Wired
Ground Truth makes the shared rental bikes harder to pedal through rent-burdened neighborhoods, offering a tangible way for people to experience income inequality.
Wired
It’s amazing how few compromises Dell made to get the new XPS 13 down to $700, but I strongly recommend the $900 model, which comes with 16 GB of RAM.
NY Times Tech
In matters of work, school and even romance, we turn to A.I. chatbots. But what happens when the bots begin talking to one another?
Wired
A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.
Ars Technica
Czinger used topological design and additive manufacturing to make the brakes.
NY Times Tech
States had opposed an agreement allowing a Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquisition, calling the settlement ineffective and corrupt.
Wired
OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.
Ars Technica
Study finds wait times for cancer surgeries hit 10-year high.
TechCrunch
The plaintiffs say they invested nearly $1.2 million in the company, and are accusing Gomez of failing to build and market the startup.
TechCrunch
The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, raising questions about its effectiveness.
TechCrunch
Apple now sends out push notifications to iPhone lock screens when the company identifies government spyware targeting someone's devices.
Wired
AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on Uncanny Valley.
TechCrunch
Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.
TechCrunch
AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.
Ars Technica
Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyber attacks.
TechCrunch
OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.
TechCrunch
IBM plans to train and certify tens and thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.
Ars Technica
Will it be the VSS... Horizon, Explorer, Ascend or Apeiron?
NY Times Tech
Denise Dresser, who was previously the C.E.O. of Slack, is the latest in a string of executives to leave the artificial intelligence start-up.
Ars Technica
Ukrainian drone pilots teach the US military and NATO hard battlefield lessons.