OpenAI shared new details on its forthcoming Astra model, which the company said is the first large language model to meet its “critical cybersecurity threshold,” in preparation for its imminent release. “We plan to make Astra available soon,” OpenAI’s blog post reads, “but access to its most advanced cybersecurity capabilities will be more limited.” The…
A social media account affiliated with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has accused US AI labs of applying a double standard to monitoring and data collection, singling out Anthropic for criticism. The critique comes amid reports that the two countries could hold talks on AI governance and deployment before Xi Jinping’s planned US visit on Sept….
If you’ve spent any time on gaming social media this week, you’ll see a lot of comparison screenshots of video games. The most common ones you’ll see are split-screen comparisons between an OG shot of the game and one that’s slightly more detailed, with a promise that this will be the “future” of gaming. This…
This week, the US Army used a high-energy multipurpose laser to shoot down three drones near the US-Mexico border, which official reports claimed were “posing a physical threat to US military personnel and CBP partners,” referring to Customs and Border Patrol. The operation took place between the night of August 25 and the early morning…
Google is entering the creative design market with a new image creation and editing tool called Google Pics, which will become a part of its Google Workspace suite for business customers and premium Google AI subscribers. The company says the product, which is powered by Google’s Nano Banana image generation model, will roll out over…
Meta is teaching robots to play technician, and the experiment could change who keeps its sprawling AI data centers running. Meta is testing robots from Watney Robotics, Kinova and ABB for jobs including swapping network cables, restarting servers, reseating hardware and cutting power to equipment, according to WIRED reporting based on interviews with current and…
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Sonos has a new app. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The smart speaker company, long a darling of the audio industry, undid much of the goodwill it earned with its multiroom speakers through a bevy of software updates that broke its app in 2024. Almost all app users hated it, citing the…
The founders behind Starcloud, a startup with plans to operate a fleet of GPUs in orbit, have a new pitch for potential investors: A plan to send a tiny spacecraft on an 80,000 year journey to Alpha Centauri. If they do it, it will be the first human-built object explicitly aimed for another star, and…
Google is paying a hefty price to make one of its biggest Play Store headaches go away. Alphabet Inc., its parent company, reached a £260 million ($353 million) settlement to resolve a major class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of thousands of British app developers. The lawsuit alleged that Google exploited its dominance over Android devices…
