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Western export controls on advanced semiconductors were designed to starve China and Russia of the chips they need for artificial intelligence and military applications. Instead, they are accelerating the creation of a parallel supply chain that could permanently reshape the global chip market. The emerging dynamic was captured by a single remark in May 2026. […]

Nubia has confirmed it will introduce what it calls the world’s first system-level AI agent smartphone later this month, marking a shift from AI-powered phones that answer questions to AI agents that perform multi-step tasks autonomously. The device will debut at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, running from July 17 to […]

AMD has quietly brought back its seven-year-old Zen 2 architecture in a new desktop processor, the Ryzen 7 4700LE, which has already appeared in a budget pre-built gaming PC on Amazon. The 4700LE is an 8-core, 16-thread CPU based on AMD’s Zen 2 microarchitecture, the same design that powered the Ryzen 3000 series when it […]

A team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM has achieved the first-known quantum computation of a fusion fuel material, a molten salt called FLiBe that future nuclear fusion reactors will use to breed their own fuel. The work, published as an arXiv preprint, used a hybrid quantum-classical approach called quantum-centric […]

OpenAI has released GPT-Live, a new family of voice models built on full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time, enabling natural conversational flow with backchannels, interruptions, and real-time turn-taking. The models, available in ChatGPT starting today, represent a significant architectural departure from both the original cascaded ChatGPT voice system and […]

A Change.org petition urging Sony to reverse its decision to stop producing physical PlayStation discs has surpassed 213,000 signatures, as backlash against the company’s plans for a digital-only future continues to intensify. Sony announced last week that it will cease production of physical game discs for PlayStation consoles starting in January 2028. After that point, […]

Security researchers have disclosed a new attack method called HalluSquatting that weaponises one of the most well-known weaknesses of large language models, their tendency to hallucinate, turning it into an automated vector for assembling botnets. The attack exploits a fundamental property of generative AI: when asked about a tool, library, or package the model has […]

Microsoft is testing a new feature called Cloud Rebuild that can re-image a broken Windows 11 machine entirely from the cloud, without requiring a USB drive, DVD, or any local copy of the operating system. The feature, currently available in an experimental Insider build, downloads both the target Windows image and the device’s drivers directly […]

Security researchers at Wiz have discovered a systematic vulnerability affecting six of the most widely used AI coding assistants, revealing that a classic Unix-era attack vector, the symbolic link, can trick autonomous agents into writing to sensitive files outside their designated workspace. Dubbed GhostApproval, the vulnerability exploits the trust gap between what an AI coding […]

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, positioning it as a cheaper, faster alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, arriving one day before OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 launch in a tightly timed salvo in the frontier model pricing war. Elon Musk described the model as “Opus-class” on X, claiming it is comparable to Anthropic’s flagship Claude Opus 4.7 […]