Technology
GM to pay $220 million to resolve claims it sold driving habits data
General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims that it illegally sold driver and location information to data brokers, as reported earlier by Reuters. The agreemen…
Where was my invite to the — wait, what? Airbnb had a gala?
Airbnb’s nonprofit held its inaugural gala on Wednesday in Los Angeles, and the internet had one reaction — the *what* gala?
Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch
The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you’ve already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a quick video, or uploadin…
ThreatsDay: Critical Firewall Flaws, Banking Trojans Rented, Weaponized PDF, Token Theft + 26 More Stories
Some attacks take real skill. Others just need someone to leave a door open. This week has both. Exposed passwords, old bugs still getting exploited, and trusted software doing th…
Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
President orders trade talks on foreign-made factory robots, threatens tariffs.
Hacker may have stolen millions in a malware attack against online poker players
Wired has the story of a superuser cheating scandal.
Baseten’s joey-1 makes AI decisions for a penny per million tokens
Baseten released joey-1, a 2B open-weights “decision model” that returns an answer and a probability rather than text. It costs $0.01 per million tokens and answers in about 20ms,…
Canada joins Nvidia in backing Cohere’s record C$7bn Series E
Cohere has completed the first close of its Series E round, which it aims to grow to as much as C$7bn. The Toronto AI company says that would value it at C$35.7bn. The Government …
You can generate and edit Google Docs files directly in Gemini chats now
Now you can generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code directly within Google Gemini. The new file editing capa…
Netflix is making a live-action PUBG show written and directed by Donald Glover
The streamer also has an Assassin's Creed series in the works, along with a Gears of War feature film.
Don't expect more Assassin's Creed remakes anytime soon
Ubisoft shared some updates on the franchise, including confirmation of a New Game+ option for Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
Hackers exploit Cisco SD-WAN flaw to deploy custom KeyDrift malware
A newly identified advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as UAT-11473 was observed exploiting CVE-2026-20127, an authentication-bypass flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Contr…
Marvell nears a deal to buy Nvidia-backed Lumentum, Bloomberg reports
Chipmaker Marvell Technology is in advanced talks to buy Lumentum, which makes the lasers that move data between AI chips. Marvell would likely pay in shares, and the companies co…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang may have been the target of a Chinese government spy
President Trump reportedly chose to do nothing in response.
Report: Trump did nothing with intel that China planted spy close to Nvidia CEO
Spy accused of exploiting Trump ties to Huang, funneling secrets to China.
FuriosaAI raises $620m at a $2.9bn valuation for its Nvidia rival chips
FuriosaAI, a Seoul-based maker of AI inference chips, has raised $620m in a Series D round. The round values it at about $2.9bn. South Korea’s National Growth Fund put in $280m, m…
Meta will now alert parents if teens 'repeatedly' search for self-harm content on Facebook
The company will also notify parents about conversations with Meta AI.
Ikea’s colorful donut-shaped smart lamp is $20 off
With its playful design, versatility, and relatively affordable price, the Ikea Varmblixt quickly became one of my colleague Jennifer Pattison Tuohy’s new favorite smart light pro…
OpenAI rewrites its AI rulebook around five core values
OpenAI has reorganised its Model Spec, the public rulebook for its AI, around five values led by faithfulness to human intent. It adds guidance on context and human agency, drops …
Aircall co-founder Olivier Pailhès returns as CEO to push AI voice agents
Olivier Pailhès, who co-founded Aircall in Paris in 2014, has returned as its chief executive. He replaces Scott Chancellor and takes over a business phone company that now sells …
Turning a solar power system into its own backup
Plant design allows it to run on either stored solar heat or combustion.
Deepgram buys Pipecat maker Daily and keeps the voice AI framework open
Voice AI company Deepgram is buying Daily, the maker of Pipecat, an open-source framework for building voice agents. Pipecat will stay open source and free under its existing BSD …
Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr
Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.
Canada adds C$2.5M to help 25 more Prairie firms adopt AI with Amii
Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, will work with 25 more small businesses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba after federal agency PrairiesCan added C$2.5M. Tota…