like, what was I doing?

6:14Jenn Cutter: Or they do something wrong. This is supposed to be really good at those kinds of things. And OpenAI says it's better at staying on task and respecting boundaries, which as we have recently learned is very important, and understanding user intent. A lot of benchmarks flying around out there. It scored 92.7 % on ScreenSpot Pro. That is a test of understanding how to interact with software interfaces. That's a big jump. That's why I point this one out. 92.7 % compared to GPT 5.6, which was 76.9%, which is why they're saying it's so good at doing things on a computer like you would. It should be noted that independent benchmark provider Epic AI rated it the most capable out of 267 models across 50 benchmarks, while artificial analysis, which focuses more on Knowledge, coding, and text comprehension said it was kind of even with GPT 5.6 and slightly behind Fable 5.1 in its estimation.

7:08Jenn Cutter: Astra was built on OpenAI's largest ever training run. If you wondered what that Stargate site in Texas was good for, well, those 100 ,000 GPUs were used to train Astra. And pricing for Astra, if you're using the API, is price matched. We've got Walmart-style price matching in the world of AI. uh they'll be charging pretty much what anthropic charges for mythos or fable 5.1 ten dollars per million input tokens fifty dollars per million output tokens uh there you go astra it's not just for me yet but it is uh i i'm actually curious jen to see how different this feels to 5.6 which which i did feel was slightly more capable but it didn't rock my world yeah like i've seen all the test scores being bandied about and my head goes like oh yeah well they're teaching to the test and like well of course they are what else would they be doing right now you you want that press you want to get those things uh the scores up but that is a big jump a uh a noticeable improvement yeah i think that's i i'm i'm a bit the same as you are with benchmarks i'm like you know they what the real world experience and tests are always a little more valuable to me but when you see a big jump like that yeah i guess they could have gained the test really well but it tells me there's something here.

8:26Jenn Cutter: There's something to this. And I'm very much paying attention to the differences in the evaluations from the independent testers, because I think what we may see is that it is very good at certain things that showed up in the Epic AI analysis, but maybe not good at all the things, which is why it didn't do as well on the artificial analysis evaluation. Yeah. The most important thing to me is actually, so OpenAI says better staying on task, respecting boundaries and understanding user intent. That is where I think this thing kind of sinks your swim with people. Because people have been using this AI, well, AI in general enough now that they've gotten really good at prompt engineering.

9:08But as these things go wider, like you and I probably have different research methods and would ask things in a different way. Even if we end up with the same answer, we would get there in a different way. So how good is this at handling both of our different ways to still arrive at a theoretical, consistent, correct answer when possible?

9:28Jenn Cutter: That might be a thing that doesn't show up in all the benchmarks either. Yeah, because that is entirely a use case scenario. And that is where a lot of edge cases are going to show up to. Yeah, because it might be like, well, the knowledge is the same as 5.6. But Jen and I both wanted the same thing, said it in entirely different ways, and it understood them the same, right? That might not show up as knowledge. It should probably show up as text comprehension, I guess. But yeah, that ability to understand the intent, that can make a big difference because there have been plenty of times where I said, do this, and it comes back and says, okay, I'm going to do this.

10:01Jenn Cutter: And I'm like, oh, wait, I forgot to tell you this. Or, oh, you did it this way. I can see why you did that here. Change it to this. And if it's able to save me from doing those steps, it speeds things up quite a bit. But as far as the limits on security go, it might be worth noting that Reuters reports that a group of researchers at Collusion.Wiki published findings that agents with affiliation to OpenAI. So the researchers are like, we don't know if they came from OpenAI, but they certainly are OpenAI powered agents. so it could have been someone else testing them, made more than 15 ,000 edits to a German language coding wiki called DSE Wiki.

10:46Jenn Cutter: The agents called themselves names like OpenAI Researcher and used the site as a message board to share tips with each other on how to cheat on OpenAI benchmark tests and bypass OpenAI restrictions. This happened in May. Independent researchers discovered it in August, and OpenAI learned of it a few weeks ago. probably word leaked out, but it had not yet fully reviewed the report because it didn't get the report in advance. Some reports were alleging that OpenAI's lawyers discouraged employees from investigating the incident before the report was published, but OpenAI denies that, says, no, we didn't get the report until the rest of you did today.

11:25Jenn Cutter: So now we are looking at it to see if it was us. It does seem to fit the facts, though, if it was the agents doing what they did in the hugging face situation, which is finding a way to exchange messages with each other and coordinate to go find the answer to the test in May, around the same time that they were doing these tests that we talked about with hugging face. I wouldn't be shocked if they were also communicating over there on that wiki. What's the wire line? Are you taking notes on a criminal conspiracy? It's like, well, it's nice of them to sign it. Yeah, I mean, they did it on the internal system with the hugging face thing uh but i guess that feels a little less weird when it's not public whereas this is they they went out on the once they got out on the open internet uh they found a place to to leave messages to each other maybe it's more like uh graffiti like leaving tags for each other that kind of thing we'll see if there's more of this uh i would love to see if this stuff ends up being consistent uh in terms of like is it always going to be named this are Are they always going to leave notes or are they going to get smarter and start putting these things in talk pages instead of public graphics?

12:37That is the question, right?

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16:41Jenn Cutter: There is more to talk about today, so let's get to the briefs. Microsoft announced that starting in November, Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will no longer have unlimited gaming in the cloud. The top subscription tier of$23 a month will offer 15 hours of gaming a month on Xbox Cloud Gaming. That is a month, not week. 15 hours a month. After which you will have to pay extra for extra hours. Microsoft has not yet announced the rate for these add-ons. Game Pass Premium's$15 a month plan will cap you out at 10 hours, and the$10 a month Game Pass Essential gives you 5 hours. This does not affect downloaded games.

17:22Microsoft says it expects about 4%, or 1.2 million gamers, to be affected by these limits. Microsoft will also offer the ability to buy access to streamed versions of, quote, eligible games they own on supported devices, and reportedly have been testing a free with ads version of streaming. Yeah.

17:43Jenn Cutter: So if you don't have Game Pass, you can pay to stream the games that you have paid to have access to. I guess that kind of makes sense. It's checking a box in the, you know, what we offer thing. Free with ads is the one that first raised my eyebrow of like, oh, they're going to limit you to 15 hours. And then you pay to get extra hours or you just start seeing ads. Right. I feel like that's a possibility. definitely reminds me of when people started to do torrents in large amounts and suddenly isps started putting in limits and caps on the internet to to stop the worst offenders and would come out and say well this is only going to affect four percent of the people who use the isp most people will never run into it and never notice it i'm like oh you're trying to cap the compute abusers You want to stop the people who use this service the most, your best customers, really.

18:39Jenn Cutter: But at least they're not just cutting them off like the ISPs did. They are giving you a way to do this, whether it's like$1 an hour or$10 an hour is going to make all the difference, right? Yeah. I'm thinking like, man, if I was paying for Ultimate and 15 hours of gaming a month, I'm not saying I do 15 hours of gaming a week, but I think I am up there. I definitely do more gaming than the average person. And of course, on my feeds, I think I have all 4 % of them on my social feeds. So it was a lot of anger about it. Nobody thinks they're in the 4%, whether they really are or not. Yeah, yeah. Well, I recently bought a used PlayStation portal.

19:15So I have a handheld device that only connects to my PS5. And without paying for PlayStation Plus, I can just play everything all of the time off my own network. Yeah. and that's really handy but that's because i own these devices for people who've been buying game pass to play these things not on their own devices and are kind of this is their only way to access them yeah if i was paying this 15 hours a month of that service i would be upset yeah how much

19:42Jenn Cutter: cloud gaming do you do versus stuff that you've downloaded locally or or have the physical media for yeah well for me because i'm not paying for plus i only have access to the games i already bought so yeah if sony did this this would not affect me but for people who are using this as a way to like kind of get around having uh because i think everyone looks at the 15 hours like well i play more than 15 hours a month it's like but do you play for more than 15 hours in the cloud a month i think that's what microsoft is counting on is like you probably don't a dozen people i know are using this specifically like they're not huge gamers they're only paying for game pass it is they're only accessed two games because they have not invested.

20:22So they're like, oh, I'm going to do this to get around this. And now like, now do they start buying games to get around this?

20:28Jenn Cutter: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see the workarounds that the humans do in this particular test scenario. Yeah, no one loves having to think about how much fun they've had and whether they're going to have to pay for more fun. This is very anti-consumer. I totally understand the ones and zeros about why Microsoft is doing it. But I wouldn't be shocked if they backpedal on this or they make it really cheap to add extra game time. You still don't want to have to think about it. But if they make it cheap enough, it can still act as a break on the worst abusers of the system while giving people who do legitimately need more than 15 hours a month more.

21:13Jenn Cutter: and it's a backdoor price increase, right? They could have just taken the top tier and went from$23 a month to$30 a month, called it a day. This is them trying to tailor that price increase to the people who use it the most, I guess. Yeah, and November, plenty of runway to tweak. Thank you for reminding. Yeah, I've seen so many people like Microsoft just threw a cap on me. I'm like, no, no, not yet. It comes in November. You've got time. This year's been going fast, so I kind of get it. No, I can't believe it's already September 4th, as I've been doing all year. I just say that every single day.

21:47Jenn Cutter: But yeah, eventually it's going to be November and you're going to be like, oh, it's actually here now. More Microsoft news. Microsoft announced Project Zenith, a developer-optimized Windows 11 experience. Microsoft Corporate Vice President Logan Eyre described it as a ready-to-code, distraction-free Windows experience on developer-class PCs with 64 gigabytes or more of unified memory and 250 gigabytes per second memory bandwidth or more. In other words, this is going to be on those kinds of machines. It's just a configuration of Windows. First Project Zenith PCs to hit the market will run on the new AMD Ryzen AI Halo processors.

22:32Jenn Cutter: We've got details coming later in the show about those. It'll eventually come to other platforms, including NVIDIA RTX Spark. These are machines that can run 30 billion parameter LLMs locally. So this is for somebody who wants to do on-device inferencing, maybe even a little bit of training, but they want to use those big, expensive workstations. Project Zenith comes with Visual Studio Code, GitHub, Copilot, PowerToys, WinApp CLI, the Windows dev skills. They're pre-installed. You also get a bunch of other CLIs and languages and runtimes. Terminal and Visual Studio Code come pinned to the taskbar by default.

23:10Jenn Cutter: There's a bunch of other customizations like showing file extensions, hidden files, and full file paths in Explorer on by default. Something that every developer has to go turn on when they download bog-standard Windows. start menu tips and account notifications are turned off to reduce distractions if you want to try this you don't have to get one of these big expensive machines it's just those machines are going to come with it you can get the windows developer configuration that will be used in project zenith and try it yourself and see if you like it paul therott at therott.com did that he called it maddening because in therott's uh explanation of this he's like no developer wants a pre-configured machine.

23:52Jenn Cutter: Everybody spends a couple hours configuring their machine when they set it up and then they're done. And no configuration is ever going to match what any particular developer wants. I was laughing so hard when I read the Microsoft official blog on this because I'm thinking like, okay, they have done half my setup for me. Those are the things I immediately do. I immediately install PowerToys. I immediately show the hidden files in full path. So for my brain, I'm like, yay. But yeah, that is the important thing is to have these options. So for me, this saves time for a lot of other people. Yeah, this is just an extra, extra step.

24:24Now you have to go through things off instead of on.

24:27Jenn Cutter: Yeah, maybe. I'm curious. I totally get where Therat was coming from on this. On the other hand, this is really just for these big machines. And they're trying to be like, we're giving you the ramp. They're trying to do what you thought, which is like, oh, cool. A bunch of things I would turn on or turned on already. I don't think they're trying to say no one will have to configure it. they're just saying, hopefully we've covered a lot of the configurations for you. So it'll be faster to get it set up. Yeah. Oh, I remember when Firefox and other browsers took off the home button, the first thing I did was like, no, no, no, no, no.

24:59I need that home button. Yeah.

25:01Jenn Cutter: There's a few things like that with, with every, everyone has their little things that drive them insane. So it is really funny that this actually takes care of a lot of that for me. Yeah. I I'm actually curious, the developers in the audience, uh, again, knowing this is for the, those big workstations that are meant for for local llm inferencing uh do you do you caught into the idea would you want to download this configuration for yourself to speed things up or are you like the rot where you're like don't try to configure it for me you're just going to make extra work feedback at dailytechnishow.com uh lenovo also announced a whole bunch of new concepts and products at ifa in berlin project aeroblade which is a super cool name a laptop concept with a ventless cooling system to minimize noise without compromising performance.

25:50While there's like one vent, it's running along the hinge so you don't really notice it and it doesn't heat up your lap. Modules use ultrasonic vibrations to move air instead of the fans. Project Swan is a 14-inch consumer laptop with a rollable screen that can extend horizontally to 17 inches basically the legion pro rollable from ces but for productivity and entertainment

26:15Jenn Cutter: instead of gaming yeah it's uh it's not lenovo at a tech conference without a rollable screen demo uh i know that there's a few there's a couple of these that they actually sell now so it's not like they've never shipped one uh i do i feel like they're always like do you like this one how about this one okay uh we're gathering data uh so so that one didn't surprise me, but the Project Aeroblade thing, I'm really interested in. A couple of the people, in fact, I think it was Therat again, who said when they picked it up, it just felt like it was a demo unit, like a form factor unit that didn't have any internals because it was so light.

26:57Jenn Cutter: And yeah, the fact that it's not going to heat up your lap, that's great. One vent in the hinge, which is already a vent of its sort, that makes sense. Using the internal vibrations, that's when I would like to see them bring to some actual devices. So maybe we'll see that in CES. When is the last time you used a laptop on your lap? Oh, last week. Or maybe earlier this week. I have a laptop. It used to be my Chromebook, although that started to get too old to use. But I have a laptop in the living room. And when I need to do something real quick, instead of walking into the studio, I'll just grab that and put it on my lap.

27:34Makes sense. In actual product news, ThinkVision P27UL-40 uses an inkjet printer to deposit material on a glass layer to create an OLED display more efficiently. The iJP OLED cuts production costs by up to 20%. The 27-inch monitor has a 120Hz refresh rate and will come next March starting at$1 ,300. ThinkCenter X Ultra runs on an AMD Ryzen AI Max Plus Pro 495 processor with up to 128GB of RAM and 8TB of storage. It will be one of the first machines with Microsoft's developer-focused Project Zenith configuration on Windows 11 coming in November and starting at$3 ,700. The Yoga Pro 9N is a 15.3-inch laptop with NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip with a 92.5-watt-hour battery and a 140-watt power adapter, as well as a 2.5K 48Hz to 165Hz OLED display.

28:43There's also a 2-in-1 16-inch version of the Yoga 9N, which includes a touchscreen, but there's no price or availability on these yet. And of course, what would a self-respecting laptop maker be these days without trying to compete with the MacBook Neo? The IdeaPad Vibe starts at$700, comes in multiple colors, which is of course important, with either a Qualcomm Snapdragon X processor or one of AMD's Ryzen AI 400 series chips and in two sizes, 14 or 15 inches. AMD versions come in October and Snapdragon models in November. an Intel version is expected at a later date.

29:24Jenn Cutter: I like these. I'm really interested in the IJP OLED. They're not the first company to have one of these, but it does seem to be coming out a little more frequently and it brings down the costs. It's going to be a cheaper OLED monitor for you. And OLED monitors are not the cheapest ones you can get. So 27 inch monitor, 120 hertz, you know that's good stuff um i'm always into the yogas and i've never bought one i always look at them like oh that looks cool uh i don't know that this changes mine because it's really just about the power internals um and yeah yeah colorful laptops those are the those are the deal these days yeah no december is going to be pretty great because i think we're going to have these perfect roundups of here is all of the macbook neo competitors and we get to see them side by side and see what's coping and what has any production issues.

30:12So that is one of the reasons I'm like, I'm not in the market for this, but I'm fascinated by them.

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32:51Jenn Cutter: And now to the quick headlines that make you smarter. Google announced that Gemini Spark can now manage Google Photos for you, editing images, organizing albums, and creating calendar items from photos and more. And Google AI subscribers can now use their voice to search Gmail, Docs, and Keep, a bit like the Android Ramble feature but for productivity apps. Hoem, H-O-H-E-M, announced a two-in-one gimbal camera. So think DJI Osmo style, but with two cameras, which DJI sells a version of, but with home, the second camera can be removed and then you can wear it. It'll come with a lanyard and a hat clip, and it will also be able to attach magnetically, no price or release date yet.

33:38I want one for my helmet. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that Apple is planning a launch of a home security camera along with a home security monitoring service in 2027.

33:49Jenn Cutter: Yes, and I feel it's important to note that while Apple is having an announcement on Wednesday, September 9th, and it will likely announce a foldable, we at DTNS are just going to wait for the announcement to have our long conversations about what they announced. Tons of like what to expect Wednesday articles out there for you to read if you want. But in case you were wondering, we'll talk about it on Wednesday. SwitchBot launched its screenless wearable, the MindClip, which had been previewed at CES. I love seeing things from CES actually coming out. It uses Alibaba Cloud's Quen speech and RAG models to identify speakers and track multi-person conversations.

34:27The note-taking device is available now for$120.

34:31Jenn Cutter: Yeah, it's even a little lighter than the one they showed off at CES, which is cool. Ugreen announced home agent and master agent smart hubs. These run on ARM-based processors, neural processors that can run your smart features locally on the device. So this is similar to the hub that we heard from Anchor yesterday. The Home Agent 100 from Ugreen starts at$1 ,799. So it's a little bit pricier. The Master Agent, however, if you're like, hold my pricier, uses a Blackwell chip, an NVIDIA Thor processor to be specific. That one starts at$20 ,000. I think that's got to be for like super rich people or office buildings or something like that.

35:14Jenn Cutter: Yeah, yeah. A nice impulse purchase. But it is all local, you know, privacy oriented. So that's good. NVIDIA announced the free RTX Pair app that can take multiple devices that run NVIDIA RTX GPUs and runs OLAMA or LM Studio agents across them for your optimized inference. Basically, it uses idle compute in your house to run a mini data center for you. You'll need your RTX devices connected by Ethernet to the LAN, and then the pair app will take care of the rest. Yeah, you don't need to go get a Blackwell chip. If you're a gamer and you might have two or three RTX devices, you can now use them when you're not using them for video gaming to do this.

36:01Jenn Cutter: I don't know how many people this affects, but it's kind of cool. And it's free. It's a free app. You've spent enough already to get three RTX GPS. It's not going to make you spend more. As we mentioned earlier, AMD announced the Threadripper Halo Station. This is a 96-core dual-liquid-cooled using IMI350P accelerator's workstation. You'll be able to run trillion-parameter models. No price on it, but expect hundreds of thousands of dollars for this. Tesla announced a new cyber cab service in Austin, Texas, running without manual controls. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the process Tesla used to self-certify the safety of the cabs, since manual controls are still required for most cases, even if there is full automation.

36:50Amazon Zoox went through a similar process for its automated vehicles without manual controls.

36:55Jenn Cutter: Yeah, I think a lot of people saw this and like, oh, they did it without approval. Yes, but that's also kind of the way you do it. uh so the the this did slow down zooks uh and it's rolling out and it might it might slow down the advance of the cyber cab as well but um but yeah i i don't i don't think this is necessarily as salacious as it might seem from some of the headlines cpots 50 noted the story on our subreddit the analysis of data from the lux zeppelin experiment detected a single particle interaction that cannot be immediately explained with known signals. Now, that could mean it's an indication of theorized dark matter, something we have never directly detected before.

37:38Jenn Cutter: But I talked to Dr. Nicky, our science correspondent, about it, and Dr. Nicky said the physicists that she has talked to said, it's still too early to say. There's a lot of other things that need to be ruled out. But people are pretty excited about the possibility that it could be detection of dark matter. So we'll keep an ear out when they know more for sure. And Motang also noted on the subreddit that FreeBSD published a report on how Netflix has been using FreeBSD to run its content delivery network known as one of the fastest and highest traffic CDNs in the world. Yes. Go BSD fans. It's about time you got a little recognition for that.

38:19Jenn Cutter: And pretty crazy that all of your Netflix is FreeBSD delivered. I love it. We end every episode of DTNS with some shared perspectives. Today, Matt has some thoughts about eSIM sharing. Yeah, Matt wrote, I was glad to hear the news about Apple enabling eSIM multi-device sharing. If we're being pushed into an eSIM-only world, this is the exact logical capability that should come with a non-physical SIM. Back when physical SIMs were standard, heading out for a hike or doing anything risky meant simply swapping the card into an old backup phone to protect the primary device. With eSIM, we lost that flexibility.

38:55Jenn Cutter: Letting us share one number across devices finally brings back that basic utility. Ideally, carriers would extend the exact same logic to smartwatches instead of gatekeeping it for extra plan revenue, though I'm not holding my breath. Yeah, I remember when eSIM first started rolling out and there was a very intense backlash of people who were like, I like physical SIMs. I got to say, being able to land in an airplane in another country and just go activate my eSIM, pretty great versus having to get one mailed to me beforehand and then getting the paperclip out and pulling it out. So, yes, there are some flexibility that we lost when we moved to eSIM.

39:42Jenn Cutter: But as Matt wrote, we're getting a little bit of it back here. So I feel like if Matt is starting to come around on eSIM, this may be a watershed moment here. I'm with Matt on the whole hiking thing. I go kayaking every once in a while. And yeah, I don't bring my good phone. I bring a phone that is kind of my Wi-Fi phone just because you need someone to call 911 with. But to be able to have it be an actual phone would also be really fun. Indeed. I agree. So what are you all thinking about out there? Do you have some insight into a story? Like, you know, we want to hear your thoughts on the whole dev configuration of Windows 11.

40:18Please share it with us over at feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com.

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