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Inside Parker Posey’s Venice Film Festival—From Sightseeing to Fabulous Fashions

Every year, the Venice Film Festival produces some of the most glitzy and glamorous red carpets outside of Hollywood—but Parker Posey is one of the few stars you can guarantee is having the most fun doing it all. The actor took her own turn on the Lido to premiere her new film, Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, which is one of the buzziest projects on the 2026 roster. (She co-stars alongside John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, and Steve Buscemi.) “Venice is a magical city, and getting to celebrate Wild Horse Nine here is a treat,” says Posey of her whirlwind week at the enduringly chic festival.

Sinner trionfa a Wimbledon

Jannik Sinner ha battuto Carlos Alcaraz in quattro set nella finale del torneo di Wimbledon. Il numero uno al mondo è anche il primo italiano a ottenere un titolo in singolare sull'erba di Londra.

Introducing the UPHELD Dataset: Upwork Human-Evaluated Longer Dialogues

Most benchmarks say today’s LLMs are already excellent conversationalists. Our experience building Uma, Upwork’s AI work agent, suggested otherwise.  When we evaluated models on realistic, multi-turn conversations, the gap was clear: even advanced models often produced responses that felt overly verbose, or just slightly off.

Performance unlocked: Reddit Max campaigns are now available to all advertisers

With more than 26 billion conversations on our platform, Reddit provides advertisers with a uniquely powerful source of real-time human insight and has become a proven performance driver for advertisers. Reddit delivers 2.1x higher incremental ROAS than the digital media average. Max campaigns, in particular, have unlocked performance for advertisers of all sizes.

Japan’s Preferred Networks Seeks IPO to Keep Up in AI Chip Race

Japanese startup Preferred Networks Inc. is seeking to go public to mass-produce its chips, a reflection of the rising cost and scale needed to stay relevant in a global AI race. The Tokyo-based outfit, one of the country’s few closely held businesses with a billion-dollar valuation, is stepping up efforts to custom-design semiconductors tailored to run AI models. It plans to deliver the samples of its newest chips to customers in the first half of next year, Chief Executive Officer Daisuke Okanohara said in an interview Monday.

One billion people are now protected with passkeys on WhatsApp, plus more account security features

On WhatsApp, your conversations belong only to you and the people you're talking to. It's why we built end-to-end encryption by default, and it's why we continue adding new ways to keep your account secure and in your hands. Here are a few we've been working on.

The Boox Go 6’s ePaper Advantage Is Allowing Reading And Writing

What if you could take the ePaper in a book reader and actually use it as paper? That’s the pitch from Boox’s latest release, the Go 6 (Gen 11) ePaper Reader. Not only does it offer a clear, easy-to-read display, but it also includes the InkSense Plus stylus for taking notes on the handheld. I’ve spent time with the latest Go 6 to learn about its dual nature and the Android tools hidden beneath the display.

What we expect from the upcoming Apple launch

It's finally happening — this week, we are (probably) about to see Apple's first foldable iPhone, more than five years after Samsung launched its first foldable phone. Apple's annual iPhone release events are always interesting in one way or another, but this year's presentation is one of the most anticipated in a while. As Tim Cook hands off the CEO role to former Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus, people have high expectations for Apple's next devices, especially since the company is embracing an entirely new form factor.