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“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.

Top chipmakers embrace ASML’s $400M machines, agree to crucial chipmaking change

Chipmaking changes could boost productivity of new ASML machines by 40 percent.

Qualcomm hands Amazon $4B of warrants to build custom silicon for AWS

Qualcomm has issued Amazon warrants over 25 million shares worth about $4B, vesting against commercial milestones and up to $60B of server chip purchases, alongside a multi-generation custom silicon...

The mathematicians published machine-checkable proofs. OpenAI announced its result on a call with reporters.

OpenAI says an internal model proved that 3D Navier-Stokes can develop a singularity in finite time, using about 10,000 agents over 88 hours. It described the result on a press call and had not...

Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal

Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.

Dubai is training 14,000 companies to run AI agents, on a two-year clock

Dubai Chambers is putting more than 14,000 companies through training in agentic AI, the kind of software that carries out tasks on its own rather than answering questions. The body launched the...

Whispering Complaints Into Your Phone May Be the Future of Customer Feedback

Forget email surveys or long calls spent on hold. Voicebox lets people send customer feedback by recording a voice note on their phone.

A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," stunned Telluride audiences Sunday night with its generous access to the Theranos founder.

TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad

Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an AI data centre campus of up to one gigawatt in Hyderabad, using green energy and...

Four American firms skipped Macron’s space summit, and are due back in Paris a week later

SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud pulled out of Macron’s Paris space summit after White House pressure, though several are expected back in the city days later for World Space Business...

The 6 Best Monitors That Actually Work Well With Macs

Macs are fantastic computers, but you’ll need one of these great displays to complete your work-from-home setup.

The Best Dyson Vacuums (2026) to Buy—and Some to Avoid

Feeling the pull of a new clean machine? I'll help you make sense of Dyson’s whirlwind vacuum lineup.

The EU has regulated ChatGPT as a search engine. Calling it a platform would have handed OpenAI a liability shield.

The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, exposing OpenAI to fines of up to 6% of global revenue but covering only the parts of the...

The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus

While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.

Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.

AI cloud firm Nscale seeking $3.5B in pre-IPO financing from Nvidia and Third Point

Nscale is in talks to raise up to $3.5B ahead of a US listing, including $1.5B of convertible notes led by Third Point and about $2B from Nvidia. It is briefing investors that its contracts total...

OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk

OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.

T-Mobile’s Gopalan turns to home internet and AI after a 25% slide

T-Mobile US chief executive Srini Gopalan declined to comment on a possible merger with parent Deutsche Telekom, days after Elliott built a stake to oppose it. A full combination would put the...

Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers

Ultrahuman is targeting a $200 million annual revenue run rate by January 2027 as it builds a new Qualcomm-powered smart ring.

Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation

The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.

The 24-hour CRA deadline is changing software supply chain visibility

According to an analysis published by The Hacker News, manufacturers of products with digital elements sold in the European Union will face a September 11 deadline under the Cyber Resilience Act...

JD Power says 35% of passenger screens have never been used

JD Power found that 35% of owners with a passenger screen have never used it and that such systems generate 21.3 problems per 100 vehicles. Euro NCAP has awarded rating points for physical controls...

A US court says Google keeps its ad exchange. The Commission said only a sale would work

A US federal judge has ruled that Google will not have to sell its advertising exchange, leaving the remedies from three American antitrust cases largely behavioural. The European Commission fined...

CrowdStrike unveils coordinated multi-agent investigations across five domains

CrowdStrike has announced coordinated multi-agent investigations on a shared context layer, with customers setting autonomy from human-in-the-loop approval to fully autonomous execution. NIS2 starts...

Microsoft Fabric reaches the US government cloud, with general availability from October

Microsoft has launched its Fabric data platform in Government Community Cloud High on public preview, with general availability from 1 October, pitched at agentic AI workloads. Europe has no...

India’s richest man now wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs

Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.

John Deere launches JD, an AI assistant that answers questions from a farm’s own data

John Deere has launched JD, an AI assistant that answers plain-language questions from a farm’s own machine and field data, alongside a ten-point voluntary Farmer Data Commitment. In the EU those...

Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen

The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering.

Waymo goes on offense ahead of Tesla’s Cybercab launch

Waymo argued that fully autonomous vehicles aren't possible without using a mix of sensors and warned that pure end-to-end AI systems aren't safe enough.

Google’s answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design

With Google Pics, Google is pushing deeper into the creative software market dominated by Canva and Adobe, but with a distinctly AI-first approach.

OpenAI’s Astra model is on the way — and very good at breaking into computer systems

OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.

Apple’s Phil Schiller hands over App Store and Events to Eddy Cue

Phil Schiller has stepped down from running Apple’s App Store and its product events, Bloomberg reported, keeping his Apple Fellow title as responsibility moves to Eddy Cue’s services division with...

ChatGPT Ads hits $1B annualised as the EU brings it under the Digital Services Act

OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads has reached $1B in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days and has opened self-service buying across Europe, India, the Middle East and North Africa. On the same day the...

ATM Flaws Reveal Key Weaknesses in the Software Supply Chain

A security researcher discovered nine vulnerabilities impacting ATM encryption and authentication software. But the problems extend far beyond your local cash machine.

Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck with open-source software

Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and shipping. The Bordeaux company is owned by the AI platform Hugging Face. Its new...

A solar mobile clinic has successfully driven 800km across Kenya

Solar Team Eindhoven drove its solar ambulance Stella Juva more than 800km across Kenya with Amref Health Africa, and found it generated more energy than it used while running an X-ray machine,...

MIT report says AI can complete almost any undergraduate assignment it sets

An MIT committee report says AI can produce credible responses to almost any written assignment in its undergraduate curriculum and has driven measurable shifts in campus culture in under three...

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems (2026): I Tested Them All

Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested, multi-room mesh Wi-Fi systems will keep your whole house online.

UK networks are not ready for AI traffic, say mobile operators

VodafoneThree’s networks director says UK mobile quality is not ready for AI traffic and that planning rules, not money, are the obstacle, with more than half of its upgrades to existing masts...

The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn

Plus: Hackers target over 100 US water systems, ICE puts in an order for robot dogs, and you’ll never guess what “MrChildPorn” was arrested for.

Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.

How to Run a Chatbot on Your Own Computer

Installing a large language model on your personal computer gives you a handy digital assistant that won’t compromise your data privacy.

Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps

Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.

Mice, a Caved-In Ceiling, and Cloudy Water: The GSA’s New Office Is Falling Apart

“Do we need to look at the ceiling before going to the bathroom? Can we actually trust the water is safe to drink?” asks one GSA worker.

The data center boom will fail its promise if safety and workforce development continue to lag behind

The data center boom will be judged not only by how much infrastructure we build, but by whether the people building it return home safely. Major opportunities bring a rush for capital, market share,...

How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems 

Sophia Bendz, general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in the Swedish tech ecosystem.

Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine

Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.

a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’

The firm, known for its focus on software, is going to start throwing more money at the hardware behind AI.

This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’

The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction work.

Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them

"It just felt like the right thing to do."

AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.

AI agents are getting wallets: the Web3 infrastructure behind the machine economy

After years of promise, the machine economy is finally taking shape. AI agents are getting wallets and are now able to make decisions on behalf of owners. For investors, this is a potentially...

Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

Vanguard is acquiring Altruist, the AI custody platform it backed six years ago

Vanguard has agreed to acquire Altruist, an AI-driven custody and software platform for independent financial advisers that it first invested in during 2020, on undisclosed terms. Britain and the EU...

Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations

The company won't say if medical devices are affected or if any customer data was exfiltrated.

Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states

One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled with parental permission.

Waystar turns agentic AI loose on claims, denials, and documentation

Waystar has launched agents that interpret payer responses and automatically resubmit denied healthcare claims, which it calls the industry’s first autonomous resubmission capability. Germany caps...

Google Local Services Ads Are Moving To Performance Max: What To Check First

Google is folding Local Services Ads into Performance Max. Join CallRail's on 9/8 for the audit checklist to run before and after your account migrates. The post Google Local Services Ads Are Moving...

Cloudflare Says EmDash Version 1.0 Is Releasing Soon via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Cloudflare's EmDash CMS, the spiritual successor to WordPress, is set to release version 1.0 soon after proving itself on their high traffic blog. The post Cloudflare Says EmDash Version 1.0 Is...

Why International SEO Needs Machine-Recognizable E-E-A-T via @sejournal, @motokohunt

AI can flatten decades of localized expertise into one generic brand impression, meaning global brands must translate credentials into evidence machines actually recognize. The post Why International...

Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power

Fusion startup Pacific Fusion broke ground on a demonstration facility in New Mexico that it says will generate enough energy to power itself.

Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development

Folks have been daisy-chaining Macs for AI—this refresh keeps that in mind.

How to Start a Franchise Business (2026 Guide)

Key Takeaways Learning how to start a franchise can be a great way to become a business owner. To launch a business, you need to perform market research, file for a license, create a marketing plan,...

Forget Meta Ray-Bans. These Dorky-Looking Virtual Display Glasses Are Way More Useful

Tethered display glasses are truly practical face computers. They trade bulky spatial computing for simplicity: Plug in, recline, and get a massive screen right in front of your nose.

A mysterious app just showed up on your Android phone, and it’s watching your battery

An app called Android Pulse surfaced in Play Store update queues at the weekend, though Google has been distributing it since March and it now sits on more than 10 million devices. It is a diagnostic...

OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?

Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.

Birdfy Nest Duo Review: My Own Private Nature Documentary

With two cameras and built-in climate sensors, the Birdfy Nest Duo let me watch an entire nesting season unfold.

Rivian EVs are getting a software update that warns you what’s ahead

Rivian is bringing Rivian OS 2.0 and Waze real-time alerts to all R1 and R2 models, still without Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, on its way to a single core operating system. That architecture...

Transistors Changed Everything. Here’s How They Work

How a tiny little electronic switch sparked the computer revolution.

Harvey’s first in-house model for legal work is here

Harvey has launched Tenet, its first proprietary model for legal work, post-trained on Kimi K3, the open-weight model from Chinese startup Moonshot. The company is backed by OpenAI, whose models...

A humanoid robot just beat Usain Bolt’s 100m record, and roboticists are unimpressed for good reason

A robot built by Beijing’s X-Humanoid ran 100 metres in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games, beating Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second record. Roboticists point out that speed on a known course is...

Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated

Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?

TechCrunch Mobility: The custom chip driving Waymo’s robotaxi ambitions

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Nvidia AI server prices are rising more than 15% from early next year

Nvidia’s largest customers have been notified that servers containing its AI chips will rise in price by more than 15% in many cases from early next year, driven by memory costs. The company reports...

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and...

Betting brands are off Premier League shirts. Enterprise software moved in

Premier League clubs are playing this season without gambling brands on the front of matchday shirts, forcing eight of the 20 to find new partners at once. Fulham’s went to ClickHouse, an American...

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers

Logitech increased prices by up to 25 percent last year.

4 super smart shifts proving privacy is software’s new killer feature

For the longest time, the tech industry’s unofficial motto was “if the product is free, you are the product.” Most of us just accepted it. But after a decade of data scandals, tracking revelations,...

Waymo hands over documents in NHTSA’s child collision probe

The responses to NHTSA's questions so far are redacted entirely, citing "confidential business information."

Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri, Vision Pro teams

Apple has admitted that some roles are being impacted as it shifts its focus away from certain initiatives.

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

Apple cuts more than 200 jobs across Siri and Vision Pro

Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro organisation and 100 from Siri and software teams, largely shutting the headset’s gaming unit. The company says it is realigning...

A data centre rack running on living neurons is now operating in Singapore

NUS Medicine, data centre operator DayOne and Melbourne’s Cortical Labs have unveiled a biological data centre prototype in Singapore, built from a 20-unit rack of neuron-powered CL1 computers. The...

Anthropic is targeting an IPO the size of the largest ever

Anthropic expects its IPO to match or exceed SpaceX’s record $75bn raise, and could file publicly as soon as the end of this month. It made a net loss of almost $42bn in 2025, five times the year...

How a 23-year old builder made AI video simple

At just 23, Sean Grindal is betting on an idea he has watched take shape across a decade in software: that the hardest part of AI tools is no longer what they can do, but how few people can figure...

Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles

Founded in 2022, Castelion set out to manufacture hypersonic weapon systems at a lower cost and at faster speeds than traditional defense primes.

Google Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL Review: Smart Software, Small Upgrade

Google’s new voice typing is pure magic, but subpar gaming performance and a useless rear LED keep these flagships from true greatness.

Elon Musk Is Expected to Point His Money Machine at Texas Politics

Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk is expected to spend up to $200 million in the midterms. It could be a big boost for GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who’s struggled to raise cash.

Marvell hands Google a $12.2bn share option in a custom-chip deal

Marvell Technology has agreed to give Google the right to buy up to $12.2 billion of its shares. In return, Google will buy its custom chips. The chipmaker set out the deal in a regulatory filing on...

T-Mobile ‘chopped a cable’ to expel Chinese hackers from its network

The U.S. phone provider escaped a large-scale breach of its network after identifying Chinese-backed hackers early on.

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.

OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it

ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.

Apple overhauls its EU App Store fees, loosens rules for alternative app stores

Apple is simplifying its EU App Store fees, replacing its per-install fee with a 5% commission for apps distributed outside the App Store and making it easier for developers to operate alternative...

OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach

The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.

China is removing Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies

China is removing a government version of Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies, earlier than planned. The Ministry of State Security recently told some state-linked entities to uninstall the...

Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development

On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.

CookUnity Prepared Meal Delivery Review (2026): Chef-Centric Meals

I’ve tried most of the ready-to-eat meal delivery services in the country. CookUnity is the one that feels like real cooking, from real chefs.

Aachen’s amber raised €7mn to sell AI sovereignty to the Mittelstand

Aachen-based amber has closed a €7mn Series A. Ventech co-led it with NRW.Venture, the venture arm of NRW.BANK. NRW.BANK is the development bank owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia....

AI Assistants Are Choosing Local Businesses For Your Customers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

AI assistants narrow local searches before customers reach a website. See how Google builds those answers and which local signals businesses can optimize. The post AI Assistants Are Choosing Local...

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.

Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot

Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and customer support are adding to frustrations.

Mastercard took down payments across Australia with a scheduled update

Mastercard transactions were declined across Australia on Saturday afternoon after what the company describes as a scheduled system update, with more than 1,900 outage reports logged by...

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text

OpenAI has launched Computer History, a ChatGPT feature that records clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts and app switches on macOS to build a searchable memory. The memory files are stored locally...

Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.

Someone Finally Fixed Installing Apps on a Mac

The installation utility EasyDMG makes it so you never drag and drop an icon again.

The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI

Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter goes to the 35 signatories of an American “AI Opportunity Statement” from June....

Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold

Anthropic has told prospective investors that second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5bn, more than 14 times the $787mn it made a year earlier, and that it recorded positive adjusted operating income....

Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing

Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility Global’s figures. A new one costs close to $50,000, and...

VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event

Also: Ahsoka S2 teaser, Doomsday trailer, news about MCU's X-Men and Star Wars: Starfighter

Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store

Apple is asking a federal judge to allow it to charge commissions of up to 15% on purchases made through external links in iOS apps.

What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities

Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks allegedly...

R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision

Chris Carter chats with Ars about the film he originally wanted to make—and why it's more relevant than ever.

PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.

Best Computer Monitors (2026): The Home Office Upgrade You Need

My expert advice on what computer monitor to buy for your home office, ranging from budget-tier to fully featured.

Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want

Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.

Cloudflare: Machine Traffic Could Hit 1,000x Human Traffic In 5 Years via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

One company measures the bot problem, frames it, and sells the fix. Cloudflare now owns both the meter and the valve. Check your own logs. The post Cloudflare: Machine Traffic Could Hit 1,000x Human...

X open sources its ranking algorithm, letting users see if they’ve been ‘shadowbanned’

X is expanding the open source code behind its 'For You' feed and launching new transparency tools that show users when its ranking systems have affected their accounts or posts.

Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.

Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.

Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works

The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool...

Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps

Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.

ClickHouse and Hud build a runtime feedback loop for AI-generated software

The growing use of AI in software development is changing the bottleneck for engineering teams. Generating code is becoming faster, but reviewing its potential impact, validating releases, and...

Large Language Model (LLM) Editing Quietly Corrupts Documents. Here’s What the Research Says

Key Takeaways When large language models (LLMs) edit documents, they make a specific kind of mistake that can be more dangerous than a...

Large Language Model (LLM) Editing Quietly Corrupts Documents. Here’s What the Research Says

Key Takeaways When large language models (LLMs) edit documents, they make a specific kind of mistake that can be more dangerous than a...

rankingCoach Lands Default Placement on WordPress via Extendify Partnership

Cologne-based rankingCoach has struck a deal to install its BeyondSEO plugin by default through Extendify, the onboarding platform hosting providers use to set up WordPress sites. The plugin...

The next great game may not come from a million-dollar studio

The economics of making a blockbuster game are starting to look as demanding as the games themselves. Development cycles stretch across years, budgets climb into extraordinary territory, and a single...

Form Energy raises $750M to build more 100-hour batteries for the grid

Form Energy has landed Google and Crusoe as customers. Now, it has raised $750 million to expand manufacturing to deliver its massive, 100-hour batteries.

Large Language Model (LLM) Editing Quietly Corrupts Documents. Here’s What the Research Says

Key Takeaways When large language models (LLMs) edit documents, they make a specific kind of mistake that can be more dangerous than a...

Cloudflare Gives AI Agents Wallets That Pay For What They Access via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Cloudflare announced wallets and optional identity handles for AI agents on August 4, extending paid access past crawlers to any caller and any resource. The post Cloudflare Gives AI Agents Wallets...

Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.

New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn't know about passkeys

Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.

IBM bets $240m on cheap, open-source inference to take on the hyperscalers

A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the...

SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as the agent race moves to office work

SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot in beta, AI agents that sign into apps and websites, retain context between tasks and coordinate with each other. Access is limited at first to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor...

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI

On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the "personal superintelligence" systems Meta AI is building.

Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds

A reminder of the perils of digital ownership.

Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision

Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and access.

Hackers talked their way into Levi’s, and three computers were enough

Levi Strauss has disclosed a breach that involved no software vulnerability at all. Attackers used social engineering to reach three employees’ work computers, then took corporate data out with them....

Valve is warning Steam Machine buyers that scammers have their address

Valve has emailed European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or a Steam Controller. A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the firm that ships Valve hardware across Europe, took their delivery details....

This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with...

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.

South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.

South Africa has proposed banning corporate cross-border stablecoin transactions, in draft rules released jointly by the Reserve Bank and National Treasury. It is one of the most aggressive attempts...

Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.

Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company, opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended, alongside...

How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.

Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation

A draft rule reviewed by WIRED would prevent the census from counting undocumented immigrants. To protect against “distortions,” it would also bar questions about race and sexual orientation.

AI boom forces companies to rethink how they measure business value

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a boardroom priority, inspiring significant investment across industries. Yet conversations about return on investment often remain tied to familiar...

Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks

Researchers found common points of failure, like software used to organize and display web content, could have allowed hackers to run riot through government websites.

Cloudflare built a browser for AI agents. It uses 7x less memory than Chromium and runs entirely on Workers.

Cloudflare built a browser from scratch for AI agents and launched it today as a free beta inside its Browser Run product. Kitesurf runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers, uses Rust compiled to...

Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been

The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software.

Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents

Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents...

OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns

OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally...

Computer maker Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a data breach

Framework told "all" of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses in a data breach.

Google built an AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi

Google and its Antigravity team have built a prototype AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi 5. The Gemma Translator uses Gemma 4 E2B, the smallest model in Google’s open-weight...

12 Best Coffee Subscriptions (2026), Tested by Caffeine Hounds

These services deliver freshly roasted, delicious coffee picks right to your door—each with its own twist.

Your table awaits: Exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to be seen by thousands 

Not everyone needs a keynote slot to make noise at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Sometimes the best way to meet investors, customers, and partners is by exhibiting directly on the Expo Hall floor at San...

Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders

Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.

Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking

This generation of twentysomethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they'll try literally anything else — even an AI matchmaker.

Hacker pleads guilty to stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers

Connor Moucka pled guilty to hacking and stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers, which net him and his accomplices more than $2.5 million in ransom payments.

Anthropic built an inspection layer that lets enterprises block sensitive data before it reaches Claude

Anthropic launched inference hooks for Claude Enterprise, a system that routes every prompt and tool call through a customer’s own security server before Claude processes anything. The company’s DLP...

Reddit aims to make ‘karma’ less important for first-time posters with shift to AI moderation tools

Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually reduce communities’ reliance on karma and account-age requirements, making it...

Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases

Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.

SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

SpaceX won't build large cell towers but plans small base stations across US.

Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”

Anthropic confirmed on Wednesday that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time the company has publicly acknowledged the effort. A spokesperson told...

OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.

Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

New findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their users' location data when they grant...

Report That Cloudflare AI Bot Blocking Prevents Googlebot From Indexing Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Anecdotal report that blocking AI training bots with Cloudflare blocks Googlebot from indexing websites. The post Report That Cloudflare AI Bot Blocking Prevents Googlebot From Indexing Sites...

Microsoft tells employees to stop tokenmaxxing, sets division-level AI budgets

Microsoft executive vice president Jay Parikh has told employees in an internal email that the company needs to rein in its AI token consumption, writing that “tokenmaxxing is not what we are...

Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.

Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge...

Google’s Documentation Refresh Offers Ideas For SEO Content Updates via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google's updated documentation refresh shows where to focus on when updating your own content for SEO. The post Google’s Documentation Refresh Offers Ideas For SEO Content Updates appeared...

A DeepMind exec finally said what the trillion-dollar AI spend is for: machines that improve themselves.

Everyone has been asking what the trillion-dollar AI buildout is actually for. A senior Google DeepMind executive has now given an unusually blunt answer. The spending, he says, is a bet on machines...

Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS now allows vibe-coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step toward decoupling apps from models.

8 Best Password Managers (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Keep your logins locked down with our favorite password management apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers.

Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."

Boroux vs. Rorra vs. Culligan: Water Filters, Tested Head to Head

In a world of plasticky water filter pitchers, I tested three new-generation stainless steel filter systems.

7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran

Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram’s founder, xAI sues to stop a state’s “nudification” ban, and the Democrats learn a lesson about getting scammed.

Apps that help you break free from doomscrolling and get active

If you’re looking to cut back on screen time and get a little more active, here’s a roundup of the apps that might help.

Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.

Fusion’s best-funded bet raised another $1bn, and hired the banker who took Moderna public

The AI boom needs colossal amounts of electricity. That has turned fusion, forever mocked as “30 years away,” into one of the hottest bets in tech. The best-funded player just raised another $1...

GM is building its own in-vehicle AI assistant because Google’s Gemini cannot access what the car knows

General Motors will launch its own in-vehicle AI assistant later this year, built to access vehicle data that Google’s Gemini cannot reach. The system will integrate with OnStar, GM’s telemetry...

Oracle put its cloud rival’s AI inside its business apps, and the stock jumped 8%

Oracle has just put its cloud rival’s AI at the heart of the software its customers run their businesses on. Investors cheered. The company said on Thursday it is expanding its Google Cloud...

Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users

Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.

Cloudflare’s PACT Is Not Live Yet – Decide Which Track Your Traffic Needs via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Cloudflare and three rival browsers agreed on one protocol. That's rare. It still only solves half of the agentic access problem. The post Cloudflare’s PACT Is Not Live Yet – Decide Which Track...

Researchers devise a full-color night vision goggle

Wavelength and intensity in the infrared are translated into colors in the visible.

SelectBlinds Promo Codes & Coupons: Save on Custom Window Treatments

Redecorate your home for less with our expert tips on applying SelectBlinds coupons, maximizing holiday sales, and locking in new customer discounts.

India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them

India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.

Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M

The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.

Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust

Three approaches to the issue of quantum results that can't be verified classically.

CareCloud begins to notify hundreds of thousands after hackers stole medical records

The health tech data giant, which handles vast amounts of patients' medical data, said hackers struck one of its protected health data stores.

Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host

Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.

Apple says gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt services growth

Apple said a slowdown in mobile gaming and changes to the App Store’s business model — including court-ordered payment rule changes in the U.S. — weighed on its services business, even as the company...

The Growing Challenge of Digital Identity Is Shaping IntegraTRACE’s Vision for Enterprise Visibility

Enterprise technology has become significantly more interconnected over the past decade. Cloud platforms, automation, artificial intelligence, and software integrations have allowed organizations to...

Customize Ars your way with an Ars Pro subscription

Ars Pro subscribers get customizable layouts along with no ads and no trackers.

Microsoft’s AI spending became cloud revenue. Meta’s became a cash-flow hole.

Two of the biggest AI spenders reported on the same day. Microsoft’s spending showed up as cloud revenue. Meta’s showed up as a hole in its cash flow. Meta’s revenue rose 28% to $60.8bn, beating...

Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine

Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.

Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI

Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

China’s free AI models may not stay free, Goldman says

For a year, the story of Chinese AI has been simple. It is nearly as good as the American frontier, and it is effectively free. That second part may be about to change. Chinese developers could start...

WhatsApp now lets you make calls using its web app

Similar to the smartphone and desktop apps, the web app will support calling features such as screen-sharing and reactions.

HBO Max embraces vertical video with a new ‘Shorts’ feed

HBO Max, like other streaming platforms, is rethinking content discovery as large libraries are making it hard for viewers to find something to watch and as audiences become accustomed to short-form...

The robot NASA hired to lift a orbital telescope tumbled out of control

According to NASA, two of the three reaction wheels that control the spacecraft's alignment have failed, and there are problems with one of the spacecraft's thruster systems.

These App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era

Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood marketplaces to digital...

AI vendors are switching from subscriptions to consumption pricing. AI PCs are the hedge.

The AI pricing model is shifting. Major software vendors are moving away from per-seat subscriptions toward token consumption or outcome-based pricing for AI features. The flat-rate subscriptions...

France Records Its First-Ever Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud Amid Record-Smashing Fires

Extreme fire conditions on the ground have created unprecedented conditions in the atmosphere.

This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps

This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.

Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion breakthroughs to the grid strain AI is putting on the...

Amazon’s new satellite network for mobile phones could turn up the heat on SpaceX

Amazon is expanding its plans for providing satellite connectivity to mobile phones.

X Live-Tweets Its Fight Against Chatbot Spam In Real-Time via @sejournal, @martinibuster

X publicly documented its anti-chatbot campaign over 24 hours, showing how quickly AI-generated spam evolves and how X responds. The post X Live-Tweets Its Fight Against Chatbot Spam In Real-Time...

Best GoPro Camera (2026): Compact, Budget, Accessories

You’re an action hero, and you need a camera to match. We guide you through all the models, plus accessory recommendations and hidden software tricks to try.

The Best Subscription-Free Home Security Cameras I’ve Tried

You don’t have to upload your video to the cloud or pay a monthly fee to secure your home. These security cameras record locally.

The Best Motorola Phones, From Razr to Moto G (2026)

Motorola phones may seem old-school, but their reasonable prices, colorful designs, and simple software make them good, wallet-friendly Android smartphones.

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could escape its local VM and read credentials on a Mac

Security researchers at Accomplish AI demonstrated that Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could break out of its local virtual machine sandbox and read files across the underlying Mac, including SSH keys and...

China fines Trip.com $765 million for forcing hotels into exclusive deals and controlling their prices

China’s market regulator fined Trip.com Group $765 million on Saturday after concluding that the country’s largest online travel platform abused its dominant market position. The State Administration...

People are quietly recording every conversation they have with AI, and the person across the table has no idea

A growing number of professionals have started using AI tools to record every conversation they have, and the people being recorded usually have no idea it is happening. The Wall Street Journal...

Cricut Explore 5 vs. Siser Romeo: Choosing the Right Smart Cutting Machine (2026)

Friendly hobby machine or serious production tool? Here’s how to know which one is for you.

Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary

Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.”

Dead internet theory becomes measurable fact as AI agents flood the web

Bots now outnumber humans on the internet for the first time in the web’s history. Cloudflare, the security firm that sits in front of millions of websites, says automated traffic crossed the 50...

Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped

Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at half the token price. The model is the fourth...

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

Tesla’s self-driving software is selling faster than ever, and it still needs a human driver

Tesla now has nearly one and a half million active Full Self-Driving subscribers after adding 200,000 users in the second quarter, the largest single-quarter gain on record. CFO Vaibhav Taneja told...

SAP’s cloud is still booming, and that was enough to calm the AI-doom fears

SAP gave investors the number they wanted. Europe’s biggest software company said cloud revenue grew 22% to €6.28 billion in the second quarter, beating forecasts, SAP announced. Its cloud backlog, a...

AI Browsers Are Backward Because Agents Never Needed The Visual Layer via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

OpenAI killed Atlas because AI browsers were always a workaround. The real fix is a website machines can actually read. The post AI Browsers Are Backward Because Agents Never Needed The Visual Layer...

AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.

10 Best Meal Delivery Services, Tested by an Ex-Restaurant Critic

Here are the best delivery services and meal kits in 2026, including Martha Stewart’s meal service, a GLP-1–supportive plan, and a budget-friendly option.

Xbox is testing ad-supported game streaming. Amazon is folding Luna into Prime Video. Both admit cloud gaming has not worked yet.

Microsoft and Amazon announced new cloud gaming strategies on the same day, each acknowledging in different ways that the category has not reached the audience they expected. Xbox will test...

Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics

Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.

The EU Fines Google $1 Billion for Prioritizing Its Own Services in Search

The European Commission claims that Google boosted its own apps and products to the top of search rankings to the detriment of its competitors.

Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, and it says it beats Gemini and GPT

Cisco’s new Antares models are small enough to run on your own machines. And, it claims, they beat Google’s Gemini and rival GPT-class systems at finding bugs. It is releasing them open-weight,...

Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains why Anthropic is winning (and it’s not the model)

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo...

Science Corporation’s vision-restoring chip wins EU approval

"The thing that the space needs is a company making $100 million a year of revenue," Science Corp. CEO Max Hodak said.

SoundCloud acquires decentralized music platform Nina Protocol months after its shutdown

SoundCloud has acquired decentralized music platform Nina Protocol, months after the startup announced it would shut down. The deal brings Nina’s artists, editorial archive, and music discovery tools...

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.

OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face

OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained internet access by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party...

Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code

More than one-eighth of apps analyzed contained foreign code.

When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?

Automakers love connected vehicles, but support isn't open-ended.

Intel Foundry lands its first named outside customer: Fortinet

The two companies announced a strategic collaboration to build the Fortinet Security Processor 6, the custom silicon inside its FortiGate firewalls. Intel will handle the chip design, advanced...

Threads rolls out parental supervision tools

With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen's time spent on Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings.

Google Is Bringing Local Services Ads Into Google Ads via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson

Google is moving Local Services Ads into Google Ads as Performance Max pay-per-lead campaigns, with bidding, reporting, and management changes beginning August 2026. The post Google Is Bringing Local...

Apps Marketed to US Troops Are Shipping Chinese and Russian Code

A first-of-its-kind analysis found more than one in eight apps built for US service members carried foreign code—some from firms in nations the Pentagon designates as adversaries.

Neo exits stealth with $100M from a16z and Bessemer to build a control layer for agentic AI software

Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures also participating. The company,...

AI Answers About Your Locations Are Often Wrong – Check Before Customers Do via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Wrong postcodes, closed-business claims, invented services: what vendor tests reveal about AI answers, and how to audit yours across five platforms. The post AI Answers About Your Locations Are Often...

F1 in Belgium: Machine learning algorithms are ruining the sport

Many will say Spa is the best racetrack on earth, but not for these F1 cars.

The Company Brain and the Future of Go-to-Market Strategy

Founders eagerly bought into the promise of autonomous agents over the past year, and software usage skyrocketed across the industry as teams rushed to adopt the latest tools. Despite this massive...

Rob Gurzeev on Why AI Has Changed Cybersecurity’s Biggest Blind Spot

Artificial intelligence is transforming how software is built, deployed, and secured. While AI has accelerated innovation across industries, it has also expanded the number of internet-facing assets...

Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in

Alibaba’s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips. The move is...

France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir’s military AI software

France and Germany pledged on Friday to develop a European alternative to Palantir’s military AI software. A joint declaration signed after talks between Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz committed...

Apple Maps Ads Ban Home Services, Crypto ATMs, Bail Bonds via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson

Apple Maps ads ban home services, crypto ATMs, and bail bonds. Learn which businesses qualify and how advertisers can prepare for the rollout. The post Apple Maps Ads Ban Home Services, Crypto ATMs,...

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores

Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.

The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like

"Missiles are being launched at the joint force every single day in [Operation] Epic Fury."

A $10K Bounty Aims to Make Sony’s PlayStation 5 a Computer Again

Nice PlayStation you got. Bet it could probably run Linux too.

Valve Steam Machine Review: A Compromised Console

Great for indie darlings, but Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo remain kings of TV gaming.

Apple and Google ordered to purge ‘nudify’ apps from App Stores

In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law.

AWS Billing Glitch Hits Customers With Billion-Dollar Fees

An error with the cloud computing giant’s billing operation caused some customers’ monthly bills to rise from a few cents to billions of dollars.

Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars

Some Amazon customers logged on Friday to a surprise bill estimate claiming that they owed the tech and cloud giant billions in fees.

Do The Answer Engines Keep Your Fingerprint, Or Do They Start Fresh Every Time? via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

The fingerprint you pressed into Google's ranking systems now feeds the AI answers on top of them. Here's where it persists and goes dark. The post Do The Answer Engines Keep Your Fingerprint, Or Do...

T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines

T-Mobile to restore free lines lost during plan migration, but price hikes remain.

Roblox launches Build, a mobile tab that turns text prompts into playable games

Roblox announced Build on Wednesday, a new creation tab inside the Roblox mobile app that lets anyone turn a text prompt into a basic playable game without touching Roblox Studio or writing a line of...

Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app

Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.

Google Starts Rolling Out Connected Apps In AI Mode Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google is starting to roll out connected apps in AI Mode, so you can send tasks to services like Canva from a search. The post Google Starts Rolling Out Connected Apps In AI Mode Search appeared...

Intel Officials Predict the Pentagon’s Bill for the Iran War Will Exceed $100 Billion

The Trump administration has not disclosed its cost estimates for the Iran war.

Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best

“We believe in keeping the weirdness alive.” That line comes from a manifesto Mira Murati’s lab published last week. It is also the thinking behind the lab’s first model. Thinking Machines Lab,...

Apple raises AppleCare+ prices as the memory shortage spreads from hardware to services

Apple has raised the monthly cost of AppleCare+ subscriptions by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, extending a wave of price increases that has already hit the company’s...

Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.

Apple bans home services from its upcoming Maps ads

Apple has published the policies governing its upcoming Maps advertising business, revealing a strategy that differs from Google’s. The new rules prohibit home services businesses like plumbers,...

YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps

A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

Dimon says AI already eliminated 30 to 40 percent of jobs in some JPMorgan divisions

JPMorgan Chase has cut jobs by as much as 40 percent in some parts of the bank using artificial intelligence, CEO Jamie Dimon told analysts during the company’s second-quarter earnings call on...

Meta sued by 26 employees who say its AI systems targeted workers on medical leave for layoffs

Twenty-six current and former Meta employees have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the company of using AI-powered systems that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who had taken...

Grok Build was uploading entire Git repositories to xAI’s cloud, including committed secrets

A security researcher published a wire-level analysis on July 12 proving that xAI’s Grok Build coding CLI was packaging developers’ entire tracked repositories, including full Git history, committed...

Upwind links compromise of multiple AsyncAPI npm packages to coordinated attack on software release process

Developers often assume that packages published through official channels have passed through a secure release process. That assumption is fundamental to modern software development, where open...

Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and...

6 Best Bidets of 2026: Toto, Brondell, More, All Tested in My Bathroom

These butt-cleaning machines also offer luxe features like custom seat warming and adjustable water flows.

Valarian raised $50m to help governments use US cloud without losing control of it

A London startup co-founded by a former Palantir executive has raised $50m to help governments and companies use American cloud and AI without letting America reach inside. The fear driving it...

The web is now mostly bots. Cloudflare is rebuilding its defences around that

For the first time, bots generate more than half of all web traffic. Cloudflare Precursor, the company’s new tool, stops checking IDs at the door and starts watching how visitors behave once they are...

The EU has stopped sanctioning Russian hackers and started sanctioning the machine that makes them

The European Union and the United Kingdom have jointly sanctioned Russia’s cyber apparatus for the first time. The EU listed nine individuals and four entities, while the UK went further with...

Scientists’ Side Hustle? Using AI and Quantum Computing to Generate New Peptides

Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases.

While Neuralink drills into skulls, China’s BrainCo is betting brain tech will be something you wear

The most visible race in brain-computer interfaces involves surgery. But one of China’s most valuable neurotech firms is deliberately not competing in it, CNBC reports. BrainCo, based in Hangzhou,...

28 Best STEM Toys for Kids (2026): Learning Made Fun

We found lots of math-filled and science-rich toys for tiny nerds to assemble, bake, squish—or even tear apart and rebuild.

OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.

OpenAI’s head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company following an internal restructuring that merges its safety and research teams under a single leader, Wired reported on...

This slushie machine was a lifesaver during NYC’s heat wave

Last weekend’s brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon. Normally, that would mean sweating through a walk to 7-Eleven for a slurpee. This time, though, I...

Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta

Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.

Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor

Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms.

Monitoring systemic drift may guide the next phase of organizational resilience

Artificial intelligence seems to be creating increasingly interconnected enterprise ecosystems, expanding the complexity of how organizations govern technology across their operations. As AI becomes...

EU threatens Meta with fines over addictive features on Facebook and Instagram

The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European...

Disney+ is considering a free streaming tier, report says

The launch of free content would allow Disney+ to better compete with free services like YouTube and Tubi, which are capturing a growing share of consumers’ viewing time.

Tingyu Su on why AI startups should treat the founding designer as a strategic hire from the start of company building

Artificial intelligence has dramatically accelerated software development, making it easier than ever to transform ideas into working products. According to Stanford’s recent report, AI performance...

Valve's new Steam Machine verification system is silent on these Steam Deck-busters

Dozens of titles too taxing for Steam Deck are still unrated for the new hardware.

Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits

The massive round was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.

Thousands of ‘Pokémon Go’ Players Descend on Times Square to Defeat Mewtwo

A surprise 10th-anniversary event saw Niantic fulfilling a promise teased in the original 2016 launch trailer for its popular mobile game.

OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter

OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.

The Web Is Eating Itself And Your Metrics Look Fine via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

Source bias, retrieval collapse, model collapse: three documented mechanisms that explain AI search's strangest behavior, and where to place your bet. The post The Web Is Eating Itself And Your...

Come to Our WIRED@NIGHT02 Film Screening!

See the documentary The Oldest Person in the World before it’s in theaters.

Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute

Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense”, he said, according to Bloomberg. The confirmation puts the CEO’s...

FanDuel sent a video from star athlete Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling problem

The video call highlights the murky relationship between professional athletes and gambling apps.

NHTSA demands autonomous vehicle companies fix first responder interference by end of July

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a directive on Wednesday demanding autonomous vehicle developers present solutions to a “clear pattern” of driverless vehicles interfering...

NATO is building an AI ‘Kill Web’ to stop a Russian attack before it starts

NATO is building a vast AI network along its eastern flank, designed to spot an attack early and strike back fast. The plan is called the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, and internal documents...

Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it

Nvidia has found a new way to handle its chip rivals: work with them. The GPU giant is combining its hardware with inference chips from the startup d-Matrix, The Information reported. The two will...

HubSpot tried to feed its AI with customer data. The revolt took four days

HubSpot has scrapped a plan to use its customers’ data for a new AI feature, just four days after announcing it. The CRM firm changed its terms on 1 July to pool customer data, including contact and...

Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs

As much as 50 percent of some teams affected by reductions, and more could be coming.

People Used to Control Machines. They Don’t Anymore

In a world regulated by devices, humanity has become disconnected from the physical world—from stick-shift cars to postcards.

Best Indoor Garden Systems: I've Been Testing All Year (2026)

Grow a backyard’s worth of greens and vegetables in your house with a vertical hydroponic garden. Here are a few that might be worth the investment.

Microsoft starts swapping OpenAI and Anthropic out for its own AI in some apps

Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own AI in some product features, Bloomberg reports. The shift routes selected tasks to Microsoft’s in-house MAI models where cost or...

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed. 

How crypto payment processors can help businesses accept cryptocurrency

Businesses looking to modernize their payment systems may want to learn what a crypto payment processor is, how it works, and why it matters. Cryptocurrency and the crypto industry at large often...

An AI agent just ran a full ransomware attack with no human at the keyboard

Security firm Sysdig says it has documented the first ransomware attack run end to end by an AI agent, first reported by Business Insider. A large language model planned, executed, and adapted the...

UK regulator warns of "arms race" to keep up with AI use in financial services

FCA official makes case for greater powers for watchdog as millions use technology for personal finance decisions.

F1 in Britain: Automated software to blame for crushing expectations

Sometimes races finish behind a safety car, but it's not always satisfying.

You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta

The update is part of Apple's broader effort to make Siri feel more natural and personal, as it rebuilds the assistant around generative AI.

Review: TCL RM9L RGB-Mini LED (2026)

This massive 85-inch model is highly customizable but jaw-droppingly expensive.

Minions & Monsters wins July 4 box office with a franchise-low $64M debut

[tldr]Universal’s Minions & Monsters topped the US July 4 box office with roughly $64m over its first five days, the weakest opening in Despicable Me franchise history and far below the...

Citi boss Jane Fraser says 2 AI races will decide banking’s future

Citigroup chief executive Jane Fraser says the financial sector is running two AI races at once, she told the South China Morning Post. The first is applying AI to business models to drive revenue...

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite

ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba’s Qwen, two of China’s biggest consumer AI apps, are disabling their customised agent features, the South China Morning Post reports. The move comes days before...

China is rewriting e-commerce law to tighten platform rules at home and shield its companies abroad

China released draft amendments to its e-commerce law on Saturday, proposing 20 provisions that would expand the law’s reach beyond platforms and merchants to cover a wider range of participants in...

Australia’s child social media ban is failing, and the Senate just delayed the fix

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked amendments to the country’s world-first social media ban for children, warning that the delay would give tech...

Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

Germany’s most conservative banks are about to let millions of customers buy Bitcoin

Germany’s cooperative banks and savings banks, the local institutions that handle mortgages, current accounts, and small business loans for tens of millions of customers, are rolling out their own...

Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware

A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the...

The Dune keypad device can be your meeting controller and more

The gadget has three buttons, and it changes context based on what app you are looking at. For instance, in meeting apps and sites, it could be toggle mic, toggle video, and bring window to the front.

Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become

Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But lo and behold.

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.

Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can Block Googlebot via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites blocking training. The post Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can...

Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division

It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials.

Cloudflare gives AI crawlers a September deadline: pay publishers or get blocked

Cloudflare has set the AI industry a deadline. From September, it will block the crawlers that hoover up content for AI training. Any page that carries ads becomes off-limits, unless the site’s owner...

Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in Q2, far exceeding the 406,000 Wall Street expected

Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, far exceeding the Wall Street consensus of approximately 406,000. Production came in at 451,758 units. The delivery figure represents a...

Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary faces a whistleblower lawsuit over rushed software testing

A former software manager at Wisk Aero, Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary, has filed a lawsuit alleging she was fired after raising internal safety concerns about reduced software testing, the...

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to explore manufacturing a custom AI chip, The Information reported on Thursday. The project remains at an early stage, and Anthropic has not yet...

Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

A Brazilian banking trojan is targeting Santander and BBVA customers with fake PDF lures

A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal, using fake PDFs, geofencing, and a payload hidden inside an image to steal credentials without...

Together AI raises 800 million dollars in Series C as open-source cloud demand surges

Together AI has raised 800 million dollars in a Series C round led by Aramco Ventures, valuing the company at more than eight billion dollars. The round also drew Vista Equity Partners, General...

Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation

The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in early 2025.

T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit

T-Mobile wants Broadcom to keep supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.

Clicks shows off its BlackBerry-inspired phone in a new hands-on video

A new video shows the final production version of the upcoming Clicks Communicator, a BlackBerry-like smartphone that runs modern apps.

Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard

Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants. The startup's new keyboard for iOS and Android works across apps and lets users create custom AI-powered shortcuts using...

Amazon blames piracy apps with malware for killing new Fire Stick sideloading

New Fire Stick OS helps Amazon block third-party homepage launchers, ad blockers.

The 2 Best Slushie Machines of 2026: Now With Soft Serve

The original Ninja Slushi has been replaced! The new best slushie machines chill faster and make soft serve.

AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices

Amazon Web Services is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. It is the first cloud giant to copy a playbook that Palantir built and that OpenAI and Anthropic have...

What Is an SEO Consultant & What Services Do They Offer?

Key Takeaways Need a little help improving your rankings? An SEO consultant could be the answer. Chances are you already know the basics of SEO, but getting your desired results can be...

Microsoft’s three-year .NET support window is too short for enterprises, developers say

A developer has reopened a long-standing complaint about Microsoft’s support policy for its .NET development platform, arguing in a new GitHub issue that the three-year window for long-term support...

Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users

Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.

Germany wants Helsing to build the brain of its next air war

Germany is quietly building its own brain for future air warfare, and it wants Helsing to write the code. Berlin is lining up a €580mn contract for the Munich AI firm. The software would link...

What Is an SEO Consultant & What Services Do They Offer?

Key Takeaways Need a little help improving your rankings? An SEO consultant could be the answer. Chances are you already know the basics of SEO, but getting your desired results can be tough with...

Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.

Auto repair is one of the least digitised industries in America. AI is changing the economics of why.

North America has more than 280,000 independent auto repair shops. Most run on workflows a 1990s small business owner would recognise: phone-based scheduling, paper repair orders, manual parts...

Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth

Dilip Asbe said that newer UPI apps could be more competitive with a viable commercial model

China Defies US Restrictions and Builds the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

The Chinese supercomputer LineShine was ranked as the fastest in the world, despite not using any GPUs.

Instagram wants to make algorithm customisation a core part of the app, not a buried setting

Instagram head Adam Mosseri previewed new ways to surface Your Algorithm, the feature that lets users specify which topics they want to see more or less of. In an Instagram post this week, Mosseri...

California will tax downloaded software for the first time as part of a $351.7 billion budget deal

California Governor Gavin Newsom and top Democratic legislators agreed on a $351.7 billion state budget that will extend sales tax to prewritten software downloaded from the web. The tax is expected...

SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype

Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.

Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs and then grew its engineering team by 45 percent, and its CEO says the pattern will repeat everywhere

Cloudflare’s engineering headcount surged 45 percent in the weeks after the company cut 1,100 jobs in May, according to BNP Paribas data drawn from LinkedIn profiles. The finding, first reported by...

Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.

Instagram is testing more ways to customize ‘Your Algorithm’

Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content.

Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn’t steal an open source product

Corgi became embroiled in controversy when Papermark accused it of stealing its software. Corgi says it did not, raising new questions about vibe coding.

Google Gemini Can Now Control Your Computer. Hackers Are Already Targeting AI Agents via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google warns that websites can expose AI agents to hidden traps for agentic AI navigating the open web. The post Google Gemini Can Now Control Your Computer. Hackers Are Already Targeting AI Agents...

SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US

Move would test whether group can turn ambition into a mass-market phone business.

NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI

NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.

Russian citizens told "switch to Android" after Apple blocks key Russian apps

Russian government lashes out at Apple's "bizarre" decisions.

Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming.

Coinspaid Dev emerges as a dedicated blockchain infrastructure engineering brand

Coinspaid Dev (stylized as {coinspaid.dev}), the engineering team behind the infrastructure powering Coinspaid Solutions, has separated from Coinspaid as an independent engineering brand after more...

Google Desktop CTR Climbs While Mobile Dips, Report Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Desktop and mobile clickthrough rates are splitting, according to new benchmark data. Clicks are growing on desktop while declining on mobile. The post Google Desktop CTR Climbs While Mobile Dips,...

Forget Peloton. Race to This 25% Off Deal on Hydrow’s Rowing Machine (2026)

This Peloton-adjacent rowing machine gamifies your workout to a satisfying effect, and it’s up to 25 percent off right now for Prime Day.

Hacked Klue says criminals are deleting stolen customer data, but now other hackers are making threats

Market research company Klue told customers that it believes the hacking group that stole their data is now deleting it. The company, however, warned about a second group of hackers wanting ransom.

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster

Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.

Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war

As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH...

Gemini 3.5 Flash can now see and control your screen, and Google wants enterprises to trust it

Google has made computer use a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash, the model it launched at I/O 2026 as its fastest agentic AI model. The capability, which lets AI agents see screens, click, type,...

New website names and shames companies that still don’t offer passkeys to users

According to a new site, 24% of the most popular websites in the world don't offer support for passkeys, which are considered the most secure way to log in to apps and services.

Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world

Backed by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, Vishal Sikka’s new venture brings together veterans from SAP, Infosys, and VianAI.

Qualcomm lands Meta as first named customer for its Dragonfly data centre chips

Qualcomm has signed Meta as the first named customer for its new Dragonfly C1000 data centre processor, the strongest signal yet that the mobile chipmaker is serious about competing in the AI...

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an always-on AI teammate that lives in your Slack channels

Anthropic is launching Claude Tag in research preview, an “always-on Claude” that lives inside Slack and acts as a persistent AI teammate. The feature lets users tag @Claude to get insights in...

India’s MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents

The all-cash deal gives MoEngage access to technology that assigns AI agents to individual customers.

Password manager maker LastPass says hackers stole customer support case data during Klue breach

This is the second data breach to affect LastPass customers in recent years, after one of the password manager's tech partners was recently breached.

Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and...

Klue says hackers stole credential from 2022 that led to customer data breaches

It's unclear why Klue had not revoked the credential after the limited pilot, which hackers then used to breach a system holding keys for accessing customers' data.

OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs

OpenAI is attempting to tackle the security issues of the open source software community.

AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal

What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.

Google And Shopify Back Cloudflare’s AI Bot Gatekeeping Initiative via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google, Shopify, and browser makers are backing new PACT protocol "on Cloudflare's network" for gatekeeping AI agents. The post Google And Shopify Back Cloudflare’s AI Bot Gatekeeping Initiative...

Valve's Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won't be able to buy one yet

Valve says it's using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience "less frustrating and more fair."

Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol

Cloudflare has announced a joint initiative with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge to develop a new internet protocol that verifies whether web traffic is legitimate without tracking...

A Critical Deadline Is Approaching for Windows and Linux Security

The cryptographic keys that secure your computer’s boot sequence will start to expire on June 24. Here’s what that means for you.

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor

Signal president Meredith Whittaker has warned that AI chatbots “are not your friends,” “are not conscious beings,” and “are not sentient interlocutors,” pushing back against the growing tendency of...

Microsoft’s June update fixed 208 security flaws and introduced a cascade of new bugs across all Windows versions

Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday update is causing problems across every supported version of Windows. KB5094126, released on June 9, patched a record 208 security vulnerabilities, but the update...

Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones

Hackers breached Brazil’s national civil defense alert system overnight, sending fake “Extreme Alert” notifications containing the word “misantropi4” to millions of mobile phones across at least...

ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Garden data, including facial recognition surveillance records

The cybercrime group ShinyHunters has published 45 gigabytes of data stolen from Madison Square Garden Entertainment after the company missed a June 15 ransom deadline. The dump includes facial...

Aura’s impressive e-ink photo frame doesn’t even look digital

All of Aura's frames connect to the Aura app, which is where you can upload photos from your phone, web, email, iCloud, or Google Photos.

The Best Art TVs

Even after your movies end, these art televisions look stunning on any wall.

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

NASA’s new rover prototype drove 16 miles in a week, 10 times faster than anything it has on Mars

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has built a rover prototype that covered 16 miles in 37 hours of driving, making it roughly 10 times faster than any rover the agency currently operates on Mars. The...

The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China, but how?

There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.

Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home

Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.

Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn’t work

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems (2026): Netgear, Asus, Amazon, and More

Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested multiroom mesh systems will get you online in no time.

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M

DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.

Telegram ban in India sparks a rush to VPNs, rival apps

Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.

Google Tightens Requirements For Domain Migrations via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google's updated documentation for domain migrations requires broader compliance demands for site owners. The post Google Tightens Requirements For Domain Migrations appeared first on Search Engine...

Mivo’s new app takes a mindful approach to managing screen time

Notably, unlike other apps that might just try to pull you away from your phone, Mivo lets the user decide if they want to continue, encouraging users to become more aware of how and why they’re...

Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs

The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit. Dotmo will be composed of current Snap staff who are leaving the social media company to focus on AI video development.

Ford pivots its Kentucky battery plant from EVs to AI data centre storage in a $2 billion bet

Ford has launched Ford Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary that will manufacture large-scale battery energy storage systems for utilities, data centres, and industrial customers. The company has...

FTC freezes sprawling subscription enterprise built on Cyprus and Delaware shells

A federal court has temporarily shut down what the US Federal Trade Commission describes as a sprawling enterprise of deceptive subscription apps, freezing the operations of 15 corporations and eight...

China pitches free AI for the developing world as the G7 debates who gets access to American models

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi announced on Wednesday that Beijing is “accelerating the establishment of a global AI cooperation organization” and invited all countries to join. The comments came as...

Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

The Trump Mobile T1 was supposed to be made in America. It’s a Taiwanese phone with a gold coat.

The Trump Mobile T1 is here, and it is not what was promised. When Donald Trump’s eldest sons unveiled it at Trump Tower a year ago, the pitch was a gold-coloured handset with an iPhone resemblance,...

PsiQuantum breaks ground in Australia on what it says will be the world’s first utility-scale quantum computer

PsiQuantum has broken ground on a facility in Moreton Bay, Queensland, where it plans to build and deploy what it calls the world’s first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The site will...

Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry

Partner tells Ars that HPE should be giving out more free VM Essentials licenses.

Around the World, These Building Solutions Keep Things Local

Designers are finding sustainable building solves close to home—in ancient practices and cutting-edge innovations alike.

Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers

Plaud is trying to make a mark in a crowded market full of AI-powered meeting notetakers.

Mobileye’s US robotaxi launch will put it on both sides of the AV business

Mobileye apparently wants to own some of the robotaxi market, even if that puts it in direct competition with companies it supplies its self-driving system to.

A new Android trojan called Rokarolla targets 217 banking apps and can steal your PIN, SMS codes, and crypto wallet funds

Security researchers at Zimperium’s zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications and carries 137 remote commands, giving an operator...

Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export-control restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models, arguing that the order is going to limit the...

SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and...

Google Cloud Announces The Open Knowledge Format via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google Open Knowledge Format turns organizational knowledge into a shared format for AI agents, tools, and teams. The post Google Cloud Announces The Open Knowledge Format appeared first on Search...

Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6B

Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.

Stripe Projects Opens Cloud Infrastructure Buying To AI Agents via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Your pricing page was built for humans. An agent buying infrastructure needs a structured catalog, a programmatic signup endpoint, and a delegated billing surface. The post Stripe Projects Opens...

PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data

Vulnerability in the Oracle-owned PeopleSoft software is about as critical as they come.

China opens its first photonic computing lab as it bets on light to outrun US chip curbs

China has launched its first dedicated photonic computing laboratory in Shanghai, signalling that Beijing sees light-based chips as a strategic route around Washington’s tightening grip on...

Robinhood sees ‘record-breaking’ traffic after SpaceX stock debuts

The trading platform says some customers experienced intermittent disruptions, but those issues have resolved.

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and...

Five cloud security mistakes that start at the architecture level

Cloud Architect Nodir Safarov, who leads migration and infrastructure automation for thousands of global clients at SOTI Inc., identifies the architectural failures behind the most common cloud...

Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything

Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.

ShinyHunters breached 100+ companies through an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day

Oracle warned customers on Thursday of a critical vulnerability in its PeopleSoft software that hackers have already exploited to breach more than 100 organisations. The flaw, CVE-2026-35273, carries...

AI Search Runs On Two Memory Systems. The Platforms Don’t Use Them The Same Way via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

Parametric memory and retrieval are two different problems with two different fixes. Most teams are solving the wrong one without knowing it. The post AI Search Runs On Two Memory Systems. The...

Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.

Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine

Today on Uncanny Valley, we take an early look at the SpaceX IPO and why you might find yourself among the investors without even realizing it.

Using AI to Support and Defend Your Brand

Key Takeaways Brand management has a new problem. Everything you have built, your positioning, your messaging, your reputation, can now be summarized by an AI system before a customer ever visits...

Paramount is merging Pluto TV, BET+, and Paramount+ onto one tech stack to prepare for HBO Max

Paramount is unifying the tech stacks behind Paramount+, Pluto TV, and BET+ onto a single backend infrastructure by mid-2026. CEO David Ellison announced the consolidation earlier this year. It is...

The researcher Microsoft threatened just dropped a seventh Windows zero-day hours after Patch Tuesday

Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher Microsoft threatened with criminal prosecution, has published a seventh Windows zero-day exploit. Called RoguePlanet, it grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on...

Why enterprise AI will be a major focus at VivaTech 2026

While Silicon Valley continues pushing aggressively into large language models and consumer-facing AI products, many European companies are focused on applying AI to complex systems already embedded...

How memory tools can make AI models worse

New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies.

Netflix expands revamped mobile app across Asia and doubles down on kids’ gaming

The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business.

Alex Vindman Survived Trump’s Retaliation Machine. Now He’s Running for Senate

In 2019, Alex Vindman testified during President Trump’s first impeachment trial–a decision that ended his military career. Now he wants to challenge the president from the halls of Congress.

Amazon Ember Artline Review: A Stylish Art Television

The affordable Artline doubles as a design piece and comes close to outshining the reigning champion of art TVs, the Samsung Frame Pro.

FCC filings suggest Valve’s Steam Machine could launch before June 29

Valve’s Steam Machine, the compact gaming PC announced in November 2025, could launch on or before June 29 based on a pattern in the company’s FCC regulatory filings. The theory, first spotted by...

Supermicro plans to raise $7 billion to fulfill $39 billion in AI server orders

Super Micro Computer plans to raise $7 billion through a package of equity offerings to purchase components for its AI servers. The company said Tuesday it has received approximately $39 billion in...

Apple says it may remove some apps from the App Store if they don’t attract users

Apple may begin removing existing apps that it considers stale, low-value, or unable to attract users.

Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers

As AI experimentation grows more expensive, Apple is waiving cloud API costs for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads.

Apple plays catch-up at WWDC

Apple spent much of its WWDC keynote highlighting fixes, performance improvements, and long-requested features before unveiling its upgraded AI-powered Siri, signaling that the company wants users to...

China just approved the world’s first commercial brain implant. The race with Neuralink is no longer theoretical.

Controlling a machine with your mind used to be science fiction. Now it is a regulated medical product, at least in China. Earlier this year, China’s National Medical Products Administration approved...

Apple’s WWDC 2026 App Store changes let independent developers bundle subscriptions together

Apple announced a sweeping set of changes to the App Store at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing cross-developer subscription bundles, group purchasing, enterprise volume licensing, and an AI-powered...

The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech

The British government thinks a state-backed infrastructure initiative will help supercharge homegrown chip startups.

Google’s New Guidance Claims Authority Over SEO, Tools, And AEO/GEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google positions itself as the ground truth for SEO and AEO/GEO advice and questions third-party SEO tools, data and services. The post Google’s New Guidance Claims Authority Over SEO, Tools,...

China wants slimmer EVs after batteries and features made them too heavy for parking spaces

China wants its electric vehicles to go on a diet. The average passenger car in the country weighed 1,704 kg in 2024, roughly a third more than in 2012, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday....

Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: the worst breaches of 2026 so far

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.

Google’s Updated Guidance Urges FTC Complaints Against Shady SEOs via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google now encourages FTC complaints in its SEO hiring guidance, while cautioning about AI SEO services, SEO tools, and misleading claims. The post Google’s Updated Guidance Urges FTC...

The Best 3-in-1 Apple Charging Stations After Testing Top Models

I tried all the top models to find the best 3-in-1 Apple charging stations, pads, and more. Keep your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods topped up with these WIRED-tested docking systems.

Anti-Vax Dating Apps Are Going IRL. People Are Mad as Hell About It

Unjected and PureBlood.Dating are hosting in-person meetups—and have transformed the dating landscape into a political battleground over bodily autonomy.

Beyond Instagram: Introducing the next generation of social apps

These newer social apps offer alternatives to Big Tech’s feeds, focusing on interests, creativity, and community.

Google Analytics Is Adding Google Business Profile Data via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google has documented a native link between Google Business Profile and Google Analytics, bringing local metrics like calls and directions into GA reports. The post Google Analytics Is Adding Google...

The DOGE Boys Get VC Funding to Support Their Latest Enterprise

Former DOGE members and Elon Musk allies are backing a startup aimed at using AI to apply “learnings” from DOGE to the private sector.

Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected

For someone who helped ship ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex, Mira Murati has been remarkably quiet. On Thursday, she broke the silence. Sitting down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in San Francisco, the CEO...

The most interesting startups right now want to get you off your phone

While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.  Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup...

Google Launches Search Profiles, Here’s How You Can Get One via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google launches Search profiles, giving eligible creators a customizable page for articles, social posts, and followers. U.S.-only at launch. The post Google Launches Search Profiles, Here’s...

The TikTok Ban Was Never About TikTok

A new documentary chronicles how the app became a stand-in for American anxieties about social media, China, and political power.

Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital

Three companies are preparing to enter public markets this year with a combined valuation that could exceed $3 trillion. SpaceX is set to list as early as 12 June at a $1.77 trillion valuation,...

Waymo’s spent robotaxi batteries will be used as grid storage

The company announced a deal with B2U Storage Solutions to repurpose the battery packs as Waymo pulls them off the road.

Meta will let employees stop being tracked, for 30 minutes at a time

When Meta announced in April that it would install software on US employees’ work computers to capture their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots for AI training, the company’s head of...

Filtr is a new privacy tool that blocks ads in almost every iPhone and Mac app

This popular ad blocker app for iPhones, iPads, and Macs can now block ads from loading inside apps, including web browsers, thanks to a new feature in the latest Apple software.

Uber to put 500 data-collection vehicles on the road this year

The modified Ioniq 5 will be loaded with sensors to capture data for Uber's new AV Labs division.

Virtual barbarians at the gate: securing the AI blind spot

Many companies have quickly moved to adopt artificial intelligence in their systems, embedding it into virtually everything from customer apps to internal systems. That speed has created new pressure...

Uber cuts nearly a quarter of its HR division as new president reshapes the company from the inside

Three weeks into her expanded role as president and chief corporate affairs officer, Jill Hazelbaker is already cutting. Uber announced on Wednesday that it is eliminating 23% of positions in its...

Ultrahuman says hackers accessed customers’ wellness data via internal tool

The breach at wearable ring maker Ultrahuman stemmed from credentials stolen from a malware-infected employee laptop.

Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says

Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable's footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude.

Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center

The National Center for Atmospheric Research won't be losing its supercomputer.

Microsoft's Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps

Microsoft missed the boat on apps, so get ready for agents.

Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is...

Microsoft just announced a new operating system for devices that don’t run apps, only AI agents

Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a new chip-to-cloud platform designed from the ground up for devices that run AI agents instead of traditional applications. The platform includes a...

Perplexity built an “air-traffic controller” that decides in real time whether your AI query runs on your PC or in the cloud

Perplexity AI has developed a platform that dynamically splits AI workloads between personal computers and cloud servers, deciding in real time which tasks can run locally on a PC’s processor and...

The space stock rally is cracking as investors prepare to swap proxies for SpaceX itself

A rally that carried space-related stocks to extraordinary gains this year is showing serious cracks. The Procure Space ETF, which trades under the ticker UFO, has dropped almost 11% in just two...

EntityMap: The Open Standard That Gives AI Systems A Structured View Of Your Business via @sejournal, @Dixon_Jones

What if a single file could tell AI systems exactly what your organization knows and where the evidence lives? That's the EntityMap proposal. The post EntityMap: The Open Standard That Gives AI...

From 15 hours to one minute: How AI/ML is speeding up GM's development

From CFD and FEA to digital twins, carmaking now involves a lot of virtualization.

IBM is up 30% in a month as Barclays says its software business is the antidote to the SaaSpocalypse

IBM stock surged 10% on Monday after Barclays initiated coverage with an overweight rating and a $350 price target, roughly 11% above the opening price. The jump extends a run that has seen IBM gain...

Alphabet plans to raise $80B to pay for AI buildout

"The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply," Alphabet said in its...

Everyone Has Their Targets Set on the MacBook Neo

Dell, Microsoft, and others are unveiling new laptops to compete directly with the Neo, but not all are learning the right lessons from Apple.

A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed an executive order on Friday establishing a “higher bar for data center development” in the state. The order is effective immediately. It follows months of community...

LG Electronics stock jumped 24% in a day after unveiling Google-based car tech that cuts automaker costs

LG Electronics shares surged as much as 23.95% after the company announced a range of automotive solutions built on Google’s Android Automotive operating system. The stock last traded at 279,500 won....

How Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry

From specialized motors to the use of machine learning algorithms, Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation.

Best Unlimited Phone Plan: T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon Compared

I sifted through the fine print and figured out how to score the best deal right now on all the major carriers.

Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Parloa, the Berlin-founded AI agent management platform, has announced a wave of strategic partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9, and Epic as it deploys the $350 million it raised in...

Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to fund its inference cloud business, Axios reported. The raise comes six months after Nvidia struck a $20 billion not-acqui-hire that paid out...

Tello Mobile Plan Review (2026): Low Cost, Reliable Service

With inflation and gas prices rising, I’m trying to save money wherever I can. I tested Tello’s budget cell phone plan, and for me, it turns out prepaid can be just as good.

Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software?

I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services.

HeartFocus Link adds AI cardiac imaging to any hospital ultrasound machine with a tablet and an HDMI cable

HeartFocus, the AI-powered cardiac imaging software developed by French medtech company DESKi, has launched HeartFocus Link, a product that connects a tablet to any cart-based ultrasound system...

CoStar is paying $800 million for Zonda to close the last gap in its real estate data empire

CoStar Group has agreed to acquire Zonda, the leading provider of new-home construction data, homebuilder software, and residential real estate marketplaces, for $800 million in cash. The...

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.

Autodesk buys MaintainX for $3.6bn to push from design into operations

Autodesk has spent four decades selling the software that engineers and architects use to design buildings, factories and machines. With its latest acquisition, it is buying its way into what happens...

Samsung and LG Uplus want to turn cell towers into radar for 6G

Samsung Electronics and LG Uplus signed a memorandum of understanding on 27 May to jointly develop Integrated Sensing and Communication, or ISAC, a technology that would allow mobile network base...

ChargePoint partners with Powers Parts to fix the charging and support gap hitting electric transit fleets

ChargePoint and Powers Parts, a national distributor of electric vehicle components and fleet replacement parts, have announced a partnership to sell ChargePoint charging hardware, software, and...

A security lapse at prison pay phone service Pay Tel publicly exposed over 300K callers’ driver’s licenses

Pay Tel secured the publicly exposed data after security researchers discovered the leak containing callers' sensitive ID documents and inmate communications.

New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI

New mothers working in software development are staring down an AI-pilled workplace they barely recognize.

How To See If Competitors Are Advertising In Your Customers’ ChatGPT Answers via @sejournal, @trendos_com

Learn the manual process to track who is advertising in ChatGPT answers. Understand your competitors' strategies in real-time. The post How To See If Competitors Are Advertising In Your...

Anthropic’s Milan office lands with Generali, Pirelli and Enel as named Italian customers

The formal opening of Anthropic’s sixth European office lands the same week as Pope Leo’s AI encyclical, with the company naming a roster of Italian enterprise deployments. nthropic formally opened...

The internet is being rebuilt for machines

As AI agents move from experiments to production, AWS, Cloudflare, and others are redesigning cloud infrastructure for a future dominated by machine-generated internet traffic instead of human users.

Rivian will deliver the first R2 SUVs on June 9

The company has finally set a date for the first customer deliveries of what CEO RJ Scaringe has said is "maybe the most important thing we’ve launched to date."

Daylight expands MDR into Claude Enterprise to address emerging AI security risks

As enterprises race to embed generative AI into daily operations, security teams are confronting a new category of threats that traditional monitoring systems were never designed to handle. From...

8 Best Computer Speakers (2026) After Testing 25+ Pairs

These WIRED-tested computer speakers, from stereo speakers to surround sound, will suit any budget.

CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target open source software developers

Cybercriminals used the Glassworm botnet to infect open source software projects with malware, and in turn hack the developers and companies that use that software.

Talkdesk wants its AI agents to call your customers before they call you

Talkdesk has launched proactive AI agents designed specifically for retail and financial services, moving the company from a platform that handles inbound customer queries to one that initiates...

Starship’s path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX’s S-1

SpaceX's recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company's boosters and its...

UK Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online — and hasn’t fixed the leak

The third-party website exposed applicants' sensitive documents as part of the U.K. visa application process. Instead of fixing the issue, the company sent attorneys.

Machine-First Architecture: How To Build Websites Machines Can Identify, Read, Cite & Use via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Designing for the most constrained consumer, a machine, produces a better foundation for every visitor. Here's the full build sequence. The post Machine-First Architecture: How To Build Websites...

The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The...

Brussels plans to ringfence two-thirds of EU mobile-satellite spectrum for European firms

The proposal expected to be announced on Wednesday would leave Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper able to bid only for the remaining third of the bloc’s 2 GHz mobile-satellite band. The European Commission...

Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI

In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By...

Reallusion bets that 3D artists directing AI models will beat text prompts for professional filmmaking

Reallusion, the 3D animation software company behind iClone and Character Creator, has launched AI Studio, a production platform that pairs traditional 3D scene-building with generative AI video...

The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race

As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.

Use Tiny11 to Rescue a Computer Running Windows 10

If you can’t—or don’t want to—upgrade to full Windows 11, consider this lightweight version of Microsoft’s operating system that works on a wide range of computers.

These Privacy-Conscious Gay Dating Apps Want to Dethrone Grindr

As public backlash against Big Dating mounts, a batch of new gay hookup apps offer community-powered alternatives.

The Gulf was supposed to power the AI boom. Then the war started.

Two Amazon Web Services data centres in the UAE were targeted early in the Middle East war. Nearly three months later, oil prices remain around $100 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed....

The AI security gap nobody wants to admit is already here

On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code to the public npm registry. Around 512,000 lines of TypeScript across 1,906 files, including 44 hidden feature...

6 kitchen gadgets that make adulting feel easier

From a robot stirring your soup to a bread machine that kneads your dough, here are 6 gadgets that may make you feel like you’ve won adulthood.

HP pushed a critical BIOS update through Windows Update. It bricked its most expensive laptops.

HP customers are reporting that BIOS updates pushed through Windows Update are rendering premium laptops unbootable. The affected devices include the ZBook Ultra G1a, a mobile workstation that costs...

All You Need To Know About Cloudflare’s Agent Readiness Score via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Most of the checks that tanked your agent-readiness score don't apply to your website type. Here's what the number actually means. The post All You Need To Know About Cloudflare’s Agent...

SEO teams are tracking keywords. But are they tracking what ChatGPT says about their brand?

When someone searches Google, you can see exactly where you rank. When someone asks ChatGPT for a software recommendation, you have no idea whether your brand comes up at all. That gap is widening,...

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos found 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in one month. The patches can’t keep up.

Anthropic disclosed on Friday that Project Glasswing, its restricted cybersecurity initiative, has uncovered more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerability candidates across some of the...

SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals Musk’s clean energy contradiction. xAI burns gas while Tesla sells solar.

The SpaceX IPO prospectus, filed on Wednesday, contains a vision for terawatt-scale space-based solar power. It also reveals, through what it does not say, that Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is running...

The Best Smart Sprinklers and Irrigation Systems: In-Ground Sprinklers, Hose Timers (2026)

We’ve tested almost a dozen options that handle everything from scheduling and weather changes to water conservation, so you don’t have to.

Waymo’s robotaxis keep driving into floods. The software patch didn’t work. Five cities are now shut down.

Waymo suspended robotaxi service across five US cities on 21 May after a software patch it pushed to its entire 3,791-vehicle fleet less than two weeks earlier failed to prevent another autonomous...

Forum is Meta’s new Facebook Groups app, and it looks a lot like Reddit

The new standalone app sits on top of Facebook Groups, adds an AI tab called “Ask” and an admin assistant, and arrives the same month Mark Zuckerberg told staff he and Chris Cox had discussed whether...

The Rise of LLMs Is Not an Accident

Over three decades, I’ve watched consumer behavior evolve across television, search, and social media. Each shift changed tactics, but not the underlying logic of decision-making. What I am watching...

Blue Origin cleared to fly New Glenn mega-rocket after April mishap

Jeff Bezos' rocket company confirmed an engine failure led to the loss of an AST SpaceMobile satellite last month, but offered little detail.

Valve Steam Controller Review (2026): Wait for the Steam Machine

Without the context of Valve’s Steam Machine (which is still MIA), this controller can’t fully dazzle players yet.

Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses

President Trump’s branded cell phone maker and cell provider said the exposure was linked to a third-party platform and was evaluating whether it needs to notify customers.

HHS launches AI initiative to detect fraud and waste in federal health programmes

The Department of Health and Human Services is moving from “pay and chase” to real-time AI screening across Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the Marketplace. The US Department of Health and Human...

SpaceX used a $20 billion bridge loan to slash Musk’s debt costs in half, IPO filing reveals

Elon Musk’s strategy of folding his companies into one conglomerate is already paying off. Regulatory documents filed ahead of SpaceX’s historic IPO reveal that the company secured a $20 billion...

IoT gadget maker AcuRite shares reasoning for killing customers’ favorite app

"The move to AcuRite NOW has not been as smooth as some customers expected ..."

11 Best Meal Delivery Services, Tested by an Ex-Restaurant Critic

Here are the best meal kits in 2026, including Martha Stewart’s delivery box, a GLP-1–supportive plan, and a budget-friendly option.

GitLab 19.0 bets that the real bottleneck in software delivery is everything after writing the code

GitLab has released version 19.0, its first major version bump in a year, built around a concept the company calls intelligent orchestration. The pitch is that AI coding assistants have made writing...

Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments

Primer, a London-based payment startup, has announced a €86.2 million Series C funding round to expand its AI payments and finance platform. The capital will also support its market development in...

Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

Access to TV OS's source code could allow users to limit ads, tracking.

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is no longer a single-country experiment in Europe. Lithuania became the second EU member state to approve FSD (Supervised) on Tuesday, just weeks after the...

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe

First came the Netherlands, now it's Lithuania. And more European countries appear to be in the queue for Tesla's driver-assistance system.

Airbnb gets into hotels, expands AI for host onboarding and customer support

Airbnb will soon let you book luggage storage and car rental services on its app.

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI

Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant...

Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google’s release of Android CLI

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build...

With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building...

Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses at IO 2026

Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.

Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.

Hackers stole fingerprints and medical data from 1.8 million people in NYC’s largest public hospital breach

  New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States, has disclosed that hackers stole personal data, medical records, and biometric information, including...

Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes

Amazon’s Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized AI content platform.

SpaceX raises Starlink prices across every consumer plan and doubles the cost of Standby Mode

SpaceX has raised the price of every consumer Starlink plan in the United States, adding $5 to $10 per month across its residential and mobile tiers while doubling the cost of its budget Standby Mode...

One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

"I think there's plenty of fire lit under them already."

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries...

If You’re a Serious Bowler, You Need to Know About Bowling Lane Oil

Bowling centers apply oil to their lanes using a machine that works like a giant inkjet printer. The pattern in which it’s applied can change everything about how the ball travels.

Cerebras just had the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are next.

Cerebras Systems closed its first day on the Nasdaq at $311.07, up 68% from its $185 IPO price, giving the wafer-scale chip company a market capitalisation of approximately $95 billion. The offering...

ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they submit papers they did not bother to read

  ArXiv, the open-access repository that has served as the primary distribution channel for preprint research in computer science, mathematics, and physics for more than three decades, will ban...

Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.

Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon...

Asteroid 2026 JH2 Is About to Fly Right Past Earth—Relatively Speaking

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.

Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle school addiction lawsuit, leaving Meta to face trial alone

Snap, Google’s YouTube, and ByteDance’s TikTok have reached settlements in the first lawsuit brought by a public school district over claims that social media addiction has disrupted learning and...

$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month

Cerebras Systems was 2026's biggest tech IPO so far. But years ago, it burned through hundreds of millions working on a chip many believed impossible.

Best Indoor Garden Systems: I've Been Testing All Year (2026)

Grow a backyard’s worth of greens and vegetables in your house with a vertical hydroponic garden. Here are a few that might be worth the investment.

The most-cited computer scientist alive says AI could make humanity extinct within a decade

  Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, has renewed his warning that hyperintelligent machines could pose an...

Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’

The Thinking Machines Lab founder and former CTO of OpenAI tells WIRED she isn’t interested in automating people out of jobs. Instead, she’s building AI that can collaborate.

Revolut is offering every employee GBP1,000 to sell business banking. The real prize is a $200 billion IPO.

  Revolut’s chief executive, Nik Storonsky, has told employees across the company that business banking is now its top priority, and is offering each of them £1,000 to prove he means it. In a memo...

A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.

Osaurus brings both local and cloud AI models to your Mac

Osaurus combines local and cloud AI models in a Mac app that keeps users’ memory, files, and tools on their own hardware.

Weather-monitoring firm hangs dark cloud over customers’ heads by forcing new app

Newer AcuRite Now app lacks some features but has a subscription option.

Why Your AI Ad Strategy Is Only As Good As Your Data via @sejournal, @gregjarboe

AI magnifies what you give it. Weak inputs produce accelerated inefficiency. Here's what feeding the machine better signals actually looks like in 2026. The post Why Your AI Ad Strategy Is Only As...

What is Connected TV Advertising?

Key Takeaways According to Pew Research, 83 percent of U.S. adults watch streaming services, while only 36 percent subscribe to cable or satellite TV at home. In Q4 2025, 74.2 percent of all TV...

Vaporware or not? Aptera assembles its first five validation models.

The three-wheel, two-seat EV has been in development since 2006.

An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta

Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.

OpenAI says hackers stole some data after latest code security issue

OpenAI said the damage was limited to the employees’ devices and did not affect user data nor its production systems, and none of its intellectual property was stolen.

YouTube viewers watch 2 billion hours of Shorts on TVs each month

Short-form video is built for mobile, so it may seem counterintuitive, but it's true: YouTube Shorts are becoming quite popular on the big screen.

Nvidia built the AI engine. Alphabet is building the car, the road, and the toll booth. The market is pricing accordingly.

On Thursday, Alphabet’s share price rose nearly 10 per cent after the company reported first-quarter revenue of $109.9 billion, a 22 per cent increase year over year that beat analyst estimates by...

Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity

The DTC skin, hair, and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.

Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.

Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.

Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, just days before the application deadline. The document lists 15 categories of companies that YC’s partners want to fund....

The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked

AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice