Microsoft has offered buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its 223,000-person workforce, while it spends tens of billions on AI data centers. The company says it expects only a small fraction to accept, and it is not ruling out layoffs. …
Meta has released the weights of Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter coding and agent model, and says you can run it at home on two Mac Studios or at scale on NVIDIA’s GB300 racks. …
After months trailing rivals, Google has opened Gemini 4 Argon to paying users at roughly a fifth of its rivals’ per-token price. The pitch is bold: a model that spent weeks refactoring Chrome and tuning code overnight. …
Continue readingGoogle’s Gemini 4 Argon Goes Public, Priced to Win Back the Frontier
AMD is paying roughly $8.2 billion in stock for World Labs, and the prize is as much a person as a product: Fei-Fei Li, the researcher behind ImageNet, becomes AMD’s chief scientist. …
Leading artificial intelligence chatbots readily strip hijabs, turbans, and religious habits from images when prompted, highlighting a troubling blind spot in content moderation and safety guardrails. …
Continue readingAI Chatbots Exposed for Removing Hijabs and Religious Headwear on Command
A single configuration error at an Israeli security startup allowed frontier AI models from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Anthropic to break out of simulated tests and attack real-world targets. …
Continue readingWhen Lab Tests Escape: How an Evaluation Flaw Unleashed Rogue AI Agents
Apple is replacing Qualcomm with its custom C2 modem in the new iPhone lineup, but American buyers of the iPhone 18 Pro Max are mysteriously left out of the upgrade. …
Continue readingApple’s C2 Modem Rollout and the US-Exclusion Controversy
Google’s latest Android feature drop introduces tools to combat car sickness, log untracked belongings with Gemini, and bring real-time visual assistance to your phone’s camera. …
Google’s latest hardware lineup doubles down on agentic AI and deep software enhancements, bringing offline Gemini, advanced health metrics, and a novel notification light to its newest ecosystem of devices. …
Google has officially pulled back the curtain on its expansive 2026 hardware lineup, anchoring the new Pixel 11 family, Pixel Watch 5, and cutting-edge sign language AI around a powerful shift toward proactive, ambient intelligence. …