Marceline Thorne-Vega

On Wired's Uncanny Valley, senior writer Will Knight draws on a recent China trip to ask whether shared vulnerability could become shared diplomacy.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng struck an optimistic tone, but a lingering crypto slump and surging interest in AI dampened enthusiasm at the conference.

The identity verification firm's fresh capital and acquisition aim to supercharge its RiskOS fraud-fighting platform with agentic AI.

IBM is bringing Arm to its future IBM Z and LinuxONE systems, connecting mission-critical enterprise computing with modern cloud and AI infrastructure.

The deal resolves allegations that TikTok and parent company ByteDance collected vast amounts of data on millions of users under 13.

After years of leaning on its own wallet, the retail giant will open its registers to rival tap-to-pay platforms, starting at select stores on August 24th.

China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom are centering billable AI tokens and computing operations in their latest growth strategies as AI adoption surges nationwide.

The SusRes program invested 120 million kroner in interdisciplinary research before concluding at a final conference.

Analysts say the Chinese tech giant is seeing faster payback on AI investments and cloud growth that has not yet peaked as it reaches the halfway mark of its 380 billion yuan infrastructure push.

The German tech publisher's iX brand pitches Make.com and n8n as a hands-on path to deploying AI agents across business workflows without writing code.

While the UK government faces mounting pressure to scrap a sprawling Palantir health care deal, Greater Manchester insists it can do better on its own.

Enterprise customers appear willing to switch between frontier AI labs as new models land, raising questions about how durable their spending commitments really are.

Velatir lands fresh capital six months after its pre-Seed round and official launch.

Brussels' landmark AI regulation is poised to influence how South African media build, use, and govern AI tools far beyond Europe's borders.

A new analysis explores how Gulf sovereign wealth acquisitions intersect with Egypt's institutional and policy frameworks.

The computer scientist known as a 'godmother of AI' describes leading her venture, World Labs, with a demanding, high-expectation approach.

The automaker is positioning artificial intelligence embodied in machines as the cornerstone of a strategy to move past traditional automobile manufacturing.

Anthropic's new invisible watermarks, meant to satisfy new EU rules, drew online override methods within hours of the announcement.

Silicon Data is building a benchmark to help investors value and hedge the soaring cost of AI computing power.

The municipal government's new plan leans on blockchain and AI infrastructure to supercharge its digital economy and close the gap with China's other leading tech hubs.

By reconstructing the company's surveillance software, WIRED confirms the tool's reach extends well past plate readers—and some departments are already running it.

China's best-known humanoid robot maker sees its shares leap more than sixfold on opening before early profit-taking trims gains.

The world's biggest humanoid robot maker sees its shares surge as trading begins on Shanghai's Star market.

The Securities and Exchange Commission moves toward formal rulemaking for certain cryptocurrency-based investment contracts.

Leaked camera-equipped AirPods suggest Apple may lean on strict recording limits to sidestep the privacy pitfalls dogging other AI wearables.

The new offering adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools to the chatbot teens were already using.

Tony Wu Yuhuai, a China-born co-founder of Elon Musk's AI lab, has become the focus of Chinese social media after a reported ultra-luxury Bay Area home purchase.

Professor Eugene Fitzgerald's latest book examines the complex forces that turn scientific breakthroughs into real-world value.

The new dedicated mode centralizes existing youth safeguards and adds fresh safety features as regulators and rival platforms tighten age-based protections for AI tools.

A new UK trial tests whether artificial intelligence can cut contrails, the heat-trapping streaks left behind by aircraft.

Version 27 of key Adobe applications will not run on Intel-based Macs, following Apple's completed transition to Apple Silicon.

Founder and CEO Jacob Bank says he'll soon share more on ambitious plans to help users work with AI in Chrome.

In a Heise commentary, the AvD argues that battery-electric cars alone cannot deliver climate neutrality and calls for lower energy prices and synthetic fuels.

The Japanese ramen chain is targeting expansion in Muslim-majority Indonesia, with halal considerations central to its strategy.

A new Heise+ tutorial argues that moving off classic application servers can modernize legacy Jakarta EE workloads.

Beijing-based Ingenic Semiconductor has launched a Hong Kong share offering to raise up to HK$3.22 billion (US$410.4 million) to fund international growth.

Organizers are giving prospective attendees an extra week of discounted pricing for the online conference and adding a new on-site workshop in Cologne.

A new Spiceworks piece outlines how tech workers can preserve their value and career growth as AI reshapes the industry.

CoinMarketCap lists live price, market cap and chart data for the USD.AI token, which trades under the ticker CHIP.

The $50 Snap Grip Stand converted a critic who had previously dismissed the brand's accessories as overpriced.

Nikkei Asia highlights ten notable Japanese craft spirit distilleries that offer public tours and tastings.

A new 'Media watermark' toggle in Gemini and Flow lets users strip the sparkle marker from AI-generated images, video, and music.

An open-weight model arrives alongside a locked, more powerful system, raising questions about how far Meta's AI openness really goes.

According to Nikkei Asia, Chinese electric vehicle brands, spearheaded by BYD, are closing in on the long-held stronghold of Japanese automakers in Australia.

A pro se litigant reportedly seeded his filings with chatbot-style prompts, underscoring growing confusion over how AI is being used in legal proceedings.

A partnership between UGM, Indosat, NVIDIA and the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs establishes the country's first university-based AI technology center in Yogyakarta.

Singapore's sovereign wealth fund revealed a 6.7 million-share position in the Indian online travel company MakeMyTrip (MMYT) through an SEC filing.

After a multi-billion kroner loss in 2024, the investment firm Perestroika posted a pre-tax profit exceeding 500 million kroner last year.

The AI company is tapping Dali Rajic to become its top salesperson as leadership changes continue.

MIT Technology Review argues the transition to post-quantum cryptography is a practical migration for business leaders rather than an emergency, despite quantum computing's threat to current encryption.

Prospective attendees have until 5 p.m. EDT on Sept. 16 to register for the Sept. 23–24 session.

The Chinese AI firm's latest flagship model is now available, but at steeply increased subscription rates for users.

The Chinese tech giant makes its flagship model free to download but requires large companies to pay for a separate commercial license.

The company acknowledges a slow response after US police officers misused its licence plate-reading cameras to track romantic partners.

The Switch 2's first Fire Emblem lets players swap between four heroes instead of pledging to a single faction like Three Houses.

China's top two contract chipmakers posted triple-digit second-quarter profit gains as demand surged for domestic AI chips free of US export controls.

Anthropic's 'Scarlet Letter' system tags anything Claude processed—including human writing it only edited—while staying invisible to users, for now.

The title is back as a Legacy Edition, but owners of the version removed in 2019 get no free upgrade.

Beijing's coordinated push across insurers, banks, and local governments aims to fast-track brain-computer interfaces from lab to patient.

Twitch's Chief Product Officer defended the opt-out default on a livestream, saying an opt-in system would draw almost no participation.

Nikkei Asia reports that Dhaka is pursuing partnerships with Turkey and China to develop domestic drone manufacturing capacity.

Nearly a third of British manufacturers report cyber-attacks on them or their supply chains, yet only half have a plan to respond.

The head coach, who initially took full blame, disclosed the new detail during a recent press conference.

The AI company's coding assistant will soon operate with even less human oversight as auto mode switches on by default.

The AI company has launched its Armenia facility as the first stage of a plan to deploy more than 70,000 Nvidia GPUs by 2027.

A Verge column reframes automated writing-detection tools as a cultural fault line, tracing suspicion about machine authorship back well before ChatGPT.

On its fifth anniversary, the German tech publisher's training arm surveys the current challenges facing IT continuing education.

Lower-cost Chinese open-weight models are unsettling US investors even as analysts argue plummeting costs could expand global demand for AI systems.

Rating agency cautions that financial institutions' AI adoption promises gains but leaves them exposed to outages and pricing pressure from dominant tech firms.

The author and academic argues education is at a crossroads, warning AI could enable disinformation, surveillance and inequality even as it promises real benefits in medicine, disability access and science.

The streaming platform's newest FAST experiment abandons handpicked libraries in favor of an unending stream of machine-made video.

After burning through millions on AI in months, Rippling launched AI Spend Console to track individual and team employee AI spending.

The agency's announcement frames the session around overnight operations and market resiliency rather than an immediate overhaul.

Hwatsing Technology's new metrology system for six-inch wafers marks fresh progress in China's chip-tool sector, even as advanced manufacturing still leans on foreign suppliers.

The WTA official score page lists Jessica Pegula against Alexandra Eala in the 2026 Washington, DC championship match.

Qatar-based telecom Ooredoo partners with Nvidia and Nokia on a multi-billion-dollar AI compute platform targeting Southeast Asia.

The Japanese trading house is moving to scale up beef production in Vietnam using sanitation and quality-management practices modeled on Japanese standards.

The forthcoming open-source model forecasts both a storm's track and intensity from lower-resolution data, though researchers admit they don't fully understand how it works.

A Guardian letter argues that banks should measure not only AI time savings but also the extra human work created when automation fails.

The AI agent environment Cloudflare originally built in-house for its employees is now being released as open-source tooling for people who don't write code.

A Lawfare analysis finds xAI's AI-generated encyclopedia has been frozen since late April, with no entry changed in more than three months.

The e-commerce company brings serial entrepreneur Elias Torres back as chief product officer to spearhead its AI agent development.

Two cutting-edge systems targeted real people and organisations in what the UK's AI Security Institute calls an unprecedented incident.

The software company is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models, with plans to extend on-device inference to third-party developers.

'Looksmaxxing' culture has spawned facial-analysis services like Qoves that sell 'science-backed' beauty advice for hundreds of dollars—but experts warn they lack scientific backing and can harm users.

Tech strategic adviser Itay Sagie argues that integrating AI can inadvertently reduce acquisition value unless founders design their AI strategy with exits in mind.

The feel-good sports sitcom's comeback may prove the most important release in a year packed with returning favorites and new originals.

Chinese tech giant extends global access to Hy3 through WorkBuddy, Tencent Design Miora and TokenHub, offering it free for a limited time.

Her brother, Filip Hammar, announced the news on Instagram.

The Japanese HVAC maker posted a higher profit, with hotter European weather driving stronger demand for cooling units.

Elon Musk tells financial analysts that critics are underestimating his aerospace giant as it reports its first-ever financial results.

The carrier's new EIP Flex 36 stretches the standard installment window by a year and waives upfront costs for a limited time.

NVIDIA's frontier open model aims to help self-driving vehicles navigate rare, complex scenarios beyond standard object detection and motion prediction.

A new compact model from LiquidAI is pitched as a foundation for deploying on-device AI agents everywhere.

A broadcast feature promises to read players' faces—leaving the poker world to wonder whether it's a party trick or a threat to the game's future.

Endeavour Optical Networks is betting that ultra-fast laser links in space can outpace today's undersea fiber backbone.

Swedish police have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected assault after a brawl in Västerås SK's away supporter section during Monday's match against Djurgården.

A reported $100 million deal would equip 50,000 Ukrainian kamikaze drones with US-developed AI, pushing one-way strike drones toward independent target tracking.

A new malware campaign spreading through the Arch User Repository has prompted maintainers to suspend all AUR updates for the time being.

Leaked press images offer the clearest look yet at Lenovo's first Googlebook models, showing both a traditional laptop and a 2-in-1 tablet ahead of a launch expected later this year.

The embodied AI division becomes the fourth Ant Group unit to step up capital-raising as it advances its general-purpose 'robot brain' ambitions.

A much-hyped AI-generated staging of Wagner's Ring at the festival's 150th anniversary lands as banal bric-a-brac rather than a probing meditation on power, knowledge and technology.

On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Altman's plea to slow the rate of AI progress puts him at the center of the industry's acceleration-versus-deceleration fight.

Recent local elections indicate declining support for Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's ruling coalition.

Heise reviews the 24B2D5300 dual-screen display, a 120 Hz unit built for client-facing desks and shared workspaces.

A rapid portfolio liquidation by a fast-rising Wall Street hedge fund has sparked urgent warnings from Shanghai market analysts against the use of leverage.

A burst of progress in China's AI, chips and robotics is unsettling US markets, dividing tech leaders and forcing the Trump administration to react.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump urged Britain to stop depending on Norwegian oil, dismissing its role as only 'peanuts in the big picture.'

Maria Myklebust Olsen, a recent biotechnology graduate from Trondheim, will lead the student parliament after choosing to remain in the coastal city for another year.

CSAIL director and MIT professor recognized for contributions spanning robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking applications to strengthen the network that supports small and medium-sized manufacturers, with an informational webinar planned for July 28.

As AI's computational demands outgrow single massive chips, Intel positions its U.S. advanced packaging to interconnect specialized chips into faster, unified systems.

Through JVM tuning and workload-specific optimization, Atlassian improved throughput and latency while cutting costs across thousands of instances.

The shared family planner is discounted through August 9th as households brace for a hectic return-to-class season.

The Verge's Dominic Preston argues that as foldable phones lose their novelty and settle into maturity, the resulting stagnation is exactly the opening Apple has been waiting for.

Nvidia-backed AI startup Safe Superintelligence and fusion energy firm Commonwealth Fusion Systems topped this week's largest venture rounds.

New EU regulations require people to be told when they're interacting with AI or viewing AI-generated content, raising fears of 'disclosure fatigue.'

The European Commission outlines a multi-pronged funding strategy to address structural challenges and promote media freedom, pluralism, and innovation.

AI investor Sarah Guo champions NVIDIA's Jetson platform as a compact, powerful compute solution enabling AI development and deployment beyond centralized data centers.

The latest iteration of Google's AI music model promises advances in musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control.

Brussels pushed back high-risk deadlines through the Digital Omnibus but left Article 50's disclosure obligations locked on the original calendar.

The Shoreline Mafia member's solo climb to No. 58 has triggered immediate speculation that the track is largely machine-made.

The company is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers but will keep existing unpermitted turbines in place for months.

The AI lab has posted a new V4-Flash version designation to its API docs, with no accompanying technical details.

The AI lab is reportedly building a system aimed at sustaining work beyond the single prompt.

A new right-to-try framework aims to turn the state into a hub for early-stage biotech therapies, allowing drugs to advance after only preliminary testing.

Satya Nadella says the unified app combining chat, coding, and agentic capabilities will span consumer and commercial experiences when it launches this year.

A newly discovered fatal weakness took down a PQC algorithm that had survived years of testing.

Retaining reasoning and enabling compaction boosted GPT-5.6 performance and efficiency on the abstract-reasoning benchmark.