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Anthropic’s new “J-lens” reveals a silent workspace inside Claude that mirrors a leading theory of consciousness
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company, published a sweeping research paper on Sunday revealing that its Claude language models have spontaneously developed an internal structure that mirrors one of the most influential theories of how human consciousness...
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents
Known for its cloud infrastructure that allows developers to deploy agents without managing servers, Vercel has quietly become one of the most central companies in AI software. The company currently sees 6 million deployments a day, half of them triggered by coding...
You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta
With the latest iOS 27 developer beta, Apple is giving testers an early look at one of the upcoming improvements to its AI-powered Siri: the ability to adjust how quickly and expressively the AI assistant speaks. In iOS 27 beta 3, out today, Apple has enabled the...
Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI
Microsoft said Monday that it has eliminated about 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, adding to the string of AI-related layoffs hitting the tech world. The company said the roles being cut are “not being replaced by AI,” but acknowledged that “AI is...
Amazon competitor Bookshop.org says Kobo eReader support will happen this year after all
If you’re looking for an e-reader that allows you to buy expensive bestsellers from your local independent bookshops, your research will inevitably point you to Rakuten’s Kobo eReader. But, as it turns out, this reputation is largely based on outdated methods for...
If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.
Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models. In other words, if you upload any media to...
Tencent’s Apache-licensed Hy3 takes on GLM-5.2 at half the size — and wins everywhere except coding
For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases were off-limits to a large slice of the enterprises most interested in them. License terms that excluded the European Union, the United Kingdom and...
Apple brings back card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after a four-year hiatus
Apple has begun restoring card payments for Apple Account purchases in India more than four years after withdrawing the option, the latest sign of how the iPhone maker is adapting its services to regulatory changes that have reshaped the country’s digital payments...
Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales
Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears that AI will replace people at companies. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest, with Xbox losing 1,600 staffers...
Microsoft’s AI Futurist explains how he uses Copilot — and the real-world problems enterprises are solving with agents
Microsoft used its Build 2026 conference this week to push a clear message: agents are rapidly moving into production throughout enterprise systems, and the winning platform will be the one that gives them reliable context, governance, identity, memory — and secure...
Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
SpaceX has lined up another compute deal ahead of its historic IPO, this time with Google. The company announced the deal in a regulatory filing on Friday. Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029...
AI agents are learning on the job — just not for your whole team
When someone on a team corrects an AI agent — better prompts, better feedback, better context — that improvement disappears the moment a colleague opens the same tool. The correction doesn't transfer, and the next person starts from zero.The problem compounds in...
GM’s electric future depends on a new battery — and this facility
Hidden among the architectural landmarks of General Motors’ sprawling Warren Tech Center outside Detroit is a new cornerstone of the automaker’s $900 million bet on its electric future. The nondescript 500,000-square-foot pair of off-white boxes, which house GM’s new...
As VC-backed e-bike startups went bankrupt, bootstrapped Lectric grew
Lectric eBikes, a Phoenix, Arizona-based company known for its practical and affordable XP series electric bikes, has launched three new brands so far this year — a Juiced Bikes relaunch, a new Juiced Powersports brand, and now a premium adventure brand called Monarc...
Meta’s AI support agent bound recovery emails for anyone who asked. Your SOC never saw an alert.
Meta's AI support agent bound recovery emails to accounts for whoever asked, and SOCs never saw an alert. An authorized agent writes a log of legitimate transactions, so nothing in the detection stack fired. Attackers asked the bot to make the change, took the...
Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months
Supabase, the open source database of choice for the vibe-coding world, has raised a $500 million Series F at a $10 billion pre-money valuation, the company announced Friday. That’s about $10.5 billion after the investment. The newly minted decacorn has been doubling...
Google and FBI warn of ransomware group that sends fake IT workers to hack victims in person
A ransomware gang has escalated its attacks on law firms by sometimes sending fake IT workers in person to the victims’ offices, where the imposters steal data directly from the victims’ computers using USB drives or help other gang members connect to the computers...
The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs
Across the industry, companies are starting to balk at the price of AI. Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licenses months after enabling them. A Priceline employee told TechCrunch that a routine...
NASA briefly sheltered space station astronauts in SpaceX’s Dragon due to leaks
NASA briefly had five astronauts aboard the International Space Station shelter in a docked SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on Friday, while their Russian counterparts attempted to repair a leaking service module. NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens initially wrote in an...
NSA said to be readying Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyber operations
Anthropic has deployed around half-a-dozen engineers to the National Security Agency to help its spies use the company’s frontier cybersecurity AI model, Mythos, Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. The engineers are reportedly tasked with helping the...
AirTrunk commits $30B to build 5GW of AI data centers in India
Blackstone-backed data center operator AirTrunk said on Friday it would invest $30 billion in India by 2030, adding to a wave of commitments from technology and infrastructure groups seeking to expand computing capacity in the country. The Australian company said it...
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Microsoft May Be Working on Specialized Gaming OS
In the last few weeks rumors have surfaced that Microsoft may be working on a new operating system that specializes in video games. It is likely part of a more modular approach to Windows that has been rumored for some time now that features different ‘modes’ of...
Wix Answers – new customer support solution!
Remember the times where you had to pay someone to create a website for you? Of course, you would spend a lot of money just to make it pretty, functional and comprehensible. However, if you are a little bit into this matter, you've probably heard about Wix. This...
‘Blind with rage’: Pepsi Perfect shortage infuriates ‘Back to the Future’ fans
facebooktwitterlinkedingoogleplusemailcommentsmoreredditpinteresttumblrEnlarge ImagePepsi Perfect with a hoverboard replica. Amanda Kooser/CNET "Back to the Future" fans had hoped to be sipping a Pepsi Perfect by now, but most of them are making sad eyes at their...
USA Today to release ‘Back to the Future’ paper on newsstands
facebooktwitterlinkedingoogleplusemailcommentsmoreredditpinteresttumblrEnlarge ImageHere's a look at October 22. USA Today If you're running to your local newspaper seller today to try to buy a special "Back to the Future Part II" edition of USA Today, you're one day...