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In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a “family of devices” for interacting with its AI models. However, Brockman didn’t confirm reports that one of those devices is a smart speaker OpenA

Governments around the world are suddenly very keen on online age verification requirements. In some places, this takes the form of ID requirements to access adult content, but several US states have also focused on app stores. With these laws now going into effect, Google has an

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Microsoft says physical discs should not have stopped working during the Xbox outage — clarifies issue with entitlement checks that failed to read licenses correctly, update on the way You should have been able to play your discs offline. Xbox consoles recently experienced a worl

The US Federal Reserve held rates steady at its meeting today, but the path ahead looks unclear as concerns bubble over stubborn levels of inflation. About three-quarters of futures bets expected no change to the benchmark lending rate and the remainder predicted a quarter-point

Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning as arrests of Grok users accused of making child sex abuse materials (CSAM) have triggered lawsuits from kids to sue xAI to force changes to the tool to block harmful outputs. Earlier this month, xAI started suing u

Sometimes the crowd isn’t so wise. When Ferrari revealed the Luce — its first EV — to the public in May, the internet reacted. And not in a positive way. Critics compared the wedge-shaped Luce with a Nissan Leaf and said Chinese EVs would outperform it while undercutting it on pr

Off the Wire Press Releases WASHINGTON, July 29, 2026 — The Department of Commerce today announced the signing of 7 letters of intent to provide $874 million in federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act. These incentives will support innovative domestic technologies to d

Waymo is slowly adding freeway routes back to its service area more than two months after the company stopped driving these high-speed roads due to how its robotaxis behaved near construction zones. Waymo announced Wednesday in a post on X that it would gradually add freeway rout

The Trump administration is banning the import of new foreign-made humanoid robots, robot dogs, and power inverters, citing an “unacceptable” threat to national security. The move largely affects imports from China, which currently has the vast majority of the global market share

Dell’s naming puts the Pro 5 14 a rung below the Pro 7 in its commercial lineup, but the spec sheet complicates that hierarchy. This is the compact counterpart to the Dell Pro 5 16 AMD we reviewed earlier, yet Dell equips it with a Core Ultra X7 368H, which is a higher-tier proce

If you follow quantum computing news for long enough, it can start to seem like any quantum system that can alternate between two well-separated energy states can be used as a qubit. Atoms, ions, photons, electrons, and manufactured devices all have their backers. One of the key

When we last checked in on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in February, NASA was announcing that it had formally classified the 2024 crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft as a “Type A” mishap, an acknowledgement that the test flight was a serious failure. At the time, NASA Admi

David’s view When they’re not fighting each other, which is rare these days, Democrats agree on three points about their midterm election strategy. First, they want to talk about affordability. Second, they want to take on corruption. And lastly, the public perception that both p

Digital lending platform Kissht reported its first quarterly results for the fiscal year ending March 2027. The company's operating revenue grew 45% year-on-year in the quarter, while its profit increased 58% to Rs 95 crore. Kissht’s revenue from operations increased to Rs 670 cr

Google is expanding its answer to Apple’s age-assurance tools with Wednesday’s news that it will bring its Play Signal API to users worldwide by the end of 2026. The technology, already available in Brazil, allows Android developers to identify younger users of their apps in orde

Wall Street is suffering from analogy slop: There’s so much money going into AI that it has to be a bubble, and surely there are parallels to past bubbles. It’s the financial crisis all over again; it’s the 1929 stock market crash; it’s the year 2000. The latest wave of this came

The US is looking to its allies to make sure China doesn’t dominate the future of telecommunications. The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a partnership with 24 countries — including Australia, Germany, Japan, and the UK — aimed at coordinating strategies around 6G, which

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Seagate to start qualifying record-setting 50TB HDDs in 2027 — most drives are sold out through 2028 Hard drives are spinning up Seagate's earnings. Seagate is on track to start qualification of its hard disk drives featuring 50TB-class capacities in late calendar 2027, with ship

The US’ ban on new foreign humanoids opens another front in Washington’s campaign against Chinese tech — but it also adds a new layer of pressure on domestic bot makers. Some in the industry speculated the US might put tariffs on Chinese robots, but Washington routed its ban thro

Artificial Intelligence Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports Private Key JWT client authentication for agents. With Private Key JWT client authentication, your agents can authenticate to a downstr

Dive Brief: - Back-to-school shoppers are focusing on essentials like school supplies and technology for the first day of school and planning to spread out apparel shopping throughout the year, according to Circana. - The company’s Future of Apparel forecast studied point-of-sale

Dive Brief: - Pet product company Bark has appointed Anya Hamill as its chief financial officer, effective Sept. 8. She will report to Bark’s co-founder, CEO and executive chairman, Matt Meeker. - Hamill comes with more than two decades of finance experience in the consumer packa

What’s new in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Mike Clark Director of Product Management, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Since we launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform a few months ago, we’ve seen inspiring progress from businesses and builders alike. To stir up development

Automate your agent development lifecycle using any coding agent Shubham Saboo Senior AI Product Manager Lavi Nigam ML Engineer, Cloud AI Advocacy Welcome to our latest Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform deep dive, a practical walkthrough where we’ll teach you how to build real-wor

The borderless Lakehouse: Bring AWS, Databricks and Snowflake data to your AI agents Sirish Chandrasekaran VP, Product Management Will Ochandarena Group Product Manager Today’s data lakehouse is no longer mere data repository, but increasingly a system of action, actively executi

Automate data monitoring and root-cause analysis with Looker Agentic Workflows Indumathi Velusamy Product Manager Traditional business intelligence alerts can only tell you that a metric changed, leaving data analysts to manually hunt through dashboards to figure out why. Today,

Dive Brief: - The North Face and Timberland came through for owner VF Corp., posting year-on-year growth in Q1 that made up for an 8% drop at Vans — adding to a string of quarterly declines at the skate-shoe brand. - The North Face revenue rose 6%, with strength in the Americas a

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On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Microsoft engineers and their managers gathered online and in a conference room at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters to discuss Project Glasswing. The tech giant was racing to fix weaknesses in its code that a new AI model known

Biological War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen. Jacobsen wrote a 2024 dramatization, based on dozens of interviews, of how nuclear war would unfold; this is her bioterrorism sequel. She imagines a genetically modified, airborne bacterium as deadly as pneumonic plague that releases

Elon Musk’s X has settled its multiyear legal battle with advertising trade group the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), the two organizations said on Wednesday. The settlement ends Musk’s aggressive attempt to hold advertisers legally responsible for pulling spending from X

Martha Stewart is entering the AI software era in the most Martha Stewart way possible: She has joined the co-founding team at Hint, an app that leverages AI technology to manage the tasks surrounding home maintenance and management. With the Hint app, which launches today, homeo

Artificial Intelligence Generate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers A Monday morning problem Sarah Chen manages 12 assembly lines and 2,000 machines. Before her 10 AM production review, she needs one answer: Which lines need attention this week? Simple que

Shein’s U.S. business operations are under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. The e-commerce company disclosed the investigation within a Sunday filing with the entity running the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, where Shein Global Holdings Limited intends to become a public

As the Steam Deck slowly marches toward its fifth birthday next February, owners are likely eager for a way to extend its life rather than investing in expensive high-end competition. A new patch for AMD’s Linux drivers could substantially reduce low-end frame hitches when the St