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Microsoft's new Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 13 feature Snapdragon X2 Plus chips
Microsoft's smaller Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 13 are getting a much-needed chip upgrade.
XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them
$11M competition showed wildfire detection is still easier than stopping fires.
Clément Delangue tells UN Security Council open-source AI helps defenders
Clément Delangue is telling the UN Security Council that open-source AI helped Hugging Face defend itself during the AI agent attack it suffered in July. Speaking to the Council t…
Wayve’s AI will reach Mercedes cars within two years, Kendall says
“It’s going to take them a while. Maybe they don’t know that yet,” Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall said of humanoid robot makers. Kendall spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterd…
Dario Amodei asks UN Security Council to back a ban on AI bioweapons
Dario Amodei is asking the UN Security Council to start with narrow agreements on AI, such as a ban on using it to make biological weapons. Speaking to the Council via video link …
Yoshua Bengio urges UN Security Council to license frontier AI like nuclear power
Yoshua Bengio is calling on the UN Security Council to license frontier AI in areas like medicine, aviation, and nuclear energy. Speaking in New York today, he says the companies …
Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash
Discord will try to automatically estimate ages, require verification when it can't.
Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down
Sam Altman is calling for national and international standards for frontier AI. Speaking at the UN Security Council in New York today, the OpenAI chief executive says no level of …
Check Point warns of hackers exploiting Security Gateway VPN RCE flaw
Cybersecurity company Check Point has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-85102, a pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the VPN certificate-handli…
YouTube promises custom feeds and a lot more AI later this year
YouTube's next year could change the content you see with a big focus on AI and livestreams.
Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials
The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.
Anthropic says Claude found a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic says Claude has found a previously undescribed enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria. Next to the enzyme’s gene sits a long run of…
Live: UN Security Council hears AI lab chiefs on loss-of-control risk
The UN Security Council is meeting in New York today to discuss the risk of humans losing control of advanced AI. Yoshua Bengio begins by telling ambassadors that AI agents built …
Modal Motors is trying to cut China out of electric motors entirely
The startup is working on small, light motors with no rare earth magnets that are suited for drones, fans, and robots.
Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money
Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something need…
DOJ defends Trump’s White House ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW
The United States Justice Department has requested that a federal judge dismiss the emergency application submitted by CNN, Politico, and MS NOW to get their reporters readmitted …
Contrary to some reports, you don't have two brains
A bad press release makes a good excuse to look at how developmental biology works.
UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it
“Without this manual, nobody will really succeed in deploying autonomous AI that we can trust to make decisions and understand how we actually work,” UiPath founder and CEO Daniel…
Hackers start exploiting critical WordPress flaw for code execution
Threat actors have moved from probing WordPress sites vulnerable to CVE-2026-87902 to exploiting the flaw to write files to disk that execute shell commands when accessed. [...]
Netflix releases trailer for Brad Bird's Ray Gunn
"It’s film noir and a hard-boiled detective story, but it’s got a lot more comedy and a lot more action."
Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills …
Waymo will pay riders $2.85 to also take public transport
Waymo will issue $2.85 in credit to San Francisco Bay Area riders who take a robotaxi and a public transport journey within two hours of each other, provided they pay with a Visa …
Attackers Use Malicious Terraform Providers to Deliver Go Malware via HashiCorp Registry
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed Go-based malware distributed via two Go Modules and two Terraform providers, marking the first time threat actors are using the centralize…
Disney+ and Hulu add to the growing trend of streaming inflation
Disney is raising the prices of Disney+ and Hulu as streaming costs continue to rise across the industry.