Apple’s iPhone Duo goes on sale with tight supply and mixed reviews
Apple’s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, went on sale on Friday, October 23, at a starting price of $1,999. Sydney was the first Apple Store to sell it, opening its doors at …
Walmart will let AI agents shop for you, with their own spending limits
Walmart will let AI agents shop for customers on Walmart.com and at Sam’s Club, each with its own profile, spending limit and purchase history. The retailer announced Agent Profil…
LiteLLM says hackers poisoned it with GitHub tokens leaked via Claude Code
LiteLLM says hackers took the keys they needed from its own logs. They used them to publish a poisoned version of its software on Wednesday. The open-source AI gateway explained i…
Japan to set up AI hacker team as PHP flaws knock services offline
Japan plans to create a team of ethical hackers that will use AI to attack the country’s own systems and find vulnerabilities before criminals can exploit them. The announcement c…
Meta fixes Muse links that let anyone find loan files and revenue data
Meta has switched Muse sharing back on. It paused the feature on Tuesday. That came after Ars Technica asked about research showing that anyone could find pages shared from its AI…
Microsoft AI tool beat generalist doctors at step-by-step diagnosis
Microsoft has developed an AI diagnostic tool that solved complex medical cases more than twice as accurately as generalist doctors in a study published in Science. Unlike many me…
Greece passes law banning social media for children under 15
Greece has passed a law banning children under 15 from using social media, with the restrictions set to take effect on January 1, 2027. Parliament approved the bill late on Octobe…
Rhode Island sues Meta, alleging it profits from scam ads
Rhode Island has sued Meta, alleging the company profited from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp and helped to create some of them. Attorney General Peter Neronha file…
Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback
Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents.
Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia
inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta
A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law.
Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear
Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
As blockchain investing falls out of vogue, a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier
The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope.
OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the mostly highly valued private company ever.
Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Arc browser sunsets December 22 as The Browser Company doubles down on Dia
Arc was fiercely beloved by a dedicated group of enthusiasts, but it never quite became the mass-market Chrome alternative its makers once envisioned.
The secret to fast startup growth isn’t early sales, top names in tech say
At this year’s Disrupt, Lovable GTM lead Luke Arno, Polska’s Ben Broca, and Theory Ventures’ Tomasz Tunguz gave founders some tips on how to achieve true sales success in the firs…
1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password
The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.
OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up
OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?
Canva releases its first image generation model
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
Seattle will let residents pick spots for 200 curbside EV chargers
Seattle plans to install up to 200 curbside Level 2 EV chargers by 2030, focused on areas with apartment buildings, InsideEVs reported. Residents can suggest sites until autumn 20…
Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneat…
Former OpenAI science lead launches Warp Science to automate wet labs with robots
Wearing cameras and sensor gloves, the startup’s human chemists will train robots to perform various lab tasks.