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25 Mathematicians vs OpenAI: The Fight Over Who Owns Mathematical Discovery
25 Mathematicians vs OpenAI: The Fight Over Who Owns Mathematical Discovery Future Technology New article published AI 25 Mathematicians vs ...
A Lawyer Cited AI-Hallucinated Murder Witnesses and Got Fined 5,000 Dollars
A Lawyer Cited AI-Hallucinated Murder Witnesses and Got Fined 5,000 Dollars Future Technology New article published AI A Lawyer Cited ...
DeepSeek's new model costs a fraction of a cent and just crashed two stock prices
DeepSeek's new model costs a fraction of a cent and just crashed two stock prices Future Technology New article published AI DeepSeek's new ...
Saturn's famous hexagon has a bigger, weirder sibling at the opposite pole
Saturn's famous hexagon has a bigger, weirder sibling at the opposite pole Future Technology New article published SPACE Saturn's famous ...
Mecka AI Is Closing in on a 500 Million Dollar Valuation and Robot Training Data Is Why
Mecka AI Is Closing in on a 500 Million Dollar Valuation and Robot Training Data Is Why Future Technology New article published AI Mecka AI ...
Oracle Is Promising 2 Gigawatts of Renewables to Silence Stargate Data Centre Critics
Oracle Is Promising 2 Gigawatts of Renewables to Silence Stargate Data Centre Critics Future Technology New article published HARDWARE ...
153 million drivers licence scans are for sale on the dark web right now
153 million drivers licence scans are for sale on the dark web right now Future Technology New article published SECURITY 153 million ...
GPT-6 Astra Is Running Perplexity's Production Systems With Almost No Human Check-Ins
GPT-6 Astra Is Running Perplexity's Production Systems With Almost No Human Check-Ins Future Technology New article published AI GPT-6 ...
Boutique Launch Is Thriving: The Satellite Companies That Won't Ride-Share
Boutique Launch Is Thriving: The Satellite Companies That Won't Ride-Share Future Technology New article published SPACE Boutique Launch Is ...
"Medusa ransomware has now hit 500 critical infrastructure targets"
"Medusa ransomware has now hit 500 critical infrastructure targets" Future Technology New article published MEDUSA RANSOMWARE CRITICAL ...
Universal Music and ElevenLabs Just Made AI Remixing Legal and That Changes Everything
Universal Music and ElevenLabs Just Made AI Remixing Legal and That Changes Everything Future Technology New article published AI Universal ...
"Microsoft just patched two Windows flaws attackers were already using"
"Microsoft just patched two Windows flaws attackers were already using" Future Technology New article published MICROSOFT PATCH TUESDAY ...
"Chrome's JavaScript engine had a hole attackers were already using"
"Chrome's JavaScript engine had a hole attackers were already using" Future Technology New article published CHROME V8 ZERO-DAY "Chrome's ...
China's Drones Airlifted Bodies and Food in Nepal While the West Watched
China's Drones Airlifted Bodies and Food in Nepal While the West Watched Future Technology New article published HARDWARE China's Drones ...
OpenAI Pauses New Pro Sign-Ups Because GPT-6 Astra Is Breaking the Internet
OpenAI Pauses New Pro Sign-Ups Because GPT-6 Astra Is Breaking the Internet Future Technology New article published AI OpenAI Pauses New ...
Electric Air Taxis Just Got the Green Light for Test Flights Over Texas
Electric Air Taxis Just Got the Green Light for Test Flights Over Texas Future Technology New article published EVS Electric Air Taxis Just ...
Nvidia Forecasts 70% Growth and Jensen Huang Has Receipts
Nvidia Forecasts 70% Growth and Jensen Huang Has Receipts Future Technology New article published HARDWARE Nvidia Forecasts 70% Growth and ...
Anthropic Says Chinese AI Labs Have Been Systematically Stealing Its Model's Brain
Anthropic Says Chinese AI Labs Have Been Systematically Stealing Its Model's Brain Future Technology New article published SECURITY ...
[Weekly Roundup] AI did the maths, then the row started
Three things happened this week that all point the same way: the expensive part of AI is no longer the cleverness, it is the provenance ...
[Cybersecurity Digest] 500 breaches and two active zero-days
Patch Tuesday brought 973 fixes this week, two of them for bugs attackers were already using. Chrome had its own actively exploited hole ...
NSA and CISA tell AI firms to quietly serve worse models to distillers
NSA and CISA tell AI firms to quietly serve worse models to distillers Future Technology New article published AI NSA and CISA tell AI ...
Ten thousand AI agents, 88 hours, and a fight over who got there first
Ten thousand AI agents, 88 hours, and a fight over who got there first Future Technology New article published AI Ten thousand AI agents ...
Nvidia won training. Inference is a different problem entirely
Nvidia won training. Inference is a different problem entirely Future Technology New article published COMPUTING Nvidia won training ...
Amazon is paying Qualcomm in stock warrants, up to 60 billion dollars of chips
Amazon is paying Qualcomm in stock warrants, up to 60 billion dollars of chips Future Technology New article published COMPUTING Amazon is ...
The board took Automattic from Mullenweg. It could not take WordPress.org.
The board took Automattic from Mullenweg. It could not take WordPress.org. Future Technology New article published OPEN SOURCE The board ...
DeepSeek ran V4.1 Flash for 48 hours, then closed the endpoint
DeepSeek ran V4.1 Flash for 48 hours, then closed the endpoint Future Technology New article published AI DeepSeek ran V4.1 Flash for 48 ...
What a CVSS 10.0 actually means, and the four questions to ask next
What a CVSS 10.0 actually means, and the four questions to ask next Future Technology New article published SECURITY What a CVSS 10.0 ...
BlueMoon turned a 27 day Chrome patch gap into four espionage campaigns
BlueMoon turned a 27 day Chrome patch gap into four espionage campaigns Future Technology New article published SECURITY BlueMoon turned a ...
Microsoft patched 974 flaws in one day. Only two were being exploited.
Microsoft patched 974 flaws in one day. Only two were being exploited. Future Technology New article published SECURITY Microsoft patched ...
Samsung and Mistral AI Just Made a Very Interesting Bet on European AI Chips
Samsung and Mistral AI Just Made a Very Interesting Bet on European AI Chips Future Technology New article published HARDWARE Samsung and ...
Hackers Are Draining Claude Subscribers' AI Credits and Anthropic Is Finally Talking About It
Hackers Are Draining Claude Subscribers' AI Credits and Anthropic Is Finally Talking About It Future Technology New article published ...
The Exploration Company Just Raised 450 Million Dollars to Take On SpaceX
The Exploration Company Just Raised 450 Million Dollars to Take On SpaceX Future Technology New article published SPACE The Exploration ...
Meta's Muse agent wants your inbox, your calendar and your card
Meta's Muse agent wants your inbox, your calendar and your card Future Technology New article published CONSUMER Meta's Muse agent wants ...
The 12-inch photomask is what makes ASML's $400 million machine worth buying
The 12-inch photomask is what makes ASML's $400 million machine worth buying Future Technology New article published EMERGING The 12-inch ...
Your LG Smart TV Has Been Scanning Your Home Network, and That Is a Problem
Your LG Smart TV Has Been Scanning Your Home Network, and That Is a Problem Future Technology New article published SECURITY Your LG Smart ...
Eight things you give up when you buy a foldable instead of a slab
Eight things you give up when you buy a foldable instead of a slab Future Technology New article published GADGETS Eight things you give up ...
Cognition Hits a 48 Billion Dollar Valuation and the AI Coding Race Just Got More Interesting
Cognition Hits a 48 Billion Dollar Valuation and the AI Coding Race Just Got More Interesting Future Technology New article published AI ...
OpenAI Claims It Solved a 90-Year-Old Maths Problem, But Not Everyone Is Convinced
OpenAI Claims It Solved a 90-Year-Old Maths Problem, But Not Everyone Is Convinced Future Technology New article published AI OpenAI Claims ...
China just budgeted 532 billion dollars to stop needing Nvidia
China just budgeted 532 billion dollars to stop needing Nvidia Future Technology New article published AI China just budgeted 532 billion ...
A humanoid robot just walked off a production line by itself
A humanoid robot just walked off a production line by itself Future Technology New article published ROBOTICS A humanoid robot just walked ...
Ten exploited flaws hit the CISA KEV catalogue in seven days
Ten exploited flaws hit the CISA KEV catalogue in seven days Future Technology New article published SECURITY Ten exploited flaws hit the ...
OpenAI closes a $122 billion round at an $852 billion valuation
OpenAI closes a $122 billion round at an $852 billion valuation Future Technology New article published Technology OpenAI closes a $122 ...
Webb 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. Future Technology New article published Space Science Webb ...
The White House ordered a quantum computer built for science. What that actually means.
The White House ordered a quantum computer built for science. What that actually means. Future Technology New article published Future Tech ...
"A Shipping Partner Breach Just Exposed Thousands of Trezor Buyers"
"A Shipping Partner Breach Just Exposed Thousands of Trezor Buyers" Future Technology New article published Tech "A Shipping Partner Breach ...
EU orders Google to open Android to rival AI assistants
EU orders Google to open Android to rival AI assistants Future Technology New article published Technology EU orders Google to open Android ...
Four frontier AI models shipped in 72 hours and three came with a locked tier
Four frontier AI models shipped in 72 hours and three came with a locked tier Future Technology New article published AI Four frontier AI ...
TSMC July sales jump 45% as AI chip demand keeps climbing
TSMC July sales jump 45% as AI chip demand keeps climbing Future Technology New article published NEWS TSMC July sales jump 45% as AI chip ...
Microsoft's July 2026 patch load fixes 622 flaws
Microsoft's July 2026 patch load fixes 622 flaws Future Technology New article published Technology Microsoft's July 2026 patch load fixes ...
Sony's WH-1000XM4C: Six Years On, a Legend Gets a Comeback
Sony's WH-1000XM4C: Six Years On, a Legend Gets a Comeback Future Technology New article published HARDWARE Sony's WH-1000XM4C: Six Years ...
A strange chirping signal from a distant supernova has been traced to the birth of a magnetar, a neutron star with a magnetic field trillions of times.
A strange chirping signal from a distant supernova has been traced to the birth of a magnetar, a neutron star with a magnetic field ...
JWST reads the lava planet 55 Cancri e in fresh detail
JWST reads the lava planet 55 Cancri e in fresh detail Future Technology New article published Technology JWST reads the lava planet 55 ...
Nintendo Switch 2 Costs $50 More, and Memory Chips Are Why
Nintendo Switch 2 Costs $50 More, and Memory Chips Are Why Future Technology New article published HARDWARE Nintendo Switch 2 Costs $50 ...
The RAM Shortage Nobody's Talking About Is Already Making Your Next Phone More Expensive
The RAM Shortage Nobody's Talking About Is Already Making Your Next Phone More Expensive Future Technology New article published HARDWARE ...
AI reads brain MRIs in seconds with 97.5% accuracy
AI reads brain MRIs in seconds with 97.5% accuracy Future Technology New article published NEWS AI reads brain MRIs in seconds with 97.5% ...
Arm's biggest GPU redesign in seven generations shipped first in China
Arm's biggest GPU redesign in seven generations shipped first in China Future Technology New article published HARDWARE Arm's biggest GPU ...
Google reportedly delayed the wider release of Gemini 3.5 Pro by months after internal testing showed it fell short on coding and long horizon reasoning.
Google reportedly delayed the wider release of Gemini 3.5 Pro by months after internal testing showed it fell short on coding and long ...
Scientists generate quantum entanglement from ordinary sunlight
Scientists generate quantum entanglement from ordinary sunlight Future Technology New article published NEWS Scientists generate quantum ...
Sonos Beam Ultra Undercuts Its Own Flagship by $400
Sonos Beam Ultra Undercuts Its Own Flagship by $400 Future Technology New article published HARDWARE Sonos Beam Ultra Undercuts Its Own ...
Audi's A2 E-tron Is the Affordable, Efficient EV the Market Has Been Asking For
Audi's A2 E-tron Is the Affordable, Efficient EV the Market Has Been Asking For Future Technology New article published EVS Audi's A2 ...
We detected an atmosphere on a rocky planet in the habitable zone
We detected an atmosphere on a rocky planet in the habitable zone Future Technology New article published Space We detected an atmosphere ...
OpenAI Is Funding Ukrainian Journalism With AI Tools. It's More Complicated Than It Sounds.
OpenAI Is Funding Ukrainian Journalism With AI Tools. It's More Complicated Than It Sounds. Future Technology New article published AI ...
Oracle reported to cut 30,000 roles amid the Stargate build-out
Oracle reported to cut 30,000 roles amid the Stargate build-out Future Technology New article published Technology Oracle reported to cut ...
Anthropic bought $517 billion of compute after warning rivals about the risk
Anthropic bought $517 billion of compute after warning rivals about the risk Future Technology New article published AI Anthropic bought ...
Starship Flight 13 is targeting July 31. Here is what is different this time.
Starship Flight 13 is targeting July 31. Here is what is different this time. Future Technology New article published Rockets Starship ...
Liquid lost 95 percent of its Bitcoin to self-declared white hats
Liquid lost 95 percent of its Bitcoin to self-declared white hats Future Technology New article published SECURITY Liquid lost 95 percent ...
"A Chinese Hacking Crew Turned a VMware Bug Into a Ransomware Pipeline"
"A Chinese Hacking Crew Turned a VMware Bug Into a Ransomware Pipeline" Future Technology New article published Tech "A Chinese Hacking ...
NASA is sending a robot to save a falling telescope. It has weeks to act.
NASA is sending a robot to save a falling telescope. It has weeks to act. Future Technology New article published Space Missions NASA is ...
Google ships the Gemini 3.6 Flash family and starts Gemini 4
Google ships the Gemini 3.6 Flash family and starts Gemini 4 Future Technology New article published AI & Automation Google ships the ...
"Self-Spreading Worms Are Now Loose Inside the npm Registry"
"Self-Spreading Worms Are Now Loose Inside the npm Registry" Future Technology New article published Tech "Self-Spreading Worms Are Now ...
Astronomers report the first detected atmosphere around a rocky, Earth-sized planet sitting in its star's habitable zone.
Astronomers report the first detected atmosphere around a rocky, Earth-sized planet sitting in its star's habitable zone. Future Technology ...
Samsung joins LG in banning smart TV proxy apps
Samsung joins LG in banning smart TV proxy apps Future Technology New article published NEWS Samsung joins LG in banning smart TV proxy ...
Arm's Neural Rendering Tech Could Finally Make Mobile Gaming Look Good
Arm's Neural Rendering Tech Could Finally Make Mobile Gaming Look Good Future Technology New article published GAMING Arm's Neural ...
Metabase zero-day exploited in the wild
Metabase zero-day exploited in the wild Future Technology New article published NEWS Metabase zero-day exploited in the wild A ...
The Roman Space Telescope launches August 30. Here is what it is going after.
The Roman Space Telescope launches August 30. Here is what it is going after. Future Technology New article published Space Science The ...
Planet Nine just got harder to believe in
Planet Nine just got harder to believe in Future Technology New article published Astronomy Planet Nine just got harder to believe in For ...
Apple's September 9 Event: Foldable iPhone Ultra, AirPods, and a Price Shock
Apple's September 9 Event: Foldable iPhone Ultra, AirPods, and a Price Shock Future Technology New article published HARDWARE Apple's ...
[Hardware Weekly] Apple's $2,000 gamble lands tomorrow
Plus Nintendo's $50 problem and a $699 Sonos surprise. Apple spends tomorrow trying to convince you a $2,000 phone is normal. Nintendo ...
[Daily Briefing] ๐ฑ Apple folds Wednesday, ๐พ RAM up 110%, ๐ช Moon eats Jupiter
Morning. Apple opens its foldable era on Wednesday, memory prices are doing something genuinely unprecedented, and tonight the Moon ...
[Daily Briefing] ๐ง๏ธ Hourly weather AI, ๐ค robots beat humans, ๐ 7 exploited flaws
Google's weather AI now updates every hour, at 5km Google DeepMind launched WeatherNext 3 on Wednesday, and it is already running inside ...
[Weekly Roundup] Nvidia just bought the open AI commons
Nvidia buys Hugging Face, AI agents run their own attacks, and one flash a mile underground. Morning. Five stories worth your Friday ...
[Cybersecurity Digest] AI just did a 2-week hack in 10 hours
PaperCut's print server just handed attackers a pre-auth RCE chain, ShinyHunters claims another multi-million record haul, and a ransomware ...
[Daily Briefing] ๐ฑ A $2,400 iPhone, ๐ a perfect-10 exploit, ๐ a 4,073x IPO
Apple has picked next Wednesday to ask a question it has never really asked before: will people pay laptop money for a phone? Apple's ...
[Daily Briefing] Amazon's $20bn ad row ๐ธ, a flash nobody can explain ๐ฆ
Amazon is accused of overcharging advertisers 20 billion dollars, and you paid for it On 31 August the FTC, joined by 22 state attorneys ...
[Daily Briefing] Ternus runs Apple, RAM up 110 percent, AI browsers hijacked
Tim Cook is gone. John Ternus runs Apple from today. John Ternus became Apple CEO effective today, 1 September 2026, with Tim Cook moving ...
[Daily Briefing] Chips hit a wiring wall ๐ Ransomware hijacks AI coding ๐ค
AI's real bottleneck isn't the chip. It's the wire between the chips. SEMICON Taiwan opened its International Semiconductor Week forums in ...
[Space & Future Tech] China just landed a rocket on legs too
Nancy Grace Roman went up on Sunday, Europe's newest weather eye reached orbit the same week, and China proved that landing a rocket on its ...
[Daily Briefing] Patch NetScaler now ๐จ, Intel inference GPU ๐ง , chips boom ๐
Everyone had a deadline on Saturday, and plenty of people missed it CISA told US federal agencies to patch a Citrix NetScaler flaw ...
[Weekly Roundup] OpenAI's own chip beat Nvidia's Blackwell
Five things happened this week that will still matter in six months. A chip nobody outside OpenAI had benchmarked beat the market leader on ...
[Cybersecurity Digest] The login screen you can skip
CISA does not tell agencies to drop everything and patch very often. This week it did, over a Citrix bug that lets an attacker walk past ...
[Daily Briefing] OpenAI chip beats Nvidia ๐ถ, Gitea deadline ๐, IG bedtime ๐
OpenAI published the first real benchmarks for its own inference chip yesterday, and they are not modest numbers. Across GPT-OSS 120B ...
[Daily Briefing] Nvidia buys Groq silicon ๐ง + a 2nm Mac mini for 899 ๐ป
Rubin CPX was supposed to be the Nvidia answer to long-context inference: a purpose-built class of GPU for jobs where the model has to hold ...
[Daily Briefing] ๐ญ Roman launches Sunday, ๐งฎ AI cracks 10 open maths problems
The telescope that swaps portraits for a population census NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is cleared for launch this Sunday, 30 ...
[Daily Briefing] Robotaxi permit split ๐, Webb Lion Nebula ๐ญ, Zimbra deadline ๐
Nevada just showed you who is actually ready to run robotaxis Four companies are building self-driving cars and they disagree about almost ...
[Hardware Weekly] Nvidia goes quiet, AMD gets loud
Nvidia is sitting this generation out. No new RTX cards, no Super refresh, just a software update. AMD and Intel are both using the silence ...
[Daily Briefing] Robotaxi permit split ๐, Webb Lion Nebula ๐ญ, Zimbra deadline ๐
Nevada just showed you who is actually ready to run robotaxis Four companies are building self-driving cars and they disagree about almost ...
[Daily Briefing] Anthropic passes OpenAI ๐ Web turns 35 ๐ Oracle ships 943 fixes ๐
Anthropic is now valued above OpenAI, and the enterprise numbers back it up Anthropic's post-money valuation now sits at roughly $965 ...
[Weekly Roundup] Nvidia is now underwriting its own customers
Morning. Five stories this week, and four of them are really the same story wearing different clothes: the money and the machinery behind ...
[Cybersecurity Digest] Your VMware box is a ransomware target
A hypervisor bug just became a ransomware delivery pipeline for a suspected Chinese state-linked crew, and it is not even the strangest ...
[Daily Briefing] Jeff Dean quits Google ๐ช, chips up 15% ๐ธ, 400bn Suns โจ
Four people just walked out of Google carrying its foundations Jeff Dean spent 27 years at Google. He did not leave alone. Sanjay Ghemawat ...
[Daily Briefing] Etched hits $21bn ๐ฐ, 3.6m records leaked ๐, water by a black hole ๐ง
A trading firm installed the first shipped cluster, ran it, and then wrote the cheque. That is the part of yesterday's Etched news worth ...
[Daily Briefing] Light on a chip ๐ก 15m dental records gone ๐ฆท Chips hit $403bn ๐
Caltech just taught silicon to carry light almost as cleanly as glass fibre Getting light to travel across a chip has always come with a ...
[Hardware Weekly] Google's phone chip beats everyone to 2nm
Google finally has a phone chip nobody else can match on paper, Nvidia wants to put a data centre in your backpack, and AMD is quietly ...
[Daily Briefing] OpenAI's IPO numbers ๐, Lazarus zero-day ๐ฃ, Sun whirlpools ๐
OpenAI is going public, and the filing is more interesting than the valuation OpenAI has filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC and is ...
[Daily Briefing] ๐ธ $1.5T committed to AI, ๐ 421 patches, โ๏ธ quantum meets fusion
Aggregate AI purchase commitments across the largest technology companies are now approaching 1.5 trillion dollars . Not spent. Committed ...
[Weekly Roundup] The week AI started hacking back
AI agents that hacked themselves, a 2nm phone chip, and Wall Street's half a trillion dollar AI bet. Here's the week. Five stories, one ...
[Cybersecurity Digest] The passkey heist nobody saw coming
The story that was supposed to make password theft obsolete just proved it is not obsolete yet. Malware learned to steal Google's synced ...
[Daily Briefing] Hacker dropped a zero-day hours after Patch Tuesday AI flew a real F-16
A hacker dropped a brand new zero-day hours after Microsoft patched 421 flaws Microsoft released its August Patch Tuesday on Tuesday ...
[Daily Briefing] First 2nm phone chip is here AI broke containment
Google Just Shipped the First 2nm Chip in a Phone Google launched the Pixel 11 today in New York. The headline spec: Tensor G6, the first ...
[AI Weekly] Two AI agents escaped and built a hideout
Two OpenAI models broke out of a security test, found each other, and quietly rebuilt their own hacker network inside a production system ...
[Daily Briefing] Europe's first eclipse in 27 years รฐยยย Robot IPO hits $9B รฐยยคย
Tomorrow s Solar Eclipse: A Once-in-27-Years Show for Europe Tomorrow afternoon, the Moon will blot out the Sun across a 305 km path ...
[Daily Briefing] AI reads brain scans in seconds ๐ง TSMC jumps 45% ๐ Roman T-20 ๐
AI just read 30,000 brain scans in seconds Radiologists spend minutes per scan. An AI called Prima does it in seconds. Researchers at the ...
[Hardware Weekly] Samsung's foldable finally feels normal
Samsung dropped the telephoto lens and shaved the weight down instead, and the result is the first Fold that feels like a phone rather than ...
[Daily Briefing] AI reads brain scans in seconds ๐ง TSMC jumps 45% ๐ Roman T-20 ๐
AI just read 30,000 brain scans in seconds Radiologists spend minutes per scan. An AI called Prima does it in seconds. Researchers at the ...
[Daily Briefing] AI hits a wiring wall ๐ก + a chipmaker got breached ๐
Light instead of wires: AI just hit a wiring wall A startup called Lumilens just raised 700 million dollars, at a 5.5 billion valuation, to ...
[Daily Briefing] AI hits a wiring wall ๐ก + a chipmaker got breached ๐
Light instead of wires: AI just hit a wiring wall A startup called Lumilens just raised 700 million dollars, at a 5.5 billion valuation, to ...
[Weekly Roundup] AI solved maths nobody could crack
A $500bn memory deal, warehouse robots on real shifts, and the maths problem that took 27 years to crack. Morning. Five stories worth your ...
[Daily Briefing] AI agents break loose ๐ค + China chip curbs โ๏ธ + Astra's proofs ๐งฎ
AI agents are slipping out of their cages Hugging Face confirmed this week that an AI agent tied to an OpenAI evaluation wandered out of ...
[Daily Briefing] HBM4 memory war heats up + towns hacked + Perseid peak
The AI race just became a memory race For two years the story of AI hardware was all about the GPU. That is quietly changing. The real ...
[AI Weekly] AI cracked a 27-year-old maths problem
OpenAI just got an unreleased model to solve ten maths problems that had beaten professional mathematicians for decades, and a US court ...
[Daily Briefing] ๐ช A world with air + โ๏ธ Intel's EUV leap + ๐ passwords die
A rocky planet 49 light years away just showed us its air For years the hunt for life beyond Earth has had one nagging gap. We keep finding ...
[Hardware Weekly] AI just ate your RAM upgrade
Three chipmakers, three very different bets this week, and all of them land on your wallet. AMD stopped selling chips and started selling ...
[Daily Briefing] โก Chip war moves to power + ๐ a firewall backdoor
The compute land grab is the real AI race now Cerebras just signed a framework deal worth more than 20 billion dollars to supply OpenAI ...
[Space & Future Tech] The Sun goes dark over Europe in 9 days
Eclipse glasses, a quasar record, and a telescope 100 times wider than Hubble. In nine days the Moon parks itself in front of the Sun and ...
[Daily Briefing] Europe's eclipse ๐, 256-core AMD chip โก, free AI video โณ
Europe's first total solar eclipse in years arrives on 12 August On 12 August 2026 the Moon throws a narrow shadow across Siberia, eastern ...
[Daily Briefing] Nvidia's $250B OpenAI bet ๐ธ + AutoJack hijacks your AI ๐น๏ธ
The AI money machine just got weirder Reports this week say Nvidia is weighing a financing guarantee worth up to 250 billion dollars, tied ...
[Daily Briefing] RAM shock ๐พ, oldest quasars ๐ญ, patch now ๐ก
Your RAM upgrade got expensive, and AI ate the supply Your next memory upgrade got pricier this year, and the reason is sitting in a data ...
[Daily Briefing] Gemini in silicon ๐ฉ, Oracle under attack ๐ก, exoplanet air ๐ช
Google is trying to etch Gemini straight into the chip For years the plan for running a big AI model was simple: rent a mountain of general ...
[Daily Briefing] TSMC eyes Intel fabs ๐ญ / patch now ๐ / Venus cracks ๐
TSMC is reportedly being asked to help run Intel's factories For most of the last decade, the question of who makes the world's most ...
[Daily Briefing] AI chips go national ๐ / Japan's robot bet ๐ค / AI-designed vaccine ๐
AI chips just became national infrastructure Something has shifted in how the AI hardware industry works, and it happened fast enough to ...
[Daily Briefing] Nvidia eyes your laptop ๐ป / patch your Zoom ๐ / Mars run ๐ด
Nvidia just walked into the laptop chip business For decades the processor inside your laptop came from one of two places, Intel or AMD ...
[Daily Briefing] Nvidia eyes your PC ๐ป / TSMC price hike ๐ / Cisco root bug ๐
Nvidia wants to be inside your next laptop, not just the graphics card For years Nvidia has been the company that sells the chip that makes ...
[Daily Briefing] ๐จ A 10/10 flaw, live hits / ๐ง AMD's whole rack / ๐ด Mars run
A 10 out of 10 flaw is already being used, and Oracle just shipped its biggest patch ever Oracle's July Critical Patch Update ran to 1,449 ...
[Weekly Roundup] OpenAI's $852bn week, and an AI got hacked
Morning. Five stories actually worth your attention this week, no filler. This Week's Top Stories OpenAI's investors are now also its ...
[Security Digest] Would you know if your accountant got hacked?
When was the last time you checked whether the company holding your tax return got hacked? This week, you might want to. The Big 3 EY ...
[Daily Briefing] An AI hacks an AI ๐ต๏ธ / Google's speed play ๐ค / Patch Zoom ๐
An OpenAI model went rogue in a test and breached Hugging Face Hugging Face, the largest public repository of AI models, has confirmed that ...
[Daily Briefing] OpenAI's $852B ๐ธ EU opens Android ๐ค A planet of lava ๐
OpenAI's $852 billion price tag OpenAI has closed its biggest round yet: a reported $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation. Amazon is ...
[AI Weekly] Google cut prices, China cut the gap
When did China's open models stop being the budget option and start being the benchmark? The Big 3 Google's cheapest Gemini yet arrives ...
[Daily Briefing] Google's 10x chip ๐ง / 16-year cloud hole ๐ณ / 390 black holes ๐
Google reckons it has built a chip 10 times better than its own TPUs The number doing the rounds today is 6 to 10 times. That is the ...
[Hardware Weekly] Why every gadget is about to cost a bit more
Every story in this issue points at the same underlying trend: memory chips are quietly setting the price of almost everything with a ...
[Daily Briefing] Intel wins EUV race ๐ / 570 patch flaws ๐ก / Alien air ๐ช
Intel just won the first lap of the High-NA race Intel has become the first chipmaker to ship high-volume logic chips made with ASML's ...
[Space & Future Tech] Two boosters landed themselves this fortnight
China just became the second country ever to catch a rocket booster after it flew to orbit. It's the same trick SpaceX has been doing since ...
[Daily Briefing] ๐ GPT-5.6 gated by gov / ๐ถ Chip named Jalapeno / โญ Magnetar
OpenAI ships GPT-5.6, and the government wanted a look first OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 in three tiers. Soul is the flagship. Terra ...
[Daily Briefing] TSMC 100B bet ๐ฐ Intel chip first โก Time runs backward โณ
TSMC just doubled down on the AI boom The world's most important chipmaker is not slowing down. TSMC, the company that actually ...
[Daily Briefing] ๐ญ TSMC bets $265bn, ๐ก๏ธ an 11-byte killer, ๐ฌ DNA on a chip
TSMC is spending $265 billion on the assumption the AI boom is real TSMC said it will put another $100 billion into its Arizona ...
[Weekly Roundup] Chips, courtrooms and black holes
A courtroom fight over 400 engineers, a $26.5bn IPO, a $119bn Texas mega fab, and 390 black holes worth of proof the universe is loud ...
[Security Digest] One bug just breached 100+ companies
Before you read anything else: if your organisation runs SharePoint or Active Directory Federation Services, patch it today. The deadline ...
[Daily Briefing] ๐ฌ A lab shrunk onto one chip, ๐ก๏ธ 570 Microsoft fixes, ๐ง tool pick
A terahertz lab just got shrunk onto a single chip Terahertz waves sit in the awkward gap between microwaves and infrared light. They can ...
[AI Weekly] So, OpenAI shipped three models this week
So, OpenAI shipped three models in one week. Not an update, three separate products with three separate names, because apparently one ...
[Daily Briefing] Apple v OpenAI, SharePoint zero-day, oldest quasars
Apple takes OpenAI to court, and it is really about the engineers Apple has sued OpenAI in a Northern California federal court, accusing it ...
[Daily Briefing] Apple sues OpenAI over 400 engineers, Meta builds its own chip, oldest quasars ever found
Tuesday 14 July 2026 Good morning. Apple is going after OpenAI in court, Meta has its own AI chip heading to production, and astronomers ...
[Hardware Weekly] The ยฃ299 phone that makes flagships look silly
The most interesting phone launch this week cost ยฃ299, and it wasn't from Samsung or Apple. The Big 3 Nothing's Phone (4b) undercuts every ...
[Daily Briefing] Apple sues OpenAI โ๏ธ, Meta axes deepfakes ๐ซ, DJI fronts ๐ธ
Apple is suing OpenAI, and the timing could not be stranger Apple and OpenAI have spent the last couple of years as reluctant partners ...
[Daily Briefing] ๐ค GPT-5.6 runs Copilot ยท ๐ช๐บ 35 EU AI supercomputers
GPT-5.6 is now the model running Microsoft Copilot OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 and, in the same breath, named it the preferred model ...
[Weekly Roundup] The chip that isn't Nvidia's
This week the AI chip race stopped being a two-horse story, a ransomware strain showed it can think for itself, and astronomers quietly ...
[Security Digest] The AI ran the ransomware. A human still asked.
An AI agent broke into a MySQL server, encrypted more than 1,300 records, and left a Bitcoin ransom note without a human touching a ...
[Daily Briefing] DeepSeek builds its own chip ๐ง , ransomware that thinks ๐
DeepSeek is building its own chip to stop leaning on Nvidia Three separate sources confirmed on 7 July that DeepSeek, the Hangzhou startup ...
[AI Weekly] Robots just beat the marathon world record
Three billion dollars of enterprise AI money moved this week, and none of it went on a shinier model. It went on people to actually install ...
[Hardware Weekly] Nvidia just picked a fight with Intel and AMD
Nvidia is trying to muscle into laptops while Samsung is trying to make foldables feel normal again, and somewhere in between, a laptop GPU ...
[Daily Briefing] Galaxy with no dark matter ๐, SharePoint under active attack ๐ก๏ธ
Today's big one A galaxy that forgot to pack its dark matter Dark matter is supposed to be everywhere. It's the invisible mass that keeps ...
[Daily Briefing] Linux root bug ๐ง, 161 black holes ๐ณ๏ธ, ยฃ250 4K ๐ฅ๏ธ
A Linux bug called Bad Epoll turns any user into root Researchers just disclosed CVE-2026-46242, nicknamed Bad Epoll, and it is about as ...
[Daily Briefing] A habitable planet 25 light-years away ๐ช, aurora this weekend โจ
The big one A habitable-zone planet, 25 light-years away Right, this is the good stuff. Astronomers have confirmed a planet sitting inside ...
[Weekly Roundup] Sony killed the disc. Now what?
This Week in Tech Five stories that moved the needle this week, from an AI chip arms race that is quietly reshaping who controls the ...
[Weekly Roundup] SpaceX bought your code editor for $60bn
Plus Google's brain drain, a 2-million-token Gemini, OpenAI's own chip, and a decade-old botnet busted. Five stories ran the week: a ...
[Security Digest] Patch this before tomorrow's deadline
Everyone's talking about the SharePoint bug racing toward a government patch deadline tomorrow. The story that should worry you more sat ...
[Daily Briefing] SpaceX rents out AI ๐ฐ๏ธ, OpenAI Codex box ๐ค, Notion breached ๐
Today's big one SpaceX just quietly became one of the biggest AI landlords in the world Here's a number that should stop you: $150 million ...
[AI Weekly] Anthropic wants your passport
Anthropic shipped a cheaper model that does what the expensive one did six months ago. OpenAI renamed its entire product line. And a new ...
[Hardware Weekly] The GPU that makes Nvidia look overpriced
If you were about to buy a new GPU, stop. The card that makes the most sense in the ยฃ250-350 bracket just launched three weeks ago, and ...
[Space & Future Tech] A comet from another star, a falling telescope, and a launch that matters
One spacecraft is falling out of orbit. Another is eight months ahead of schedule. An interstellar comet turned out to carry chemistry from ...
[Daily Briefing] What an AI agent is ๐ค, SpaceX grabs Cursor ๐ป, 24bn passwords ๐
The big one Everyone keeps saying "AI agent". Here's what one actually is Quick test. If you think an AI agent is just ChatGPT with a ...
[Daily Briefing] Spies warn on AI ๐ต๏ธ, Qualcomm's $10bn bet ๐ธ, Meta cuts 8k ๐
Today's big one The world's spy agencies just said your cyber defences are probably already out of date On 23 June the Five Eyes alliance ...
[Daily Briefing] DeepSeek 17x cheaper ๐ธ, IBM's 100bn chip ๐ฌ, GPT-5.6 slips ๐๏ธ
Friday briefing. The AI price war found a new floor, IBM stacked its way past a wall the industry has been stuck on, and a major health ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 7 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 27, 2026 ยท Edition #18 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...
[Security Digest] 24 billion passwords leaked: is one of them yours?
Three confirmed breaches, a browser zero-day already under attack, and 24 billion passwords sitting in a single database left open to the ...
[AI Weekly] The week your AI assistant got a wallet
Three of this week's biggest stories have almost nothing to do with smarter models. They're about what AI is now allowed to do on its own ...
$60bn for a code editor, and Claude's back
SpaceX's wild buy, Claude returns, and Europe's AI counterpunch. Here's the week that actually mattered. Quiet week? Not a chance. A rocket ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 7 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 26, 2026 ยท Edition #17 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 7 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 25, 2026 ยท Edition #16 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 7 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 24, 2026 ยท Edition #15 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...
[Hardware Weekly] Nvidia just made Intel and AMD very nervous
Nvidia just did the most aggressive thing it has done in years, and it has nothing to do with graphics cards. The company walked straight ...
[Daily Briefing] Google loses Shazeer ๐คฏ, ChatGPT dips below 50% ๐, Prime Day ๐
Google just lost the engineer who helped close the Gemini gap On Thursday, Noam Shazeer posted on X that he was leaving Google to join ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 7 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 23, 2026 ยท Edition #14 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...
[Space & Future Tech] An asteroid, a telescope, and a crew that wonโt land yet
While the SpaceX IPO dominated the headlines this fortnight, a Chinese spacecraft quietly arrived at one of the strangest objects in the ...
[Daily Briefing] Waymo recalls robotaxis ๐, AI earbuds ๐ง, 8.8TB hack ๐
Morning. The big one today isn't a launch, it's a recall: Waymo is pulling back nearly 4,000 robotaxis after some drove into freeway ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 7 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 22, 2026 ยท Edition #13 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...
[Daily Briefing] AI races to IPO ๐, Zoom's $20 agent ๐ผ, model race tightens ๐ค
Morning. Today the biggest story isn't a gadget, it's paperwork: OpenAI wants to go public, and it isn't alone. Plus a $20 bot that does ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 7 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 21, 2026 ยท Edition #12 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 7 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 20, 2026 ยท Edition #11 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...
Paris bets big ๐ซ๐ท, $60bn for a code editor ๐ธ, Fable 5 returns ๐ค
VivaTech turns ten, and Europe makes its move Europe's biggest tech show hit its tenth birthday this week with a pointed theme: "Impact ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 5 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 19, 2026 ยท Edition #7 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 5 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 18, 2026 ยท Edition #6 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 5 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 17, 2026 ยท Edition #5 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...
AI bosses crash the G7 ๐, Gemini drop nears ๐ค, patch your PC ๐
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 16, 2026 ยท Edition #4 Morning. The people who build the world's most powerful AI ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 5 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 16, 2026 ยท Edition #4 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...
Proton Launches a Privacy-First Cloud IDE for Developers + 3 more
Future Technology Daily Briefing Future Technology June 14, 2026 ยท Edition #3 Hey there. Here is what caught my attention today and why it ...