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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 […]

The semiconductor industry is facing a new kind of bottleneck: verification methodologies that cannot keep pace with the AI tools being deployed to solve them. In a detailed analysis from Semiconductor Engineering, industry leaders from Synopsys, Cadence, ChipAgents, Arteris, and other firms describe a landscape where AI is being deployed in every possible way to […]

Apple raised prices on its Mac computers, iPads, Vision Pro headset, HomePod speakers, and Apple TV set-top boxes on Thursday, the first time the company has imposed mid-cycle price increases across this many product lines at once. The increases went live globally on Apple’s online store Thursday morning, briefly taking down the site. Macs saw […]

Getting a humanoid robot to perform agile, whole-body motions is harder than it looks. Most text-to-motion AI models train on captured human movement data, then retarget those motions onto robots. The problem: human biomechanics, mass distribution, and contact strategies differ fundamentally from a robot’s, so motions that look kinematically correct on a skeleton often violate […]

OpenAI has agreed to delay the release of its next-generation model, GPT-5.6, following a request from the Trump administration citing cybersecurity concerns, according to a report from The Verge. The administration asked OpenAI to stagger the model’s rollout, and the government will now approve customer access on a case-by-case basis. The request aligns with a […]

Microsoft has announced price increases across its Xbox console lineup, just hours after Apple raised prices on Macs and iPads, both driven by the same root cause: surging memory chip costs from the AI data centre boom. The new prices take effect worldwide on August 1. The Xbox Series S 512 GB rises from US$399 […]

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s CleverHans Lab have demonstrated a new kind of malware: an AI-powered computer worm that does not follow a fixed script but reasons about each target it encounters and crafts a custom attack strategy on the fly. The worm runs on a single GPU using a freely available open-weight language […]