The Crowned forms of Zacian and Zamazenta are getting their time in the spotlight as part of Pokémon Go Fest 2025, allowing you to power up these puppies into their big strong forms – that can even be used in Max Battles, even though they’re not Dynamax. Unlike previous special Legendary Pokémon that use energy, […]

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EQT agrees to sell Japanese automotive electronics manufacturer Pioneer for $1.1B to CarUX, a unit of Taiwan-listed Innolux specializing in smart cockpit tech  —  EQT AB agreed to sell Pioneer Corp. for $1.1 billion, marking the biggest exit in Japan for the Swedish buyout firm that sees Japan …

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Sources: Applied Compute, a pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by three former OpenAI staffers, raised $20M at a $100M valuation led by Benchmark  —  The pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by Rhythm Garg, Linden Li and Yash Patil, is now valued at $100 million …

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Canada orders Chinese video surveillance tech provider Hikvision to cease all operations and close its business in the country over national security concerns  —  Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Joly says that the government has ordered Hikvision Canada to cease all operations in the country …

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
The term “context engineering” is gaining traction over “prompt engineering” as it better describes the skill of providing LLMs with the necessary information  —  I've spoken favorably of prompt engineering in the past - I hoped that term could capture the inherent complexity of constructing reliable prompts.