Trump held a summit recently with tech leaders on AI , and the two main outcomes seemed to be 1. A signed document where the leaders vaguely agreed to police themselves internally, and 2. Yet another push by Trump to rename artificial intelligence to "super intelligence" . So is the signed document legally binding in any way? In the Daily Show clip above, host Jordan Klepper plays a clip of Trump…
RunStar 8E SmartScan Pro: One minute review The RunStar 8E SmartScan Pro is one of the best smart scales designed for ease of health monitoring for the entire family, fitness enthusiasts who want metrics on their body fat and muscle, and general users desiring to track their body composition over time. The smart scale delivers 28 metrics, which, for this price, is rather impressive. There’s also a…
Oster Vortex blenders lineup: Oster Vortex Blender Series $49.99 at Amazon (save $10) Get Deal Oster QuietPro Professional Blender $249.99 at Costco Shop Now Oster Titan Performance Blender $279.99 at Amazon (save $50) Get Deal Oster is revamping its kitchen gear with three new blenders engineered to wipe out the most annoying parts of making a smoothie . The brand zeroed in on three specific ever…
Stream The Celebrity Traitors Series 2 free on BBC iPlayer (UK restricted) Use NordVPN to watch BBC iPlayer when abroad Premieres in the UK on Thursday, October 1 at 8pm BST You can watch The Celebrity Traitors Series 2 free on BBC iPlayer , with the hit reality show returning on October 1. Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the new series sees 21 famous faces head to the Traitors castle in the Scottish…
The company claims that its new device, the Neurable One, can keep you in the zone, calculate the best time to take a break, and tell you when your “brain battery” needs a recharge.
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times : After a four-month US prison sentence, Changpeng Zhao is now living a gilded life in Abu Dhabi; he retains majority ownership of Binance and a $10B+ net worth — The Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who pleaded guilty to violating an anti-money-laundering law, was pardoned by President Trump …
SAVE $10: As of Oct. 1, the Apple AirTag (2nd Gen) 4-Pack is available for $89 at Amazon. That's a $10 saving on the regular list price of $99. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Apple AirTag (2nd Gen) 4-Pack $89 at Amazon $99 Save $10 Get Deal It's easy to get lost in all the deals during major sale events like October Prime Day . The two-day event doesn't officially launch until Oct. 6, and alr…
An AI agent approves a supplier payment . The invoice matches the purchase order, the amount sits within budget and the supplier is already in the system. Every check passes, but the decision is still wrong because the contract expired yesterday. That’s the risk enterprises now face. An agent can make a decision that is entirely logical within the information it has and still be wrong because the…
Movie studios are turning to the horror fiction site SCP Foundation and showing how dealing with that community can go right, and wrong. Movie studios are turning to the horror fiction site SCP Foundation and showing how dealing with that community can go right, and wrong.
Google's got a new frontier AI model, but as is customary these days, it's not available to most people. Launched on Thursday, Google Gemini 4 Argon is a "frontier" AI model that's rolling out to a "set of trusted cyber defenders" through Google's Fairwind Program . With the move, Google follows OpenAI and Anthropic , which have also released their most capable models only to a trusted set of part…
A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and recreate that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at. In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what the user actually saw—and its right-hand counterpart is what the model recreated based on th…
Kim Zetter / Wired : An interview with Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd, who says the US spyware maker lacks visibility into customer targeting data and has no “kill switch” — In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd reveals the limits of the company's promise …
Everyone knows how this goes. First, an email with the survey data cut a dozen ways. A column with green and red scoring against last year, and with your team’s scores versus other parts of the company. It culminates with a flurry of activity, from a slide deck to a town hall and action-planning committees. A month later, nobody mentions it again. And the company doesn’t send the survey again for…
James Dolan has put surveillance at the center of his sports and entertainment empire. Now he’s getting involved in GOP politics by backing a candidate who supports Flock, ICE, and AI data centers.
SAVE $150: As of Oct. 1, the Dyson Cyclone V10 Origin cordless vacuum is back to its lowest-ever price of $329.99 at Amazon, exclusively for Prime members. That's $150 off its full price of $479.99. Opens in a new window Credit: Dyson Dyson Cyclone V10 Origin Cordless Vacuum $329.99 at Amazon $479.99 Save $150 Get Deal Sale events, like next week's Prime Big Deal Days , are the perfect opportunity…
On October 21, 150 CFOs, operators, founders and researchers will gather at The Times Center in New York. They will discuss how AI is reshaping cash, capital and the finance function. In a Gartner survey of 183 CFOs, 84% of finance organizations had deployed AI or planned to. Yet only 7% reported a high impact. […] This story continues at The Next Web
A group of hackers believed to have been acting on behalf of China pretended to be well-known American AI experts to obtain the email accounts of people who specialize in AI policy. According to Reuters, the security firm Proofpoint released the findings on Thursday. Proofpoint has identified the group as TA419 and has said that […] This story continues at The Next Web
I’m sorry, this is just a camera that makes phone calls. | Image: Huawei Over the last few years, Chinese Android manufacturers have followed Vivo's example of launching add-on "teleconverter" lenses for their flagship phones, enabling long-distance photography that the phones on their own could never match. Today, Huawei one-upped everybody with the add-on lens for its Mate 90 Pro Max flagship, w…
Remember Tokenmaxxing? Just some months ago, reports of tech companies tracking and gamifying token usage as a measure of employees as AI ‘power users’ caught global attention. There’s been an 180-degree turn since. The gradual pivot from experimentation to at-scale deployment of AI agents comes with a bigger bill. Uber bemoaned blowing its entire AI budget for 2026 in four months. This has led ma…
Lemmo wants you to call it an SUV. | Image: Lemmo The Lemmo 3 is the first cargo bike from the respected German e-bike maker. This premium, step-through longtail is a slightly less insane take on Rivian's Also TM-B , with one major advantage: it's one of the first electric bikes to feature a semi-solid state battery . Semi-solid state batteries are far safer than traditional lithium-ion batteries.…
AI usage is far from even when it comes to managers vs. regular workers Workers are facing more work or increased complexity due to AI Redesigning work is more important than upping quality or quantity New PwC research has claimed 19% of UK workers now use AI every day at work, up from 15% last year, but despite some progression, there are still clearly some biases when it comes to who uses AI and…
Early generative AI models, circa 2017-2022, were “stochastic parrots.” That is, they generated language by choosing the statistically most likely next word based on patterns in their training data, rather than truly understanding what they were saying. Beginning in 2023, artificial intelligence labs began releasing large language models (LLMs) that had evolved beyond autoregressive next-token pre…
Samsung unveils its first ever ear-cuff style buds, Galaxy Buds On Clip-on, C-bridge style open earbuds with head gestures and other features Only announced for Korean market for now, global launch TBC We've been hearing leaks about new open earbuds from Samsung for months now , but I'm going to have to find a new rumored product to speculate about, because the brand has finally unveiled these new…
On the morning of May 11th, the celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary appeared on Fox Business and announced that he was under attack by Chinese agents. For weeks, he had been going on TV and posting online to tout his project, called Wonder Valley, after his nickname from the reality show Shark Tank , Mr. Wonderful. It was going to be enormous, “the largest data center in the world,” sitting on 40,000…
If you want to install a big battery in New York City, you have to cut through a notoriously tough tangle of regulations. That’s made it difficult to get large energy storage projects on the grid. Faced with those obstacles, some startups are getting creative, finding ways to use relatively small batteries in unexpected places, from induction stovetops to food carts. By deploying these more consum…
Matternet wants to make fried chicken rain from the sky. To do that, the drone delivery company has developed a new version of its last-mile logistics system, which features a drone that carries up to 11 pounds and simpler, lower-cost dock stations. The company is looking to roll out this delivery system in the second half of 2027. Called the M3, this autonomous architecture puts new, more powerfu…
If you live in a place with a cold winter, dressing for work in the middle of January is more complicated than it seems. You want to wear your jeans to the office, but ordinary denim doesn’t provide enough warmth on freezing day. The available solutions aren’t great. You could wear thermal leggings under your jeans, but you’ll start sweating the minute you leave the sidewalk to enter your heated b…
With seemingly endless studies showing doomscrolling is bad for mental health , more people are rethinking their relationship with social media and digital content. Enter “bloomscrolling,” the latest trend on social media, which encourages people to intentionally and actively seek out uplifting and inspiring content online. According to experts, it reflects a broader shift away from passively cons…
The Mac Studio can run frontier-level AI language models locally. It’s only a preview of what’s to come.
Today, the company announced that PLD Space had entered into an agreement with CNES, the French space agency, and that both parties were considering building a second launch pad for PLD’s rockets at the spaceport in French Guiana. They will examine whether the new pad can be accommodated at the ELM-Diamant site of the Guiana […] This story continues at The Next Web
Dakota Johnson is hosting SNL for the third time this weekend, but she keeps it deadpan in the promo above. "This is your third time hosting, this is my third season," says cast member Ashley Padilla. "We're kind of like twins, don't you think?" "Have you ever skinned a goat with your bare hands?" responds Johnson. "Then you and I are nothing alike." Dakota Johnson appeared alongside "SNL" cast me…
A generation from now, the mathematician may no longer be anyone’s idea of a hero. In our era, physicists and mathematicians have had a certain hero charm. AI is taking it away, and fast. I should know. I’m one of those heroes. For most of history, math was for nerds. Basic calculations may have been essential to commerce, but the advanced, esoteric stuff, like number theory, algebraic topology, a…
Jimmy Kimmel 's usual jokes about Trump were interrupted on Wednesday by an unlikely guest. "The last time we were here in Brooklyn we were just getting back on the air after we had that unexpected FCC vacation week ," says Kimmel in the monologue above. "And while I would like to say that things have improved over the last year, they haven't really. We are still being threatened by the FCC." Cue…
SAVE $40: As of Oct. 1, the Fire TV Stick 4K Max is on sale for $44.99 at Amazon. That's 47% off the list price. Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon Fire Stick 4K Max $44.99 at Amazon $84.99 Save $40.00 Get Deal The Fire TV Stick 4K Max recently got more expensive, with Amazon raising its regular price to $84.99. Thankfully, Prime Day is almost here, with a chance to get it at a lower price as ea…
SAVE $100.01 : As of Oct. 1, the Jackery Explorer 2000 v2 is on sale for $898.99 at Amazon. That's a 10% discount on the list price. Opens in a new window Credit: Jackery Jackery Explorer 2000 v2 $898.99 at Amazon $999 Save $100.01 Get Deal Prime Day hasn't officially started yet, but Amazon's early deals are already rolling in. That means it's worth checking on some of the bigger-ticket tech. If…
We can exclusively reveal 'Sibling Theme' from Control Resonant 's official soundtrack The track represents Jesse and Dylan's bond and is a "subset of the origin theme" Composer Petri Alanko says the track "carries the emotions, as if it soothes and comforts the siblings’ dented childhood memories" Remedy Entertainment's Control Resonant has launched on PC and consoles, and to mark the release, we…
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<img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/mergequeue/en/mediumimage/dhruva-juloori-medium-1790247259869.jpeg"/><p>Dhruva Juloori discusses how Uber maintains green mainlines across massive monorepos handling 65,000+ monthly changes. He explains how SubmitQueue uses binary speculation trees, conflict analysis, and machine learning models to predict build success and execution times. Dhruva shar…
Avengers: Secret Wars might not make its December 2027 release date Various leakers suggest filming on the Marvel movie won't begin in late 2026 Any delays would have a knock-on effect for future MCU projects Avengers: Secret Wars might not make its December 17, 2027 launch date amid claims that its shooting schedule has been delayed by two months. According to multiple insiders, the cameras won't…