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A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump's bid to restore his name to the Kennedy Center as he challenges a lower court's order that stripped his name from the Washington performing arts landmark in June. A three-judge panel said Trump and the Kennedy

A Linux vulnerability that allows untrusted virtual machines to gain root access to host machines is one of two high-severity flaws to surface this week in the open source operating system. The vulnerability resides in KVM, which is, in essence, a virtual machine app included in

Samsung has started mass production of the PM1763, its first PCIe Gen6 enterprise SSD, pairing 9th-generation V-NAND with a newly developed 4nm controller. The 15.36TB flagship is rated for sequential reads up to 28,400 MB/s and writes up to 21,000 MB/s, with reads landing at 1.9

Off the Wire Press Releases PARIS, July 8, 2026 — Vultr today announced the launch of SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA on Vultr infrastructure, developed in partnership with SUSE. Announced alongside SUSE at the RAISE Summit in Paris, this validated, full-stack enterprise AI platform

X’s crowdsourced fact-checking system, Community Notes, will be updated to send users direct messages alerting them whenever a post they have interacted with has received a correction. The change, which is not yet live, was announced by X owner Elon Musk. He did not share a time

Wildcard Fery storms past Cobolli and makes Wimbledon history This content is not available in your location. There was an error Arthur Fery made history at Wimbledon by defeating Italy's Flavio Cobolli in straight sets to become the first British wildcard and only the second in

Off the Wire Press Releases PARIS, July 8, 2026 — SambaNova today announced it has completed the first close of $1 billion in strategic financing as part of a Series F round, valuing the company at $11 billion post money. This latest financing round was led by General Atlantic, a

Google Photos is getting a new “Video Remix” feature that can edit and transform videos in seconds, Google announced on Wednesday. The feature is powered by Gemini Omni, Google’s recently released model that promises to “create anything from any input.” The launch is Google’s lat

Off the Wire Press Releases July 8, 2026 — Providing independent data – for example, on gas and oil infrastructure in the world’s oceans – or creating and automating monitoring systems for forests: since 2019, the terrabyte collaboration has been supporting science and research a

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David’s view For 21 hours, while Bernie Sanders said nothing about the sexual assault allegation destroying Graham Platner’s campaign, speculation grew that the Vermont senator might be trying to talk his ally out of Maine’s Senate race. Sanders helped write the Platner story, af

Last week, thousands of SamKnows routers were bricked after a government program ran its course. In 2020, as part of a program conducted by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian government’s chief competition regulator, thousands of volunteers re

The Scoop Secretary of State Marco Rubio has formally notified Congress that the Trump administration plans to lift Syria’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, he said in a statement to Semafor on Wednesday. Trump told reporters earlier Wednesday that he planned to ditch

TikTok’s For You Page (FYP) is the default home screen for users of the video-sharing platform. It’s a personalized, algorithmically driven content feed, but the approach differs from other social media in that TikTok’s algorithm relies heavily on implicit signals—such as how lon

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill

The US military has lost dozens of Reaper drones collectively worth more than $1 billion while carrying out surveillance and attack missions over Iran. Now the Pentagon is seeking large numbers of cheaper drones that can perform such missions despite the expectation that many wil

Delaying Social Security reform could have negative effects on the bond market and the economy, new research shows. The findings — published June 26 by George Mason University's Mercatus Center — come on the heels of the annual Social Security trustees report. The agency projects

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday asked the office of Sen. Mitch McConnell's, R-Ky., to provide an update on the senator's health, escalating public pressure for more information as the 84-year-old remains hospitalized more than three weeks after being admitted. "Over the l

AWS Compute Blog Accelerate multiplayer game hosting with AWS m8azn instances Online multiplayer gaming continues to grow, with players demanding lower latency, higher concurrency, and more immersive experiences than ever before. For game studios hosting dedicated multiplayer ser

Off the Wire Press Releases July 8, 2026 — The National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC Taiwan) proudly participated in ISC High Performance 2026, held from June 22–26 in Hamburg, Germany. As one of the world’s premier events for high-performance computing, ISC 2026 b

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once - ai and ml The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey The newly renamed

OpenAI said it will publicly release its GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna models on Thursday, roughly two weeks after the artificial intelligence company limited the rollout to a "small group of trusted partners" at the request of the U.S. government. "Happy building," OpenAI CEO Sam

The proliferation of nuclear power in space got a little more real Tuesday with the launch of a small satellite developed by a Florida-based company specializing in nuclear micro-power technology. It’s a long way from launching a bona fide nuclear reactor, a breakthrough that cou

Off the Wire Press Releases BENGALURU, India, July 8, 2026 — QpiAI, a globally leading full-stack quantum computing company, today released the QpiAI Quantum SDK as open-source software. Available now at https://github.com/qpiai/quantum-sdk, the QpiAI Quantum SDK gives developers

Meta’s AI glasses have a growing reputation as a creepy technology. The company hopes to change that opinion by announcing an update that will disable the camera if the LED light that indicates the glasses are recording has been tampered with. The move is seemingly a concession t

Man Utd agree deal for Chelsea's Santos - Published Manchester United have agreed a £50m deal with Chelsea for their Brazilian midfielder Andrey Santos. The deal has progressed quickly in the past few hours after United made their interest known over the weekend. United will pay

Reed’s view It isn’t just big companies fretting about high and unexpected bills for AI tokens. It is also … me. On Sunday morning, I woke up jet-lagged after two weeks in Europe to find that OpenAI was repeatedly charging me $5, more than 20 times a day in some cases. I had no i

No air con? Here's how to get the most out of your electric fan - Published Struggling to work and sleep without air con? Your trusty electric fan could help more than you think - but only if you put it in the right place. During the last heatwave, social media was full of advice

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OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT’s voice mode with a new model that it says is more like “talking to another person.” The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to continue speaking if you pause mid-conversation. ChatGPT’s upgraded voice mode is

OpenAI today released new conversational models, called GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, claiming that they sound more natural and can handle turn-taking better. These are full-duplex models, meaning they can speak and listen at the same time, allowing users to interrupt naturally

GENEVA — Chinese government officials are using the United Nations’ AI for Good summit in Switzerland this week to, in part, reframe the open-source models that have proliferated in China. The implicit pitch: In contrast to the most advanced US models, which can be restrictive an

Artificial Intelligence Powering scientific discovery: BYOKG and GraphRAG for intelligent pharmaceutical research In pharmaceutical research, scientists face a fundamental challenge: accessing and connecting the vast amount of scientific knowledge scattered across disparate syste

Artificial Intelligence Automatically sort and prioritize your mailboxes by using Amazon Bedrock AI-powered email management can transform how organizations in the public sector handle constituent communications. By implementing intelligent email routing and prioritization system

China’s DeepSeek is taking a page out of OpenAI’s playbook by developing its own AI chip for inference. The move would reduce the country’s reliance on semiconductors made by American Nvidia, which has struggled to reestablish a sales pipeline in China after US President Donald T

Artificial Intelligence Building and connecting a production-ready ecommerce MCP server using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Mistral AI Studio When ecommerce teams need faster time-to-market for AI-powered customer experiences, they face weeks of custom integration work that delays

Everyone wants to buy the dip, until the dip arrives. Case in point: Rivian. Over the weekend, I wrote an article highlighting the new Rivian R2 — a mid-sized ESUV (electric sports utility vehicle…did I just make up that acronym?) that I believe is poised to upend the sweet spot

In closed-door discussions with quantum industry leaders at a White House event on Tuesday, government officials pushed the importance of domestic supply chain security, according to a person in attendance. The tone of the Trump administration was “sober” and “serious,” they said

Copenhagen topped the Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking of the world’s most livable cities for the second year in a row, though Chinese metropolises made the largest gains. Tokyo was the world’s only megacity to break into the top 10 of the ranking, which uses criteria such a

Code generation is emerging as one of the most popular applications for large language models (LLMs), but not all agents are equally good at all development tasks. Google created a benchmark earlier this year to evaluate how LLMs perform in Android app development, and Android Be

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for a ban on “killer robots,” saying the decision to take life “must remain forever human.” Fully autonomous weapons are already in use: Ukraine reportedly killed Russian soldiers with AI-powered drones as early as 2024. But they h

The Scoop The right-leaning digital media company The Daily Wire is selling a piece of its business to its former CEO. In a statement first shared with Semafor, The Daily Wire and Jeremy Boreing said that the company was selling its popular consumer brand Jeremy’s Razors to Borei

A Golden Boot race for the ages - but who will come out on top? - Published Some Golden Boot races build slowly. Others are shaped by one runaway scorer. This one is different. This is a Golden Boot race for the ages, a four-way sprint featuring Kylian Mbappe, Erling Haaland, Lio

Crypto VC firm Paradigm has raised $1.2 billion — its third venture fund and fourth overall — with the aim of investing in the “technical frontier,” the firm’s founder Matt Huang announced Wednesday. For Paradigm, the technical frontier will stretch beyond its cryptocurrency inve