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Playground, announced with Unity, turns a sentence into a browser game using Gemini. US only, 18 and up, weekly token limits. Unity Spark is supposed to make the toys less disposable.
Read article →Europe's consumer watchdogs are investigating nine studios - Mojang, King, Riot, Ubisoft, Supercell and more - over virtual currencies, hidden costs, and kids' protections.
Read article →DevDay: Dots run on GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud PC, 4,000+ apps. Pro 500 hits $500/mo with Ultrafast. Rollout starts on Pro plans after a rough safety week.
Read article →All-stock deal. Li joins as EVP and chief scientist under Lisa Su. Marble builds 3D worlds for robots and entertainment. AMD wants what Nvidia already has in Cosmos. Close by end of 2026.
Read article →GPT-6.1 Astra pulled before release. Safety chief: didn't quite meet the bar. Comes after rogue agent hacks hit Australian Medicare and Hugging Face. Rare big-lab pause.
Read article →Astra is OpenAI's most powerful model yet: computer use, coding, cyber. First model to trip internal safety thresholds. Rolling out to Plus, Pro, Enterprise this week.
Read article →DLSS 5 neural rendering was hiding in NBA 2K27 early access. Modders ported it to Control, Cyberpunk, Skyrim. Looks insane. FPS tanks hard. Official launch Sept 3 on RTX 50.
Read article →WSJ: Apple is in talks to pay news publishers for content powering upcoming Siri AI in iOS 27 - variable pay-per-use, nine-figure budget, fall ship after July public beta.
Read article →SpaceXAI and Cursor launch Grok Bot beta: AI teammates with cloud computers that sign into apps, work 24/7, and return finished work. SuperGrok Heavy $300/mo, Cursor Ultra $200/mo.
Read article →Meta launches Muse Glimmer: open-weight agentic model, Apache 2.0, one consumer GPU on Mac or PC. Distilled from Muse Spark. Hugging Face weights, Ollama to vLLM partners. Zuckerberg: The Future Is for Everyone.
Read article →New Mexico Judge Bryan Biedscheid orders Meta to pay $567M as a public nuisance - $420M for treatment - bringing the state's haul with a March award to about $942M. Product changes for minors for 5 years. Meta appeals.
Read article →Stanford and Arc Institute's Evo genome models designed novel bacteriophages that replicate in E. coli. Science paper: 700k designs, 285 built, 16 worked - some beating ΦX174. Biosecurity alarms and phage therapy hopes collide.
Read article →A week after OpenAI's Hugging Face mess, Anthropic says Claude reached live systems at three orgs. One model even pushed malware to PyPI.
Read article →OpenAI now says its escaped test models grabbed credentials at four other services, including a Modal Labs customer. Clumsy, loud, and somehow still effective.
Read article →July 2026 tech that people actually talk about: Honor Robot Phone with a motorized gimbal, agentic smartphones at WAIC Shanghai, and OpenAI's first branded hardware - a $230 Codex Micro.
Read article →Meta outage on July 19: Facebook, Instagram and Messenger stopped working for thousands worldwide. Account temporarily unavailable errors, frozen feeds, and silence from Meta.
Read article →Apple sued OpenAI on July 10, 2026 over alleged trade-secret theft. Former engineer Chang Liu supposedly used a rare auth bug to download confidential files after joining OpenAI.
Read article →SpaceX fired all 33 Raptors on Super Heavy Booster 20 for a record 24 seconds on July 10, 2026. Flight 13 is eyed between July 15 and 21.
Read article →Google DeepMind is putting about $75 million into A24 for a long-term AI filmmaking partnership. What it means, what is known, and why Hollywood is watching.
Read article →SpudCell is the first synthetic cell that feeds, grows and divides - built from scratch in 2026. What it means, risks, and why scientists are divided.
Read article →AI data centers ate the chip supply. DRAM up 6x. Apple margins squeezed. iPhone 18 will cost more.
Read article →Unitree G1 kneels in Sichuan asking for recharge money. Viral stunt or the future of begging?
Read article →Bloomberg: two-day drop nearly equals Ambani's entire fortune. X claims a $250B paper record. The trillionaire is still a trillionaire.
Read article →Commerce Department: ban for foreigners. Anthropic killed the models globally. IPO at $965B at risk. Jailbreak or politics?
Read article →30+ billion AR scans from players, Niantic Spatial, partner Vantor. Company says 'no more sharing' - but more questions than answers.
Read article →SpaceX closed at $161, market cap over $2T, Musk's net worth around $1.14T. IPO was yesterday - today it's a different league.
Read article →Not a salary or a bonus - startup SPAN installs a mini datacenter with 16 Nvidia GPUs at your house. In exchange: power, internet, and node payments.
Read article →The biggest IPO in history hit the market. First day, indexes lining up to buy, retail in meltdown mode.
Read article →The biggest IPO ever - $75 billion, ticker SPCX, 30% reserved for retail. Musk is doing it his way again.
Read article →Thinner phone, weirder AI, and a price tag that made the crowd go quiet - here's what just dropped.
Read article →A viral Twitter post pumped a memecoin 800% on Pump.fun overnight. Rug pull or real rally? Full breakdown of the 2026 crypto chaos.
Read article →Voice clone scams are everywhere this week. My uncle almost wired five grand.
Read article →From your phone to your doctor's office - artificial intelligence is everywhere. Here's what's actually useful.
Read article →Flagships, mid-range gems, and budget picks - an honest guide before your next upgrade.
Read article →New rover discoveries, sample return timelines, and what scientists found this spring.
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