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Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, and cuts Fable’s price
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, the company announced on Monday. They are new versions of its most powerful AI models. Both are faster than the 5.1 …
AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months
Nominal, a startup that offers an AI platform for hardware engineering and claims Anduril as a major customer, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation.
France blames Iran for mass-hacks targeting freezers in grocery stores and blood banks
France's foreign minister blamed Iran for launching at least two waves of cyberattacks targeting industrial refrigerated and freezer units across France and wider Europe.
Apple’s $50 Intelligence Usage Packs extend access to some AI features
After publishing a support article in early September outlining usage limits for some Apple Intelligence features, the company has updated Logic Pro with an option to "Buy More Us…
Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moon
"Please jump on my cislunar bandwagon because I need some more friends here."
Anthropic launches new Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 models
Anthropic is announcing two new models today: Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, which it says are designed to take on "daunting" technical challenges. The company claims the…
Gmail users should know about this little-noticed feature
Gmail's unsend feature will delay it from dispatching your message. Here's how to extend the amount of time you have to use it.
Apple’s CEO presses Federighi to speed up AI, Bloomberg reports
Apple chief executive John Ternus has pushed software chief Craig Federighi to speed up Apple’s AI plans, Mark Gurman reported for Bloomberg on Sunday. Ternus wants Apple to move …
Google lets developers add Maps to AI Studio apps for free
Google AI Studio can now set up Google Maps Platform for apps built by prompting Gemini, with a free demo key allowing 100 calls a day per API. Production apps still need a paid C…
You can grab three months of Game Pass Ultimate for under $20 per month
The price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has fluctuated between $20 and $30 per month over the last year, but you can get three months of the top plan for around $19 per month. At New…
France blames Iranian hackers for supermarket attacks that sparked fires
France has linked October cyberattacks that disrupted refrigeration systems at more than 700 supermarkets and other retail locations to Iranian state-backed hackers, saying the at…
Nominal raises $240M at $3B, tripling its value since March
Nominal, whose software helps engineers test and analyse hardware such as aircraft, satellites and robots, has raised $240M in a Series C round at a $3B valuation. Lightspeed Vent…
How does Google Wallet's notification feed work and can you disable it?
Google Wallet is attempting to make notifications easier to find with a notification feed, but if you're sick of alerts, find out how to disable them.
Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutiny
Jensen Huang’s alleged affair with a suspected Chinese spy threatens to complicate Nvidia’s lobbying efforts to loosen U.S. chip export restrictions and maintain access to China’s…
Nvidia shares tumble over investigation into Huang's affair with alleged Chinese spy
The share price dropped wiped hundreds of billions of dollars from the value of Nvidia.
Instagram’s Effect Builder makes new filters from AI prompts
After expanding its Edits app to macOS last week, Instagram's next move is launching this Effect Builder that generates custom filters for your Stories posts with AI. Available no…
Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution
At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.
Adobe becomes Disney’s AI partner to build models on its characters
Adobe is now Disney’s “Official AI Innovation Partner” under a multi-year deal to build custom AI models trained on Disney’s characters, settings and styles. It extends work with …
Hackers Exploit Qubole's Trusted AWS Access to Breach Customer Accounts and Steal Data
An attacker broke into AWS accounts belonging to multiple Qubole customers between October 14 and October 26 and stole stored secrets and data, cloud security company Wiz said tod…
Russian cloud firm Beget rebuilds from scratch after data wiper attack
A data-wiping malware attack has forced Russian cloud services provider Beget to rebuild its cloud infrastructure from scratch, the company said. [...]
The reason your laptop can get hot after extended use
While it's normal for laptops to sometimes overheat after extended use, excessive temperature spikes can be reduced in a few ways.
James Gunn is out as DC movie leader
Soon, James Gunn and Peter Safran will no longer head up Skydance's DC Studios. After taking the helm of DC Studios as co-CEOs in 2022, Gunn and Safran are being replaced by forme…
Hackers Compromise Ethersphere's bee-js and Swarm Desktop to Deliver Wallet-Stealing Malware
Attackers used the Ethersphere project's own release automation to publish malicious versions of two of its tools for the Swarm decentralized storage network: bee-js 13.3.0 and Sw…
The future of AI hinges on… Jensen Huang’s sex life?
I would prefer that these people's sex lives were none of my business but I guess we have to talk about Jensen Huang and the National Security Incident. Who could have guessed tha…