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Google has rolled out two significant updates to its AI-powered video creation tool Vids: integration with Gemini Omni for text-to-video generation and conversational editing, and personal AI avatars that let users create a digital likeness of themselves to appear in videos without ever turning on a camera. The first update brings Google’s latest multimodal model, […]

Google Cloud has open-sourced a lightweight AI agent that rethinks how AI systems handle long-term memory, replacing the standard retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline with a continuously running process that reads, consolidates, and queries structured memories stored entirely in SQLite. The Always-On Memory Agent, built with Google’s Agent Development Kit and running on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, […]

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released its first model, a 975-billion-parameter behemoth called Inkling that is now the largest American open-weight AI model on the market. Released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, Inkling is a mixture-of-experts system that activates roughly 41 billion of its total […]

ASML is pushing ahead with price increases on its low-NA EUV lithography systems, and TSMC, its largest customer, is pushing back, according to multiple reports from The Information and Reuters. Each low-NA EUV machine is priced at roughly US$235 million (approximately £183 million), depending on configuration. With ASML targeting shipment of at least 60 such […]

Apple has raised prices on Apple Music and select Apple One bundles, marking the first increase for its music streaming service in nearly four years and a sharp reversal from the company’s recent positioning as the stable-price alternative to competitors. In the United States, the individual Apple Music plan rises from US$10.99 to US$11.99 per […]

Flash memory is stuck at 28nm, unable to scale further, and as chipmakers push deeper into advanced nodes, a new generation of nonvolatile memory technologies is stepping in to fill the gap. The contenders, however, are not competing for a single crown. The emerging picture is one of coexistence: different memories for different jobs. Semiconductor […]

Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed a record 570 security vulnerabilities, but the same day a new Windows zero-day dubbed HiveLegacy was disclosed, described by researchers as a “powerful primitive” capable of enabling further attacks. The HiveLegacy vulnerability was disclosed by the same threat actor who previously released the LegacyHive zero-day targeting Microsoft systems. Researchers […]

Russian internet users found themselves locked out of Google, Apple, and GitHub services beginning July 14 in what appeared to be a coordinated wave of unexplained nationwide outages, forcing citizens to turn to VPNs to restore access. According to Russian outage monitor Detector404, problems began around 10:00 MSK with users filing more than 1,000 complaints […]

Microsoft is ending OneDrive support for Windows 10 version 22H1, giving users on the older build less than a month to upgrade before they lose access to new features, security patches, and bug fixes. The change, reported by PCWorld, takes effect on August 15, 2026. After that date, OneDrive will no longer receive updates on […]

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs have laid out a joint bioresilience program, formalizing how they intend to use artificial intelligence to prevent, detect, and respond to biological threats, including those that AI itself could enable. The program, detailed in a July 16 blog post, is built on a sobering premise: shifting natural ecosystems, global travel […]