Ars Technica
"The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."
Ars Technica
Google's AI brain drain continues.
Wired
Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.
Ars Technica
It's as much about grounded characters and well-timed emotional beats as CGI-filled action extravaganzas.
Ars Technica
Reports of cases began in June, and the national tally is now nearing 23,000.
TechCrunch
Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually reduce communities’ reliance on karma and account-age requirements, making it easier for legitimate newcomers to participate.
TechCrunch
The Cosmos EV is now slated for release in the second half of 2027. CEO Silivo Napoli said he's focused on getting the EV right as well as its nearer-term robotaxi project with Uber and Nuro.
Wired
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
NY Times Tech
Minutes after four top researchers said they were leaving, Google said that Demis Hassabis, the Nobel-winning scientist who led the company’s A.I. lab, was stepping into a new job.
Ars Technica
Disney is interested in "price-sensitive" streaming customers.
TechCrunch
The applications are in, and the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions!
Ars Technica
The V4 Superchargers will show up in the Tesla nav app and have NACS and CCS1 plugs.
TechCrunch
A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.
Ars Technica
Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware.
Wired
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
Wired
Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.
TechCrunch
Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
TechCrunch
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
Wired
Joe Kent says that he and other anti-Donald Trump MAGA figures have formed a new movement. They want Tucker Carlson to run for the presidency in 2028.
Ars Technica
Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.