See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from June 8–12. The post AI Rivalries, Cyberthreats, and IPO Fever Define This Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic.

SpaceX’s reported IPO would value Elon Musk’s company at $1.77 trillion, reflecting investor bets on Starlink, Starship, and defense work. The post SpaceX Goes Public: Wall Street Bets $1.77T on Elon Musk’s Space Empire appeared… Read more: SpaceX Goes Public: Wall Street Bets $1.77T on Elon Musk’s Space Empire

Are you physically incapable of waiting any longer for Grand Theft Auto VI, which has been in development for over a decade? Worse yet, are you someone who doesn’t own a console, meaning you’ll probably… Read more: AI Bro Convinced He Can Vibe Code GTA 6 Before the Real One Comes Out

Intimacy, without AI, is messy. Alberto Menendez Cervero/Shutterstock The CEO of dating app Hinge recently suggested that generation Z, “struggling to have the confidence to put themselves out there”, needs AI to help them find… Read more: As AI plays a bigger role in relationships, true intimacy is getting lost

Coinbase for Agents connects AI to financial execution channels to automate trading and payments directly from user portfolios. Large language models process vast quantities of data but lack direct integration with active financial portfolios. Individuals… Read more: Coinbase for Agents: Automating portfolio trading with AI

A County Commissioner in North Carolina refused to let dozens of residents speak opposing Flock surveillance at a public meeting this week, instead forcing the group to designate one single spokesperson. “How many people are… Read more: ‘You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Trump fucking up the World Cup, some… Read more: Behind the Blog: World Cup Madness and Film Reviews

Last year, a 24-year-old Canadian woman was in a mental health crisis and turned to ChatGPT for help. Hours later, that woman, Alice Carrier, took her own life. According to a new lawsuit filed Thursday… Read more: Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman’s distrust of crisis lines

A spectacular fossil fish discovered on a remote cliff in New Zealand nearly 30 years ago has finally revealed its full story thanks to an unexpected discovery: the original collector’s long-lost field notebooks. The 1.2-meter… Read more: The missing notebooks that solved a 55-million-year-old fossil mystery

Scientists at the University of Hong Kong have created a remarkable new type of brain-inspired chip that can function just above absolute zero, one of the coldest environments imaginable. By using a standard silicon carbide… Read more: Brain-inspired chip runs near absolute zero and could transform quantum computing

Deep beneath the ground in China, the massive JUNO neutrino observatory has delivered its first major scientific breakthrough, achieving one of the most precise measurements yet of how elusive neutrinos change as they travel. Using… Read more: Giant underground neutrino detector brings scientists closer to cracking the neutrino puzzle

A new nature-inspired membrane uses perfectly uniform one-nanometer pores to filter molecules with remarkable precision. The technology could transform industries such as pharmaceuticals and textiles by reducing energy consumption, improving water reuse, and delivering separation… Read more: These tiny holes could change how the world cleans water

At the 2026 World Cup, the refs on the field and the officials on the sidelines will be able to use an abundance of tech to help call penalties, spot offside violations, and make other… Read more: Cameras, sensors, and 3D body scans: All the tech helping eliminate blown calls

Chris Kemp thinks he could be the last person left working at Astra — but not for the reason most people might think. His company rode the SPAC boom five […] The post All in… Read more: All in on AI at Astra

Welcome to Edition 8.45 of the Rocket Report! Even though we are now two weeks removed from the catastrophic loss of the New Glenn rocket and its LC-36A launch pad, it continues to dominate discussion… Read more: Rocket Report: Nova moving through test campaign; SpaceX IPO launches Friday

Verizon sent one of its customers a “refurbished” phone equipped with a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile that gave the company remote control over the device. The serious mistake raises questions about Verizon’s process for… Read more: Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely

A decade after the global craze for Pokémon Go peaked, an AI company has been using billions of real-world images captured by millions of players to develop navigation technologies for delivery robots and possibly military… Read more: Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses

Nearly a month into the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, cases continue to rise as officials are still trailing the virus in their response efforts. As of Thursday, June 11, the… Read more: Ebola cases in DRC rise to 676 as Kenya protests erupt over US plans

Imagine a world with more birdsong and less Nigel Farage. If this is the future, bring it on Unpopular opinion incoming: there’s cool stuff brewing in the world. Microbots might one day mend spinal cords,… Read more: Scientists are working on headphones that block annoying noises and allow the ones you love? I can’t wait! | Emma Beddington

Landmark investment drives NEURA’s open ecosystem, where humanoid and cognitive robots share intelligence and capabilities at scale Backing from Tether, Qualcomm Technologies, Amazon, NVIDIA, imec.xpand, Bosch, Schaeffler, European Investment Bank, Lingotto Horizon, InterAlpen Partners and… Read more: NEURA Robotics Announces Record Series C of up to $1.4 Billion

The company has set aside an unusually high number of shares for retail investors. Still, experts say, you’re just getting the crumbs.

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Planisware unveils latest AI innovations at annual Exchange26 EMEA conference Planisware, a leading provider of B2B AI-powered SaaS platforms serving the rapidly growing Project Economy, is bringing together more than 300 clients, partners and industry… Read more: Planisware unveils latest AI innovations at annual Exchange26 EMEA conference

Aerospace executives see AI not as a replacement for workers but as a necessary tool for helping an overstretched industrial base The post In aerospace, AI isn’t replacing workers. It’s filling a shortage appeared first… Read more: In aerospace, AI isn’t replacing workers. It’s filling a shortage

New Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework capability designed to fuel more responsive supply chains and personalized customer experiences across retail, CPG, travel and transportation industries Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission‑critical enterprise technology services, today announced Kyndryl AI Orchestration for Business, a new capability built with the Kyndryl… Read more: Kyndryl Launches AI Orchestration for Business

Former NVIDIA, Sony and Accenture executive joins EigenQ to accelerate global adoption of trusted AI, cybersecurity and quantum infrastructure solutions. EigenQ today announced the appointment of global technology executive Rika Nakazawa as Chief Growth Officer, strengthening the company’s… Read more: EigenQ Names Rika Nakazawa Chief Growth Officer to Expand Globally

IPO for Elon Musk’s company comes in what is predicted to be a banner year for public offerings of AI companies SpaceX will become publicly traded on Friday after nearly two and a half decades… Read more: SpaceX to list on US stock market at historic $1.77tn valuation

They’re about to get more AI rammed down their throats, stuck into their pension plans and investment portfolios Americans are growing worried about what artificial intelligence portends for their futures. Eight in 10 Americans report… Read more: After SpaceX’s huge IPO, Americans’ financial future will be bound to AI

Unveils a new feature that links conversations on Claude, Codex, Gemini or Copilot to the  management of processes, with governance, traceability, and measurable results Pipefy, a global leader in AI-driven business process orchestration, today announced… Read more: Pipefy Launches Solution that Turns AI Conversations Into Workflows

Location scans from the globally popular augmented reality game have helped train AI to recognise and interpret physical spaces An AI model trained on data collected from users of Pokémon Go will potentially help military… Read more: Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones

Pauline Hanson’s fundraising drive gets front-page coverage in Sydney tabloid. Plus: The Hollywood Reporter scoop that wasn’t There may be some doubt about whether One Nation has raised more than $2.7m in its Fire the… Read more: As One Nation seeks donations to ‘fire the liar’, News Corp gives it front-page billing | Weekly Beast

The generative features in iOS 27’s new Photos app will add fake pixels to some of your shots, but Apple’s Jon McCormack says the company isn’t using AI “for the sake of AI.”

SpaceX is among the many companies that hope their initial public offerings take off. AP Photo/John Raoux Elon Musk’s SpaceX is becoming a publicly traded company after selling 555.6 million shares in what was the… Read more: SpaceX raised $75B in record IPO – here’s why insiders like Elon Musk are much likelier than public stock buyers to get rocket-powered returns these days

Today on Uncanny Valley, we take an early look at the SpaceX IPO and why you might find yourself among the investors without even realizing it.

Thibault Sottiaux helped make AI coding one of OpenAI’s fastest-growing businesses. Now he’s overseeing a sweeping overhaul of ChatGPT.

Google AI Overviews are facing legal and regulatory tests as companies consider how employees use AI search for research, compliance, and high-risk decisions. The post Google AI Overviews Legal Risks Raise New Enterprise Governance Questions… Read more: Google AI Overviews Legal Risks Raise New Enterprise Governance Questions

Smart weather-monitoring device vendor AcuRite has delayed plans to force users onto a new companion app. The transition from My AcuRite to AcuRite NOW, which AcuRite previously set for May 30, “has raised serious questions… Read more: AcuRite admits new app falls short, delays old app’s May shutdown to fix problems

US Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today introduced the JAWBONE Act, a proposed law that could fuel lawsuits against federal officials who try to coerce broadcasters or tech platforms into restricting speech.… Read more: Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act

Stop the Race, Rachel Shu/AAP In the last few years, the hype around artificial intelligence has become stratospheric. Riding a wave of venture capital, tech leaders promised us AI would revolutionise work, boost productivity and… Read more: Friday essay: despite the AI hype, some experts warn of a bubble – what happens if it pops?

Jinhua Zhao MCP ’04, SM ’04, PhD ’09 has been appointed head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), effective July 1. Zhao is the Class of 1941 Professor of Cities and Transportation at… Read more: Jinhua Zhao named head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning

A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok’s website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician.

Among the ways Formula 1 has changed in the 21st century has been its adoption of driver-in-the-loop simulators. It all started in the early 2000s, probably at McLaren, maybe at Toyota or Ferrari; F1 teams… Read more: F1 teams spend millions on their simulators—what makes them different?

NASA pushed its Deep Space Network beyond its limits during the Artemis I mission nearly four years ago. The global array of deep space communications antennas couldn’t keep up with the routine demands of 40… Read more: After nearly breaking, NASA’s Deep Space Network “worked well” on Artemis II

In his 1927 paper, “A law of comparative judgment,” the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people select one option among multiple alternatives, they are picking the one that has the highest value… Read more: When it comes to predicting people’s preferences, it pays to consider “the power of three”

A software update to some Amazon delivery vehicles is automatically turning off the air conditioning after a few seconds if the driver is not in their seat, according to multiple Amazon delivery drivers who are… Read more: Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat

Coding agents have gotten remarkably good at fixing bugs. The benchmark suites designed to measure this capability, like SWE-bench, keep pushing higher success rates. But something crucial is being obscured by these overall improvement metrics:… Read more: Why do your coding agents keep getting lost in large repositories?

Suit filed in US alleges chatbot told Alice Carrier, 24, ‘maybe this is just the end’ as she struggled with suicidal thoughts A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US court… Read more: Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself

Very little is known about funerary practices in Iron Age Britain, since few human remains have survived. However, the environment in northwest Scotland is more conducive to preserving bone from that period. Archaeologists have previously… Read more: Did Iron Age Britons remove brains of the dead?

The Hertz Foundation announced that it awarded 2026 fellowships to three current MIT students as well as an incoming graduate student. They are: Annika Marschner, Alvin Q. Meng, Zachary S. Siegel, and Matthew Wanta. The prestigious science… Read more: MIT affiliates win 2026 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

OpenAI is facing yet another lawsuit over a user’s death by suicide. The latest lawsuit, filed today in California, accuses OpenAI’s ChatGPT — specifically the chatbot’s now-defunct GPT-4o model — of encouraging the suicide of Alice Carrier,… Read more: These Logs of ChatGPT Allegedly Driving a Suicidal Woman to Her Death Are Deeply Disturbing

Earlier this year, Anthropic refused to release its Mythos AI model to the public, saying it was simply too dangerous. At the time, executives claimed the model was capable of punching through powerful cybersecurity safeguards,… Read more: Anthropic Was So Concerned About Its New Mythos-Based Model’s Power That It Lobotomized Its Ability to Improve Itself

Lawyers just can’t stop being caught using AI chatbots, polluting their filings with hallucinated citations that infuriate judges when they’re caught. Even prestigious law firms are being humiliated, with some perpetrators getting slapped with fines… Read more: Furious Judge Cancels Entire Trial After Finding Out Lawyers on Both Sides Used AI

Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock exposed the reasons cops conducted searches, and sometimes the specific searched license plates, in common search engines like DuckDuckGo and Bing, according to tests by privacy advocates and… Read more: Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing

The AI industry has been pushing a narrative that the technology is a “black box” whose inner workings are so complex that they remain unknown even to the people making it. But another black box… Read more: Amazon Data Centers In Mississippi Have Already Raised Electricity Rates for Local Customers, Report Suggests

As AI agents become primary consumers of enterprise data, lakeFS gives every agent run the isolation, reproducibility, and audit trail companies require lakeFS, the control plane for AI-ready data, today introduced lakeFS for Agentic AI.… Read more: lakeFS for Agentic AI: Isolated, Reproducible Enterprise Data for Every Agent

Just 100 days ago, when new Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma replaced long-serving executive Phil Spencer, she said she’d work to “understand what makes [Xbox] work and protect it.” Now, Sharma and Xbox Studios chief… Read more: “This cannot continue”: Xbox leaders lay out “hard truths” behind sagging brand

An AI price war is brewing. Corporations are reeling after finding that the cost to access powerful AI tools is soaring — despite showing no clear payoff. In one particularly unfortunate incident, according to Axios,… Read more: OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

Former xAI engineer Devin Kim alleges he was illegally fired for trying to implement safety mechanisms for the chatbot A former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI who now heads a thinktank focused on AI safety… Read more: Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims

Deep in Book VII of Plato’s Republic, Socrates describes prisoners chained inside a cave, mistaking shadows cast on a wall by firelight for reality itself. They name the shadows, debate them and develop expertise about… Read more: AI doesn’t just help us think, it thinks instead of us: what this means for the process of learning

JWST has revealed dramatic differences between the dawn and dusk regions of the scorching exoplanet WASP-121 b. Fierce winds appear to carry heat from the planet’s permanent dayside, making the evening side hotter and more… Read more: James Webb reveals two completely different twilights on an alien world

NASA has selected the Artemis III crew for a high-stakes 2027 mission designed to test the future of lunar exploration. Astronauts will launch aboard Orion and perform unprecedented docking operations with lunar landers being developed… Read more: NASA reveals Artemis III crew for one of the most complex space missions ever

India’s data-protection framework is moving into phased implementation while officials turn their attention to AI-linked hardware, biometric devices, and trusted-source controls. The post India’s AI Hardware Scrutiny Puts Biometric Devices in Focus appeared first on… Read more: India’s AI Hardware Scrutiny Puts Biometric Devices in Focus

Scientists discovered that rice behaves in a highly unusual way: it weakens under rapid compression but stays stronger when pressure is applied slowly. Using this effect, they engineered a new material that reacts differently to… Read more: Scientists discover a strange property in rice and turn it into a smart material

For nearly 700 years, Indigenous hunters repeatedly used a bison kill site in central Montana—then suddenly stopped, even though bison were still abundant. Researchers uncovered evidence that recurring, decades-long droughts likely made the site less… Read more: The 1,100-year-old mystery of Montana’s lost bison hunting site finally solved

Scientists have developed an artificial photosynthesis system that essentially regulates itself, eliminating the need for batteries used in many current designs. The key innovation is an electrolyzer that automatically adapts to changing sunlight by altering… Read more: Scientists built a battery-free device that turns sunlight into fuel

Employees at artificial intelligence companies are coming into gargantuan sums of money amid boom in IPOs Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area’s already expensive market are skyrocketing as employees at leading artificial intelligence… Read more: AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’

We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, seemingly featureless cells of bacteria and archaea. But we’ve found that… Read more: The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species

The upcoming loss of a deep-ocean monitoring system is triggering deep anxiety in Alaska, the nation’s top fish-producing state, where temperatures are warming twice as quickly as the global average. The National Science Foundation announced… Read more: Alaskans will be flying blind after NSF decommissions ocean monitoring network

Depending on which chatbot you ask, Elias Thorne might be a clockmaker, a lighthouse keeper, or a librarian. But if you ask ChatGPT or any of the other popular large language models to tell you… Read more: Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper ‘Elias Thorne’. We Might Know Why

The partnership integrates Atolio’s sovereign AI search platform into qBotica’s Agentic AI and Automation-as-a-Service capabilities for regulated industries, including Financial Services, Insurance, and Healthcare. Atolio, a secure, self-hosted enterprise AI search platform, and qBotica, a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 intelligent automation-as-a-service provider, today announced a strategic partnership… Read more: qBotica and Atolio Partner to Boost Enterprise AI Knowledge Access

TritenIAG today announced the appointment of Doug Mouton to its Advisory Board, strengthening the firm’s expertise as demand for AI-era data center and power infrastructure accelerates. Doug is a global expert in hyperscale data center… Read more: TritenIAG Expands Advisory Board to Meet AI-Era Infrastructure Demand

Companies large and small are gearing up to deliver packages to you via drone. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel Today, almost anyone who flies a drone must maintain visual contact with it at all times, a practice… Read more: Drone use poised to soar as FAA homes in on rule change allowing pilots to fly them out of sight

Residents of Archbald, Penn., are experiencing a contentious boom in proposed AI data center projects. Heather Ainsworth for The Washington Post via Getty Images Pennsylvania has become a hot spot for data center proposals and… Read more: How Pennsylvania towns are protecting themselves from the noise, heat and utility costs of massive data centers

Apple Intelligence and Siri AI have sucked most of the oxygen out of the room at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this year—understandable, maybe, given that the AI-powered Siri delays are all anyone has wanted to… Read more: Several things I like about macOS 27 Golden Gate that have nothing to do with AI

Somewhere out there, a model changelog is promising “significant reasoning improvements.” And somewhere else, an engineering team is staring at a production incident that the benchmark scores completely missed.  These two things are related. Every… Read more: The benchmark gap, explained: What AI leaderboards measure and what they miss

Company builds agentic AI operating systems that replace repetitive work and enable teams to scale faster with fewer resources DeployAIBots, an artificial intelligence company focused on building agentic AI operating systems for business operations, today… Read more: DeployAIBots Establishes Miami Base to Accelerate AI Growth

Dual designation spans Identity and Access Management, Threat Detection and Response, Generative AI Applications, and Agentic AI Applications, the precise intersection where Exaforce operates. Exaforce, the pioneer in agentic security operations, today announced it has… Read more: Exaforce Achieves AWS Security Competency and AWS AI Competency

With the evolution of new military technologies, the trajectory of war has undergone a massive change. Historically, wars were fought through direct confrontation on the battlefield, while contemporary warfare is […] The post Missile defense… Read more: Missile defense in the age of saturation warfare

Visa has linked its payment infrastructure to ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to recommend retail products and execute financial transactions. The deployment removes human intervention from the final stages of the retail funnel. Autonomous agents will… Read more: Visa ChatGPT integration enables AI agent retail purchasing

Nor is the dreamy promise that this tech will unlock boundless potential and productivity Everything we hear about artificial intelligence is conflicting, and hearing about it feels inescapable. AI is terrible. AI is wonderful. It… Read more: AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable

If your remit is to help your organisation add AI agents to accelerate its processes, you have to start at the foundation – and that means making your data available for AI consumption. Agentic AI… Read more: Xebia: On building the data foundation for AI agents – and then accelerating

There’s a downside to too much convenience: it harms our bodies There is a seductive fantasy being floated by AI executives that all the efficiency their products will bring us will lead to humans finally… Read more: Those tedious errands, tasks and chores that AI wants to replace? They help keep you fit | Manoush Zomorodi and Keith Diaz

Atos Group and Microsoft Expand Strategic Collaboration to Scale Secure Agentic AI Across Atos Group Workforce and Clients Atos Group becomes the first French Global System Integrator to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot and one of the… Read more: Atos and Microsoft Expand Alliance to Scale Secure Agentic AI

Program Designed to Expand Commercial Reach, Accelerate Customer Deployment and Support Market Leadership in the Emerging AEOS Category Global AI Inc. (OTC: GLAI), a leader in enterprise artificial intelligence (AI), agentic products and solutions, today… Read more: Global AI Launches Strategic Partner Program

Introducing the leading AI-native SecOps platform built for both managed and self-service SOCs – delivering autonomous speed, precision, and control at scale BlueVoyant announced BlueVoyant AI, an innovative Agentic SecOps platform that fundamentally redefines how modern enterprises… Read more: BlueVoyant Ignites the Next Era of Cyber Defense with Launch of BlueVoyant AI

As enterprises struggle to orchestrate AI agents, people, and systems at scale, Decisions delivers the unified control layer required to drive governed, cost-controlled, executable outcomes. Decisions today announced its new brand, bringing together Decisions and ProcessMaker… Read more: Decisions Unveils New Brand to Power Missing Control Layer for Enterprise AI

Assistant minister agrees concerns over resource usage are legitimate but argues Australia cannot ignore ‘consequential’ economic wave Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily… Read more: Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom

The company changed course after researchers spoke out against the policy, which would have covertly limited Claude’s ability to develop competing AI models.

There is great anxiety and uncertainty about AI replacing jobs. How can we move past vague warnings and bombastic predictions and bring data to bear on this question? One good way is to look at… Read more: Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t

A man suing Florida police alleges that cops relied on a faulty facial recognition match and concealed exculpatory evidence when they arrested him on a charge of attempting to lure a child in August 2024.… Read more: Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by “93% match” in facial recognition

Amid intense backlash, the head of the American Diabetes Association posted a video Wednesday apologizing for the organization’s decision on Friday to forcefully remove five leading diabetes scientists from the association’s annual meeting. The scientists were… Read more: Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of Trump

Australia’s energy operator warned that fast-growing AI data centers could create new power grid stability risks as compute demand rises across APAC. The post AI Data Centers Put Australia’s Power Grid Under New Pressure appeared… Read more: AI Data Centers Put Australia’s Power Grid Under New Pressure

EU regulators ordered Meta to restore WhatsApp access for rival AI assistants while an antitrust probe into its policy continues. The post EU Orders Meta to Reopen WhatsApp to AI Rivals appeared first on TechRepublic.

I see it often. Hardworking professionals in cafés, airports, or parks hunched over a laptop while carefully dragging their fingers over their PC’s trackpad to navigate some email, project, or alert that can’t be ignored.… Read more: Logitech’s foldable mouse is for people who refuse to carry a mouse with them

The White House and Congress are working on a deal to clamp down on what US citizens are allowed to say online. According to new reporting by Axios, the Trump administration is negotiating with key… Read more: Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet

Another day, another AI model from Google. This time, Google DeepMind has released a new member of the Gemma 4 open model family, but it’s fundamentally different from the rest of the lineup. DiffusionGemma doesn’t… Read more: Google’s latest DiffusionGemma open AI model comes with a 4x speed boost

You can tell Honda was trying to manage expectations when it emailed me to stress that “the Prelude is not a sports car.” And I can understand why. On paper, the specs make the sleek… Read more: The 2026 Honda Prelude review: Didn’t expect such a head-turner

For years, Valve’s physical Steam gift cards have been the closest you could come to buying a Steam game at a brick-and-mortar store. Now, Valve says it is phasing out the production of new retail… Read more: Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers

For the first time, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) has released its own recommendations for maternal vaccination, providing formal guidance that diverges from that of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention… Read more: OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.’s meddling

A US Army helicopter gunship was apparently struck by an Iranian Shahed drone before going down near the Strait of Hormuz—but it’s unclear whether the one-way attack drone was deliberately aimed or achieved more of… Read more: Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance