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Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don’t need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 “agentic operating system” runs in the cloud but operates locally across Windows, Mac,

Cisco stock dropped almost 5% on Tuesday as Piper Sandler cut its price target for the networking equipment vendor to $125 from $132. Piper analysts cited lower price-to-earnings multiple expectations stemming from concerns that growth is peaking in the industry. The stock hit a

Cisco stock dropped almost 5% on Tuesday as Piper Sandler cut its price target for the networking equipment vendor to $125 from $132. Piper analysts cited lower price-to-earnings multiple expectations stemming from concerns that growth is peaking in the industry. The stock hit a

State and federal regulators are rushing to fill the void in U.S. cryptocurrency regulation after the Clarity Act, a comprehensive set of proposed rules for digital assets, stalled in the Senate. Just two days after the Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, the Securities

State and federal regulators are rushing to fill the void in U.S. cryptocurrency regulation after the Clarity Act, a comprehensive set of proposed rules for digital assets, stalled in the Senate. Just two days after the Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, the Securities

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AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

Cities and counties around the US are angry at the Trump administration over a proposal to override local rules that govern the deployment of wired broadband networks. The Federal Communications Commission has been taking public comments on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that pr

Crude oil prices fell for a fifth consecutive session Tuesday after President Donald Trump said the U.S. held hourslong talks with Iran. Brent crude futures, the international benchmark, fell 1% to close at $99.25 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate shed 1.2% to settle at $94.59. P

Listen to this article in summarized format The S&P 500 fell 0.43 points, or 0.01%, to 7,764.27 points while the Nasdaq Composite rose 121.15 points, or 0.45%, to 27,243.24. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 184.94 points, or 0.36%, to 51,863.89. Chip stocks extended their re

Earl Spencer should pull Diana book from shelves, Piers Morgan says - Published Piers Morgan has called for Earl Spencer's book about Princess Diana to be pulled from the shelves over a factual error. Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's brother, apologised to Morgan for incorrectly de

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. Same Roof, 10 Different Gases: What a Data Center Is Quietly Holding Data centers’ reliability equipment – UPS batteries, refrigerants, and generators – creates hidden gas hazards that cause both safety

Qualcomm today announced two flagship smartphone processors, called Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, with a focus on facilitating better AI-focused features. At its annual Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm said that the new chips can aid in improved person

Microsoft said Tuesday that it led an industry-wide disruption of a subscription-based scam platform that used an AI chatbot to compromise 12,000 Microsoft accounts over a few-month span. Named EvilTokens, the platform was introduced over a Telegram channel in February and charge

AI agents are here. Will internet gatekeepers let them in the door? Amazon banned Meta’s Muse assistant, while Shopify welcomed it in, the first sign of battle lines being drawn in the way we spend money online. As they sharpen, expect a rough sorting. On one side will be retaile

Kalshi will let users juice their bets with borrowed money — but only some, showing where the prediction-markets platform thinks its future lies. Kalshi asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to let it extend margin loans to customers, but is excluding sports, mentions, a

David Ellison fought the law and won. Now he has to pony up the cash for his prize. Now that Paramount reached an agreement with state attorneys general to close its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, all eyes are on the $49 billion of mostly loans and bonds, nearly

Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday each announced new, less costly artificial intelligence models as both frontier labs continue to face stiff competition from cheaper, open-weight competitors. OpenAI introduced additional tiers to its GPT-6 family, with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, sl

Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday each announced new, less costly artificial intelligence models as both frontier labs continue to face stiff competition from cheaper, open-weight competitors. OpenAI introduced additional tiers to its GPT-6 family, with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, sl

The Global South is “a little bit more optimistic” about AI compared to the West thanks to differing perceptions about how the technology can benefit society, a top Google-Alphabet executive said Tuesday. “The attitudes to AI have always been a little different,” James Manyika, t

Liz’s view “This is the beginning of a bankless world,” proclaimed a 2016 ad for SoFi, which embodied the sneering disdain its generation of fintech startups had for the banks they were out to dethrone. SoFi is now a bank, the 46th biggest in America. So are Klarna and PayPal. Ch

Two companies in the AI ecosystem have delayed their IPOs, the latest sign that investor appetite for the trade is uneven at best. SoftBank’s energy business and nuclear company Holtec put off their listings after investors balked, The New York Times reported. At the same time, S

Lib Dems leave conference buoyed by Davey's message - Published This was a more sombre, more serious, Sir Ed Davey. The stunts - from falling off paddleboards to hurtling down rollercoasters – were scaled back at this year's Liberal Democrat party conference. "This is the fight o

The News The head of the Inter-American Development Bank said Tuesday the lender is weighing a return to Venezuela after nearly a decade away, but did not say whether Caracas’ unpaid debts would be forgiven. “As a development bank, we need to look at Venezuela and look at the Ven

The families of victims killed in one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada’s history have already sued OpenAI over its failure to warn law enforcement after discovering in advance that the shooter was using ChatGPT to plan the violence. Now, British Columbia is suing, explai

Apple is in the process of developing a new screen-less fitness tracker that would put it into competition with Whoop — the fitness tech firm whose valuation recently crested $10 billion. Bloomberg reports that the iPhone maker is currently engaged in a “technology investigation”

Burnham 'gets it' says Trump, as the two leaders meet for first time Andy Burnham and Donald Trump have been speaking to reporters at their first face-to-face meeting in New York. The US president said he could do business with the UK prime minister, but criticised the "terrible"

Banks are sitting on a mountain of money in the wake of the inflows from foreign currency non-resident (FCNR) deposits which have been swapped with the central bank for rupees. In situations where banks are inundated with liquidity, the natural tendency among many lenders is to p

Early adopters of Meta’s Muse have been speculating that the reason the AI works so well is because it’s OpenClaw under the hood, wrapped in a more consumer-friendly package. Meta now says those comparisons aren’t entirely off-base. According to an X post by Nat Friedman, head of

Video editing has never been Android’s strong suit. While Apple has long offered iMovie for iPhone and iPad, Google has never had a comparable offering. Adobe is now stepping up to fill this feature gap with a proper version of Premiere. The app is now available in the Play Store

Jacks stars as England grind out win over Sri Lanka - Published First Metro Bank one-day international, Chester-le-Street England 265 (48.1 overs): Brook 67 (69); Colombage 3-44 Sri Lanka 176 (37 overs): Wellalage 45 (36); Jacks 5-22 England won by 89 runs Will Jacks' all-round e

Booker Prize judges reveal shortlisted novels after selection 'tussle' - Published Past Booker Prize winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart have been shortlisted for the prestigious literary award again, after a selection process that the judges described as "a tussle". Jamaican

President Donald Trump on Tuesday focused on a wide range of threats the U.S. faces from abroad during a frequently boastful address to the United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan. Trump, in a roughly 37-minute speech, also directly criticized the U.N. itself, and reaffirmed

With a smaller share of customers carrying balances month to month, interest-bearing receivables are growing more slowly than transaction volumes, pushing issuers to convert purchases into EMIs, deepen personal loan-on-card offerings and extract more fee income from a business th