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Digital sovereignty has moved from policy slogan to operational agenda. At this year’s UN Open Source Week, a coalition of nations, technologists, and institutions laid out concrete roadmaps for replacing dependence on US cloud giants with open-source alternatives — and the conversation was notably more urgent than in years past. Tanzania: from consumers to creators. […]

For years, Nvidia has been the undisputed king of AI chips. Its graphics processors powered everything from training massive models to serving ChatGPT responses to millions of users. But a quiet revolution is underway: a growing list of major technology companies are designing their own silicon, and the era of total dependence on Nvidia may […]

Google is calling for AI regulation — but on terms that look remarkably favorable to its existing business practices. In a 21-page policy paper titled “A Pragmatic Approach to AI Governance in America,” released alongside a blog post from Google president Kent Walker, the company proposes what it calls a middle path between over-regulation and […]

A peer-reviewed critique published in Nature has challenged Microsoft’s landmark 2025 claim of having created the first topological qubits, alleging that the evidence was shaped by coding errors and selective data presentation. The critique, written by University of St Andrews lecturer Henry Legg, was published in Nature’s “Matters Arising” section, the journal’s formal venue for […]

A new paper on arXiv has proven a fundamental mathematical ceiling on the practice of combining multiple large language models to improve accuracy, and the findings challenge one of the field’s most common assumptions. The paper, by researcher Josef Chen, analyses 67 frontier models from 21 providers and introduces the concept of the “co-failure ceiling” […]

Apple is making a significant change to its Mac silicon roadmap, reportedly skipping the high-end variants of the upcoming M6 chip in favour of a new AI-focused M7 generation, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The base M6 processor, internally codenamed Komodo, is still expected to debut in a refreshed 14-inch MacBook Pro later this year […]

A new preprint on arXiv offers a detailed case study of something the AI research community has been promising for years: a human and an AI working together to make a genuine mathematical discovery, rather than the AI simply solving a problem the human already defined. The paper, from researchers Yanqiao Wang, Jin-Peng Liu, Peng […]

Microsoft has quietly extended its Windows 10 Extended Security Update program by another year, pushing the end date from October 2026 to October 2027. The company made the change with little public announcement. The program, which offers paid security-only patches for Windows 10 after official support ended in October 2025, was originally set to conclude […]

Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude family of large language models, has made a provocative argument: its own accumulating power and influence is a feature, not a bug, and is essential to making advanced AI safe. In a profile published by Wired, Anthropic executives acknowledged that the company has grown from a small safety-focused […]

Google has finally released a standalone Android app for Google Finance, 20 years after the product first launched as a web service, and roughly a decade after the company quietly removed its earlier mobile app in 2015. The app, built with Google’s Material 3 Expressive design language, provides real-time market data, personalized watchlists, and a […]