Tech

India’s week-long block of Telegram over exam fraud concerns triggered the country’s biggest single-day VPN download surge since at least 2025, as tens of millions of users scrambled for alternative messaging apps and circumvention tools. The Delhi High Court upheld the temporary restriction on June 18, accepting the government’s argument that blocking the platform was […]

When the White House ordered Anthropic to restrict access to its Fable and Mythos AI models on June 12, the company complied within roughly 90 minutes. The trigger, US officials believed that SK Telecom, a South Korean partner with suspected ties to China, could funnel the models to Beijing, set off an escalation that has […]

Apple’s iOS 27, unveiled at WWDC and now available in developer beta, brings a long list of refinements across Maps, Wallet, Find My, and Apple Music, less flashy than the new Siri AI overhaul, but collectively the most substantial point-release update in years. Apple Maps gains improved Flyover 3D views with more detailed visuals and […]

A Miami-based startup called Subquadratic claims to have solved the most fundamental efficiency problem holding back large language models: the quadratic scaling of attention. Its model, SubQ, uses dynamic sparse attention to process up to 12 million tokens at roughly 2% of the cost of a comparable dense-attention model, a claim that has drawn both […]

John M. Jumper, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner who led the AlphaFold project at Google DeepMind, announced his departure from the company to join rival AI lab Anthropic. The move, confirmed on June 19, marks one of the highest-profile talent transfers in the escalating competition among frontier AI labs. Jumper announced the news […]

Google is moving forward with the most significant security change to the Android app ecosystem in years. Starting September 30, 2026, Android apps must be registered to a developer with a verified identity to be installed on certified Android devices in four initial markets: Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. Global enforcement across all certified Android […]

The new Siri AI, unveiled at WWDC 2026 and now available in developer beta, is receiving its first wave of hands-on reviews. The verdict from early testers is consistent: Apple’s voice assistant, rebuilt on a custom Google Gemini model, is finally useful. WIRED’s Reece Rogers took the developer beta through its paces in San Francisco, […]

NASA has effectively stopped work on the Lunar Gateway’s primary habitation module, dealing another blow to the already troubled orbital station. The agency told Northrop Grumman contractor Paragon Space Development Corp. last week to stop working on the life-support system for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost, known as HALO, according to sources who spoke with […]

Current medical AI models can answer a question about a single symptom or lab result with impressive accuracy. They struggle when the answer requires connecting a radiology report from two years ago, a wearable sensor reading from last week, a specialist guideline, and a referral constraint into a single clinical decision. That gap between isolated […]

DeepSeek published the full technical report for its V4 model family on June 19, detailing the architectural innovations that make million-token context windows economically viable in production. The paper, released as an arXiv preprint, explains how the Chinese AI lab cut inference FLOPs to 27% and KV cache memory to 10% of its predecessor at […]