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The Verge Tech

The Echo Dot Max is cheaper than ever in an early Prime Day sale

The Echo Dot Max comes in a variety of fun colors, including purple. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge We’re seeing good early Prime Day deals ahead of the event next week, and unsurprisingly, some of the best deals are on Amazon’s own devices. Several Echo speakers have dropped to new low prices, including the Echo Dot Max, which is on sale for $64.99 ($35 off) at Amazon. Echo Dot Max Where to Buy: $99.99 $64.99 at Amazon $99.99 at Best Buy $99.99 at Target Our smart home r

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DigitalOcean Blog

Server-Side Tools Are Now Available for DigitalOcean Inference Engine

AI applications and agents are only as capable as the tools, data, and systems they can access. With Server-Side Tools, now in Public Preview for DigitalOcean Inference Engine, a model can call out to search the web, read your data, call your systems, and take action all from inside a single inference request. You can enable the new tools with your existing DigitalOcean Model Access Key. No separate tool infrastructure to assemble, no new credentials, no orchestration layer to operate. Server-Si

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The Verge Tech

Vibe-decoding the White House-Anthropic fight over Fable

CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei attends a working lunch with G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners, and global tech CEOs on innovation and AI, during the G7 Summit on June 17th, 2026, in Evian-les-Bains, France. | Photo: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Hello and welcome to Regulator, an email for Verge subscribers about technology, politics, and what happens when science crashes headlong into self-interest. Not a subscriber? Sign up here today! Got the scoop on a petty feud that's going to somehow fun

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GitHub Changelog

Auto mode in Copilot Chat available for all users

GitHub Copilot auto model selection is now generally available in Copilot Chat on github.com and the GitHub mobile app for all Copilot plans. With auto, Copilot chooses a model on… The post Auto mode in Copilot Chat available for all users appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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GitHub Changelog

Limit open pull requests for users without write access

Maintainers of open source repositories are dealing with an ever-growing volume of pull requests, including repeated low-quality or drive-by contributions that can slow triage and overwhelm review queues. To help… The post Limit open pull requests for users without write access appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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GitHub Changelog

Agent finder for GitHub Copilot now available

GitHub agent finder is now available. Instead of hand-wiring which MCP servers, skills, canvases, agents, and tools each agent should use—and filling your context window in the process—GitHub Copilot can… The post Agent finder for GitHub Copilot now available appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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