Tech

A position paper accepted as a spotlight at ICML 2026 warns that the EU AI Act’s research exemptions may be incompatible with the standard publication practices of major AI conferences, creating legal uncertainty for academic researchers who release models and datasets. The paper, by Alina Wernick and Kristof Meding, argues that the AI Act’s obligations […]

Microsoft’s sweeping Xbox restructuring has reached Obsidian Entertainment, with the studio reportedly canceling a planned Avowed sequel and pivoting to develop a new Fallout game under the direction of Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported that the decision is part of a broader Xbox “reset” that has affected 3,200 staff across […]

A startup called General Intuition believes it has found the shortcut to general-purpose robotics: millions of hours of video game footage paired with controller inputs. The company, which raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation in June, argues that the robotics industry is approaching a GPT-3-like inflection point where a single foundation model will […]

China’s National Vulnerability Database (CNVDB) has issued an urgent warning claiming that specific versions of Anthropic’s Claude Code AI coding tool contain “security backdoor vulnerabilities” that can transmit sensitive user data to remote servers without consent. The state-run body said the alert applies to Claude Code versions 2.1.91 (released April 2) through 2.1.196 (released June […]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission secured a settlement with Deere and Company on Wednesday that forces the tractor manufacturer to give farmers and independent repair shops access to the software tools needed to fix modern agricultural equipment, a major victory for the right-to-repair movement after more than a decade of advocacy. The settlement resolves a […]

SambaNova Systems, the Intel-backed AI chip startup, is demonstrating that older Nvidia GPUs can still compete at the frontier of AI inference, if you pair them with the right accelerator. Third-party benchmarks from Artificial Analysis show that SambaNova’s heterogeneous computing platform, which combines four Nvidia H200 GPUs with 16 of the company’s own SN50 RDU […]

OpenAI will release its GPT-5.6 family of models on Thursday, splitting its flagship offering into three capability tiers, Sol, Terra, and Luna, in a structural shift from the company’s previous single-model approach. CEO Sam Altman confirmed the July 10 release date in a post on X on Wednesday. The models were first previewed on June […]

A proposed New Jersey bill requiring all driverless vehicles to be equipped with lidar could effectively ban Tesla’s robotaxi service in the state, reigniting the decade-old debate over whether cameras alone are sufficient for autonomous driving. The legislation, first reported by The Verge, mandates that any vehicle operating without a human driver must carry lidar […]

Enterprise adoption of AI-powered tools has opened a new front in data security: unintentional data leakage through employees pasting sensitive information into chatbots, AI search tools, and coding assistants, often without realizing the data is leaving the organization’s control. TechRadar reports that the problem has reached crisis proportions as businesses deploy AI tools like ChatGPT, […]

Nvidia is positioning its Vera CPU, an 88-core Arm processor now in full production, around a metric the company rarely leads on: single-threaded performance, which it argues is critical for the “think fast, verify, and orchestrate” workloads of agentic AI. Announced at GTC in March and shipping in systems from Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro […]