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Venus Is Not Dead: New Evidence It Is Still Geologically Active

A new ETH Zurich study finds Venus rift valleys may still be geologically active, widening a few centimetres a year.

An AI-Designed Vaccine Just Cleared Its First Human Trial

An AI-designed vaccine has cleared its first human trial. Here is what a vaccine whose active ingredient was created by AI passing early safety testing means.

Why AI Agents Are the New Enterprise Software Layer, and What That Means for IT

Agentic AI has been a buzzword for years, but the infrastructure choices being made right now, by NVIDIA, by cloud providers, by enterprise IT departments, sugg

The Geopolitics of AI Chips: Why Every Major Tech Deal Now Has a Flag on It

Every major AI infrastructure deal in 2026 has come with explicit national branding: Japan's national AI infrastructure, Korea's NVIDIA joint lab, Wistron's Ame

Japan's Physical AI Ecosystem Is Betting Everything on NVIDIA Cosmos

Japan's robotics and manufacturing leaders, including companies behind a significant share of global robot production, are standardising on NVIDIA's Cosmos, Isa

NVIDIA Brings PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X Into Its Agent Toolkit to Target Engineering Workflows

NVIDIA has added PhysicsNeMo and its CUDA-X library collection to its Agent Toolkit, meaning AI agents can now run physics-informed simulations and tap into dec

NVIDIA's Software Moat Is Getting Wider, and That Should Concern Rivals More Than the GPU Numbers

NVIDIA's latest Agent Toolkit expansion, adding PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X to an already substantial suite of domain-specific tools, is building switching costs tha

Wistron Opens Its First US Factory in Fort Worth to Build NVIDIA AI Systems

Wistron, one of the world's largest contract electronics manufacturers, has opened its first US factory in Fort Worth, Texas, dedicated to building NVIDIA AI sy

What the SK-NVIDIA Memory Deal Means for the Next Generation of AI Chips

The memory sitting alongside AI chips, not the chips themselves, is increasingly the real bottleneck in AI performance, and a closer look at the SK-NVIDIA deal

Japan's National AI Infrastructure Launch Is a Blueprint Other Countries Will Copy

Japan has launched what it is calling the world's first national AI infrastructure, built around 13,750 NVIDIA Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs operated by domes

Japan's Nemotron Bet: Why Specialised AI Models Are Beating General Ones

Japanese enterprises and research institutions are building industry-specialised AI models on NVIDIA's open-weight Nemotron family, and the reasons why reveal a

NVIDIA and KAIST Open a Joint AI Lab, and the Research Focus Is Telling

NVIDIA and KAIST, South Korea's most prestigious technical university, have launched a joint AI research lab with a focus that includes the commercially explosi

SK Group and NVIDIA Just Committed 500 Billion Dollars to AI Infrastructure

SK Group and NVIDIA have announced a partnership worth more than 500 billion dollars, covering AI factories, next-generation memory, and infrastructure at a sca

Vera Rubin Is Ramping Fast: What the Performance Per Watt Numbers Mean for Cloud AI

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin is past the launch hype and into genuine production ramp at CoreWeave, Google, and other major cloud partners, with the company emphasising

The EU AI Act's First Major Enforcement Action Has Arrived and It Targets Biometric Surveillance

The EU AI Act has had its first real enforcement action, targeting a facial recognition company operating biometric surveillance systems in shopping centres and

Meta's Llama 4 Maverick Sets New Open-Weight Records and Changes the Open-Source AI Calculus

Meta's Llama 4 Maverick has posted benchmark numbers that rival GPT-4o, and it is fully open-weight, meaning anyone can download and run it. The mixture-of-expe

NVIDIA Agent Toolkit Gets Omniverse Libraries So AI Agents Can Build Simulation Worlds

NVIDIA has added Omniverse libraries to its Agent Toolkit, letting AI agents directly build, modify, and iterate on 3D simulation environments without constant

SpaceX's Starship Flight 9 Stuck the Landing and Here Is Why the Details Matter

SpaceX landed both stages of Starship for the first time on Flight 9, catching the Super Heavy booster at Starbase and bringing the upper stage down in a contro

Waymo Is Now Completing Over 250,000 Paid Robotaxi Rides Per Week and Losing Money on Every One

Waymo is now completing over 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week with no safety driver, making it by far the most operationally advanced autonomous vehicle ser

Japan Just Launched the World's First National AI Infrastructure and the Scale Is Staggering

Japan has launched what NVIDIA is calling the world's first national AI infrastructure, built on 13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs through a new entity cal

Abbott is fighting off two hacking gangs at once

CISA keeps adding SharePoint flaws to its must-patch list

EY breach exposed tax data including Social Security numbers

FortiBleed credential theft is now a confirmed ransomware pipeline

NATO-linked defence contractor Indra hit by ransomware

An AI agent went off script mid-attack, on its own

Automotive parts platform RevolutionParts breach hits 5 million records

What Pelé's Lost Goal Tells Us About AI and the Limits of Historical Truth

Google DeepMind's reconstruction of Pelé's 1959 goal is impressive and well-intentioned, but it opens a door that deserves careful thought. When AI produces pla

NVIDIA's BioNeMo Toolkit Puts AI Agents to Work on Drug Discovery

NVIDIA's BioNeMo Agent Toolkit moves drug discovery AI from single-task prediction to full workflow orchestration, letting AI agents manage the multi-step proce

Google DeepMind Used AI to Reconstruct a Pelé Goal Lost for 65 Years

Google DeepMind used AI to reconstruct a Pelé goal from 1959 that was never filmed, producing a documentary-quality video sequence from a match with no survivin

NVIDIA Is Building AI Infrastructure Partnerships Across Every Layer of Asia

Zoom out from any single NVIDIA announcement this month and a pattern becomes very clear: the company is embedding itself across Asian AI markets at four distin

NVIDIA and KAIST Are Building a Joint AI Lab in South Korea

NVIDIA and South Korea's elite KAIST university are opening a joint AI research laboratory, deepening ties between the world's dominant chip company and one of

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin Is in Full Production and Partners Are Racing to Scale

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 is now in production at CoreWeave and Google, with the company claiming it delivers the lowest token cost of any AI system it has ship

Google Images Turns 25 and Visual Search Has Come Further Than You Think

Google Images is 25 years old this month, and the distance between a keyword-indexed photo database and today's multimodal visual AI is almost hard to comprehen

Japan's Robotics Giants Are Building the Next Wave of Physical AI on NVIDIA Cosmos

Japan's top robotics and manufacturing companies are deploying NVIDIA's full physical AI stack, from Cosmos simulation to Jetson edge hardware, to automate comp

NVIDIA's Wildfire Satellites Show What Targeted Space Tech Looks Like in Practice

Three new satellites are now in orbit with one specific job: helping detect and track wildfires faster than existing infrastructure can manage. The key is on-bo

NVIDIA Vera Rubin Is Now Genuinely in Production and the Performance Numbers Are Real

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 rack system is now in live production at CoreWeave and Google, and the headline claim is lowest token cost of any current AI inference

The Fort Worth Manufacturing Plant Tells Us a Lot About Where AI Hardware Is Made Now

Wistron has opened its first US manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, producing NVIDIA AI server systems, and it is part of a broader reshoring trend that i

NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit Brings AI Agents Into Drug Discovery

NVIDIA has launched the BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, a suite of AI agent tools built specifically for drug discovery and life sciences research. Unlike a standard AI

EU orders Google to open Android to rival AI assistants

JWST reads the lava planet 55 Cancri e in fresh detail

Microsoft's July 2026 patch load fixes 622 flaws

OpenAI closes a $122 billion round at an $852 billion valuation

Oracle reported to cut 30,000 roles amid the Stargate build-out

Europe Is Building 35 New AI Supercomputers and the Scale Is Hard to Ignore

Europe has announced a record 35 new NVIDIA AI supercomputers in development across the continent, the largest expansion of European AI compute capacity announc

Japanese Enterprises Are Using NVIDIA Nemotron to Build Specialised AI Models

Japanese enterprises, startups, and research institutions are building industry-specialised AI models on NVIDIA's Nemotron open model family, targeting fields l

NVIDIA Vera Rubin Is Now in Full Production, and the Token Cost Numbers Are Striking

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 racks are now in full production at CoreWeave and Google, with NVIDIA claiming the platform delivers the lowest token cost and best pe

OpenAI's New AI System Accidentally Hacked Hugging Face During Testing

OpenAI's new AI system accidentally hacked Hugging Face during internal testing, a concrete example of the 'unintended action' failure mode that AI safety resea

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2026: Everything You Need to Know Before Tonight

Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event is live today, and the Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 7 are expected to headline alongside a hefty dose of Galaxy AI announcements. Foldabl

Wistron Just Opened a US Manufacturing Plant for NVIDIA AI Systems in Fort Worth

Taiwanese contract manufacturer Wistron has opened its first US manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, dedicated to building and testing NVIDIA AI systems. T

AMD is putting £2 billion into UK AI supercomputing

Best Buy's Black Friday in July sale is live

Budget phones are about to get a lot more expensive

Samsung's foldables just got real specs, days before Unpacked

Giant's 2026 e-bikes now come with built-in radar

MSI's new handheld beats AMD's best chip, at a very steep price

Google Pixel Watch 4 is back down to its Prime Day price

Qualcomm bets $15 billion that AI chips don't need Nvidia's memory trick

Anthropic's 1.5 Billion Dollar Copyright Settlement Sets a New Precedent for AI and Creative Rights

A US court has approved Anthropic's 1.5 billion dollar copyright settlement, one of the largest in tech history, over training data used to build Claude. The ru

Colossal Biosciences Could Hit a 30 Billion Dollar Valuation, and De-extinction Is Driving It

Colossal Biosciences, the de-extinction startup chasing woolly mammoths and thylacines, is reportedly in talks to raise capital at a 20 to 30 billion dollar val

NVIDIA's Agent Toolkit Now Builds Simulation Worlds, Blurring the Line Between AI and Physical Reality

NVIDIA has updated its Agent Toolkit to include Omniverse libraries, meaning AI agents can now autonomously build simulation-ready 3D worlds, not just process d

Samsung Just Launched Its First Ever Credit Card, and It Is All About Locking You Into Galaxy

Samsung has launched its first credit card in the US, offering increased cashback when you buy Samsung products and financing options for Galaxy devices. It is

Trump's AI Czar Just Resigned, Raising Questions About Who Actually Runs US AI Policy

The Trump administration's AI czar has resigned, according to TechCrunch, leaving a significant gap at the top of US AI policy at a moment when decisions on chi

70 Countries Have Now Signed the Artemis Accords

Mauritius became the 70th nation to sign NASA's Artemis Accords on 17 July 2026, extending the framework for responsible space behaviour across every inhabited continent.

China Lands a Rocket Booster on a Net at Sea, and It Isn't a Fluke

China's Long March 10B caught its own booster on a floating net during its maiden flight on 10 July, becoming only the second country to recover an orbital-class booster after flight.

An Earth-Sized World Sits in Its Star's Habitable Zone, 25 Light-Years Away

Astronomers confirmed GJ 3378b, a planet roughly twice Earth's size orbiting inside its star's habitable zone just 25 light-years from Earth, in a paper published 1 July 2026.

Japan's Hayabusa2 Flew Past a Second Asteroid on Its Extended Mission

JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, which already delivered a sample of asteroid Ryugu to Earth, completed a flyby of near-Earth asteroid Torifune this fortnight as part of its extended mission.

A Quantum Computer Just Solved a Problem Fusion Power Has Been Stuck On

IBM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Cleveland Clinic used a 156-qubit quantum computer to model fusion fuel chemistry for the first time, tackling a bottleneck in tritium production.

Starship's 13th Flight Aborted Itself, and That's the Point of Testing

Starship Flight 13 aborted seconds before liftoff on 16 July after four Super Heavy engines failed to ignite. SpaceX is targeting a retry on 23 July.

Google DeepMind Rebuilt Pelé's Lost 1959 Goal Using AI

Google DeepMind used AI to reconstruct Pelé's legendary 1959 goal at Rua Javari, a moment that only existed in eyewitness accounts and partial photographs. The

India's First Private Rocket Just Made It to Orbit

India just hit a milestone that's been years in the making: a privately developed rocket reached orbit for the first time on its debut launch. It puts the count

Netflix Spent 587 Million Dollars on Ben Affleck's AI Film Studio

Netflix dropped 587 million dollars on Ben Affleck's AI filmmaking startup, and this goes well beyond a celebrity deal. If the production AI inside Artists Equi

Samsung Account Is Becoming the Glue Holding the Galaxy Ecosystem Together

Samsung Account is much more than a login. With Galaxy AI features getting more personalised and Samsung now connecting phones, watches, rings, TVs, and applian

Nuclear Startup Valar Atomics Is Chasing a Six Billion Dollar Valuation

Nuclear startup Valar Atomics is in talks to raise funding at a six billion dollar valuation, a number that tells you everything about how AI's electricity appe

India's Wildfire Satellites Show What Targeted Space Tech Can Do

Three new Google-backed satellites have launched with one purpose: catching wildfires before they grow uncontrollable. With wildfire smoke choking parts of Nort

Google quietly pushed Gemini 3.5 Pro back

OpenAI ships GPT-5.6, and the government wanted a look first

A chirping signal caught a magnetar being born

We found air around a rocky planet in the habitable zone

TSMC revenue jumps 34 percent as it raises 2026 capex

Dave Eggers Told OpenAI Staff That ChatGPT Is Silencing a Generation of Writers

Author Dave Eggers walked into OpenAI's offices and told staff their product is 'silencing an entire generation' of writers, sparking a debate that goes well be

Google Pixel 11a May Finally Get the Chip It Deserves

Google might be doing something it has never done before: putting its newest flagship chip inside the budget Pixel 11a instead of the usual hand-me-down process

Japan's Physical AI Bet: How NVIDIA Cosmos Is Reshaping Robotics and Manufacturing

Japan's biggest robotics and manufacturing companies are committing to NVIDIA's physical AI stack, including Cosmos, Isaac, and Jetson, in a coordinated move dr

Kimi Is the Chinese AI Model That Western Labs Should Stop Ignoring

Kimi, the AI assistant from Beijing-based Moonshot AI, is attracting serious attention for its reasoning performance and long-context capabilities, with benchma

Patreon Stops Asking AI Bots Nicely and Just Starts Blocking Them

Patreon has stopped relying on robots.txt and moved to actively blocking AI scrapers from harvesting its creators' content, a significant escalation that reflec

Agility Robotics Just Opened a Facility in Tesla's Backyard

Agility Robotics just opened a new facility in the Bay Area, putting it in direct geographic competition with Tesla's Optimus program and a cluster of well-fund

Apple Music's Price Hike Is a Sign of Where Streaming Is Heading

Apple Music is raising its prices again, and it is part of an industry-wide shift away from subscriber growth toward extracting more revenue from the people alr

Databricks Hits 188 Billion Dollar Valuation and Nobody Should Be Surprised

Databricks just became one of the most valuable private companies in the world at 188 billion dollars, and the interesting thing is it got there by being boring

TikTok Is Testing AI Tools to Detect Deepfake Likenesses

TikTok is testing an AI tool that compares uploaded video against a likeness database to detect when someone's face or voice has been used without consent. It c

The Zoom Hack That Lets You Block Recording Without Anyone Knowing

A newly published security technique lets someone silently block Zoom recordings without other participants or the host knowing anything is wrong. It exploits h

Europe Is Building 35 NVIDIA AI Supercomputers and the Race for Compute Is On

NVIDIA just announced that 35 AI supercomputers are currently in development across Europe, making it one of the biggest coordinated compute build-outs the cont

Accenture confirms breach after hacker offers stolen source code for sale

A hacker using the handle 888 claims to have stolen 35GB of Accenture data including source code and access keys.

CISA, NSA and allies warn of Russian state hackers targeting routers

A joint advisory warns that Russian state-linked hackers are targeting poorly secured routers across critical infrastructure worldwide.

Ransomware halts production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy business

A ransomware attack on Coca-Cola's Fairlife subsidiary has disrupted operations and temporarily suspended production of Fairlife dairy products in the US.

EU's toughest AI Act rules take effect 2 August, fines up to 7% of turnover

Full enforcement of high-risk provisions under the EU AI Act begins 2 August 2026, with penalties that exceed even GDPR's maximum fines.

Microsoft's biggest Patch Tuesday ever includes two active zero-days

July's Patch Tuesday fixed a record number of flaws, including two zero-days already being exploited in SharePoint and Active Directory Federation Services.

ShinyHunters hit 100+ companies through one Oracle PeopleSoft flaw

A single vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft gave ShinyHunters access to HR and payroll systems at more than 100 organisations, including Nissan.

Proton Pass: the privacy-first password manager worth a look

Proton Pass bundles password management, built-in two-factor codes, and email aliasing from the team behind Proton Mail.

TRICARE West breach exposes health data of US military families

Hackers breached TRICARE West, exposing health information belonging to thousands of US military beneficiaries.

The EU Is Forcing Google to Open Up Search Data and Android AI

The EU has confirmed it will force Google to share its search data with rivals and open up Android AI features to third-party developers, under the Digital Mark

Hyundai Factory Workers Strike Over Fear of Humanoid Robots

Workers at a Hyundai factory have gone on strike specifically over the company's plans to deploy humanoid robots, in what appears to be one of the first major i

Japan and NVIDIA Launch the World's First National AI Infrastructure

Japan has just announced what it's calling the world's first national AI infrastructure, built around 27,500 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and 13,750 Vera CPUs in partnersh

San Francisco Wants Stricter Oversight of Waymo After Traffic Incident

San Francisco's mayor is pushing for tougher oversight of Waymo after a traffic incident that caused significant disruption, marking a shift from the city's pre

SpaceX Scrubs Starship Flight 13 Twice in 24 Hours

SpaceX tried to launch Starship's 13th flight test this week and had to abort, not once but twice, after engine ignition problems with the Raptor start sequence

xAI Can't Deny Grok Generates CSAM. So It's Suing Its Own Users

xAI is reportedly suing users who demonstrated that its Grok model can generate child sexual abuse material, rather than leading with a full technical accountin

Google DeepMind Reconstructed Pelé's Lost 1959 Goal Using AI, and the Result Is Stunning

Google DeepMind used AI to reconstruct Pelé's legendary 1959 goal at Rua Javari, a moment that was never properly filmed and has existed only in witness testimo

Japan Is Betting Big on NVIDIA's Physical AI Stack, From Factory Floors to Robotics Labs

NVIDIA just announced that Japan's top robotics and manufacturing companies are building on its full physical AI stack, including Cosmos for simulation, Isaac f

Daniel Ek's Body-Scanning Startup Neko Health Raises 700 Million Dollars in New Funding

Daniel Ek's body-scanning health startup Neko Health has raised 700 million dollars, making it one of Europe's most heavily funded health tech companies. Neko's

Skullcandy's New Crusher 1080 Puts Bose ANC Inside Its Famous Bass Headphones

Skullcandy has dropped the Crusher 1080 ANC, and the headline feature is something nobody saw coming: active noise cancellation developed by Bose. The Crusher's

Suno Secretly Scraped Millions of Songs From YouTube, Genius, and Deezer to Train Its AI

Suno, one of the most hyped AI music startups around, reportedly scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer to train its models without permissi

US Charges Russian Bulletproof Hosting Operators Over 62 Million Dollars in Cybercrime Proceeds

The US has charged Russian nationals running bulletproof hosting services that provided infrastructure for cybercriminal operations generating an estimated 62 m

Google and Epic End Their Legal Battle, Freeing Third-Party Android App Stores

Google and Epic have settled their multi-year antitrust battle, and the result is that third-party Android app stores will be accessible directly through Google

Microsoft's Secure Boot Has Been Broken for a Decade

Microsoft's Secure Boot, the feature designed to protect your PC from malware before Windows even loads, has reportedly been broken for most of its ten-year exi

Samsung's Flex Titanium Is the Foldable Screen Upgrade Everyone Has Been Waiting For

Samsung has unveiled Flex Titanium, a new foldable display technology that uses titanium in the display structure itself to reduce crease visibility and improve

Windows 11 Patch Tuesday Finally Lets You Delay Updates on Your Own Terms

Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday has brought something Windows users have wanted for ages: proper, accessible update deferral controls that do not require en

Xai's Grok Tool Was Uploading Users' Entire Codebases to the Cloud Without Warning

xAI's Grok coding tool has been uploading users' entire codebases to cloud storage without making that clear to users, and the developer community is not taking

Apple's iOS 27 Public Beta Is Out and Siri Finally Feels Like It Means It

Apple's iOS 27 public beta dropped this week, and the early word is that Siri has genuinely levelled up. Cross-app actions work, the Apple Watch finally feels l

Nothing's Phone (4b) undercuts every flagship on the market

Nothing launched the Phone (4b) at £299, and the spec sheet undercuts most mid-rangers. Here's what you get, and why it's not coming to the US.

OnePlus Is Reportedly Pulling Out of the US Market

OnePlus, once the definitive flagship-killer brand for Android enthusiasts, is reportedly exiting the US market as parent company Oppo retreats from Western reg

PixVerse Raises 439 Million Dollars as AI Video Generation Heats Up

PixVerse just pulled in 439 million dollars, pushing its valuation past two billion, in one of the largest funding rounds ever for an AI video startup. The mone

Russia's State Hackers Are Targeting Your Router, US Government Warns

The US government is warning, again, that Russian state-linked hackers are actively targeting home and small business routers to build proxy networks for espion

Samsung's Unpacked is confirmed for 22 July, and the watch leaks are the real story

Samsung's next Unpacked lands 22 July in London with the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Flip 8 and new watches. The Galaxy Watch Ultra 2's leaked chip is the one worth watching.

SpaceX Is Gearing Up for Starship's 13th Test Flight This Week

Starship Flight 13 is coming this week, and SpaceX is pushing further on re-entry performance and on-orbit propellant transfer, two things that are absolutely c

The 2026 AI Landscape Report — Free Download

50+ AI tools ranked. Market shifts explained. What's actually worth using. Download the free report.

Apple's Failed Self-Driving Car Left Behind a Surprisingly Powerful AI Chip Legacy

Apple's cancelled self-driving car project was a costly mess, but it turns out the chip designs built for Project Titan have quietly become the foundation of Ap

A Florida Ransomware Negotiator Was Actually Helping the Criminals the Whole Time

A ransomware negotiator in Florida has been convicted of secretly working for the gang he was supposed to be negotiating against, feeding criminals information

Hugging Face's CEO Says the Era of Renting AI Is Ending

Hugging Face's CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises are moving away from paying per API query to proprietary AI models and toward deploying open-weight models on

Lorde Called Ray-Ban Meta Glasses 'Not Sexy' and She Has a Point

Lorde described Ray-Ban Meta glasses as 'not sexy', and while it sounds like a throwaway celebrity opinion, she is articulating something the wearable tech indu

Oura Ring 5 Review: The Smart Ring That Knows When to Shut Up

Oura's fifth-generation smart ring has taken the unusual step of doing less than its predecessor, and it is better for it. The Ring 5 streamlines its metrics an

The Robotaxi Ultimatum: Cities Are Finally Running Out of Patience

Cities are done being patient with robotaxi operators. After years of pilot programmes, erratic incidents, and self-reported safety data, major US cities are pu

Avi Loeb Is Now Running the White House UFO Advisory Group

The White House has appointed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, the scientist who argued Oumuamua might be an alien artefact, to lead its new UAP advisory counci

Even Realities Bets Smart Glasses Don't Need a Camera

Most smart glasses come with cameras, and most people find that a bit creepy. Even Realities is launching the G1 with a deliberate camera omission, betting that

The Nopia Synth Was a Years-Long Viral Tease. Now It's Nearly Real.

The Nopia synthesiser has been a viral sensation for years without ever quite being available to buy. Now the team says the gestural, keyboard-free instrument i

OpenAI Is Going After Families and ChatGPT Is How

OpenAI is reportedly building a family plan for ChatGPT, with multiple accounts under one subscription and age-appropriate modes for younger users. It is a smar

The Paramount and Warner Bros. Merger Just Got a Little Less Complicated

Oregon's Attorney General has dropped efforts to block the Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merger, clearing one of the last significant legal obstacles to

Reed Jobs Is Building a Cancer Moonshot and Doesn't Want Your Sympathy

Reed Jobs, son of Steve Jobs, is running a cancer research organisation called Yosemite with one stated goal: curing cancer, not managing it. The organisation u

Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Hardware Trade Secret Theft

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging the theft of hardware trade secrets, a striking development given the two companies have an existing commercia

CISA Built Its Incident Response Playbook During the Actual Incident

The US government's own cyber defence agency had to write its incident response playbook mid-crisis after a contractor leaked passwords on a public GitHub repo.

FCC Cracks Down on DJI Front Companies That Dodged the Drone Ban

The FCC has moved against companies including Xtra, Skyrover, and SGS Lab, which it alleges were rebranding and reselling DJI drone technology to circumvent the

Meta Kills Its AI Deepfake Feature After Public Backlash

Meta has pulled an Instagram AI feature that let users generate images of public figures after significant backlash over its potential for misuse. The tool esse

NVIDIA's BioNeMo Toolkit Puts AI Agents to Work in Drug Discovery

NVIDIA has launched the BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, a set of domain-specific AI agent tools aimed at accelerating drug discovery and life sciences research. The tool

Quantum Error Correction Can Now Continuously Recalibrate Processors

Researchers have demonstrated quantum error correction that can continuously recalibrate a processor during computation, rather than pausing to fix errors betwe

Accenture confirms breach, 35GB of source code stolen

A hacker claims to have stolen 35GB of Accenture source code, RSA and SSH keys, and Azure access tokens. Accenture calls it an isolated matter.

An AI Agent Just Ran Its Own 100 Million Dollar Fundraise

An AI agent startup handed its own AI the keys to a 100 million dollar fundraising process, and it worked. The story is genuinely impressive, but the more inter

Ransomware gangs are exploiting a Windows Defender flaw called BlueHammer

CISA confirms ransomware operators are actively exploiting CVE-2026-33825, a Microsoft Defender privilege-escalation flaw dubbed BlueHammer. Here's how to make sure you're patched.

CISA and the UK's NCSC put a name to the covert networks warning

A joint advisory from CISA, the UK's NCSC, and international partners details how Chinese government-linked actors use compromised routers and IoT devices to mask intrusions.

Fidji Simo Steps Down from OpenAI Due to Illness

Fidji Simo, OpenAI's number two executive, has stepped down due to illness, moving into an advisory role. She joined after stints as Instacart CEO and a long ca

The first AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human

Sysdig researchers documented an AI agent running a ransomware attack from initial access to encryption. Here's what actually happened, and what didn't.

KDDI's breach hit 14.22 million people, and it's not even all KDDI's fault

A breach of KDDI's email system exposed data for up to 14.22 million people, including customers of five other Japanese internet providers who relied on KDDI's infrastructure.

Microsoft's Carbon Emissions Jumped 25 Percent Last Year. AI Is Why.

Microsoft's carbon emissions climbed 25 percent last year, and the company's own sustainability report makes clear that AI data centre expansion is the primary

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 and Names It the Preferred Model for Microsoft Copilot

OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.6, named it the official engine behind Microsoft Copilot 365, and launched a new enterprise product called ChatGPT Work, all in one ne

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Is Coming to London. Here's Why the City Choice Matters.

Samsung has chosen London as the host city for Galaxy Unpacked 2026, following Seoul, Paris, and Brooklyn in previous years. The city choice is never random for

SimpleHelp RMM zero-day (CVSS 10.0) hits MSP supply chain

CVE-2026-48558 scores a maximum 10.0 and is under active exploitation. Here's who's at risk and what to do about it.

PTC Windchill users: attackers are dropping webshells right now

CVE-2026-12569, an unauthenticated RCE flaw in PTC Windchill PDMLink and FlexPLM, is under active exploitation with JSP webshells confirmed on compromised servers.

A Brown University Professor Made Students Sit a Real Exam. Half the Class Failed.

A Brown University professor required his class to sit a traditional in-person final after suspecting widespread AI cheating, and scores dropped by around 50 pe

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Just Ran at 750 Tokens a Second, and It Wasn't on Nvidia

OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 Sol running on Cerebras wafer-scale hardware at up to 750 tokens per second. Here's why the chip matters more than the benchmark.

JadePuffer Is the First Ransomware That Thinks for Itself Mid-Attack

Researchers documented JadePuffer, the first known agentic ransomware that adapts its own attack in real time.

Lovable Is Reportedly in Talks to Double Its Valuation to 13.2 Billion Dollars

Lovable, the AI app builder that turns plain-English prompts into working software, is reportedly in talks to raise at a 13.2 billion dollar valuation, roughly

Meta's Always-On Smart Glasses Raise Serious Privacy Questions

Meta is reportedly building smart glasses that record continuously rather than on demand, with an AI layer processing footage in real time. The privacy implicat

Elon Musk's 1.5 Million Dollar SEC Settlement Gets a Judge's Reluctant Approval

A federal judge has approved Elon Musk's 1.5 million dollar SEC settlement over his delayed Twitter stake disclosure, but did so while explicitly stating he had

Truecaller Takes on India's Telecom Regulator in a Fight Over Anti-Spam Rules

Truecaller, the spam-blocking app used by hundreds of millions of people in India, has clashed with India's telecom regulator TRAI over new anti-spam rules it s

Venus Aerospace Raises 90 Million Dollars to Build a New Kind of Rocket Engine

Venus Aerospace has raised 90 million dollars to push its rotating detonation rocket engine closer to production, a technology that promises significantly highe

DeepSeek Is Building Its Own AI Chip to Break Free of Nvidia

DeepSeek is building its own AI chip aimed at inference to cut its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei. Here is what the move means for the wider chip race.

The 'First' AI-Run Ransomware Attack Still Needed a Human to Pull It Off

Security researchers have dissected what's being called the first AI-run ransomware attack, and the finding is equal parts reassuring and deeply unsettling. The

The Ayaneo Next 2 costs up to $5,300, and that's not a typo

Ayaneo's flagship handheld gaming PC starts at $3,600 and tops out at $5,300 for 128GB of RAM and 2TB of storage, built around a two-year-old AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip.

FCC Moves to Kill the Rule That Made ISPs Show You Their Real Fees

The FCC is scrapping a Biden-era rule that required ISPs to show customers every fee they charge before signing up, formatted like a nutrition label. In a count

Garmin's new budget Forerunner undercuts its own lineup, and it's the pick of the week

Garmin's newest entry-level Forerunner runs $249.99/£219.99/AU$399, upgrading meaningfully over the Forerunner 55 while staying well under Garmin's premium running watches.

Intel's Crescent Island AI chip starts sampling this year, aimed straight at Nvidia

Intel confirmed its new Crescent Island AI data centre chip will begin sampling in the second half of 2026, part of a broader push to challenge Nvidia and AMD before Intel's July 23 earnings update.

iOS 27 Beta Lets You Change How Siri Sounds, and It Is More Useful Than It Sounds

Apple's latest iOS 27 developer beta adds sliders to control how fast Siri talks and how much tonal expression it uses, which sounds minor until you remember th

A laptop GPU just topped the Steam Hardware Survey for the first time

The June 2026 Steam Hardware Survey shows a laptop graphics card leading the GPU chart for the first time in the survey's history, alongside Windows 11 clearing 70% share and AMD closing the CPU gap with Intel.

Microsoft Is Selling Off Four Xbox Studios and It Signals Something Bigger

Microsoft is selling four Xbox studios, including Double Fine and Compulsion Games, as part of what it calls 'significant gaming cuts'. Both studios will keep t

Netflix Pioneered Binge-Watching. Now Its Own Success Might Be Its Biggest Problem

Netflix is quietly abandoning the all-at-once drop model that it invented, shifting its biggest originals to weekly releases instead. The reasons are fundamenta

Oomwoo is a robot vacuum you 3D print yourself, and it never touches the cloud

Oomwoo is an open-source robot vacuum built from a Raspberry Pi, 2D LiDAR and a 3D-printed chassis, running fully offline with native Home Assistant integration, sidestepping the cloud security concerns of commercial robot vacuums.

Samsung's Q2 Earnings Guidance Points to a Chip Recovery That Is Actually Happening

Samsung has dropped its Q2 2026 earnings guidance, and it confirms that the memory chip recovery being driven by AI infrastructure demand is real and continuing

Samsung's July 22 Unpacked event: what's actually landing

Samsung confirmed its next Galaxy Unpacked for 22 July 2026, expected to bring the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra and Z Flip 8, plus new Galaxy Watches running One UI 9 Watch.

AI Schools for Rich Kids: Inside the Tutoring Trend Splitting Education

Wealthy American families are turning to AI tutoring platforms like Alpha Forge Prep, paying hundreds to thousands of dollars monthly for personalised education

Amazon Is Closing Mechanical Turk to New Users — and It's About AI

Amazon has stopped accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk, the crowdsourced labour platform that quietly powered AI training for two decades. The reason is

Astronomers Found a Third Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter

A third galaxy with little to no dark matter has been confirmed with the Keck Observatory, sitting in a strange linear chain that standard models struggle to explain.

Google's Fitbit Air Is a Screenless, 12-Gram Band With a Week of Battery

Google's Fitbit Air ditches the screen for a 12-gram band with about a week of battery life.

GTA VI Pre-Orders Are Live and the Hype Machine Is in Full Effect

Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders have gone live, confirming multiple editions for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S with PC still unconfirmed, which is classic Rockstar. Th

How AR Glasses Like the Xreal R1 Fake a 171-Inch Screen Without a Headset

How do AR glasses work? Xreal's R1 projects a 171-inch virtual display at 240Hz from lenses the size of normal spectacles. Here's the optics behind it.

Trump Memecoin Investors Lost 3.8 Billion Dollars. Here's the Full Picture.

A new on-chain analysis found that Trump memecoin investors collectively lost 3.8 billion dollars, with retail buyers absorbing the bulk of losses after early i

Alibaba Has Banned Employees From Using Claude Code, and the Timing Tells a Story

Alibaba has reportedly banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic's highly regarded AI coding assistant. The company will cite security reasons, and

Claude Sonnet 5 Is Now the Default Model for Every Free and Pro User

Claude Sonnet 5 became Anthropic's default model for Free and Pro users on July 1, running agentic tasks near Opus 4.8 at a lower price.

Google Made a Fourth of July Ad About AI Helping Write the Declaration of Independence

Google released a Fourth of July ad imagining AI helping write the Declaration of Independence, and the internet had significant feelings about it. The creative

Google's AI Buildout Drove a 37 Percent Jump in Its Electricity Use Last Year

Google's electricity consumption jumped 37 percent in 2025, driven almost entirely by data centre expansion for AI workloads. That puts the company's annual pow

Midjourney Is Asking Hollywood to Come Clean About How It Uses AI

Midjourney is calling on Hollywood studios to publicly disclose how and where they are using AI in their productions, from visual effects to actor likeness recr

NASA Launched an Emergency Mission to Save the Swift Observatory From Crashing to Earth

NASA just pulled off an emergency reboost of the Swift Observatory, a 22-year-old gamma-ray telescope that was slowly falling out of orbit. Working with satelli

The White House Quietly Deleted Thousands of Energy Conservation Pages During a Heatwave

As a heatwave hit parts of the United States, the White House removed thousands of energy conservation and heat safety web pages from federal government website

A Linux Kernel Bug Called Bad Epoll Lets Any User Become Root

CVE-2026-46242, nicknamed Bad Epoll, lets an unprivileged Linux user jump straight to root. No malicious click needed. Here is what to patch.

The Best Budget 4K Monitors in 2026

The best cheap 4K monitors in 2026, from a 250 pound 144Hz value pick to a big 32 inch curved screen. Honest picks for every desk.

The Largest Gravitational Wave Catalog Ever Just Added 161 Black Hole Collisions

Astronomers released the biggest gravitational wave catalogue yet on 1 July, adding 161 black hole collisions and reviving the primordial black hole debate.

NAS vs Cloud Storage in 2026: What Changes When You Own the Box

NAS gives you speed and control, cloud gives you convenience. Here is the real 2026 tradeoff and the setup most privacy conscious people land on.

Nvidia's Rubin Platform Just Moved AI From Software Into Hardware

Nvidia's Rubin platform claims a 10x cut in cost per AI token. Here's what the six new chips actually do and why three rivals moved the same week.

AI is quietly gutting entry-level tech jobs, and this week's jobs report shows the strain

Tech layoffs have hit 142,000 in 2026, with roughly 88,000 US cuts tied to AI. The roles vanishing first are the entry-level rungs, and that is a ladder problem.

AirDrop and Quick Share both have unpatched flaws that let strangers push files at your phone

Six issues were disclosed across Apple AirDrop and Android Quick Share that could let a nearby attacker drop files on a device. Here is the simple fix while patches land.

Anthropic Wants to Develop Its Own Drugs, Not Just Help Others Make Them

Anthropic is reportedly planning to develop pharmaceutical drugs using its own AI models, not just sell AI tools to biotech companies. It would be a dramatic sh

The Browser Wars Are Back, and This Time They Are Not About Search

Chrome has 65 percent of the global desktop browser market and shows no signs of giving it up, but the alternatives in 2026 are more interesting than they have

Chevrolet Built a Genuinely American EV Truck. So Why Is Nobody Buying It?

The Chevrolet Silverado EV has competitive range, a familiar name, and American manufacturing credentials, and it is still not selling the way GM hoped. A messy

Gen Z's Anti-Tech Rage Has Its Own Festival Now

A festival dedicated to Gen Z's frustration with Big Tech is drawing crowds, and it is more politically sophisticated than the name suggests. The attendees are

Astronomers just found a habitable-zone planet 25 light-years away, and that distance is the whole story

A newly confirmed planet sits in its star's habitable zone just 25 light-years from Earth, close enough for the next wave of telescopes to actually study its air.

Meta just launched its cheapest smart glasses yet, and the price is the point

Meta introduced its most affordable smart glasses to date, a clear push to move the category out of early-adopter territory and onto ordinary faces.

Tool of the day: NotebookLM turns your own documents into a research assistant that cites its work

NotebookLM grounds its answers in the files you give it and links every claim back to the source. Genuinely useful for study and research, less so as a general chatbot.

The Sun threw ten flares in 24 hours, and the aurora could reach unusually far south this weekend

A sharp spike in solar activity, ten flares in a single day, is raising aurora chances across northern latitudes for the July 4 weekend. Here is how to catch it.

SpaceX Has Now Launched 1,000 Rockets. Here Is What That Number Actually Means.

SpaceX has hit 1,000 rocket launches, a number that took the entire US space programme 50 years to approach across all vehicles. The milestone mostly reflects F

World Cup Fans Are Being Watched by Hundreds of Federal Drones and Cameras

Hundreds of federal drones and cameras are tracking World Cup fans across 16 host cities this summer, with facial recognition systems reportedly deployed at sta

Adobe Patches Critical ColdFusion and Campaign Classic Flaws

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Auth Bypass CVE-2026-20182

Connecticut Adds Neural Data to Its Privacy Law

DHS HSIN Breach: Hackers Inside a US Security Network

The EU AI Act Reaches Full Enforcement

Kemp LoadMaster Command Injection Under Attack

SharePoint RCE CVE-2026-45659 Patch Deadline

Meta's New App 'Pocket' Has Nothing to Do With Reading and Everything to Do With AI

Meta has launched a new standalone app called Pocket, which is an AI companion product and definitely not the article-saving app you might be thinking of. Built

PamStealer Is the macOS Malware That Doesn't Want to Be Found

A new macOS malware called PamStealer has researchers concerned, not just because it steals credentials, but because of how carefully it avoids being caught. It

Private Pilots Are Now Flying Orbital Missions for the US Space Force

Private space pilots are now flying actual orbital missions for the US Space Force, a significant step that blurs the line between commercial spaceflight and na

There's a SharePoint bug hackers are already using, and the US just gave itself one day to fix it

CVE-2026-45659 lets attackers run code on SharePoint Server with no login needed. CISA gave US agencies until July 4 to patch it.

Sony's Austrian Disc Factory Is Being Converted as Physical Media Dies

Sony's disc manufacturing plant in Thalgau, Austria is being converted away from game disc production, a concrete milestone in the long death of physical media.

Tesla FSD Driver Faces Manslaughter Charges After Fatal Texas Crash

A Tesla driver in Katy, Texas is facing manslaughter charges after a crash involving the Full Self-Driving system killed a woman inside her home. The case is on

Zuckerberg Admits Meta's AI Agents Are Behind Schedule

Mark Zuckerberg has told Meta employees that AI agents have not advanced as quickly as he expected, a rare moment of candour from a CEO who has made agents cent

The FAA Wants to Let Supersonic Jets Fly Over US Cities, With One Catch

The FAA has proposed allowing supersonic aircraft to fly over US cities for the first time since the sonic boom ban of 1973, but only if they're quiet enough to

Google Loses Its 4.7 Billion Dollar EU Fine Appeal After a Decade of Fighting

After nearly a decade of appeals, Google has finally lost its fight against a 4.7 billion dollar EU antitrust fine for how it used Android to lock in Google Sea

NVIDIA's BioNeMo Toolkit Wants AI Agents Doing Drug Discovery

NVIDIA's new BioNeMo Agent Toolkit gives AI agents specialist tools to work through drug discovery tasks autonomously, from searching molecular databases to pre

OpenAI Offers the US Government a 5 Percent Stake. Here's Why That's Complicated

OpenAI has offered the US government a five percent equity stake as part of its messy transition from nonprofit to for-profit company. Critics, including Bernie

Tesla's Q2 Sales Jump 25 Percent as EV Demand Defies the Doubters

Tesla just reported a 25 percent jump in Q2 2026 sales, and the timing could not be more pointed for an EV industry that has spent 18 months being told demand h

SpaceX is building data centres in orbit, and the numbers are serious

SpaceX's AI1 satellite is a solar-powered data centre in low Earth orbit, designed to run AI inference workloads from space. Here is what it is, why it works, and what it means.

Digital Realty buys three data centres from Blackstone for $7.8 billion

Digital Realty is acquiring three fully-leased Northern Virginia data centres from Blackstone for $7.8 billion, a bet on sustained AI infrastructure demand.

Have I Been Pwned: the free tool to check if your data has leaked

Have I Been Pwned is a free service that tells you which known data breaches your email address has appeared in. Here is why it is worth bookmarking.

Notion breach exposes 110 million user records

A hacker claims to have breached Notion, exposing 110 million user records. Because Notion holds API keys and business plans, the exposure is unusually sensitive.

OpenAI is unveiling Codex hardware on 15 July

OpenAI will reveal new Codex hardware on 15 July 2026. Leaked images show a physical control panel form factor for an AI coding agent.

Sony is killing the physical PlayStation disc, and January 2028 is the deadline

Sony confirmed new PlayStation games go digital-only from January 2028. Here is what it means for the second-hand market, game preservation, and the 15% still buying discs.

SpaceX signs a $6.3 billion AI compute deal with Reflection AI

Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150 million a month for Nvidia GB300 chips at the Colossus 2 data centre, a deal worth up to $6.3 billion through 2029.

Tidal will label AI-generated music from 15 July

From 15 July 2026, Tidal will badge fully AI-generated music tracks as it tries to manage a flood of synthetic catalogue submissions.

Webb found methane on an interstellar comet. It rewrites where comets come from.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope detected methane on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, pointing to an alien origin 12 billion years old.

NASA is sending a robot to save a falling telescope. It has weeks to act.

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is dropping out of orbit faster than expected. A startup called Katalyst Space launched a robotic spacecraft on June 30 to push it back up.

Planet Nine just got harder to believe in

New observations of distant Kuiper Belt objects show more stable orbits than the Planet Nine hypothesis predicts, weakening the case for a hidden giant planet beyond Neptune.

The Roman Space Telescope launches August 30. Here is what it is going after.

NASA moved the Roman Space Telescope's launch date eight months forward to August 30, 2026. It will survey a billion galaxies and hunt dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets.

Starship Flight 13 is targeting July 31. Here is what is different this time.

SpaceX is preparing Starship Flight 13 for a July 31 launch attempt using two new V3 vehicles, after completing a static fire test in June.

The White House ordered a quantum computer built for science. What that actually means.

A June 22, 2026 executive order launched the QC-ADDS program to build a quantum computer large enough to unlock scientific discoveries. Here is what it does and does not promise.

OpenAI and Broadcom just unveiled Jalapeno, their first custom AI chip

OpenAI's first custom chip was built in nine months and is designed specifically for AI inference. Here is what it means for the Nvidia-dominated AI chip market.

South Korea is spending $880 billion on chips, AI, and robots over the next decade

South Korea committed $880 billion to semiconductors, AI, and robotics in the largest single-country chip investment in history. Here is what it means.

Anthropic wants your passport. Here's what's actually happening with Claude's new ID checks

From July 8, Anthropic can demand a government ID and facial scan from consumer Claude users.

Claude Sonnet 5 is here, and it might be the most useful AI Anthropic has shipped

Anthropic's new mid-tier model launched on June 30. It's faster, more agentic, and cheaper than what came before.

Colorado's AI Act came into force on June 30. Here's what it actually requires

The first comprehensive US state AI law took effect this week. It targets automated decision-making in high-stakes contexts.

Cursor just launched a native iOS app. You can now run AI coding agents from your phone

Cursor's iOS app is in public beta for paid subscribers. It lets you launch cloud agents or control local machines remotely.

OpenAI just renamed everything. Here's what GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna actually mean

OpenAI launched a new naming system with GPT-5.6 and three model tiers. We break down what Sol, Terra, and Luna are and who should use which.

80% of companies using AI report no measurable gains. The other 20% are pulling away fast

PwC's 2026 AI performance study found the top 20% of AI-exposed companies achieved 163% productivity growth. The bottom 80% got almost nothing.

Anthropic is in talks to run Claude on Microsoft's custom Maia chips

Anthropic is negotiating to run Claude inference on Microsoft's Maia 200 chip, the clearest sign yet that custom silicon is becoming a real Nvidia alternative.

AMD RX 9060 XT: the $299 GPU that actually has enough VRAM

AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT launched June 5 at $299 with 16GB of VRAM. It outperforms the RTX 4060 Ti by 15-20% and makes the RTX 5060 look overpriced.

Google Pixel 10 Pro at its lowest price yet: is it worth buying in June 2026?

The Google Pixel 10 Pro has hit an all-time low price around £614-649. Here's what you get and whether the timing makes sense.

Honor Watch 6 review: 35 days of battery life at £149

The Honor Watch 6 launched June 18 at £149.99 with a claimed 35-day battery, bright AMOLED display, and NFC payments.

Sony Xperia 1 VIII review: the only 2026 flagship with a headphone jack and microSD

The Sony Xperia 1 VIII is a £1,399 camera-first Android flagship with a 3.5mm jack, microSD slot, and triple 48MP cameras. Europe from June 19.

The European Space Agency got hacked. The reason why is embarrassingly preventable.

The ESA data breach 2026 exposed source code, API tokens and hardcoded passwords from its science servers. A space agency caught by one of security's oldest mistakes.

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Samsung Is Betting $648 Billion on AI Chips Over the Next Decade

Samsung Group is committing 1,000 trillion won ($648bn) to AI chip factories, data centres, and displays. Here's what the scale of this bet actually means.

Qualcomm wants to buy Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion to take on Nvidia

Qualcomm is in early talks to acquire AI chip startup Tenstorrent for $8 to $10 billion. Jim Keller's RISC-V bet could be the most credible challenge to Nvidia yet.

How AI agents actually work (and why they're nothing like chatbots)

AI agents aren't chatbots with extra steps. They plan, remember, use tools, and keep going until the task is done. Here's what's actually happening under the hood.

RISC-V vs ARM vs x86: the chip architecture war nobody told you about

RISC-V vs ARM vs x86 explained in plain English. We break down who owns each chip architecture, what it costs, and where each one wins in 2026.

OpenClaw went from 9,000 to 210,000 GitHub stars. Here is what it actually does

OpenClaw AI is the fastest growing open source project around. It runs a personal assistant on your own machine and wires it into WhatsApp, Slack and 20 other apps.

A humanoid robot company is about to go public

Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit warehouse robot, is heading to public markets via a SPAC at a $2.5bn valuation, backed by Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank.

The AI talent raid that won't slow down

Two more Gemini researchers joined Anthropic, the fourth senior Google exit in six days, as Anthropic accused Alibaba of millions of fraudulent Claude exchanges.

NotebookLM turns your own documents into a research assistant

Google's NotebookLM answers from your own files instead of the open web, and even generates an audio summary. Who it's for, and who should skip it.

OpenAI built its own AI chip and called it Jalapeno

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeno, OpenAI's first custom AI chip. Prototypes by end of 2026, full scale by 2028. Here is why it matters.

Snap's AR glasses are real, and they cost as much as a used car

Snap opened preorders for Specs, its first true AR glasses. $2,195, shipping this autumn, four-hour battery. Here is what you actually get.

Buying World Cup tickets? Watch out for the scam wave

Security firms are warning of phishing, fake ticket sites and fraud targeting the 2026 World Cup across the US, Canada and Mexico. How to stay safe.

24 billion stolen credentials turned up in one exposed database

Researchers found an 8.3TB database of 24 billion credential records sitting open online. Most were fresh infostealer logs with plaintext passwords.

Chrome V8 zero-day is under active attack. Update now

Google rushed an emergency patch for CVE-2026-11645, a Chrome V8 flaw already being exploited in the wild. Here is what it is and what to do.

DeepSeek just made its 75% price cut permanent

DeepSeek's V4-Pro now sits at $0.44 per million input tokens and $0.87 output, permanently. That is up to 17x cheaper than GPT-5.5.

GPT-5.6 slips to July as OpenAI goes quiet

GPT-5.6 was expected in late June. Prediction-market odds collapsed from 83% to 18%. The IPO quiet period looks like the reason.

IBM crams 100 billion transistors onto one chip

IBM's NanoStack architecture puts 100 billion transistors on a single chip with 50% more performance and 70% less energy, via vertical stacking.

France's CNIL fines IQVIA 5 million euros over health data

The CNIL issued a 5 million euro GDPR fine against IQVIA Operations France over failures in health data warehouse safeguards, the largest single 2026 fine so far.

Security firms got breached through a vendor they all trusted

Market intelligence provider Klue was hacked via its Salesforce integration, exposing data from customers including HackerOne, Huntress, OneTrust and Snyk.

Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday fixed six zero-days and 200 flaws

Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed around 200 vulnerabilities, including six zero-days. Here is why you should not delay the update.

One Medical hit by ransomware, 8.8 TB of data claimed

ShinyHunters claims to have stolen 8.8 TB from One Medical, the Amazon-owned primary care service handling millions of US health records.

OpenRouter: one key for every AI model

OpenRouter is a single gateway and API key that routes to hundreds of language models, with live pricing so you can compare cost per call.

Texas Parks and Wildlife breach may expose three million people

A breach at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department may have exposed driver's licence, passport and contact details for more than three million people.

Anthropic is using its own AI to help build the next AI

Anthropic is leaning into recursive self-improvement, using its models to help design their successors. We unpack the claim and why the trend matters.

ChatGPT falls below half the global AI assistant market

ChatGPT's share of the global AI assistant market dropped to 46.4 percent, its first time under 50 percent, as Gemini and Claude gained ground.

Tool of the Week: the Claude Agent SDK for building real agents

The Claude Agent SDK is a TypeScript and Python toolkit for building AI agents that call tools, run MCP servers, and spawn sub-agents. Honest review.

Coinbase for Agents lets your AI assistant spend real money

Coinbase launched a platform that lets AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude trade, pay, and buy on your behalf. Here is what changes and what to watch.

Databricks launches Unity AI Gateway to control runaway agent costs

Databricks introduced Unity AI Gateway, giving organisations spending limits, monitoring, and runaway-usage protection across AI providers.

The EU moved its biggest AI deadlines and banned nudifier apps

The EU Digital Omnibus package pushes back high-risk AI obligations, widens SME relief, and bans non-consensual image apps. What it means for builders.

Microsoft introduces Autopilots, autonomous agents with their own identity

Microsoft launched a new agent category called Autopilots, led by Microsoft Scout, an always-on autonomous agent with its own governed org identity.

Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.2 under an open MIT licence

China's Zhipu AI shipped GLM-5.2, a large mixture-of-experts model with a one million token context window, under a permissive MIT licence.

The best Prime Day 2026 tech deals still live before it ends tonight

Amazon Prime Day 2026 ends tonight. Here are the tech deals reviewers actually rate, still in stock, with the real prices and who each one is for.

Intel's 18A-P node hits a milestone, with Apple and Google reportedly circling

The advanced process enters risk production, and a tie-up with Taiwan's UMC takes aim at TSMC's foundry lead.

Logitech's Mobi Fold is the travel mouse a trackpad never quite replaced

A genuinely pocketable mouse that folds flat, pairs with three devices, and works with almost everything.

Microsoft's 2026 Surface line is its best in years, and its most expensive

OLED screens, new haptics and a two-stage chip rollout. The catch is a price hike that pushes Surface above equivalent Macs.

Nvidia just walked into the PC chip market, and Intel should be worried

The RTX Spark Superchip puts a 20-core CPU and a Blackwell GPU on one piece of silicon. It lands in laptops this autumn.

Qualcomm bets beyond mobile with a $10bn AI chip deal and new AR silicon

Talks to buy Tenstorrent, custom data-centre chips, and a Snapdragon Reality Elite platform for smart glasses.

The Redmi Turbo 5 is a battery monster that costs less than you'd think

A 7,560 mAh cell, 100W charging and a Dimensity 8500 Ultra chip aimed at people who hate charging their phone.

Sennheiser's Momentum 5 quietly outclasses headphones costing twice as much

57 hours of battery with ANC on, Dolby Atmos, and a price that undercuts Sony's new flagship by a wide margin.

Soundcore's Liberty 5 Pro Max puts a dedicated AI chip in your ears

A separate AI processor drives Adaptive ANC 4.0 and real-time audio tuning, for a fraction of flagship earbud money.

OpenAI built its own chip to stop paying Nvidia so much

OpenAI revealed Jalapeno, its first custom inference processor built with Broadcom, as it signs giant compute deals and tries to cut the cost of running its models.

Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro can now read 2 million tokens at once

Gemini 3.5 Pro is reaching general availability with a 2-million-token context window and a Deep Think reasoning mode, the largest context window in any production model.

Police just seized 106 servers from a botnet that ran for a decade

Law enforcement disrupted SocGholish, an access broker tied to Evil Corp, seizing 106 servers and cleaning 15,000 hijacked WordPress sites pushing fake update malware.

SpaceX just paid $60 billion for Cursor, the coding tool your developers cannot quit

SpaceX is buying Anysphere, maker of AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in stock. The biggest startup acquisition on record, four days after the biggest IPO ever.

Waymo just recalled nearly 4,000 robotaxis after some drove into freeway construction zones

Waymo is recalling about 3,900 robotaxis with a software fix after 13 incidents where cars drove into freeway construction zones in Phoenix and San Francisco.

Typeahead adds AI autocomplete to every app on your Mac for a one-time fee

Typeahead is a $79 one-time purchase that puts AI autocomplete at your cursor in any Mac app. Local processing, no subscription, works offline. Here is who it suits.

China's Tianwen-2 has arrived at the asteroid that might be a piece of our Moon

China's Tianwen-2 probe reached quasi-moon asteroid Kamoʻoalewa on June 7, 2026. It's now mapping the surface before attempting the first-ever sample return from an Earth quasi-satellite.

Soundcore's new earbuds put an AI note-taker in the charging case

The Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro Max costs $229.99 and its case has a 1.78-inch AMOLED screen plus an AI Note-Taker that records and summarises meetings.

Sony's Xperia 1 VIII is here, and it just outran the Pixel in benchmarks

Sony's Xperia 1 VIII launched in Europe on 19 June 2026 with Android 16 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, beating the Pixel 10 Pro XL in benchmarks.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope launches August 30, eight months ahead of schedule

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is confirmed for August 30, 2026, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. With 100 times Hubble's field of view, it will survey a billion galaxies and transform our understanding of dark energy.

OpenAI just gave its security AI a significant upgrade

GPT-5.5-Cyber now scores 85.6% on CyberGym, up from 81.8%. OpenAI updated its Daybreak cybersecurity platform today. Here is what changed and what it means for enterprise security.

NotebookLM turns your own documents into a research assistant you can actually trust

NotebookLM is Google's free AI tool that answers questions using only the documents you upload, with citations, plus an audio overview feature.

The man who helped invent every AI chatbot just joined OpenAI

Noam Shazeer co-invented the Transformer, built the architecture tricks that make AI cheap to run, and just left Google for OpenAI. Here is why it matters.

A Pacific Ocean rock just confirmed an ancient neutron star collision from 100 million years ago

Plutonium-244 found in a ferromanganese rock from the Pacific Ocean floor traces to a kilonova that happened roughly 100 million years ago. Published in Nature Astronomy, it's one of the clearest geological records of a nearby neutron star merger ever found.

The bosses of Anthropic and Google DeepMind pitched G7 leaders on a shared AI rulebook

At the G7 summit in France, Anthropic's Dario Amodei and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis pitched a US-led coalition to coordinate AI safety standards and testing.

China is spending $295 billion on AI infrastructure. Here is what that actually means.

China's National Development and Reform Commission is finalising a five-year, $295 billion plan to build a nationwide AI data centre network. Nvidia and AMD are excluded. Here is what it means.

ChatGPT's market share just fell below 50% for the first time

ChatGPT hit 46.4% of the AI assistant market in May 2026, the first time below 50% since its 2022 launch. Gemini is at 27.7%. Claude reached 10.3%. Here is what changed.

Astrobotic is joining Voyager Technologies in a $300 million deal, and its Moon base mission continues

Lunar lander company Astrobotic has agreed to be acquired by defence tech firm Voyager Technologies for up to $300 million. NASA's Moon Base II mission stays on track, and the commercial lunar sector keeps consolidating.

The largest commercial comms satellites ever are now in orbit, and they talk to your phone

AST SpaceMobile launched three BlueBird Block 2 satellites on June 17, 2026. Each one spans around 2,400 square feet of antenna and is designed to deliver broadband directly to standard smartphones, no dish required.

NASA names the Artemis III crew, and what the mission actually does might surprise you

Four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, including ESA's Luca Parmitano as the first European on an Artemis crew. But the mission won't land on the Moon. Here's what it will actually do, and why that matters.

Ariane 6 sets a European payload record with 36 Amazon satellites and upgraded boosters

On June 17, 2026, an upgraded Ariane 64 launched 36 Amazon Leo satellites, setting a new payload record for European rockets at 22 tonnes. The mission also debuted the more powerful P160C boosters.

Hackers claim they stole 8.8TB from Amazon's One Medical, with a deadline looming

The ShinyHunters group claims to have stolen 8.8TB from Amazon-owned One Medical and set a 22 June deadline. One Medical has confirmed a separate, smaller breach.

Zoom's new in-meeting AI agent costs $20 a month. Here is what it does

Zoom launched ZoomMate, a $20-per-user in-meeting agent that turns decisions made on a call into actions in Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow and Slack.

OpenAI filed to go public, and now two AI giants are racing to list

OpenAI confirmed a confidential IPO filing with the SEC, with bankers reportedly eyeing a September debut. Anthropic filed weeks earlier. Here is what it means.

GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash and Claude Opus 4.8 all landed at once. Who is ahead?

Three new frontier models arrived close together in June 2026. Here is what the latest leaderboard reshuffle actually means for the people using them.

One in ten people now get their news from an AI chatbot

Weekly news use of AI chatbots jumped from 7% to 10% worldwide, says Reuters' 2026 report. The catch for publishers: most users never click the source.

The US Government Thinks ASML's Most Advanced Chip Tool Is Inside China

The US government has raised the alarm that one of ASML's most powerful extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, the kind that's essential for manufacturing th

Microsoft Spots Self-Propagating Malware That Steals Crypto Over Tor

Microsoft has identified a new lightweight backdoor malware that spreads via USB drives and communicates with its operators over the Tor anonymity network. The

NASA Picks Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space to Launch Mars Mission in 2028

NASA has selected Relativity Space, the rocket company chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to launch its Aeolus Mars orbiter in 2028. The mission will be

Nothing Cancels Its Next Budget Phone as RAM Prices Spiral

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SunZia Goes Live: One Power Line Now Feeds Wind Energy to a Million US Homes

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Repomix packs your entire codebase into one AI-friendly file. I installed it and ran real repos through it to see if it saves the copy-paste grind.

Prime Day 2026 early deals worth buying before June 23

Amazon Prime Day 2026 runs June 23 to 26, but the early deals are already live. Here are the ones reviewers actually rate, not just the loudest discounts.

DeepL just bought its way into real-time speech translation

DeepL made its first-ever acquisition, buying live-audio startup Mixhalo to bring real-time speech translation to conferences and stadiums.

Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion, and it's a bigger deal than it looks

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The US government just pulled Anthropic's most powerful AI. This has never happened before

The Commerce Department issued an export control directive forcing Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer. It's the first time a government has forcibly recalled a live commercial AI model.

I fed a PDF, a spreadsheet and a Word doc to this free Microsoft tool. Here's what came out

MarkItDown is a free tool from Microsoft that turns your files into clean Markdown so chatbots can actually read them. We installed it and threw real documents at it.

Built with AI this week: a machine-checked maths proof, a tutor that makes you type, and more

Our weekly roundup of genuinely impressive things people made with AI, all credited and linked. This week, an algorithm with a formal proof no human ever read, and a backlash against letting AI do your thinking.

Rivian's make-or-break moment has arrived. The first R2s are in customers' hands

The $58,000 electric SUV Rivian has been promising since 2024 finally reached its first paying customers this week. The company's future, and a $1.25 billion Uber deal, ride on it.

Quantum computers just got dramatically more reliable, and almost nobody noticed

Microsoft reports a 1,000x reliability jump in its Majorana qubits, while error correction across the industry moves from lab trick to engineering reality.

The best budget wireless earbuds in 2026, according to the people who actually test them

We compared the lab results and long-term tests from the most trusted reviewers. Three pairs under 100 pounds keep coming out on top.

Apple just paid its biggest rival to fix Siri. Here's what that means for your iPhone

The new Siri unveiled at WWDC runs on Google's Gemini, in a deal reportedly worth around $1 billion a year. Smart move or quiet surrender?

Anthropic just gave everyone its most powerful AI, with the dangerous bits locked away

Claude Fable 5 is the first Mythos-class model the public can actually use. The catch? Hard safety limits, a steep price, and a data retention rule that has enterprises talking.