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Oracle got AI working on itself only this year
Over the past two years, Oracle has invested tens of billions of dollars to build the infrastructure that powers other companies’ AI. But it wasn’t until April that its own employ…
Anthropic has set up a bio research lab for physical experiments
Anthropic now has its own bio research lab in San Francisco.
Microsoft fixes bug behind ‘Defender Antivirus is turned off’ alerts
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that causes incorrect alerts warning that Defender Antivirus was turned off after installing recent updates. [...]
‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI
Geoffrey Hinton gave the United States Senate a deadline on Wednesday, and it was shorter than the legislative calendar. “Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” he said, ab…
Apple Watch Ultra 4 vs. Galaxy Watch Ultra 2: Comparing their features, durability and displays
Here's everything you'll get with Apple and Samsung's latest high-end smartwatches.
Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it
“Electricity is essential for computing,” said Zhou Jianjun, who runs global marketing, sales and services at Huawei Digital Power. “Today, in the AI era, the startup, shutdown, a…
OpenAI hires its first worldwide sales chief from a company it just cut off
“I’m joining OpenAI to lead the sales team and I’m excited to join forces with my friend Dali Rajic,” Brian McCarthy wrote on LinkedIn on Thursday. OpenAI has made him its first v…
Huawei’s answer to Nvidia isn’t a faster chip, it’s a much bigger machine
AI “may well be the final technological revolution in human history,” Huawei rotating chairman David Wang told Huawei Connect 2026 in Shanghai. His opening keynote ran under the t…
NASA's moon orbiter has spotted an impact crater that only happens once a century
Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter led to the discovery of a moon crater that's 728 feet wide. Impacts like that only happen once a century.
Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history'
Executives from OpenAI and Microsoft were reportedly worried about ChatGPT training that scraped millions of news articles.
Executives from BYD, CATL and Xiaomi may join Xi’s Washington visit, Reuters reports
Xi Jinping is scheduled to be in Washington on September 24 for a state visit, and some of China’s largest manufacturers may accompany him, Reuters reported. The information on wh…
Google Home opens up to Claude, OpenClaw and any other MCP agent
“Connecting a real-life home to an AI agent allows that agent to control devices on your behalf,” Google warns in its developer documentation. “Depending on your agent, connecting…
An Abandoned CDN Domain Was Re-Registered. Thousands of Sites Still Call It.
In July 2025, someone registered a domain that used to belong to a content delivery network. The CDN had been wound down years earlier, and the domain it served assets from was a…
Plugin4Shell Lets Repository Owners Swap Pinned Plugin Code Across Four AI Coding Agents
A flaw in four widely used AI coding agents lets someone who controls a plugin's code repository swap the plugin an agent installs for a malicious one, even when the agent locked …
Rocket Report: China wants a Raptor 3 engine; SpaceX set for big Starship test
“I can tell you SpaceX has already gone captive."
Flash floods can strike without warning — this new technology could change that
On the morning of June 9th, Laura Lin was working from her home in Lanesville, a rural southern Indiana town about 15 miles from the Kentucky border. She was on a Zoom call, unawa…
WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension Storage
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 13 npm packages that have been found to deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer codenamed WeaselBiscuit. The ne…
SoftBank expands $6.05bn credit facility to $6.5bn with 20-plus banks
SoftBank Group has added $450m to an existing credit line, lifting the facility to $6.5bn, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. Set against what the company is spending…
New Check Point flaw lets hackers execute code with root privileges
Check Point Software has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability that can let attackers execute code with root privileges on management systems. [...]
Claimed Bug Bounty Hunter Likely Used LLM to Build PhantomRaven npm Stealer
A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to the development and distribution of a JavaScript (JS)-based information stealer known as PhantomRaven via the npm package r…
Apple Pay is heading to India next month with Axis Bank first, Reuters reports
Apple Pay is expected to launch in India next month, beginning with credit cards issued by Axis Bank, three people familiar with the plans told Reuters. Apple declined to comment.…
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, and its own legal research index
“As AI becomes more open and interoperable, the value is not in connectivity alone,” said Joel Hron, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters. “Legal professionals need more th…
Waymo will launch robotaxis in Singapore in 2028, its first Southeast Asia market
Waymo plans to launch its first commercial robotaxi service in Southeast Asia in 2028, starting in Singapore. The vehicles will arrive well before then, and there will be a year o…
Raindrop hits $50m in funding to catch AI agents failing in production
“Agents now run for hours, call thousands of tools, and handle real money, real health data, and real customers,” said Zubin Koticha, chief executive of Raindrop. “When an agent f…