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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
AIZuckerberg 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
NewsSony 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.
NewsThe 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
NewsGoogle 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
ToolsNVIDIA'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
PolicyOpenAI 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
EVsTesla'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
SpaceSpaceX 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.
AIDigital 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.
SecurityHave 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.
SecurityNotion 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.
AIOpenAI 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.
NewsSony 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.
SpaceSpaceX 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.
NewsTidal 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.
SpaceWebb found methane on an interstellar comet. It rewrites where comets come from.
Webb found methane on an interstellar comet. It rewrites where comets come from.
SpaceNASA 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.
SpacePlanet 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.
SpaceThe Roman Space Telescope launches August 30. Here is what it is going after.
NASA moved the Roman Space Telescope
SpaceStarship 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.
ComputingThe 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.
ComputingAnthropic 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.
ComputingOpenAI 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.
ComputingSouth 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.