A ranking of the builders behind these apps needs a link between a person and a product, and we do not record one yet. When we do it will come from launch posts people wrote themselves. Business profiles only, never personal accounts.
Nvidia's NVHBM moves the memory controller off the accelerator die and into the HBM stack's base die, allowing it to claim a potential 30% more bandwidth, 15% lower HBM power, and 25% more compute area versus standard HBM4E Nvidia's NVHBM performance comparisons are linked to HBM4E, which is still in the sampling stage, with a launch expected sometime in 2027 Access to the custom solution is gated…
Florida joins a growing list of cities and states responding to the license plate reader backlash. Florida joins a growing list of cities and states responding to the license plate reader backlash.
The AI training-data company micro1 has offered $12.5M for Spirit Aviation’s internal records, topping Google’s agreed $10M and proposing an ombudsman chosen by Spirit’s advisers rather than the buyer. European law would treat the deidentification promise as a question about capability rather than a label, but none of it applies to an American liquidation. An […] This story continues at The…
Google released Chrome 152.0.7977.82/.83 for Windows, Mac, and Linux Patch fixes 12 flaws, including zero‑day CVE‑2026‑85046 (type confusion in V8) Sixth Chrome zero‑day this year; Chromium browsers also affected, update urged immediately Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux, fixing a dozen of vulnerabilities. Among them is a high-severity flaw that i…
Nscale is in talks to raise up to $3.5B ahead of a US listing, including $1.5B of convertible notes led by Third Point and about $2B from Nvidia. It is briefing investors that its contracts total roughly $103B, most of the increase coming from a $45B Anthropic deal that Microsoft and Google both passed on. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Some Americans are giving new meaning to the proverb that your home is your sanctuary. The at-home wellness trend continues to evolve and grow, with the global market for wellness real estate projected to reach $1.8 trillion by 2030, according to the latest figures from the Global Wellness Institute. This market has nearly tripled since 2019, the organization found, and the U.S. alone accounted fo…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plans — Update: A day later, GPT-6 Astra is rolling out to Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plan. This follows other new model releases before Plus customers on the $20/month plan gain access.
Sheeppox is a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease that was largely eradicated from much of European livestock in the 20th century. But there is still the occasional regional outbreak, such as the one that afflicted many flocks of sheep in Greece last year . In order to reconstruct how the virus has evolved over the last 3,500 years, scientists extracted and sequenced sheeppox DNA preserve…
Indian tech brand Noise has teamed up with Bose for a brand new pair of open earbuds, the Noise Master Buds Open. These clip-on buds are a first for Noise in the open ear segment, but join its existing Master series lineup, that includes over-ear headphones and in-ear buds — which were also built alongside Bose. And lucky me — I’ve already tried the Master Buds Open for myself. I got hands on with…
Robert Hart / The Verge : Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout — OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki. … A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered …
Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and now John Ternus: those are the three Apple CEOs of the 21st century, and I've seen them all in action. From keynotes to deep product dives during WWDC, each had his own presentation style, but what Jobs and, eventually, Cook shared was an uncanny ability to focus attention through the force of their personalities. Now it's Ternus'...er...turn. He's far from untested in th…
Microsoft moved for summary judgment in the New York AI copyright litigation on 4 September, arguing Copilot reproduced book passages 24 times in 8.2 million conversations. Two days earlier it began selling GPT-6 Astra through Foundry, a model OpenAI rates Critical for cybersecurity, and European law measures neither the output rate nor the sales pitch. […] This story continues at The Next…
The U.S. government is expanding its investigation into the rising price of beef to eight major grocery chains and big box retailers. The current average price for ground beef was $6.88 per pound, as of July, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED). That number is up from $3.88 per pound in January 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics . In a post on X , The Departmen…
Thirty-eight thousand ChatGPT queries versus a single almond may sound like a strange sequel to the “ 100 men versus a gorilla ” viral debate meme. Instead, it’s just Sam Altman’s response to public concerns over AI ’s water usage. In a recent podcast , the OpenAI CEO sat down with tech reporter Alex Heath to discuss the future of the technology while also addressing concerns over AI’s impact on s…
If you're building a new PC or upgrading an aging boot drive, you'll definitely want to check out the Kingston NV3 1TB internal SSD, now $157 (was $216) at Newegg . An established name in the storage arena, Kingston built the NV3 as the successor to its popular NV2 line, and the jump to a Gen 4x4 controller brings a meaningful speed increase - it can hit read speeds up to 6,000MB/s. But it keeps t…
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-world breakthroughs rely on advanced infrastructure acting as the engine of continuous intelligence, powering real-time services while also…
Tesla shares fell around 6% after a Cybercab update that landed badly and after NHTSA opened an investigation into how the company certified a vehicle with no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors. Amazon’s Zoox petitioned for an exemption and was approved in July; Tesla self-certified and did not petition. The complication is that NHTSA is […] This story continues at The Next Web
Celia Ford / Transformer : OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model — OpenAI is hailing its new model as “the world's most intelligent and aligned”, but the details reveal an awareness of being evaluated …
Victoria’s Secret has closed dozens of stores worldwide this year, but the brand is still raising its full-year sales outlook. The news comes from a recent report from TheStreet , which explained that between January 31 and August 31, the chain closed 38 stores globally. However, over the same period of time, 48 Victoria’s Secret stores opened, bringing the total store count to 1,430. Last year, t…
OpenAI rolled out GPT‑6 Astra, its most advanced AI, with “critical” cyber capabilities Astra can autonomously find and exploit unknown flaws; release limited to vetted Daybreak participants Staggered rollout sparked user frustration; Altman apologized, promising broader access soon OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-6 Astra , its latest and most capable artificial intelligence model. In an announce…
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, exposing OpenAI to fines of up to 6% of global revenue but covering only the parts of the tool that retrieve rather than converse. The article’s argument is that the alternative label, Very Large Online Platform, carried safe harbour, […] This story continues at The Next Web
GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "core DNA," after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week. He claims the merger puts GoPro in a better position to continue developing its content creation tech, after saying in the deal announcement that it would work with Starman to address "important areas of na…
We are just a few years removed from a time when AI was not yet ingrained in our office lives, but many workers already wish they could go back. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of 2,500 knowledge workers surveyed by digital consulting group Adaptavist said they often feel “nostalgic” about how work was conducted before the widespread adoption of AI. One in three said AI has already led them to contemplate…
In the series of articles I’ve been writing for Fast Company devoted to what I believe corporate AI should be, I’ve been touching on a very provocative idea: Perhaps the biggest problem of corporate AI as we know it so far is not intelligence, but the level at which we are programming it. As we speak, frontier models, elastic cloud infrastructure, vector databases, managed APIs, and large amounts…
A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.
It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno , but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 "Palettes," which are essentially themed collections of musical ideas sorted by genre. You can start from scratch and ask it to generate any combination of melody, ch…
The Trump administration is working on a post-war strategy focused on a regional effort to contain Iran and expand normalization of relations between Israel and its neighbors, according to two U.S. officials and two other sources with knowledge of the issue. Why it matters: While the plan is still in the early stages of drafting, it's intended to guide the U.S. approach in the Middle East after th…
Luka Kids has unveiled an AI drawing projector at IFA that converts a child’s spoken prompt into an outline for them to trace and finish themselves. The EU’s new toy safety regulation requires manufacturers to assess mental health risks in digitally connected toys and says AI toys must comply with the AI Act. Luka Kids […] This story continues at The Next Web
Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald Trump in mid-August, Politico reports. The two options still on the table are a FINRA-style body funded by the firms it would oversee and an MPA-style voluntary ratings scheme, so the debate is over how much self-regulation rather […] This story continues at The Next Web
In less than a week, Apple is holding its big annual September event . You'd think the rumor mill would slow down at some point, but it hasn't. Everyone expects to see four new iPhones and some other fun stuff as well. Those details are more or less set in stone. There are little things in the margins, though, such as device prices, colors, and specs, that are still leaking out ahead of time. Here…
The U.S. labor market bounced back in August as employers added a surprising 162,000 jobs, ending a summer of lackluster hiring growth with a bang. The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.1%. Hiring far exceeded the 65,000 jobs that forecasters had expected, according to a poll by FactSet. Labor Department revisions also looked good, adding 55,000 to June and July payrolls. Employers created 21,…
For many small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), VMware has become too expensive. Broadcom’s acquisition of the virtualization firm brought the end of perpetual license sales and the arrival of pricey, stacked, subscription-based bundles that priced out many SMBs. The most obvious is VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware’s flagship private cloud bundle that has been Broadcom’s primary focus since…
Earlier this year, Nintendo officially unveiled a big new remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time for Switch 2 . Naturally, everyone's mind is brimming with ideas about what (and what not) to expect from it. As a lifelong Ocarina lover who generally considers it one of the three or four best video games ever made, trust that I have some thoughts about this remake. I'm not opposed to its exi…
It’s been a tough 12 months for the smartphone industry. Memory prices are up, unit sales are down , and a generally poor outlook for the future has not only forced the cancellation of specific models (the Nothing CMF Phone 3 Pro ), but also entire brands ( RIP OnePlus ). On paper, then, it doesn’t seem like a particularly great time for any mobile company to be expanding into new markets, but tha…
Adobe named Anil Chakravarthy president and chief executive from 1 December, with Shantanu Narayen moving to executive chair. Chakravarthy came up through Digital Experience and worldwide field operations, arrived from enterprise data company Informatica, and championed the Workfront and Semrush acquisitions. The argument here is that the board has picked a leader from the side […] This sto…
Silo Season 3 delivered answers in a major way, showing viewers the nuclear explosion that sent people underground and revealing what's inside the sinister Silo 1 . Of course, in true Silo fashion, its Season 3 finale also left us with some big questions. Most importantly: How in the world is Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) going to bring down the powerful forces within Silo 1? SEE ALSO: 'Silo…
Michael Acton / Financial Times : A profile of John Ternus, the first product engineer to lead Apple; sources: Cook considered how to execute the perfect succession since his early days as CEO — Tim Cook's successor is a product engineer who has spent 25 years at the company and belongs to the generation mentored by Steve Jobs
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less than its predecessor and blocks 99.99 percent of direct prompt injections. But when attacks are hidden inside documents the AI reads, the model still gets cracked in 8.5 percent of scenarios. Claude Opus 5 does better at 4.8 percent. For autonomous AI agents handling real data, those numbers still seem high. The article OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less…