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Elon Musk has publicly reversed his stance on Anthropic, calling the AI lab “clearly the leader in AI” and promising not to cut off its access to the xAI compute infrastructure it relies on, a remarkable concession from a man whose own companies, including xAI and SpaceX, compete directly with Anthropic. “I was clearly wrong […]

A US startup has delivered the first commercial sodium-ion home batteries in Europe, marking a significant milestone in the quest for a lithium-free alternative to residential energy storage. UNIGRID, a spin-off from the University of California San Diego, announced that the first units of its Na+Casa sodium-ion battery have been installed in European homes. The […]

Meta has launched Muse Image, an AI image-generation tool integrated directly into Instagram, that allows any user to tag a public account and use that account’s photos as raw material for AI-generated creations, with no notification or consent required from the person whose images are being used. The feature, which launched on July 7, lets […]

AMD has formally abandoned HBM (high-bandwidth memory) in its programmable chip lineup, replacing it with LPDDR5X on-package memory, a move that represents a roughly 65% bandwidth cut and underscores just how completely the AI boom has consumed the global HBM supply. The company’s new Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package (MoP) family integrates up […]

A former ransomware negotiator has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison after admitting he colluded with the BlackCat ransomware group to extort the very victims who had hired him to represent them. The sentence, handed down on Thursday, concludes a case that cybersecurity professionals describe as an unprecedented breach of trust in an […]

Anthropic has revealed that its Claude AI models spontaneously developed an internal reasoning structure strikingly similar to a key feature of human consciousness, a “global workspace” the company can now read and influence. The discovery, published in a research paper on July 6, is called the J-space (short for Jacobian space, named after the mathematical […]

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and the company’s hardware chief, accusing the ChatGPT maker of orchestrating a campaign to steal the iPhone-maker’s trade secrets. The complaint, filed on Friday in a California court, alleges that OpenAI encouraged former Apple employees to bring confidential presentations, unreleased component prototypes, and detailed supplier information when they […]

OpenAI is shutting down its standalone ChatGPT Atlas browser experiment less than 12 months after launch, absorbing its agentic capabilities into a new workplace productivity platform. Atlas, which launched in October 2025, was OpenAI’s attempt to rethink the browser from the ground up as an AI-native experience. Rather than competing with Chrome on speed or […]

The European Commission has formally accused Meta of breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA) through the addictive design of Facebook and Instagram, threatening fines of up to 6% of the company’s global annual turnover. The charges target four specific design features that the Commission says drive compulsive use: infinite scroll, video autoplay, push notifications, and […]

Apple has released iOS 26.5.2, a security-focused update that patches over two dozen vulnerabilities, many of them in WebKit, the engine that powers Safari and third-party browsers on iPhone and iPad. The update, released on June 29, arrives nearly a month after iOS 26.5.1 and addresses a range of security issues Apple describes as being […]