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RTX Spark Ignites Global Celebration as New Windows PCs Arrive
Leading today: RTX Spark Ignites Global Celebration as New Windows PCs Arrive. Also in this issue: Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says; Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites. 16 stories in total, selected automatically from 32 candidates across the day's feeds.
| 1 | blogs.nvidia.com RTX Spark Ignites Global Celebration as New Windows PCs ArriveNVIDIA RTX Spark laptops are now available, bringing NVIDIA Blackwell RTX graphics, up to 128GB of unified memory and the full NVIDIA AI platform to slim, premium Windows PCs. |
| 2 | techcrunch.com Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO saysOver the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be available to customers on the platform. |
| 3 | theverge.com Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sitesAfter backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. |
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